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Entry clearance visas granted (all types): record highs and lows

The extremes of entry clearance visas granted (all types) as published by Home Office, across the 14 periods held here (2014 to Year ending June 2026). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.

Highest published

3,387,4522023

Lowest published

961,6442020

The full series

Entry clearance visas granted (all types): 2014 to Year ending June 2026CoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01m2m3m20142016201820202022202420262014: 2,448,563 visas · published 27 August 20262015: 2,468,347 visas · published 27 August 20262016: 2,478,973 visas · published 27 August 20262017: 2,707,867 visas · published 27 August 20262018: 2,901,995 visas · published 27 August 20262019: 3,171,639 visas · published 27 August 20262020: 961,644 visas · published 27 August 20262021: 1,299,945 visas · published 27 August 20262022: 2,823,696 visas · published 27 August 20262023: 3,387,452 visas · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 3,087,958 visas · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 2,932,329 visas · published 27 August 2026
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What a record here is, and is not

A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.