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UK IMMIGRATION DATA

Detected irregular arrivals

Detected arrivals through the irregular entry routes covered by Home Office statistics. This is not all unauthorised migration.

38,000
Year ending June 2026 · United Kingdom
Reported

Detected irregular arrivals

United Kingdom · Year ending June 2026

Reported
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Source: Home Office
Data 2026 · Source retrieved 16 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

Home Office

Published 27 Aug 2026 · Retrieved 16 Sept 2026

Source period: 2025-07-012026-06-30

Release schedule: Quarterly.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

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Detected irregular arrivals: observations and uncertainty
PeriodGeographyGroupValue95% uncertainty interval
Year ending June 2026United KingdomAll38,000Not reported

What this measures

Detected irregular arrivals in the covered routes

Calculation

Published government count; no calculation.

Limitations & comparability

Year ending 30 June 2026 unless labelled as an end-period snapshot. Counts are rounded headline figures from the Home Office summary; no precision beyond the published source is implied. Visa grants are not arrivals, unique workers or long-term migrants. Dependants are included where stated. Asylum refusals are not fraud findings. Detected irregular arrivals do not measure the resident population without permission.

Year ending 30 June 2026 unless labelled as an end-period snapshot. Counts are rounded headline figures from the Home Office summary; no precision beyond the published source is implied. Visa grants are not arrivals, unique workers or long-term migrants. Dependants are included where stated. Asylum refusals are not fraud findings. Detected irregular arrivals do not measure the resident population without permission.

Home Office

Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026: summary

Original source ↗ · Retrieved 2026-09-16
Data 2026 · Source retrieved 16 Sept 2026

Retrieval confirms when the source was collected, not that the underlying figures describe today.

Home Office

Published 27 Aug 2026 · Retrieved 16 Sept 2026

Source period: 2025-07-012026-06-30

Release schedule: Quarterly.

Next release: No confirmed next publication date is recorded here.

How updates are checked →