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Responding To Labour Shortages – Is More Immigration The Answer?
Since leaving the European Union and emerging from the Covid-19 Pandemic, the topic of workforce immigration has rarely been far from the headlines. Whether it is increasing the number of agricultural workers, nurses or hospitality staff…
Learn MoreWhat’s The News On Modern Slavery Abuse Among Asylum Seekers?
In recent years, the amount of modern slavery claims being made by asylum seekers has risen substantially. In 2022, claims reached a high of 17,000 of which just a quarter were for sole UK nationals. Earlier this…
Learn MoreImmigration Rises To 1.3 Million: Visa Grants For Foreigners To Live Here Double In 3 Years
The number of visa grants for people to come and live in the UK has more than doubled from over half a million in 2019 to 1.3 million in 2022 (see the full Home Office bulletinand our press…
Learn MoreNearly 7 In 10 Of Those Coming In Boats Are Young Men As 500% Increase In Afghan Dinghy Arrivals Helps Drive Surging Illegal Immigration
The figures show that 54,090 people attempted to enter illegally in 2022, and 45,755 of these by small boat. The boat figures are an increase of 1.6 times on the number of people that arrived…
Learn MoreCensus Reveals The Massive Impact Of Immigration On Our Society
Summary: In the last 20 years the population of England and Wales has increased by around eight million entirely as a result of immigration. This has meant huge population shifts and churn in different areas of…
Learn MoreNet Level Of Immigration Is Now *half A Million* Per Year – An All-time Record
Net migration for the year to June 2022 is estimated by the ONS to be 504,000 This of course is an all-time record level of net migration. The previous record was a third of a million…
Learn More£220 Million Of Your Money Handed To France Since Boats Crisis Began – And Problem Just Gets Worse
The government has signed a new £63 million agreement with France that will involve the UK paying for 40 per cent more French officers to patrol their own beaches, British officers stationed in French control…
Learn MoreHow Uncontrolled Immigration Could Mean Electoral Defeat For The Conservatives
New polling backs up what Migration Watch UK found in the summer—that voters want to see a reduction in immigration and the government will lose its Red Wall support if action is not taken to control…
Learn MoreHalf A Million More Foreign-born Arrive In Past Decade Than Previous Ten Years
Despite promising cuts in immigration, the government has overseen even higher levels than under Tony Blair or Gordon Brown during their time in office. New datafrom the 2021 Census (carried out during March of last…
Learn MoreInternational Students: Business, Innovation And Skills Committee
Today the government responded to the Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) Committee report on International Students. Commenting, Sir Andrew Green,Chairman of Migration Watch UK, said: “The government are absolutely right tostick to their guns. All of our competitors include students in net migrationas well as showing them as a separate category; just
Yes Prime Minister – Those Indian Students were Bogus | Migration Watch UK
During the Prime Minister’s recent visit to India, the immigration lobby claimed that the recent 25% drop in student numbers from India is evidence that Britain has been sending a negative message to overseas students. The reality is that the number of visas granted to Indian students almost doubled in
MW291 : Convicted Foreign Criminals and the Right to Family Life | Migration Watch UK
The paper which appears below under the title “Convicted foreign criminals and the right to family life (2)” was completed on 13 February 2013. It is appropriate to precede it with further comments following the Home Secretary’s article on the subject which appeared in The Mail on Sunday on 17
MW289 : EU Nationals and access to the British Welfare State | Migration Watch UK
Summary 1. Access to the UK benefit system is primarily based on residence. An EU national who moves to the UK and is considered habitually resident has the same entitlement to benefits as a UK national regardless of their previous tax or National Insurance contributions. Habitual Residence is automatic in
Incentives for Romanian and Bulgarian Migration to the UK
Summary 1. Even at the minimum wage in Britain there are very strong financial incentives for Romanians and Bulgarians to migrate to the UK, especially as wages here are topped up by substantial in-work benefits. Take home pay (including benefits) for a single worker is four or five times higher
Benefits for Overseas Children Cost UK Taxpayer £1 million per week | Migration Watch UK
The taxpayer is forking out over £1 million per week in child benefit to the parents whose children who do not even live in the UK, the think tank Migration Watch UK reveals today in a new Briefing Paper. The revelation comes following the disclosure that child benefit and tax credits