[OC] Top 10 nationalities claiming asylum in the UK in the year ending June 2025, by route of entry to Great Britain

Posted by OverallBaker3572

14 comments

  1. Several of these countries are not at war and are pretty stable. What basis are these people claiming asylum under? E.g. India, Vietnam.

    Pakistan is questionable too, and Iran besides dissidents.

  2. Source? And define what falls under irregular arrivals or other?

  4. I’d like to see this broken down by gender and age

  5. I’d like to see the breakdown of what the claim for asylum is based on e.g. war, sexual orientation, political etc.

  7. Worth a reflection on the impact of 10+ years of the Hostile Environment and the complete erosion of legitimate pathways into the country that has forced so many people to enter the country ‘irregularly’. Any conversation focusing on data of arrivals without consideration of how policy has driven this data is inherently flawed.

  8. Seeking free shit, they are not running from war nor from political oppression. They are running from a shithole they created themselves mostly, and now want to spread their shithole ways around the world.

  9. At all of all these Afghanistan, Sudan and maybe Kurds and Druze and Syria are the only ones with a valid claim for asylum

  11. How do Pakistanis claim they’re in danger? Overstaying a visa should not be a valid method of claiming asylum, ever.

  12. Nice one, well done. Most of these people need to be sent back!

  14. I lived in the UK for years. This is unsurprising.

    For a deeper dive though, for data visualization, it would be ideal to see *why* they seek asylum, and how often they’re accepted. For example, about 48% apply under reasons for violence and fear for their lives due to specific rights being violated. Specific, targeted, and documented threat from a violent group is the main reason cited. Under these circumstances, about 50% of all Pakistanis are actually successful in their asylum application.

    See figure 4:
    [https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migration-to-the-uk-asylum/](https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/migration-to-the-uk-asylum/)

    I’d also like to add that Afghanistan is a special case, and is misleading in this graph- their visas aren’t normal. The UK started a new system specifically for Afghanis via the ARAP pathways, specifically for people who were largely either UK government employees who helped the UK government, and therefore at severe risk, or contracted by the UK government, or provided goods/services to the UK in Afghanistan, and are at risk. The legislated reason is simple: they helped save the lives of UK soldiers in one of the most dangerous countries on the planet, and after withdrawal, many fled and sought refuge with the people they helped. This is why they have a 96% acceptance rate.

    [https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy-information-and-guidance](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy-information-and-guidance)

    Iranians are also highly likely to get asylum (87%), mostly because a lot of the applicants are either religious minorities with credible threats to their life, democracy activists, or LGBTQ. The last statistic I saw was about 70% of applications fall under this category. I saw a report that said that Christians are specifically targeted in 2024 for made up charges.

    One more thing: Indians have the absolute lowest chances of getting asylum granted- about 2%. It’s unknown why this is the case, as I couldn’t find the grounds under which they were applying.

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