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Home Office · Immigration system statistics: asylum claims and initial decisions datasets

Asylum claims by nationality

2026 Q2 Provisional

17,233people

Asylum claims by nationality were 17,233 people in 2026 Q2, down 37.0% (10,136) from 27,369 in 2025 Q2.

▼ 37.0% · −10,136 against 2025 Q2 (same quarter previous year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2026 Q2
  3. published 27 August 2026
  4. Asy_D01
  5. row “all rows”
  6. column “Claims”
  7. cell value sum of 1198 rows

The series is falling. Rule: down 37.0% from 2025 Q2 to 2026 Q2.

2001 Q1 to 2026 Q2

Asylum claims by nationality: 2001 Q1 to 2026 Q2LabourLabourLabourLabourLabourCoalitionCoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabour010k20k30k201020202001 Q1: 19,007 people · published 27 August 20262001 Q2: 15,683 people · published 27 August 20262001 Q3: 18,617 people · published 27 August 20262001 Q4: 17,720 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q1: 22,872 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q2: 24,888 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q3: 27,891 people · published 27 August 20262002 Q4: 27,430 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q1: 19,129 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q2: 12,710 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q3: 14,997 people · published 27 August 20262003 Q4: 13,211 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q1: 10,731 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q2: 9,307 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q3: 10,483 people · published 27 August 20262004 Q4: 10,102 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q1: 8,369 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q2: 7,271 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q3: 7,806 people · published 27 August 20262005 Q4: 7,395 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q1: 7,649 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q2: 6,491 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q3: 7,222 people · published 27 August 20262006 Q4: 6,966 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q1: 6,914 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q2: 6,031 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q3: 7,185 people · published 27 August 20262007 Q4: 8,170 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q1: 7,936 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q2: 7,068 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q3: 8,181 people · published 27 August 20262008 Q4: 8,129 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q1: 10,570 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q2: 7,601 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q3: 6,450 people · published 27 August 20262009 Q4: 6,052 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q1: 5,554 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q2: 5,618 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q3: 5,606 people · published 27 August 20262010 Q4: 5,866 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q1: 6,214 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q2: 6,225 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q3: 6,591 people · published 27 August 20262011 Q4: 6,868 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q1: 6,326 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q2: 6,363 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q3: 7,405 people · published 27 August 20262012 Q4: 7,884 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q1: 7,151 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q2: 7,330 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q3: 7,766 people · published 27 August 20262013 Q4: 7,628 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q1: 7,761 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q2: 7,095 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q3: 9,062 people · published 27 August 20262014 Q4: 8,426 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q1: 7,788 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q2: 7,835 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q3: 12,311 people · published 27 August 20262015 Q4: 12,034 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q1: 10,419 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q2: 10,080 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q3: 9,448 people · published 27 August 20262016 Q4: 9,410 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q1: 8,725 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q2: 8,039 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q3: 8,471 people · published 27 August 20262017 Q4: 9,200 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q1: 8,958 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q2: 8,676 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q3: 9,883 people · published 27 August 20262018 Q4: 10,966 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q1: 11,532 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q2: 9,772 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q3: 11,875 people · published 27 August 20262019 Q4: 12,358 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q1: 10,831 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q2: 6,102 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q3: 10,688 people · published 27 August 20262020 Q4: 9,982 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q1: 7,191 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q2: 10,539 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q3: 17,823 people · published 27 August 20262021 Q4: 22,389 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q1: 16,021 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q2: 19,435 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q3: 30,368 people · published 27 August 20262022 Q4: 29,183 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q1: 18,535 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q2: 19,591 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q3: 26,823 people · published 27 August 20262023 Q4: 22,478 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q1: 21,508 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q2: 23,880 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q3: 29,225 people · published 27 August 20262024 Q4: 30,151 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q1: 21,840 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q2: 27,369 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q3: 30,302 people · published 27 August 20262025 Q4: 22,400 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q1: 15,956 people · published 27 August 20262026 Q2: 17,233 people · published 27 August 2026
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What this measures

The number of people (main applicants and their dependants) who claimed asylum in the UK in each quarter, split by the nationality recorded on the claim.

What this doesn’t measure

The number of cases (main applicants only), people who arrived without claiming asylum, or the outcome of the claims.

Important caveat

These breakdowns are built by summing the Home Office detailed asylum dataset (people, main applicants and dependants) for each quarter. Category labels are kept exactly as published, so the same group can appear under two spellings in older data. Data for 2026 Q1 onwards is provisional and will be revised in a future publication.

Revision history

No period of this series has been revised since it was first ingested here. Revisions are recorded automatically when a later release publishes a different figure for the same period.

Source

Publisher
Home Office
Publication
Immigration system statistics: asylum claims and initial decisions datasets
Release
Year ending June 2026, published 27 August 2026
Source file
asylum-claims-datasets-jun-2026.xlsx
File SHA-256
10788dae8042fdb4f49ce4fc1447335a5cc868df48349969d66185bfda12e02f
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
Data_Asy_D01
Table
Asy_D01
Row
all rows
Column
Claims
Cell value
sum of 1198 rows
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
people
API
/api/metrics/asylum_claims_by_nationality · /series · /vintages

Government periods

Change during each government, from the level inherited to the last complete period before it left office. Describes the period; does not attribute cause.

Labour 2024–23,8802024 Q217,2332026 Q2↓ 27.8%
Conservative 2019–202411,8752019 Q323,8802024 Q2↑ 101.1%
Conservative 2017–20198,7252017 Q111,8752019 Q3↑ 36.1%
Conservative 2015–20177,7882015 Q18,7252017 Q1↑ 12.0%
Coalition 2010–20155,5542010 Q17,7882015 Q1↑ 40.2%
Labour 2005–20108,3692005 Q15,5542010 Q1↓ 33.6%
Labour 2001–200519,0072001 Q18,3692005 Q1↓ 56.0%

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Release
Year ending June 2026 · publication page
Last updated
27 August 2026
Next scheduled release
26 November 2026 (official date)