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Home Office · Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visa tables volume 1 (vi_01 to vi_05_q)

Work visas granted, 2005 to 2013

2013 Final

154,760visas

Work visas granted, 2005 to 2013 were 154,760 visas in 2013, up 6.7% (9,650) from 145,110 in 2012.

▲ 6.7% · +9,650 against 2012 (year on year)

  1. Home Office count
  2. 2013
  3. published 24 May 2019
  4. Table vi_04
  5. row “Work”
  6. column “2013”
  7. cell value 154760

2005 to 2013

Work visas granted, 2005 to 2013: 2005 to 2013LabourLabourCoalitionCoalition0100k200k20062008201020122005: 243,466 visas · published 24 May 20192006: 249,634 visas · published 24 May 20192007: 205,826 visas · published 24 May 20192008: 184,711 visas · published 24 May 20192009: 155,691 visas · published 24 May 20192010: 160,737 visas · published 24 May 20192011: 149,310 visas · published 24 May 20192012: 145,110 visas · published 24 May 20192013: 154,760 visas · published 24 May 2019
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What this measures

The number of entry clearance (out-of-country) visas granted in the Work category (main applicants and dependants, Tiers 1, 2 and 5 and their pre-Points-Based-System equivalents) in a calendar year, from the Home Office's old-format table vi_04.

What this doesn’t measure

Visitors, students, family members of British citizens, extensions granted in the UK, or the years from 2014 in the modern Vis_01 table.

Important caveat

Entry clearance visas granted by category from the Home Office's old-format table vi_04 (last published May 2019), covering main applicants and dependants together. Categories were mapped by the Home Office from the pre-Points-Based-System endorsements to the Work, Study and Family groupings. Study includes short-term study. The modern Vis_01 table starts in 2014 and is derived from a different outcomes dataset; its 2014 figures differ from vi_04 by a handful of visas, so the two series are shown separately with a marked break.

When the way this was measured changed

A series can move because the thing being measured changed, or because the way of measuring it changed. Each change below is marked on the chart, and says what the figures meant on either side of it.

January 2014 · methodology change

Before
Visa grants from the vi_04 tables under the older route groupings.
After
Visa grants derived from the Vis_D02 outcomes dataset under the current route groupings.

The modern series (Vis_01, from 2014) is derived from the Vis_D02 outcomes dataset with the current route groupings; its 2014 work visa figure (167,146) differs from vi_04 (167,147) by one visa.

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 statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visa tables volume 1 (vi_01 to vi_05_q)
Release
Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visas volume 1, published 24 May 2019
Source file
entry-visas1-mar-2019-tables.ods
File SHA-256
9647a2c2183729bda65852db4a967c0c6d46281162f281aec3fcd1a20c9e16bd
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Sheet
vi_04
Table
Table vi_04
Row
Work
Column
2013
Cell value
154760
Geography
United Kingdom
Unit
visas
API
/api/metrics/work_visas_2005_2013 · /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.

Coalition 2010–2015155,6912009154,7602013↓ 0.6%

Full comparison with chart

Release
Immigration statistics, year ending March 2019: entry clearance visas volume 1 · publication page
Last updated
24 May 2019
Next release expected
Not yet announced (estimated from the usual cadence)