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UK migration after Brexit: 2025 ONS experimental estimates, 2026-2028 outlook, and legal impacts of new visa restrictions on care workers, work, students and refugee family reunion

Published on: 27 May 2026

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LNB News 27/05/2026

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Issue Date: 27 May 2026

Published Date: 27 May 2026

Jurisdiction(s): United Kingdom

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UK net migration

Drawing on ONS statistics, the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford has released an overview of UK net migration, tracing patterns from the early 2000s and developments under the post‑Brexit immigration regime. Net migration in 2025 stood at 171,000-far beneath typical 2010s levels and markedly lower than the record 944,000 in the year to March 2023. Non‑EU inflows declined to 627,000 in 2025, around one‑fifth down on 2024. Among these arrivals, 67% were admitted for employment or study. Close to seven in ten came to study at universities (44%), take up jobs (11%), or accompany work migrants as partners or children (12%); asylum seekers made up 14%. Indian citizens formed the largest cohort at 17% of all immigration, with Pakistani and Chinese nationals each contributing 7%. By June 2024, 19% of the UK population was born abroad-on a par with Spain and Germany, below Australia, Canada and New Zealand, yet above France, the United States and most Eastern European states...

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