The record increase is in line with the also biggest ever annual increase in the number of net migrants to the UK
London, Thanasis Gavos
The record number of 1.1 million reached during the 12 months to the end of June the nationals of other countries that started working on United Kingdom.
The figure, which is the highest since comparable registers were kept in 2002, is based on foreigners who registered for a national insurance number with the UK Department for Work and Pensions.
Obtaining this number is a prerequisite for working in the UK.
In the previous corresponding 12-month period there were 880,000 new registrations.
The record increase is in line with the biggest ever annual increase in net immigration to the UK, with 606,000 arrivals in 2022, despite Brexit and Conservative governments’ pledges to reduce immigration.
However, Brexit has reversed the trend of the previous decades in terms of the national composition of foreigners coming to work in the UK. In particular, the citizens of EU member countries who obtained a national insurance number were only 130,000. The remaining 960,000 were registrations of nationals of three countries.
Figures from the Labor Department on Thursday were released almost simultaneously with new figures from the Home Office, showing a new high for the number of pending asylum applications as well.
A total of 134,046 asylum application cases, involving 175,457 migrants and refugees, had still not received an initial response from the relevant British authorities by the end of June.
This is an increase of around 35% compared to the end of last June.
The figures also show that of the 97,390 new asylum applications made in the 12 months to the end of June, less than half (41%) came from irregular migrants crossing the Channel by boat.
The Financial Times, moreover, citing “the limited information available” on a government website, reports that the immigration services of the British Home Office have begun placing wristbands with scan codes on the hands of irregular immigrants who enter British territory in small boats and are detained in special centers while their cases are studied.
The practice began last year, with a £1.6m contract awarded to a relatively unknown UK firm.
Source: Skai
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