‘Immigration system statistics, 12 months ending December 2022’ contents web page.
Knowledge relate to 2022 and all comparisons are with the calendar 12 months 2019 (except indicated in any other case), reflecting a comparability with the interval previous to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
12 months ending comparisons that comply with will embrace impacts ensuing from the restrictions in place throughout this era of the pandemic.
Current modifications in visa numbers
There are a number of occasions / developments which might be prone to have impacted visa numbers not too long ago (resembling COVID-19 and the tip of free motion with the EU, alongside coverage modifications and the introduction of recent Safety visas). Because of this the Dwelling Workplace visa statistics at current, embrace a bigger diploma of uncertainty across the total traits. For additional dialogue and element see ‘Recent changes to visa numbers in Home Office data’.
Abstract of statistics for work visas
In 2022:
- there have been round 268,000 grants to important candidates on work visas, virtually twice as many (+95%) than in 2019 (previous to the pandemic) resulting from will increase in each long-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas and ‘Short-term Employee’ visas
- grants for ‘Expert Employee’ and ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas represented 86% of long-term sponsored work visas granted and over half (54%) of all work visas granted to important candidates in 2022
- Indian nationals had been the highest nationality granted long-term sponsored work visas in 2022
- the proportion of all work-related visas granted to dependants elevated from 29% in 2019 to 37% in 2022
1. Work visas granted to important candidates
There have been 267,670 work visas granted to important candidates in 2022. That is virtually double (+95%) the quantity previous to the pandemic in 2019, and 64% greater than in 2021.
Annual figures are unable to account for modifications in journey patterns following the pandemic, and it needs to be famous that European Financial Space (EEA) and Swiss nationals weren’t required to acquire a piece visa previous to 2021.
Desk 1: Work visas granted to important candidates by work visa kind
Work visa kind | 2019 | 2022 | Change | Share change |
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Worker | 63,757 | 166,408 | +102,651 | +161% |
Temporary Worker | 40,914 | 70,357 | +29,443 | +72% |
Investor, business development and talent | 2,780 | 3,843 | +1,054 | +38% |
Other work visas and exemptions1 | 29,601 | 27,071 | -2,530 | -9% |
Whole | 137,052 | 267,670 | +130,618 | +95% |
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Notes:
- The ‘Different work visas and exemptions’ class contains the ‘Frontier Employee Allow’, the ‘Excessive Potential Particular person’ visa and older routes such because the ‘European Neighborhood Affiliation Settlement (ECAA) enterprise individual’, ‘Abroad Home Employee’, ‘UK Ancestry’, and different routes that are actually closed.
Nearly all of work visas granted in 2022 had been for long-term sponsored work:
- long-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas (62%)
- ‘Short-term Employee’ visas (26%)
- ‘Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise’ visas (1%)
- ‘Different work visas and exemptions’ (10%)
Determine 1: Work visas granted to important candidates between the 12 months ending December 2013 and the 12 months ending December 2022, by work visa kind
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Determine 1 reveals that grants fell in all work visa classes throughout 2020 following the affect of the COVID-19 pandemic on worldwide journey, earlier than recovering in 2021. Lengthy-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas rose sharply all through 2022 and are presently greater than two and a half instances pre-pandemic ranges. A few of these will increase will partially replicate a bounce again from the low ranges in the course of the pandemic as individuals have rearranged journey and work preparations now that they can achieve this.
1.1 Lengthy-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas
The ‘Employee’ visa class covers long-term sponsored visas which generally result in settlement. It’s the important visa class for expert staff.
Lengthy-term sponsored work visas granted to important candidates elevated greater than two and a half instances (+161%) in 2022, from 63,757 in 2019 to 166,408.
Determine 2: Lengthy-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas granted to important candidates between 2019 and 2022, by visa kind
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Notes:
- ‘ICT-related routes’ discuss with Intra-company Switch visas and the ‘Senior or Specialist Employee (World Enterprise Mobility)’ route which opened in April 2022 because the successor.
- There have been a small variety of grants to the ‘Expert Employee’ and ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas in 2020, following their introduction in December and August, respectively, of that 12 months. These routes collectively changed the ‘Tier 2 – Normal’ visa.
