Annual + quarterly grants
by route, body, nationality
— Home Office data.

Home Office Immigration Statistics is the primary public dataset for UK visa grants. The quarterly release publishes entry-clearance volumes by visa route — including the Global Talent visa, which has been reported as a standalone category since the 2020 rebrand. Aggregated annually, the figures show year-over-year growth from 2020 onwards consistent with the Wave 2 evaluation's findings on uptake post-cap-removal. The figures are subject to standard public-data caveats (provisional figures revised in subsequent releases, classification changes between reporting periods).

The Home Office figures don't break down volumes by endorsing body in standard releases. For that breakdown the closest public source is the Tech Nation 10-year report (covering the digital technology share through end of 2023) and the academic bodies' annual reports (covering Royal Society, British Academy, RAEng grants by year). Combining these gives the fullest publicly available picture.

This page draws on Home Office Immigration Statistics quarterly releases for headline volume data, the Wave 2 evaluation for cohort-level analysis, the Tech Nation 10-year report for the digital tech share, and academic bodies' annual reports for the academic-route share. Where figures are paraphrased rather than quoted verbatim it is to avoid implying numerical specificity not in the underlying source. The Home Office data is provisional and revised in subsequent releases — figures cited here will need re-anchoring at the next-review date. Where a secondary source conflicts with Home Office data, the Home Office figure is treated as authoritative. This page is data synthesis, not immigration advice.