ONS Population Projections | Migration Watch UK
Today, the ONS released further population projections based on varying net migration estimates. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green said: “These latest official projections underline the huge importance of the government keeping to its promise to get net migration down below 100,000. Even at 100,000 these figures show that our population will reach 70 million in less than 25 years with […]
Youth Unemployment and Immigration: More than a Coincidence Says Report | Migration Watch UK
A new report has highlighted the ‘remarkable coincidence’ between the rise in youth unemployment in the UK and the huge surge in immigration from Eastern Europe over the last eight years. The report by think-tank Migration Watch UK shows that there is an apparent correlation between this surge and the surge in UK youth unemployment that followed. […]
MW247 : Youth Unemployment and Immigration from the A8 Countries | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1 The accession of eight former Soviet-bloc countries in Eastern Europe – the A8 – to the European Union from May 2004, led to a very substantial migration from these countries to the UK. Around 1.6 million workers from the A8 have come to the UK since accession.[1] Many will have returned but the number […]
MW248 : Public opinion on immigration | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. A paper that casts doubt on the strength of public opinion on immigration has been embraced by the immigration lobby[1]. However, the opinion survey on which it was based bore no relation to the policy measures actually proposed by the government. Detail 2. The Migration Observatory report “Thinking behind the Numbers – Understanding […]
MW243 : UK Population Projections – How to stay below 70 million | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Only a significant reduction in net migration to below 40,000 a year will stabilise the UK’s population at below 70 million. UK Population Projections 2. The graph below shows the UK recorded population[1] for the last one hundred years and the projected population out to 2061[2] at different levels of net migration. 3. The UK […]
MW246 : Marriage Visas and English Language Requirements | Migration Watch UK
The requirements to be met by applicants for marriage visas needed to bring in to the United Kingdom with a view to settlement in the UK spouses from countries outside the EEA are set out in Rule 281 of the Immigration Rules made under section 3 of the Immigration Act 1971. The basic requirements have […]
Taxpayer Funds £1m a week UK Visitor Appeals Process ‘Outrageously Generous System’ Must End Says Think Tank | Migration Watch UK
The present situation, in which anyone refused a visa to visit family in the UK can appeal at no expense to themselves, is now costing the UK taxpayers some £50m a year and must be brought to an end immediately, says think tank Migration Watch UK in a report (Briefing Paper No {245}) out today. […]
MW245 : Family Visitor Appeals | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. The number of family visitor appeals has increased six fold, to nearly a thousand a week, since charges were abolished in 2002. The cost has reached approximately £1 million a week. The definition of family visitor is so wide that it could include as many as 120 relatives of a middle aged person […]
MW244 : Office for Budget Responsibility: Economic and Fiscal Outlook November 2011 | Migration Watch UK
Introduction 1. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) was established in 2010 to provide advice independent of government of the UK’s public finances. Coinciding with the Chancellor’s Autumn Statement, delivered on 29 November 2011, it published forecasts of the economy for the period to 2016/17 and also assessed whether the Government is on target to […]
Think-Tank had Immigration Figures Spot on Almost 10 Years Ago | Migration Watch UK
Figures just out show that the number of migrants coming to Britain in the decade ending next year was correctly predicted by think tank Migration Watch – almost 10 years ago. In 2002 the then newly launched organisation warned that “on current trends we can now expect a net inflow to Britain of at least […]