Determine 2 reveals the expansion in long-term sponsored work visas following the introduction of the ‘Expert Employee’ and ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas in 2020.
Grants for ‘Expert Employee’ and ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas represented 86% of long-term sponsored work visas granted and over half (54%) of all work visas granted to important candidates in 2022.
There have been 66,324 grants of ‘Expert Employee’ visas and an extra 76,938 grants of ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas, the best variety of grants from any work visa.
In comparison with 2021, ‘Expert Employee’ visas grew by 86% whereas Well being and Care visas grew by virtually two and half instances (+142%), partially as a result of expansion of the route for eligible care workers.
Senior care staff grew to become eligible for the expert employee route when the route went stay on 1 December 2020 and had been added to the record of eligible occupations for the Well being and Care Visa on 27 January 2021. Provisional administration info reveals that the whole variety of functions below the Senior Care Staff occupation in 2022 was 23,300, with 22,100 grants.
On 15 February 2022, Care Staff grew to become eligible for the ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visa following a advice by the Migration Advisory Committee of their annual report for 2021. From 15 February 2022 to finish of December 2022, provisional administration info reveals that the whole variety of functions below the Care Staff and Dwelling Carers occupation was 40,300, with 34,800 grants.
1.2 Short-term Employee visas
The ‘Short-term Employee’ class pertains to shorter-term visas which don’t sometimes result in settlement.
Grants of ‘Short-term Employee’ visas to important candidates have elevated by 72% (+29,443) to 70,357, in contrast with 2019.
Determine 3: ‘Short-term Employee’ visas granted to important candidates between 2019 and 2022, by visa kind
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
As Determine 3 reveals, the rise in Short-term Employee visas has been largely pushed by the ‘Seasonal Employee’ visa, which permits an individual to do seasonal horticulture work or poultry manufacturing work. Visas granted to Seasonal Staff have risen from 2,493 in 2019 to 34,532, reflecting the rise on this route’s quota from 2,500 in 2019 to 40,000 in 2022. Seasonal Staff represented virtually half (49%) of all Short-term Employee visas in 2022.
Determine 3 additionally reveals the ‘Youth Mobility Scheme’ because the second largest Short-term Employee route, accounting for 16,962 grants. That is virtually 1 / 4 (24%) of all Short-term Employee visas granted. The scheme gives a cultural change programme that permits younger individuals from taking part nations and territories, to expertise life within the UK. World journey restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic have considerably impacted this route, with grants 16% decrease in 2022 in comparison with 2019.
1.3 Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise visas
The ‘Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise’ class contains the ‘World Expertise’, ‘Innovator’, and ‘Begin-up’ visas, and the now closed Tier 1 routes.
Grants to important candidates on this class elevated by 38% (+1,054), to three,834 between 2019 and 2022. In 2022:
- there have been 2,980 grants for the ‘World Expertise’ visa, for individuals who have distinctive expertise or distinctive promise within the area of science, engineering, humanities, drugs, digital expertise or arts and tradition. The route was launched in February 2020 as an enlargement of the ‘Tier 1 Distinctive Expertise’ visa, which noticed 794 grants in 2019
- there have been 299 grants for the ‘Innovator’ visa, for an individual looking for to ascertain a enterprise within the UK which they’ll contribute vital funds to
- there have been 377 grants for the ‘Begin-Up’ visa, for an individual looking for to ascertain a enterprise within the UK for the primary time
1.4 Different work visas and exemptions
There have been 18,553 visas granted to ‘Abroad Home Staff’, 12% decrease (-2,516) than in 2019.
The Excessive Potential Particular person (HPI) visa launched on 30 Might 2022 and is obtainable to latest graduates from a set record of high world universities to work or search for work within the UK. As much as the tip 2022, there have been 1,342 grants to important candidates.
The Graduate route was launched on 1 July 2021 and permits college students who’ve efficiently accomplished a bachelor’s diploma, postgraduate diploma, or different eligible course to increase their keep within the UK for a interval after their research to work or search for work. It’s an in-country visa and subsequently permits the scholar to use from the UK, with out returning abroad. There have been 72,893 grants to college students for additional depart to stay within the Graduate route. In 2022, Indian nationals represented the most important group of scholars granted depart to stay on the Graduate route, representing 41% of grants.
