Asylum Claims rose under the birth to hit more than 108,000 last year – the highest number since the records started in 1979.
The biggest increase came in the second half of the year – after the general elections – when 61,383 asylum offers were submitted, compared to 50,352 during the same period in 2023.
The annual total one increase of 18 percent on an annual basis slump the previous record set in the Asylum crisis in the early 2000s by 5 percent.
One of the first acts of Sir Keir Starmer after taking power was the scraping of the Rwanda Asylum deal, which was designed by the conservative government to deter Small-Boat Channel Crossings.
Yesterday published home office showed that 43,630 'irregular' migrants were detected by the authorities – including 36,816 by Small Boat – in 2024, 19 percent more than in 2023.
Asylum claims are not only done by newcomers, but also by strange subjects who have been in Britain for years.
The data showed that the number of asylum claims that was granted fell by 37 percent to slightly less than 40,000, especially because the previous Tory government gave up cases last spring.
Secretary of the Yvette Cooper working house returned that move in July, allowing the processing to be started again. At the end of December there were 90,686 Asylum Affairs with regard to 124,802 human-in anticipation of a first decision, a decrease of 5 percent on an annual basis.
The British Minister of the Interior Yvette Cooper has a press conference with its French counterpart, Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau in the Palais des congress on 27 February 2025 in Le Touquet, France. Cooper meets her French counterpart to observe measures that are being used to prevent illegal migration over the English channel
Yesterday published home office showed that 43,630 'irregular' migrants were detected by the authorities – including 36,816 by Small Boat – in 2024, 19 percent more than in 2023
Figures on legal migration showed that the number of work visa granted last year fell by 37 percent to 210,000, thanks to changes that the conservatives introduced at the beginning of 2024. Ministers of Tory increased salary thresholds that are needed for Werkvisa and forbade many migrants to take family members to the UK.
But despite the decrease in the number of new work visa that is being spent, there has been a huge increase in the number of foreign employees who continue to renew their right to continue to renew in the UK.
Work visa extensions reached 417,000, a seven -fold increase at the level of 2019. The number of foreign students granted a visa decreased by 14 percent to 393,000. But family visa – formerly family members to the UK – rose by 7 percent to 86,000, mainly because of refugees who bring family members here.
Subsidies for settlement – referring to aliens who have granted indefinite rights to stay in Britain – increased to 162,000 in 2024, an increase of 35 percent compared to the previous 12 months. It is the highest number for 13 years, although well below the peak of 241,000 in 2010.
Under the total, the settlement has been awarded to former refugees with more than a third year to 40,278 with more than a third year.
There was also a 'sharp increase' of the number of people who took British citizenship, according to documents from the home office at the figures. The number of leap by just over 63,000 years a year to 270,000, the highest since the records started. In 2020 the figure was only 131,000.
Slightly less than 209,000 of the citizenship granted were non-EU nationals, with the remaining 61,000 originally from the EU.
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp said: 'Without a deterrent and an obsession with rewarding criminal migrants with British passports, today's figures are no surprise. UiTicated immigration and waves of illegal immigrants that cross the channel. The fault is entirely at Labor's feet, which have been slow to tackle the crisis that unfolds on our border. '
Alp Mehmet, chairman of Migration Watch Die campaigns for stricter border controls, said: 'The government must shake off its complacency, tackle legal and illegal inflow, stop importing cheaper employees and start prioritizing the future of our own young people.
“Nothing they have done or said so far, will do this.”
A spokesperson for Nr.
'The system that we inherited had tens of thousands of stuck in a backlog, claim that they are not being processed and costs by using expensive hotels.
'But within just six months we had drawn up a serious long -term plan to restore the order in the shelter system.
“We have set up the border security command, return figures at the highest levels rose for more than a decade and have produced plans for a world-first people who smuggled sanction regime and introduced game-bricking legislation to smuggle smuggling gangs.”
