Home Office does not print Scotland visa totals for work, study or family. That is a gap, not a zero.
Asks are drafts — not yet sent. Missing is not zero. Rules for what we will not invent are on Why trust this.
Looked for — not printed
Scotland split of entry-clearance visa grants by route (work/study/family)
Scotland split of settlement / ILR grants
Scotland split of in-country extensions
Scotland split of citizenship grants (post-2020 LA ceremonies also absent from Cit_D03)
Certificates of Sponsorship used/assigned with Scotland tag
Health and Care Worker stock resident in Scotland
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Missing
Work visas issued for Scotland
Vis_D01/D02 entry-clearance outcomes YE Mar 2026 have nationality/world-region only — no Scotland or LA geography.
Who to ask: Home Office (UKVI / Migration Statistics)
Status: not sent
What to ask
For each calendar year 2016–2025 and YE March 2026, please provide the number of entry-clearance visas issued where the sponsor address or intended main place of stay was in Scotland, broken down by visa type group (Work; Study; Family — excluding Refugee Family Reunion; Other temporary excluding Visitors if held), and within Work by Skilled Worker, Health and Care Worker, and other work routes. If sponsor/place-of-stay geography is not held, state which geography fields are held.
Se_D01–D03 settlement datasets YE Mar 2026 have no UK nation / LA geography.
Who to ask: Home Office (Migration Statistics)
Status: not sent
What to ask
For calendar years 2016–2025, provide grants of settlement (ILR) to applicants with Scotland as place of residence or ceremony/correspondence address if held, broken down by category of leave group (Work, Study, Family, Other) — excluding Refugee/HP/DL pathways. If not held, confirm.
Cit_D03 LA ceremonies published for Scotland through 2020 only. Cit_D02 grants lack UK nation geography. 2021–2026 ceremony-by-LA not in YE Mar 2026 workbook.
Who to ask: Home Office (Migration Statistics)
Status: not sent
What to ask
Please provide British citizenship ceremonies attended by Scottish local authority for calendar years 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (or YE March equivalents), in the same format as Cit_D03. Also, if held, grants of British citizenship by UK nation (Scotland/England/Wales/Northern Ireland) for those years.
Public sponsor registers list licences by town; CoS/CAS assigned or used with Scotland tag not in Immigration Statistics YE Mar 2026 sponsorship summary at nation level for Scotland (check later waves). Licence count ≠ people.
Who to ask: Home Office (UKVI Sponsorship)
Status: not sent
What to ask
For YE March 2024, 2025 and 2026: number of Certificates of Sponsorship assigned and used by sponsors with a Scottish premises on the Worker/Temporary Worker register, broken down by route (Skilled Worker, Health and Care Worker, Seasonal Worker, others). Separately, Confirmation of Acceptance for Studies assigned by Student sponsors with Scottish campuses.
Extensions datasets YE Mar 2026 — no Scotland geography.
Who to ask: Home Office (Migration Statistics)
Status: not sent
What to ask
In-country extension grants for YE March 2024–2026 where the applicant’s residential address was in Scotland, by visa type group (Work, Study, Family).
Health and Care Worker appears in UK Vis tables; Scotland stock/grants not published separately in Vis_D02 geography.
Who to ask: Home Office / Scottish Government
Status: not sent
What to ask
Number of Health and Care Worker visas issued YE March 2023–2026 with Scottish sponsor organisation (from CoS), and any published estimate of Health and Care Workers employed in Scotland under that route.
HO ARA / Fees Order IA publish UK fee income (~£3.5bn 2024/25 excl IHS). No Scotland split in Immigration Statistics or fee transparency tables.
Who to ask: Home Office (Finance / UKVI)
Status: not sent
What to ask
For FY 2022/23, 2023/24 and 2024/25, please provide Home Office income from immigration and nationality application fees (excluding Immigration Health Surcharge and Immigration Skills Charge if held separately) attributable to (a) applications where the sponsor organisation address is in Scotland, and/or (b) applicants with a Scotland residential address if held. If neither geography is held, state which geography fields exist.
SLAB App2/App5 publish combined immigration & asylum only (£14.3m / £14.38m 2024/25). Non-asylum immigration legal aid split NOT PUBLISHED.
Who to ask: Scottish Legal Aid Board
Status: not sent
What to ask
For FY 2022/23–2024/25, split civil legal assistance accounts paid (and App5 net cost if different) between (1) asylum and (2) non-asylum immigration/nationality matters, using your case-category codes. If a clean split is not held, provide the nearest published taxonomy and counts.
Board-level published: NHS Lothian FOI 8272 — £1,485,275 (2021/22), £1,839,836 (2022/23). NHSGGC procurement 2023/24 Translation & Interpretation category £1,589,913. Scotland-wide aggregate still NOT PUBLISHED.
Who to ask: NHS NSS / individual territorial boards
Status: not sent
What to ask
Total expenditure on interpreting and translation services for FY 2023/24 and 2024/25, and whether any board publishes a migrant/ESOL-related breakdown.
Missing
College ESOL as a named cash line
CLD Independent Review: community ESOL from core college funds, no ring-fence since 2018-19. Isolatable Scotland ESOL £ not published. Glasgow New Scots ESOL top-ups are published separately.
Who to ask: Scottish Funding Council / Scottish Government
Status: not sent
What to ask
Estimate or extract of college teaching credit spend attributable to ESOL delivery in Scotland for AY 2022/23–2024/25, if held; otherwise confirm not isolatable from core teaching grants.
IHS income UK-published; Scotland applicant split not found. IHS is transferred to health departments including SG — confirm published Scotland receipt if any.
Who to ask: Home Office / Scottish Government Health
Status: not sent
What to ask
Immigration Health Surcharge amounts transferred to Scottish Government / NHS Scotland for FY 2022/23–2024/25, and any published methodology.
No Scotland-wide LA/CLD ESOL cash outturn published. SFC expects joint LA–college ESOL delivery plans. Asylum-tagged New Scots ESOL grants out of scope here.
Who to ask: COSLA / Scottish Government (CLD / ESOL policy)
Status: not sent
What to ask
Any Scotland aggregate or LA-level published or held figures for local authority / CLD spend on ESOL provision (excluding Home Office resettlement/asylum-specific pots) for FY 2023/24 and 2024/25.
IHS and ISC rates published (rates_not_cash). UK IHS/employer levy income cited in Commons Library briefing at UK level; Scotland split not found.
Who to ask: Home Office / HM Treasury
Status: not sent
What to ask
For FY 2023/24 and 2024/25: Immigration Health Surcharge and Immigration Skills Charge income collected, with any Scotland attribution if held (e.g. by sponsor premises nation for ISC, or applicant address for IHS). If not held, confirm.
Curated Tier B advice orgs only; full OISC Scotland register cut not compiled this wave.
Who to ask: OISC / Home Office
Status: not sent
What to ask
Publish or provide a machine-readable list of OISC-registered organisations and advisers with a Scotland premises or Scotland correspondence address, as at a recent date.
NHS Lothian FOI and NHS GGC procurement report publish board totals for interpreting/translation. Named supplier organisations behind those money_lines not extracted this wave.
Who to ask: NHS Lothian / NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Status: not sent
What to ask
For the years covered by published interpreting/translation totals (Lothian FOI 8272; GGC Procurement Annual Report 2023-24 category), name the top suppliers by spend and contract title if held without commercial confidentiality redaction of names.
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Those questions live on the sister sites. We do not invent them here, and we do not add them to asylum support.
Asylum
Asylum support in Scotland
6,587 people on Home Office asylum support. Not added to EUSS or sponsors.
