The following table displays the number of visas issued to non-EU students who applied to enter the United Kingdom to work as seasonal agricultural workers, from 2002 to 2006. The results are broken down according to the location of our missions overseas (country and region). There are no available reliable UK Visas statistics for applications made prior to 2002.
Region 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Australia and South Pacific 0 0 0 0 0 Central Europe and former Soviet Union 416 914 2,162 10307 14,248 Albania 0 0 110 106 46 Armenia 0 0 7 31 73 Bulgaria 1 0 0 2,301 3,362 Belarus 0 0 0 2 0 Croatia 0 0 1 0 0 Czech Republic 10 19 8 5 1 Estonia 0 0 0 0 2 Georgia 0 0 67 110 85 Hungary 0 0 5 0 2 Kazakhstan 19 0 3 1 0 Latvia 16 3 1 0 1 Lithuania 0 3 0 2 0 Macedonia 97 56 55 54 125 Moldova 0 0 40 911 857 Romania 243 0 0 317 1,940 Russia 30 753 1,838 2,347 2,548 Serbia 0 0 21 44 88 Slovakia 0 0 0 2 0 Turkmenistan 0 0 6 14 6 Ukraine 0 80 0 4,060 5,112 Equatorial Africa 1 0 0 8 19 Ghana 1 0 0 7 19 Nigeria 0 0 0 1 0 Far East 41 86 5 1 0 China 41 41 0 0 0 Mongolia 0 45 5 1 0 Latin America 0 0 0 0 0 Middle East 0 0 0 0 0 North America 0 0 0 0 0 North and North East Africa 2 0 0 2 2 Egypt 0 0 0 0 2 Tunisia 2 0 0 2 0 South Asia 4 46 30 0 0 India 4 46 30 0 0 South East Asia 0 0 0 0 0 Southern Africa 0 0 0 0 0 Southern Europe 52 120 19 68 24 Cyprus 1 0 0 0 0 Portugal 0 0 1 0 0 Turkey 51 120 18 68 24 West Indies and Atlantic 0 0 0 0 0 Western Europe 0 0 1 3 1 Austria 0 0 1 2 0 Germany 0 0 0 1 1 Total 516 1,166 2,217 10,389 14,294 Note: UK Visas makes every effort to ensure that statistics produced from our ‘Central Reference System’ are accurate. However, the complexity of our global business, including technical failures or occasional inconsistencies in data entry across any of over 150 offices, means we cannot guarantee 100 per cent. accuracy. Source: CRS 2002-03 data sourced on: 17 May 2007 2004-06 data sourced on: 16 May 2007