1.5 Work visas by nationality
In 2022:
- Indian nationals had been the highest nationality granted long-term sponsored work visas, accounting for 36% of the whole
- the highest 3 nationalities granted ‘Expert Employee’ visas had been Indian nationals, accounting for 33% (21,640), United States nationals with 6% (3,822) and Filipino nationals with 4% (2,763)
- the highest 3 nationalities for the ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visa had been Indian nationals accounting for 32% (24,976), Zimbabwean nationals with 16% (12,159) adopted by Nigerian nationals with 15% (11,823)
Desk 2: Prime 3 nationalities1 of Work visas granted to important candidates by work visa kind
Work visa kind | 2019 | 2022 | Change | Share change |
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Worker | ||||
India | 29,552 | 59,944 | +30,392 | +103% |
Nigeria | 1,993 | 13,449 | +11,456 | +575% |
Zimbabwe | 499 | 12,786 | +12,287 | +2,462% |
Temporary Worker | ||||
Ukraine | 2,616 | 7,781 | +5,165 | +197% |
Australia | 9,730 | 7,734 | -1,996 | -21% |
Kyrgyzstan | 11 | 4,352 | +4,341 | +39,464% |
Investor, business development and talent | ||||
India | 340 | 528 | +188 | +55% |
Russia | 105 | 424 | +319 | +304% |
Nigeria | 66 | 378 | +312 | +473% |
Other work visas and exemptions2 | ||||
Philippines | 10,911 | 9,570 | -1,341 | -12% |
India | 3,972 | 4,167 | +195 | +5% |
South Africa | 1,799 | 1,814 | +15 | +1% |
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Notes:
- Prime 3 nationalities in the newest 12 months.
- The ‘Different work visas and exemptions’ class contains the ‘Frontier Employee Allow’, the ‘Excessive Potential Particular person’ visa and older routes such because the ‘European Neighborhood Affiliation Settlement (ECAA) enterprise individual’, ‘Abroad Home Employee’, ‘UK Ancestry’, and different routes that are actually closed.
In 2019, the Seasonal Employee visa was primarily granted to Ukrainians, who represented 91% of grants that 12 months. In 2022, Ukraine remained the most important nationality with 21% (7,318) of all grants. For additional element on Ukrainian nationals on the Seasonal Employee route, see the Statistics on Ukrainians within the UK matter. Nevertheless, nationals from Central Asia signify an growing proportion of grants, with the second and third highest variety of grants to nationals of Kyrgyzstan (4,341, 13%) and Uzbekistan (4,233, 12%).
1.5.1 Work visas granted to EEA and Swiss nationals
From 1 January 2021, modifications within the immigration guidelines ensuing from the UK’s departure from the European Union imply that EEA and Swiss (excluding Irish) nationals now require a visa to work within the UK. In 2022, there have been 26,830 work-related visas granted to important candidates from EEA and Swiss nationals, representing 10% of all work visas granted.
The highest 3 work visas granted to EEA and Swiss nationals in 2022 had been:
- ‘Expert Employee’ with 12,106 grants (45% of all EEA and Swiss work visas)
- ‘Authorities Authorised Trade’ with 4,000 grants (15% of all EEA and Swiss work visas)
- ICT-related visas with 3,109 grants (12% of all EEA and Swiss work visas)
‘ICT-related routes’ refers back to the ‘Senior of Specialist Employee (World Enterprise Mobility)’ visa which opened in April 2022, and former ‘Intra-company Switch’ visa which are actually closed to new candidates.
EEA and Swiss nationals represented 10% (16,438) of grants on long-term sponsored work routes. Nevertheless, only one,094 grants of ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas had been to EEA and Swiss nationals, representing simply 1% of grants on this visa, regardless of this being the work visa with the best variety of grants total.
The highest 3 EEA nationalities granted work visas and permits had been:
- French with 4,349 grants (16% of EEA and Swiss work visas)
- German with 3,708 (14% of EEA and Swiss work visas)
- Italian with 3,242 grants (12% of EEA and Swiss work visas)
2. Dependants of labor visa holders
Beneath some circumstances, work visa holders are capable of carry companions and kids (‘dependants’) to the UK. On this part, work-related visas discuss with visas granted to each main work visa holders and their dependants.
