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Home Office Immigration and asylum statistics

Recent Statistical publications:

Note: External links to websites or PDFs.

Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom, 2004 HOSB 14/05 >>

Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2004 HOSB 13/05 >>

Asylum Statistics United Kingdom 2003 HOSB 11/04 >>

Persons Granted British Citizenship United Kingdom, 2004 HOSB 8/05 >>

Control of Immigration: Statistics United Kingdom, 2003 HOSB 12/04 >>

Control of Immigration: Statistics - United Kingdom 2004. Command Paper 6690 >>

Control of Immigration: Statistics - United Kingdom 2003. Command Paper 6363 >>

Control of Immigration: Statistics - United Kingdom 2002. Command Paper 6053 >>

Earlier Statistical publications can be found at
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1sub2.html

Quarterly Asylum Statistics (formerly Monthly Asylum Statistics)

National Audit Office report 'Asylum and migration: a review of Home Office statistics', 25 May 2004
www.nao.org.uk/pn/03-04/0304625.htm

Note: Links below are to external PDF files.

Third Quarter 2005 >>

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Revisions to data and changes to publication schedule (19.9.01) (Home Office Press Release)
www.gnn.gov.uk/Content/Detail.asp?
ReleaseID=52382&NewsAreaID=2

Previous monthly Asylum Statistics
www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/immigration1sub.html

Asylum claims fall to lowest level for 16 years, says UNHCR
The number of asylum seekers coming to the industrialised world fell 22 percent last year to its lowest level since 1988, according to the annual figures published by UNHCR on Tuesday. Many individual countries also saw their lowest totals for many years. However, the ten new EU states saw a slight increase in asylum applications.

Read the full story and download the statistics (Asylum levels and trends in industrialised countries 2004) on the UNHCR website >>