How many visas under the Homes For Ukraine scheme have been issued for your council area?

Ukrainians fleeing from the Russian invasion of their homeland are being offered the chance to seek refuge in Scotland through a dedicated visa programme.

The first refugees who have found sponsors through the Homes For Ukraine scheme arrived in the country at the end of March.

Here is a list of the number of visas issued under the sponsorship programme as of April 19, broken down by the local authority of the sponsor’s property, in order from highest to lowest.

Four Scottish councils have been issued with fewer than five visas.

Edinburgh 287
Fife 130
Glasgow 115
Perth and Kinross 99
Highland 84
Aberdeenshire 83
Argyll and Bute 62
Stirling 59
Dumfries & Galloway 56
Angus 54
Aberdeen 52
East Lothian 48
West Lothian 48
Moray 45
South Lanarkshire 44
North Lanarkshire 43
Scottish Borders 39
Midlothian 33
Renfrewshire 33
South Ayrshire 29
Dundee City 28
Falkirk 27
East Ayrshire 26
Inverclyde 21
East Renfrewshire 18
East Dunbartonshire 17
North Ayrshire 15
Clackmannanshire 7

Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles), Orkney Islands, Shetland Islands and West Dunbartonshire have been issued fewer than five visas. The exact total has been withheld for data disclosure purposes.

A further 2137 visas have been issued under the direct sponsorship of the Scottish Government as a “super sponsor”.

The data above does not include the number of visas issued through the Ukraine Family Scheme, which allows applicants to join family members or extend their stay in the UK.

The data has been published by the Home Office and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.

The scheme allows Ukrainian nationals and their family members to come to the UK if they have a named sponsor.

Visas have been issued to local authorities based on the postcode of the sponsor’s address, or of the accommodation address if the applicant is not staying with the sponsor.

Not all records of visas have a postcode that has been mapped to a local authority area, but the number of records excluded is less than 1%.