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The foreign-born population increased from about 5.3 million in 2004 to nearly 9.3 million in 2018. In the decade leading up to 2018, the number of non-EU migrants outnumbered EU migrants while the number of EU migrants increased more rapidly. EU citizens were noted to be less likely to become British citizens than non-EU migrants. [1]
Around 70 per cent of irregular migrants arriving into the UK since 2018 have been adult men and just under one-fifth (19 per cent) of detected irregular arrivals have been children aged 17 and ...
If migrants who prove themselves to be from several countries arrive in England through illegal means, upon arrival the UK Government is unlikely to reject their claims to asylum. In 2019 at least 1,890 migrants arrived from France via small boats; the Home Office reported that only around 125 were returned to other European countries. [12]
Some 13,574 migrants arrived in the UK between the start of 2024 and the general election on July 5, according to analysis of Home Office data by the PA news agency. ... – How many migrants died ...
More than 150,000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel in the last seven years. Since current records began on January 1 2018, 150,243 people have made the journey, according ...
In 2011, an estimated 589,000 migrants arrived to live in the UK for at least a year, most of the migrants were people from Asia (particularly the Indian subcontinent) and Africa, [76] while 338,000 people emigrated from the UK for a year or more. [76]
There has been a big drop in the number of visas for health and care workers arriving in the UK, despite a shortage in NHS staff UK immigration figures breakdown: Where migrants are from and why ...
Migration Watch UK, is a think-tank opposed to a large scale of immigration. [15] Migration Watch UK has criticised the Home Office figures for not including the UK-born dependent children of illegal migrants. They suggested in 2007 that the Home Office had underestimated the numbers of illegal migrants by between 15,000 and 85,000. [16]