FOI reference: FOI-2025-3102
You asked
Under the Freedom Information Act I would like to know the following information.
The total annual net legal migration to UK for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024
The total annual net illegal migration to UK for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024
A copy of the latest version of the criteria setting out how legal and illegal migration is recorded
If the criteria has changed I request to see any versions for the above years
We said
Thank you for your Freedom of Information Request.
- The total annual net migration to the UK for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024 can be found at Long-term international immigration, emigration and net migration flows, provisional - Office for National Statistics. Please note, these are official statistics in development.
- We do not hold estimates of irregular immigration, it is instead produced by the Home Office. The latest quarterly Home Office irregular migration statistics can be found at Irregular migration to the UK statistics - GOV.UK. If you have any queries about irregular migration, you can contact the Home Office using MigrationStatsEnquiries@homeoffice.gov.uk
- The methodology for how migration is recorded in the latest migration release is linked under the Methodology section of the cover page, or can be found at Methods to produce provisional long-term international migration estimates - Office for National Statistics.
- The methodology for recording migration has changed over time. Previous releases are available at Long-term international immigration, emigration and net migration flows, provisional - Office for National Statistics. Each of these previous releases contains a link to the methodology from the cover page or notes section.