Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many people have settled in the UK with a British Nationals (Overseas) visa in each of the last three years.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of applications and grants of leave of people from Hong Kong on the British National Overseas (BN(O)) route in the “How many people come to the UK each year (including visitors)?” topic and underlying datasets of the ‘Immigration Statistics Quarterly Release’(opens in a new tab).

The latest data for the BN(O) route relates to the year ending March 2023. These statistics include data on main applicants and dependants.

The Home Office publishes data on the number of grants of settlement, broken down by category of leave, in table Se_D02 in the Settlement datasets(opens in a new tab). The latest data relates to the year ending March 2023.