The 10 graphs that tell the story of the migration crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : The surge has been fuelled by nearly 1.2 million migrants being granted visas primarily from outside the European Union (EU) to enter the UK to work, study or escape conflict or oppression.
55% : Albanians were the most common nationality in 2022-23, applying for asylum with 13,714 applications - nearly 9,500 of which came from arrivals on boats crossing the English Channel.
45% : Some 40,208 of the asylum seekers were deemed inadmissible because they had travelled through a safe third country where they could have applied for asylum, of which 11,795 were given notice of intent for removal.
42% : Of the 2,520 initial decisions made on Albanians who crossed the Channel since 2018, just 10 were granted asylum, meaning that 99.6 per cent were rejected.
41% : With Brexit ending free movement from the EU, the highest number of any European nation was France with just 10,460 visas, coming in 19th on the table.

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