The Latest Breaking News from Immigration

IN FOCUS: Net migration is down to just 431,000, the lowest level in over three years, while illegal immigration via small boats and asylum-related migration remains high. Data correspondent Alicja Hagopian reports.

COMMENT: By taking office just as net migration was passing its peak, the prime minister has been a lucky general, says John Rentoul – but there is more than meets the eye in new figures showing it has halved in a year

In an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan, billionaire and Trump megadonor Elon Musk offered his thoughts about what motivates political progressives to support immigration. In his view, the culprit was empathy, which he called “the fundamental weakness of Western civilization.”

The drop has been driven by a fall in the number of people coming to the UK to work and study.

NET migration to the UK halved in 2024, according to new estimates ...

The figure stood at an estimated 431,000 in the year ending December 2024, down from 860,000 a year earlier, the ONS said.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) published new estimates on Thursday

Tories claim credit for fall in numbers as Labour continues push for cutting migration in wake of Starmer’s ‘island of strangers’ speech

A spate of arrests at immigration courts across the United States this week has rattled people showing up for hearings and may signal a coordinated attempt at deportations under fast-track authority that President Donald Trump sharply expanded soon after taking office

Both the UK and Iran called each other's envoys after Iranian asylum seekers allegedly spied on some journalists. Will this trigger stricter immigration rules?

The Office for National Statistics will give its first estimate of net migration for the 12 months to December 2024.