Legal immigration
Work, study and family
EU settlement, sponsors, visa fees. Other map — not added to 6,587.
Data as at 31 March 2026
Site last reviewed 10 September 2026
Asylum in Scotland
6,587
This is a stock of people on Home Office asylum support on 31 March 2026 — not a flow of arrivals or decisions.
Afghan resettlement and Ukraine schemes are counted separately — not added here.
Money coverage is 3 published · 7 partial · 6 gap. We do not have a Scotland spend total. Envelope is not outturn.
Glasgow holds 3,870 of those (59%) — 59.1 per 10,000 residents. Scotland +1,920 since 2022; Glasgow −698.
How many?
People, housing type, and nationalities — schemes kept separate.
Where?
Councils, named hotels, reporting centre, density.
History
Scotland is up. Glasgow is down. Chart 2014–2026 year-ends.
The journey
Claim to decision to move-on. Stocks where published. Gaps where not.
Who is paid?
Follow the money from payer to organisation.
Who is named?
Every body this snapshot can name. A name is not spend.
What is missing?
Gaps in plain English. Missing is not zero.
This map is people on asylum support. A second map is people who came through work, study, family and EU settlement. We do not add those two pictures into one total.
Legal immigration
Work, study and family
People allowed in through work, study, family and EU settlement. Sponsors, fees and gaps. Not added to asylum support.
Snapshot 31 March 2026 · last reviewed 10 September 2026. Home Office tables update quarterly. Asylum support, Afghan routes, and Ukraine are not added into one total. Hotel, dispersal, initial and subsistence-only now sum to the asylum-support total. Street action lives on My street.
Not on this map
Those questions live on the sister sites. We do not invent them here, and we do not add them to asylum support.
My street
Ward, street, councillor
Ward crime, child poverty, councillor actions, and what you can do on your street.
Government
National money and reserves
Usable reserves, national spend, and the public-money record across Scotland.
What this site is not
Not a charity directory. Not Home Office advice. Not legal advice. We do not keep your file.