Original research - 1 July 2026
Monthly Immigration Figure Changes
A month-by-month archive of recorded immigration fee, salary-threshold and processing-time movements, with old value, new value, source URL and same-month policy context.
This is an archive of recorded old-to-new movements in Visa Atlas figures. It is not a complete global census of every policy change, and a verified current figure may not appear here unless a prior value is recorded.
By Sam Parks, Editor and lead researcher.
7
Recorded movements
5
Months with movements
7
Salary-threshold changes
March 2026
Latest recorded month
Key findings
- The public fact-change feed currently records 7 figure movements across 5 calendar months.
- The latest recorded movement month is March 2026, with 1 movement.
- The archive is generated from /api/public/fact-changes; same-month policy context is pulled from /api/public/policy-updates.
- Each movement links back to its current owning page and to the source-backed changelog record, so the old value, new value, date and source can be cited at row level.
Latest month: March 2026
| Fact | Movement | Jurisdiction | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Skills Employment Permit — general floor salary floor salary threshold | From38000 EUR (annual)To40904 EUR (annual) | Republic of IrelandCurrent figure page | DETE — Critical Skills Employment Permit |
Same-month policy context
- United States: US: premium processing rises to $2,965 and H-1B moves to wage-weighted selection
Two USCIS changes land for the FY2027 H-1B season: the Form I-907 premium-processing fee rises with inflation, and cap-subject H-1B selection switches from a random lottery to a wage-weighted process.
significant; in-force; source verified 28 June 2026
Monthly archive
Months with no recorded old-to-new movement are omitted. Use the JSON endpoint for the full row set.
| Month | Movements | Jurisdictions | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| March 2026 | 1 | Republic of Ireland | |
| January 2026 | 2 | Federal Republic of Germany | |
| July 2025 | 2 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | |
| April 2025 | 1 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | |
| April 2024 | 1 | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
Methodology
A month-by-month archive of recorded immigration figure movements: old value, new value, effective month, owning page and source URL, with same-month policy context where available.
- Period: calendar-month; rows are grouped by each fact change's changedOn month.
- Every public fact-change record is grouped by changedOn month. Same-month policy updates are included only as context, not counted as figure movements.
- Each movement keeps its old value, new value, current owning page, source URL and row-level changelog anchor.
- Policy context is included for the same month, but policy rows are not counted as figure movements.
Limits
- This is an archive of recorded Visa Atlas figure movements, not a complete global census of every immigration-policy change.
- Months with no recorded old-to-new figure movement are omitted from the month list.
- A current figure can be verified and source-linked without appearing here if Visa Atlas has not recorded a prior value for it.
Cite or reuse this dataset
This report is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Cite this page for the month-by-month grouping, the JSON endpoint for the derived archive, and the listed authorities for the underlying figure and policy sources.
Suggested citation
Visa Atlas, "Visa Atlas monthly immigration figure changes", https://visaatlas.org/research/monthly-immigration-figure-changes. Last verified 1 July 2026.