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Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme: Visa data by country, upper and lower tier local authority

Visa data by local authority in separate tables for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

From:
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government and Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
Published
1 June 2022
Last updated
2722 FebruaryMay 2025 — See all updates

This data will now be published on a quarterly basis. The next publication of this data will be 2921 MayAugust 2025.

Tables also include data relating to visas sponsored by the Scottish Government and Welsh Government.

This is an ad-hoc release of management information and does not constitute an Official Statistics or National Statistics release. It relates to the following quarterly publications by the Home Office: Safe and Legal (Humanitarian) routes to the UK and Immigration system statistics data tables.

We have also published data on Homelessness duties owed to Ukrainian nationals - for England, by lower tier local authority and visa data by age and sex of applicant.

Summary table: data as received from the Home Office as at 31 DecemberMarch 20242025

Location Sponsor Number of visa applications Number of visas issued Number of arrivals in the UK by sponsor location
England Sponsored by individuals 176,976182,130 140,543144,527 122,156126,456
Northern Ireland Sponsored by individuals 3,7803,849 2,9352,996 1,9081,967
Scotland Sponsored by individuals 10,14410,480 8,0448,348 6,7787,093
  Sponsored by the Scottish Government 38,305 32,623 21,55621,702
  Total 48,44948,785 40,66740,971 28,33428,795
Wales Sponsored by individuals 6,8436,990 5,3985,524 4,6564,783
  Sponsored by the Welsh Government 5,348 4,621 3,3693,389
  Total 12,19112,338 10,01910,145 8,0258,172

Notes to the summary table

1. These data are provisional management information from live operational systems and are subject to change. The data have not gone through the same levels of quality assurance as official statistics.

2. These data are likely to include some duplicate records. As such they are a reflection of the information held in the system and may not be an exact record of the number of individuals who have been issued visas. Caution should therefore be exercised in using these figures.

3. Not all records of visas issued have a suitable postcode for mapping to upper or lower tier local authorities. The number of records excluded is about two per cent. Therefore these figures will not add up to the UK total published by the Home Office.

4. These data are the numbers of confirmed visa applications (noted as ‘visa applications received’ in Home Office publications), visas issued to come to or stay in England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, and the number of persons that have arrived in the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, collated for operational purposes by the Home Office and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Total visa applications received are based on confirmed applications. This includes applications where the applicant has attended an appointment at a visa application centre and given their biometric information, or where the applicant did not have to go to a visa application centre to give their biometric information (which was possible from 15 March 2022). With effect from data provided by Home Office on 14 June, the figures in this release include information relating to applications where the applicant used the ‘UK Immigration: ID check’ app to prove their identity.

5. These data do not contain numbers of visas issued through the Ukraine Family Scheme.

6. There is a known undercount in the Northern Ireland ‘Arrivals into the UK’ data. This is due to people arriving into the Republic of Ireland and entering Northern Ireland via the Common Travel Area, where travel is not covered by the methods used to record entry to other parts of the UK. Ways to understand the scale of this undercount are being explored.

7. All data in this release have been assigned to local authorities or country based on the postcode of the sponsor’s address, or of the accommodation address if the applicant is not planning to stay at the sponsor’s address. The number of arrivals into the UK is therefore not necessarily reflective of the persons having arrived at the location noted in the table.

8. Some beneficiaries have indicated that either the Scottish Government or Welsh Government are their sponsor under the devolved government sponsor (also known as ‘super-sponsor’) element of the scheme. This is where Welsh and Scottish governments have undertaken to match beneficiaries without a named sponsor at the point of application, to a suitable sponsor in due course.

9. The Welsh government announced a temporary operational pause on new applications for their “super sponsor” scheme for Ukrainian refugees on 8 June 2022 with effect from 10 June 2022.

10. The Scottish government announced a temporary operational pause on new applications for their “super sponsor” scheme for Ukrainian refugees on 11 July 2022 with effect from 13 July 2022.

11. The numbers included in the tables include some visas issued where the ID numbers are not included in the list of visa applications received. The reasons for this are currently being investigated.

12. This information will usually be released at 9:30am on the final Thursday of each quarter.

Voluntary compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics

The Code of Practice for Statistics was published by the UK Statistics Authority in February 2018 to set standards for organisations in producing and publishing official statistics and ensure that statistics serve the public good. Whilst the data from the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme are not designated as official statistics, the principles of transparency of high-quality analytical outputs to inform decision making and the public underpin this data release: a statement of compliance is available at the ‘Voluntary compliance’ tab of the spreadsheet of tables.

Updates to this page

Published 1 June 2022

Last updated 2722 FebruaryMay 2025 + show href="#full-history">+ show all updates

    3. Added Visa data for Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme by country, upper and lower tier local authority (31 December 2024).

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