Number of Asylum Seekers Granted Permission to Stay in Britain Soars by a Third in a Year
The number of people granted asylum by the Home Office jumped by more than a third last year, with 55,000 people given refugee status or similar permission to stay in Britain. The Mail has the story.
Official figures showed nearly 55,000 migrants were handed refugee status or another type of permission to stay in Britain in the year to December.
It was up 35% on the previous 12 months but 14% below the peak seen in 2023.
Eritreans made up the largest group with just under 8,700 successful asylum claims, followed by Sudan with 7,000 and Iran with 6,900.
The figures only cover those granted asylum by the Home Office at the initial decision stage, and do not include those who successfully appeal against a refusal in the immigration courts which had a backlog of 70,000 cases at the last count.
There were 46,497 illegal arrivals into the country in 2025, up 7% on the previous year.
It included 41,472 by small boat across the Channel – a figure which was already known from daily updates published by the Home Office – with the rest coming by ‘clandestine’ routes such as stowing away in the backs of lorries.
Small boat arrivals were up 13% on 2024 but lower than the peak of 45,772 seen in 2022.
Statistics also showed the total number of asylum claims lodged in the year was 101,000, a 4% fall on the previous year but still at a near-record level.
The total number of claims to receive an initial decision from the Home Office hit an all-time high of more than 135,000, meaning the proportion of those granted was 42%, down from 47% the previous year.
A record number of asylum claims – just over 80,000 – were rejected by the Home Office, a significant 75% jump on the previous year.
The rise indicates a large number of unfounded claims are being lodged by migrants, although after initial rejection many go on to bring lengthy appeals.
The number of migrants receiving taxpayer-funded support dipped at the end of last year, including those given full-board accommodation in hotels.
Data showed there were 107,003 people receiving state support, a 5% fall year-on-year and 14% below the peak of almost 124,000 in September 2023.
Of those, 31,000 were in hotels, 19% lower than a year previously.
Just under 73,000 were in other types of accommodation such as self-catering properties, up 2%.
There was a 15% rise in those receiving subsistence-only hand-outs – and no accommodation – to 3,577.
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Clearly Reform will have to review it all. They could say that all arrivals by boat were illegal entrants as they are regardless of Labour’s rule change. Or they could review each and every case and throw our 90%+.
Reform must challenge the notion that left wing governments, with the help of left wing lawyers and judges, can bind us to forever laws.
Seeing more and more of this sort of thing posted from different countries, including the UK. Migrants complaining about mass immigration and wanting remigration. These’ll be the ones that actually appreciate the opportunity they’ve been given and want to make the most of it and have managed to integrate, but they now see the culture and people they fled from catching up with them in the West;
”A migrant in Germany calls for remigration. “There’s a reason your parents fled here, and not to Sri Lanka or Nigeria. You’re just too stupid to understand and want to turn this place into the same shit as where you come from. “I hope the Germans never let that happen.”
https://x.com/RMXnews/status/2026449520821727700
Looking back on the failed experiment which is multiculturalism in Britain; ”Writer Aris Roussinos has described the Britain of the 1990s to 2000s as probably the most successful—or least worst—example of a multicultural society in the modern world. While there was a certain amount of diversity, the country remained homogenous overall—approximately 90 percent White British or more —and there was a certain degree of public consent for the settlement. The advocates of multiculturalism pushed their luck, forgetting about the consent of the wider population, creating a divided nation of parallel and separate communities, like an unruly empire crammed into one small island. But 1990s nostalgia is also misplaced. Major multicultural dysfunctions which we imagine having only begun in the 2000s were present even then and earlier, and not even in that embryonic a form. The Satanic Verses affair of 1989 showed that some of Britain’s then-small Muslim population (four times smaller than what it is today) would respond with violence to literature they deemed offensive, even in a pluralist democracy. The hounding of Bradford teacher Ray Honeyford into unemployment for sounding the alarm about growing Islamic extremism in schools in West Yorkshire in the mid-1980s showed that the British state… Read more »
The ideal size of the muslim population is zero!!
“Small boat arrivals were up 13% on 2024 but lower than the peak of 45,772 seen in 2022.”
Which party was in government in 2022 I wonder.
I swear I remember the Tories saying high immigration was forced on us by EU membership. How did that go? Boriswave, anyone? I voted Leave, partly because of immigration. Not because I thought it would make a difference, but because it removed an excuse.
That’s a lot, surely;
”New: The Home Office awarded over 800,000 long term visas in 2025. Just 20% were work visas.”
https://x.com/migrationCtrl/status/2026954407544279347
Bloody hell. What are the rest going to do? Maybe some are students – I thought they had to go back after finishing their studies unless they found a well paid job but then I read there was some kind of loophole.
Probably lots of students with dependents in there – mad I know, but apparently it’s a big number.
Why we allow that in the first place is the real question of course…
How can a student have dependents???
Another set of stats that prove the lies of the open borders, heart on their sleeve morons. Their constant mantra is ‘we have to take them, they only speak English and not other European languages, they have family connections, we evilly raped them of their natural resources’. No, Eritrea was an Italian dependency until it was allocated to the British military in the second world war. We took nothing from them and if they have historical connections, it is to Italy. Every single one should be got rid of and not just the Eritreans.
Family paid £26k to remain in the UK 15+ years ago this is a slap in the face. Moved to the UK first to study, then married and now have a wonderful family and own business contributing to the community we live in and the economy via taxes paid. Seeing friends with generational links in the UK denied visas and told to carry out family life over video chat. The irony that others got to stay because of chicken nugget preference! Seeing multiple genuine “white” families struggle to meet criteria and financial costs to remain in the UK as hurdles have been put there by UK government a thriving local business will close with loss of 7 jobs for employees as the applicant and spouse cannot afford the £17k/person to stay at this application – they’d already paid £13k each 2 years ago. Saw aviation engineers, qualified nurses and counsellors leave recently rather than go through the application process to remain for their families – it is to our detriment they left as were the quality needed here instead we are lumped with an asylum hotel on our doorstep regular assaults and sexual attacks including approaches to children enroute to… Read more »
What did anyone expact for this immigrant loving government.
AIM HIGH VOTE LOWE MILLIONS MUST GO!!!!