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Emigration: India

Asked by James McMurdockIndependentHome OfficeTabled Answered 19 May 2025UIN 50825

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many Indian nationals have emigrated to the UK to work in each of the last five years.

Answered by Seema Malhotra

Statistics regarding UK immigration and emigration are a matter for the independent Office for National Statistics (ONS). Contact details can be found on their website at Making a request - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk).

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by nationality, year and visa type in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’. Data on visas granted are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the ‘detailed entry clearance dataset’. A visa grant does not necessarily correspond to the person arriving or remaining long-term in the UK. Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. Data is from January 2005 up to the end of December 2024.

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