Research Done on UK Immigrants

Source: Life Today

Some have gone to the UK as asylum seekers, as they seek for protection as refugees under the laws established during the 1951 Refugee Convention of the United Nations.

The reasons

Moreover, based on the studies conducted about the aforementioned issue, half of the population growth that occurred between 1991 and 2001 was due to the foreign-born immigration. Nearly five million were born abroad, which accounts for more than eight percent of the population during that time. Perhaps the lacking part of the study is that the census did not include any immigration status or how long they intend to stay in the United Kingdom.

Latest studies

According to the results of the latest studies, it was only in 2008 that five hundred ninety thousand individuals arrived in UK for living purposes, while around four hundred and twenty-seven thousand former residents left. This indicates that the net inward migration can be accounted for around one hundred and sixty-three thousand.

Furthermore, the total net immigration merely in 2007 was two hundred thirty-seven thousand, which increased a huge forty-six thousand individuals in only one year. It was just in 2006 that one hundred forty-nine thousand and thirty-five applications were submitted to the UK Government in order to acquire British citizenship, an amount that is thirty-two percent less during 2005.

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