In 2022, there have been 155,343 grants to dependents of people that had been granted a piece visa. This was greater than two and half instances (+180%) the variety of grants in 2019, largely reflecting the expansion in important candidates.
The proportion of all work-related visas granted to dependants has additionally grown, from 29% in 2019 to 37% in 2022.
Desk 3: Visas granted to dependants of labor visa holders, by visa kind
Work visa kind | 2019 | 2022 | Change | Share change |
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Employee | 49,798 | 147,656 | +97,858 | +197% |
Short-term Employee | 2,553 | 2,301 | -252 | -10% |
Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise | 3,142 | 3,490 | +348 | +11% |
Different work visas and exemptions1 | 14 | 1,896 | n/a2 | n/a2 |
Whole | 55,507 | 155,343 | +99,836 | +180% |
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Notes:
- The ‘Different work visas and exemptions’ class contains the ‘Frontier Employee Allow’, the ‘Excessive Potential Particular person’ visa and older routes such because the ‘European Neighborhood Affiliation Settlement (ECAA) enterprise individual’, ‘Abroad Home Employee’, ‘UK Ancestry’, and different routes that are actually closed.
- In 2019, dependants who utilized via the now discontinued ‘Different work visas and exemptions’ routes are included within the ’Dependants becoming a member of and accompanying’ visa class, which signifies that 2019 and 2022 aren’t straight comparable.
Lengthy-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visa holders offered nearly all of work-related dependants (95%), with dependants representing virtually half (47%) of all visas on this class.
In distinction, solely 3% of all Short-term Employee visa grants had been to dependants, partially as a result of dependants aren’t permitted on Seasonal Employee and Youth Mobility visas. Virtually half (48%) of ‘Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise’ related visas had been to dependants.
Determine 4: Visas granted to dependants of labor visa holders by visa route, and the proportion of all work-related visas to dependants, 2019 to 2022
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Notes:
- There have been a small variety of grants to the ‘Expert Employee’ and ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas in 2020, following their introduction in December and August, respectively, of that 12 months. These routes collectively changed the ‘Tier 2 – Normal’ visa.
Determine 4 reveals that in 2022, there have been 127,392 grants to dependants of ‘Expert Employee’ and ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visas, which collectively represented 82% of all visas granted to dependants of labor visa holders. Moreover:
- over two-fifths (41%) of grants related to the ‘Expert Employee’ visa had been to dependants, with 46,473 grants
- over a half (51%) of grants related to the ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visa had been to dependants, with 80,919 grants
2.1 Nationalities of dependants on work-related visas
Indian nationals represented 45% of visas granted to dependants of labor visa holders. That is reflective that Indian nationals had been the highest nationality granted long-term sponsored work visas to important candidates, the work visa class which represented the overwhelming majority of dependants.
Desk 4: Prime 5 nationalities1 of visas granted to dependants of labor visa holders
Nationality | 2019 | 2022 | Change | Share change |
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India | 28,149 | 70,647 | +42,498 | +151% |
Nigeria | 2,138 | 18,969 | +16,831 | +787% |
Zimbabwe | 506 | 10,434 | +9,928 | +1,962% |
Philippines | 1,151 | 5,663 | +4,512 | +392% |
Pakistan | 2,132 | 5,196 | +3,064 | +144% |
Different nationalities2 | 21,431 | 44,434 | +23,003 | +107% |
Whole | 55,507 | 155,343 | +99,836 | +180% |
Supply: Entry clearance visa functions and outcomes – Vis_D02
Notes:
- Prime 5 nationalities in the newest 12 months.
- ‘Different nationalities’ contains these that don’t characteristic within the high 5 in 2022.
The highest 3 nationalities of visas granted to dependants of ‘Expert Employee’ visa holders had been Indian nationals, accounting for 46% (21,595), United States nationals with 5% (2,389) and Pakistani nationals with 5% (2,254).
