New immigration data from UK home office reveal, for the first time, Pakistanis have overtaken chinese, immigrating to United Kingdom through the Tier1 entrepreneur visa route.
The UK entrepreneur visa (tier1) requires access to atleast £50,000 or more for running a business/company in the UK. This scheme is only open to foreigners outside from EEA/Switzerland area.
- 19,507 UK entrepreneur visas issued since Q1 2008
- Demand from Pakistan and China topping the table
- US investors showing considerable interest immigrating to the UK through this scheme.
- Russian interest has fallen in this category, compared to Tier1 investor visa (second in table)
| Sum – PBS – Tier 1 Entrepreneurs (Main apps) | ||||||
| Country of nationality | 2017 Q1 | 2017 Q2 | 2017 Q3 | 2017 Q4 | 2018 Q1 | Total visas since 2008 |
| Total Result | 681 | 666 | 687 | 915 | 241 | 19507 |
| Pakistan | 20 | 8 | 21 | 30 | 952 | |
| China | 27 | 39 | 61 | 37 | 790 | |
| United States | 17 | 26 | 32 | 24 | 721 | |
| India | 24 | 19 | 10 | 30 | 530 | |
| Russia | 6 | 11 | 10 | 23 | 323 | |
| Australia | 7 | 9 | 3 | 12 | 319 | |
| Hong Kong | 14 | 20 | 8 | 28 | 237 | |
| Iran | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 205 | |
| Egypt | 8 | 3 | 8 | 13 | 204 | |
| Canada | 5 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 201 | |
| Nigeria | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 152 | |
| Korea (South) | 13 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 130 | |
| South Africa | 2 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 128 | |
| Iraq | 5 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 118 | |
| Malaysia | 8 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 104 | |
| Israel | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 99 | |
| New Zealand | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 73 | |
| Singapore | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 66 | |
| Jordan | 1 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 60 | |
| Ukraine | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 55 | |
| Japan | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 52 | |
| Lebanon | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 52 | |
| Taiwan | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 50 | |
| Kenya | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 49 | |
| Syria | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 49 | |
| Saudi Arabia | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 47 | |
| Brazil | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 42 | |
| Bangladesh | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | |
| Kazakhstan | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 36 | |
| Azerbaijan | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 35 | |
| Thailand | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 35 | |
| Turkey | 4 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 33 | |
| Libya | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 | |
| Vietnam | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 28 | |
| Sri Lanka | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 27 | |
| St. Kitts and Nevis | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 24 | |
| Mexico | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 18 | |
| Tanzania | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 18 | |
| Belarus | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 17 | |
| Afghanistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |
| Kuwait | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 14 | |
| Mauritius | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | |
| Yemen | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | |
| Dominica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | |
| Venezuela | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | |
| Philippines | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | |
| Occupied Palestinian Territories | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | |
| Bahrain | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | |
| Ghana | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Zambia | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | |
| Algeria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | |
| Armenia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Macau | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Sudan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |
| Colombia | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | |
| Serbia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | |
| Tunisia | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Uzbekistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Zimbabwe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | |
| Argentina | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | |
| Chile | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Morocco | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | |
| Burma | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Georgia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | |
| Nepal | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| United Arab Emirates | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Jamaica | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Mongolia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Qatar | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |
| Turkmenistan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | |
| Angola | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Barbados | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Bolivia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Cameroon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Dominican Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Ecuador | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Gambia, The | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Kosovo | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Maldives | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| Peru | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Refugee | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |
| Albania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bahamas, The | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Belize | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bhutan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Cambodia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Guatemala | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Kyrgyzstan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Madagascar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Malawi | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| Montenegro | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Other and unknown | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Paraguay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Seychelles | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
| Uganda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Country of nationality | 2017 Q1 | 2017 Q2 | 2017 Q3 | 2017 Q4 | 2018 Q1 | Total Result |
| *Total | 227 | 222 | 229 | 305 | 241 | 6663 |
| *Total Africa North | 14 | 5 | 8 | 14 | 258 | |
| *Total Africa Sub-Saharan | 12 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 393 | |
| *Total America Central and South | 3 | 7 | 8 | 10 | 146 | |
| *Total America North | 22 | 31 | 39 | 30 | 922 | |
| *Total Asia Central | 4 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 60 | |
| *Total Asia East | 59 | 70 | 74 | 73 | 1269 | |
| *Total Asia South | 44 | 28 | 33 | 63 | 1553 | |
| *Total Asia South East | 13 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 258 | |
| *Total EU 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| *Total EU 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| *Total EU 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| *Total EU Other | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| *Total Europe Other | 19 | 15 | 15 | 43 | 485 | |
| *Total Middle East | 28 | 31 | 27 | 32 | 683 | |
| *Total Oceania | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 392 | |
| *Total Other | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
