Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government how many work visas were issued to residents of China last year.

The Home Office publishes data on entry clearance visas by visa type, nationality and year in the ‘Immigration System Statistics Quarterly Release’.

Data on grants of work visas to Chinese nationals are published in table ‘Vis_D02’ of the detailed entry clearance visas dataset.

Information on how to use the dataset can be found in the ‘Notes’ page of the workbook. The latest data is from January 2005 up to the end of September 2025.

Please note that nationals of China may be resident in other countries at the point of application.

Chinese (main applicants) were granted 4499 work visas in 2024, including 1699 in the skilled worker category.