For dependants of ‘Expert Employee – Well being and Care’ visa holders, Indian nationals represented the best variety of grants with 41% (33,459) of the whole. Nigerian nationals had been the second highest with 21% (16,729), adopted by Zimbabwean nationals with 12% (9,939). Collectively these 3 nationalities comprised round three quarters (74%) of the dependents of Well being and Care visas issued in 2022.
3. Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) used for sponsored work visas (important candidates)
In 2022 there have been 220,787 Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) used for work visa functions, 94% (+107,013) greater than within the 12 months ending September 2019. (Comparisons are made with the 12 months ending September 2019, resulting from knowledge high quality points between October to December 2019 and April to June 2020. See Section 4.4 for particulars.)
A CoS is taken into account ‘used’ when an applicant receives a call on their visa utility.
There have been 162,614 CoS used for long-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas, which accounted for 74% of the whole CoS used.
Determine 5: Prime 5 work sectors for Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) used as a part of visa functions for long-term sponsored work (or ‘Employee’) visas in 2022, in contrast with the 12 months ending September 2019
Supply: Work Sponsorship (Certificate of Sponsorship) – CoS_D01
Determine 5 reveals that ‘Human Well being and Social Work Actions’ was the most important sector for CoS utilized in 2022 for long-term sponsored work visas, with the 5 largest sectors comprising:
- Human Well being and Social Work Actions (45%)
- Data and Communications (13%)
- Skilled, Scientific and Technical Actions (11%)
- Monetary and Insurance coverage Actions (7%)
- Manufacturing (5%)
‘Human Well being and Social work’ CoS used for long-term sponsored work visas have grown from 15,348 within the 12 months ending September 2019 to 73,128 in 2022. All sectors grew between these 2 durations, however ‘Human Well being and Social Work Actions’ accounted for over half (58%) of the expansion in CoS used for long-term sponsored work.
The rise is probably going resulting from a mixture of the removal of doctors and nurses from the Tier 2 Visa Cap in June 2018, the introduction of the bespoke Well being and Care Employee visa in August 2020 and it’s enlargement in late 2021 following additional demand for healthcare professionals ensuing from the COVID-19 pandemic.
4. About these statistics
The statistics on this part present a sign of the quantity of people that have an intention to enter the UK for work causes.
Earlier than 2021, as a result of utility to the UK of European Union (EU) free motion regulation, UK immigration management associated virtually completely to non-European Financial Space (EEA) nationals. From 2021, except in any other case said, knowledge on this launch relate to each EEA and non-EEA nationals.
Entry clearance visas permit a person to enter and keep within the UK throughout the interval for which the visa is legitimate.
Knowledge on this part discuss with the variety of Entry clearance visas granted for work causes throughout the interval. If a person was granted a visa greater than as soon as in a given interval, this has been counted as a number of grants within the statistics. If a person entered the UK a number of instances throughout the interval for which a visa was legitimate, this has been counted as one grant within the visa statistics.
The info don’t present whether or not, or when, a person arrived within the UK, what they did on arrival to the UK, or how lengthy they stayed within the UK.
12 months-on-year comparisons of the variety of selections may be affected by quarterly fluctuations within the knowledge. These fluctuations may be examined within the quarterly knowledge out there within the printed tables. 12 months ending comparisons may also embrace impacts ensuing from the journey restrictions put in place in the course of the pandemic.
Primary candidates and their dependants don’t essentially want to use on the similar time. Due to this fact, the variety of work-related visas granted to dependants throughout any interval might not totally replicate the variety of grants to important candidates throughout the identical interval.
4.1 Employee
The ‘Employee’ visa class contains long-term sponsored visas which generally result in settlement, and is the principle visa class for expert staff.
These visas are Tier 2 routes from the ‘Previous Factors Primarily based system’ and their successors: the Skilled Worker, Expert Employee – Well being and Care, ‘Intra-company Switch’ and Worldwide Sportsperson visas. The Senior or Specialist Employee visa, launched in April 2022 as a part of the brand new World Enterprise Mobility routes, has additionally been included because the successor to the ‘Intra-company Switch’ visa.
The provisional knowledge for Care Staff and Senior Care Staff contains each in-country and out-of-country functions.
