Visitor visas granted: record highs and lows

The extremes of visitor visas granted as published by Home Office, across the 14 periods held here (2014 to Year ending June 2026). Each record is a published figure, not a computed one, and the scope is this series — not “ever”.

Highest published

2,413,4612019

Lowest published

401,9772021

The full series

Visitor visas granted: 2014 to Year ending June 2026CoalitionConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeConservativeLabourLabour01m2m20142016201820202022202420262014: 1,878,551 visas · published 27 August 20262015: 1,913,774 visas · published 27 August 20262016: 1,902,728 visas · published 27 August 20262017: 2,095,584 visas · published 27 August 20262018: 2,239,639 visas · published 27 August 20262019: 2,413,461 visas · published 27 August 20262020: 500,596 visas · published 27 August 20262021: 401,977 visas · published 27 August 20262022: 1,396,161 visas · published 27 August 20262023: 1,954,981 visas · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2025: 2,218,234 visas · published 27 August 2026Year ending June 2026: 2,185,158 visas · published 27 August 2026

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What a record here is, and is not

A record is the extreme of the periods this site holds for the current series, at each period’s newest published release. Earlier series measured under different methods are not compared against it. Money is in cash terms: a record set years ago stands against the money of its own year.