Who gets seasonal visas: countries and trends
See Seasonal Worker visas issued by nationality and period. These are past visa grants, not open recruitment rounds or a measure of your personal chances.
Who goes
Five countries account for almost the whole scheme. Below is 2025, the last complete year.
| Country | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | 2026* |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇰🇬 Kyrgyzstan | 304 | 4 335 | 7 970 | 9 794 | 12 627 | 10 033 |
| 🇺🇿 Uzbekistan | 556 | 4 228 | 4 099 | 6 264 | 6 299 | 5 569 |
| 🇰🇿 Kazakhstan | 391 | 2 673 | 5 018 | 5 778 | 5 744 | 4 538 |
| 🇹🇯 Tajikistan | 980 | 3 906 | 5 665 | 5 817 | 5 701 | 4 944 |
| 🇺🇦 Ukraine | 19 894 | 7 332 | 2 551 | 706 | 527 | 352 |
| Whole scheme | 29 587 | 34 484 | 32 758 | 35 387 | 38 724 | 31 913 |
* 2026 — first half only, the year is not closed yet
Which quarters visas were issued in
The bars show visas issued by quarter. The issue date is not the date you registered with an operator: this chart cannot tell you whether recruitment is open now.
- first half
- second half
In 2025, 75% of visas were issued in the first half of the year. For the current round, check the operator's announcements for your country; overall statistics do not set a closing date.
🧭 Scheme operators →How often it is refused
Rarely: 1.5% of decisions across the scheme in 2025 were refusals — that is all nationalities, not only ours.
A low refusal rate does not mean the visa comes by itself. It means the people who reach the application stage have already been selected by an operator: the filtering happens earlier, on the operator side, and never shows up in this statistic.
Home Office, Immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026 · Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.