Indian professionals dominate UK visa hike hit by Brexit

London: According to official statistics released Thursday by the British government, mainstream Indian professionals dominated the landscape of work visas issued by the British government.

The British Office of Statistics (ONS) discovered In its badysis of data from the British Home Office for the previous year, while Brexit pressures meant a decline in the number of migrants entering the United Kingdom United from the European Union (EU), migrants from non-European countries from countries like India were increasing in different segments.

2266 additional level 2 visas were granted to qualified Indian professionals, which corresponds to the majority (55%) of the visa category widely used by Indian IT firms to move their workers through British projects .
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"Visa grants for tier 2 (qualified) account for more than half of working visas and have increased by 15% over the year ending September 2017, especially for Indian nationals" , says the report from the ONS.
Indian students coming to study in British institutions also recorded an increase of 18,735 during the same period, a 33% increase in the number of student visas granted to Indian nationals.

Indians also dominated tourism statistics in the United Kingdom, with the number of visitor visas recording the largest increase at 41,224, reaching a total of 4.68.923, a 10% increase in the number of visitors. visitor visas issued. [19659004] "Chinese and Indian nationals alone accounted for just under half of the visas granted," said the Home Office.

The Indians also obtained 881 additional visas for family reasons in the previous year, with the Pakistanis having dominated this category. 1,895 more visas over the previous year

In the context of the ongoing controversial negotiations on the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU) that will put an end to the free movement people within the economic bloc consisting of 28 members, concluded the ONS 219,000 European citizens arrived in the UK and 145,000 left, making the net migration of the European Union its lowest level since 2012.

Jay Lindop, director of the Center for International Migration at the ONS, said: "Net migration continues o are adding to the population and have remained relatively stable since their peak in 2016, with around 270 000 more people settling in the United Kingdom than they left in the year ending June 2018.

The EU's net migration is now at highest level since 2004. On the other hand, the migr EU's history, while increasing the population as a whole, is at its lowest since 2012. "

Another reflection of the uncertainty of Brexit, the EU nationals who British citizenship also registered an increase of nearly one-third over last year, with 43,545 applications received during the 12-month period ending last September, representing an increase of 32% over last year.

The figures show that net migration is the difference between the number of people who came to the UK at least 12 months and the number of people remaining was 273,000 last year.

The question of migration remains very controversial in the country, with control. Beyond the borders for e The free movement of nationals of EU member states played a crucial role in the campaign for the exit of the EU in the referendum on the Brexit of June 2016. [19659004 Earlier this month, British Prime Minister Theresa May promised that Brexit would equalize opportunities for all migrant workers who come to work in the UK, while EU migrant workers are not more able to "queue up" in front of those from countries like India.