Reminder that net migration figures have been unreliable since the Home Office stopped publishing visa overstayer numbers in 2020

And recent falls in net migration have supposedly been driven by non-EU student/grad visa-holders, who have the strongest incentive to overstay https://t.co/Tpoi2tLphz pic.twitter.com/s1lcd6JeMD

— David Algonquin (@surplustakes) May 21, 2026