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Commenting on the latest immigration and visa statisticsreleased this morning, Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “The latest immigration figures are very good news. Netmigration is down by 89,000 on the previous year and the government haveachieved this without harming the business or university sectors. University applicants

Britain’simmigration system is remarkably business friendly, contrary to the stories putout by some of the financial press, says a new report by Migration Watch UKpublished today. Infact thousands of skilled worker (Tier 2), Exceptional Talent, and GraduateEntrepreneurs visas remained unfilled, despite cries that talented people arebeing denied access to the UK to

A paperissued today by Migration Watch UK reveals that 100,000 dependantsof EU nationals resident in Britain entered the UK in the last five years withno conditions attached but with full and immediate access to benefits. Thegovernment’s reform of the Immigration Rules require British citizens to beearning £18,600 before they can bring

The Daily Mail recently reported on the Diana MemorialFund’s financing of a pro mass immigration campaign.  The article highlighted the role of theMigration Observatory in this campaign, called “Changing Minds”. The MigrationObservatory has not responded to our questions seeking clarification of theirposition. However, we have now looked furtherinto this issue

There are 407,000 British workers in other countries of the European Union, compared to over 1.4 million workers from another EU country in the UK. To see the full Briefing Paper No 4.21 click here.

This is a stunningsurvey, which the BBC has rather desperately tried to play down. Thepercentages look small but when multiplied by the size of the work force theyproduce large numbers. One percent of Romanians of working age (total 15.4million) actively considering work in the UK amounts to 150,000 and fourpercent of