🇺🇦#1 in the atlas · 2025
Ukraine
Eastern Europe · Home Office, 2019 — Q1 2026
From the largest supplier of seasonal workers to humanitarian schemes. Two different migrations from one country.
01 the story
All visas by year
people: main applicants + dependants · work, study, family, other
2021
Peak labour migration: 24,271 people, two-thirds of Britain's seasonal scheme.
2022
War. 217,421 people in a year — almost all humanitarian schemes, not work visas.
2026 — Q1 only
From the largest supplier of seasonal workers to humanitarian schemes. Two different migrations from one country.
What the data shows
In 2025, 17 116 people received visas — 15% fewer than the year before. The largest category is other: 89% of the flow.
How to read this
We count people — main applicants together with dependants, across four visa groups. Visitors are excluded. 2026 is Q1 only.
17 116
people in 2025 · ▼ 15% vs 2024
3 890
Q1 2026 · provisional
343 418
total 2019 — 2025
02 anatomy of the flow · 2025
What the flow is made of
visas granted 2025 · people, including dependants
share of the 2025 flow
Other15 187
Work1 197
Study695
Family37
Why "Other" is so large. Since 2022 this has meant humanitarian schemes — the Ukraine Scheme and family permits. It is not labour migration: in the seasonal scheme, Ukraine has fallen to 530 visas a year.
Source
Home Office, Immigration system statistics, Vis_D02. GOV.UK ↗
What we count
Visas granted — not applications or quotas. These are different numbers.
Update schedule
Release: year ending March 2026, published 21 May 2026.