New Report on EU Migration to and from the UK
A new briefing report from Hub staff at the Migration Observatory has been released looking at EU migration to and from the UK. It examines how many EU migrants are there in the UK and how the migration of EU citizens has changed since Brexit.
The briefing makes the following key points:
EU immigration fell substantially after the Brexit referendum in 2016, but net migration of EU citizens continued to be positive until early 2020.
Covid-19’s impact on EU migration is uncertain, although all the available data suggest that net migration of EU citizens was negative in 2020, i.e. more people left than arrived.
An estimated 5.2 million EU citizens had applied to the EU Settlement Scheme by the end of September 2021, but some of these people will have left the UK.
An estimated 2.1 million people held pre-settled status at the end of September 2021 and would need to reapply to EUSS to remain in the UK permanently.
London is the region of the UK in which EU migrants make up the highest share of the population—an estimated 18% in 2020.
For most of 2021, take-up of the new immigration system among EU citizens was low.
The number of EU citizens stopped at the UK border increased substantially in 2021.
In 2020, roughly 7% of people employed in the UK were EU born.
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