Asylum
Asylum support in Scotland
6,587 people on Home Office asylum support. Not added to EUSS or sponsors.
Header search on this map looks up licensed sponsors— not the asylum organisation register.
Work, study and family
History
Blank years stay blank. EU Settlement Scheme is a running total from 2018 — not a yearly stock. UK visa lines are not Scotland.
Partial — series stops
Ceremonies · Scotland 2020
2,953
2021–2025 are not in the published table.
Cumulative · not a yearly stock
EUSS applications · to 31 Mar 2026
393,500
Settled 224,224 · pre-settled 125,034
Citizenship ceremonies · Scotland
2011–2014 are the sum of the 32 council rows. 2015–2020 are the published Scotland series. Later years are not drawn as zero.
| Year | Ceremonies |
|---|---|
| 2011 | 4,417 |
| 2012 | 4,746 |
| 2013 | 5,716 |
| 2014 | 3,956 |
| 2015 | 3,542 |
| 2016 | 4,462 |
| 2017 | 3,282 |
| 2018 | 4,439 |
| 2019 | 4,460 |
| 2020 | 2,953 |
| 2021 | — |
| 2022 | — |
| 2023 | — |
| 2024 | — |
| 2025 | — |
UK only — Scotland not published
UK entry-clearance visas
Calendar years 2015–2025. Work, study and family stay separate. 2026 in the pack is only to 31 March — shown in the table, not on the chart.
| Year | Work | Study | Family |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 165,900 | 272,919 | 37,711 |
| 2016 | 163,922 | 294,454 | 37,781 |
| 2017 | 164,943 | 330,101 | 40,123 |
| 2018 | 175,812 | 354,878 | 43,620 |
| 2019 | 192,559 | 404,410 | 55,643 |
| 2020 | 114,528 | 250,121 | 37,087 |
| 2021 | 239,193 | 435,110 | 42,182 |
| 2022 | 421,565 | 623,698 | 47,119 |
| 2023 | 613,627 | 604,253 | 80,083 |
| 2024 | 368,139 | 418,932 | 85,161 |
| 2025 | 261,112 | 429,254 | 66,610 |
2026 to 31 March (not a full year): Work 57,913 · Study 36,153 · Family 12,016.
UK onlyNot residents
UK visitor grants
Visitors are not people living in Scotland. Separate from work, study and family.
UK only — Scotland not published
UK settlement grants
Calendar years 2020–2025. Refugee settlement is drawn so you can see it — it is not added into work or family.
| Year | Family | Work | Other | Refugee |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 51,059 | 14,318 | 8,514 | 15,762 |
| 2021 | 64,258 | 18,049 | 13,686 | 13,023 |
| 2022 | 75,946 | 18,793 | 12,161 | 24,366 |
| 2023 | 65,343 | 25,733 | 13,014 | 14,382 |
| 2024 | 87,836 | 35,177 | 17,182 | 19,599 |
| 2025 | 73,316 | 37,593 | 20,259 | 14,951 |
None of these UK lines is a Scotland stock. Asylum support history is on the asylum map. The two pictures are not added.
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.
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