Moreover, the Scale-up Employee visa, which launched in August 2022, is included on this class. Nevertheless, there have been no visa functions as much as the tip of 2022 on this route. It is because the route requires people to be sponsored within the first occasion, and so there can be a interval earlier than particular person functions may be made, given the necessity for corporations to use for a licence and meet the high-growth necessities for the route. The Scale-up route can be only one a part of the gives out there to companies within the points-based system, and subsequently there could also be a delay earlier than current sponsors resolve to utilise this route.
Tier 2 was carried out in November 2008. There have been 4 Tier 2 routes: Normal, Intra-company Switch, Minister of Faith and Sportsperson.
4.2 Short-term Employee
The ‘Short-term Employee’ visa kind contains shorter-term visas which don’t sometimes result in settlement.
Tier 5 was carried out in November 2008 to supply a route for these coming to the UK for primarily non-economic causes. The Tier 5 routes had been then closed on the finish of 2020 and changed by equal ‘Youth Mobility’ and ‘Short-term Employee’ routes.
The Seasonal Employee route was opened to new candidates from January 2019. This route got here into impact inside January to March 2019 as a part of a sequence of annual pilots that offered 6-month visas for seasonal horticultural staff. The expansion on this route displays the quota will increase for this visa, which elevated from 2,500 visas in 2019 to a present quota of 40,000 in 2022, together with 2,000 visas for momentary migrants to work within the UK poultry sector. Extra info may be discovered on the Seasonal Staff info web page and within the Authorities meals technique, introduced in June 2022.
The Artistic Employee visa launched in October 2021 and replaces the inventive factor of the Tier 5 (Artistic and Sporting) visa.
The UK Growth Employee, Secondment Employee, Service Provider, and Graduate Trainee visas from the World Enterprise Mobility routes, launched in April 2022, are additionally included on this visa class.
4.3 Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise
The ‘Investor, enterprise improvement and expertise’ class contains the World Expertise, Innovator, and Begin-up visas, and the now closed Tier 1 routes.
Tier 1 of the factors based mostly system (PBS) was phased in between February and June 2008 as a normal route. Nevertheless, from 2010, Tier 1 has centered on offering visas for ‘Excessive worth’ migrants solely.
The Tier 1 Entrepreneur route was closed to most new candidates in March 2019 and changed by the non-PBS Innovator route.
The Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur route was closed to new candidates in July 2019 and changed by the non-PBS Begin-up route.
The Tier 1 Distinctive Expertise
route was closed to new candidates in February 2020 and changed by the non-PBS World Expertise route.
The Tier 1 Investor route was closed to new candidates in February 2022.
The remaining Tier 1 routes had been closed on the finish of 2020.
4.4 Certificates of sponsorship (CoS)
From October to December 2019, the strategy for extracting in-country and out-of-country Certificates of Sponsorship (CoS) knowledge modified. Knowledge high quality points recognized as a part of this transformation in methodology has meant that some instances from October to December 2019 onwards are unable to be individually recognized as both a visa or extension case, and so have been categorised as ‘unknown’.
Candidates for ‘Employee’ and ‘Short-term Employee’ visas (and extensions) should get hold of a certificates of sponsorship (CoS) from a registered employer. Any organisation that needs to sponsor a employee should be registered on the Dwelling Workplace’s Register of Sponsors.
Additional details about the CoS allocation course of is given within the user guide and on the UK visa sponsorship for employers part of GOV.UK.
4.5 Different sources
Till 2020, the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics (ONS) printed long-term worldwide migration estimates in its ‘Migration Statistics Quarterly Report’ (newest knowledge out there is for the 12 months ending March 2020). The ONS are presently reviewing their strategies for measuring inhabitants and migration however have launched provisional experimental statistics for the 12 months ending June 2022.
The ONS gives the official measures of employment and unemployment within the Labour Pressure Survey (LFS). Statistics for October to December 2022 (newest out there knowledge) may be present in Labour market overview, UK: February 2023 release. The ONS are reviewing the LFS methodology at current, so estimates of the international labour pressure from this supply needs to be used with warning.
5. Knowledge tables
Knowledge on immigration for work may be discovered within the following tables:
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