By:
Chandrashekar Bhat
India topped because the nationality of international employees granted work visas within the UK within the 12 months to March, official figures revealed as Britain struggles to deal with its labour scarcity after Brexit.
One out of three migrants given a British work visa throughout the interval was an Indian, The Occasions reported, citing HM Income & Customs information. People, Filipinos, Nigerians and Zimbabweans have been the opposite giant teams allowed to work within the UK.
As of December final 12 months, there have been 2.55 million workers from exterior the European Union in Britain, outnumbering EU-born workers by 220,000 – a change witnessed for the primary time since 2010.
In distinction, there have been 2.3 million workers from the EU and 1.9 million from exterior the 27-nation bloc in 2020 when the UK exited the liberty of motion guidelines for EU residents.
The churn within the composition of the abroad workforce was led by the hospitality sector with 740,075 work visas issued to non-EU employees in comparison with 46,457 for EU residents.
Migrants from non-EU international locations accounted for 152,755 or greater than three-fourths of the entire 200,362 functions for British citizenship within the 12 months to March. This in contrast with 47,607 functions from these from the EU who made up simply 23 per cent.
The variety of employees from the EU had gone sharply with the enlargement of the bloc to cowl Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and different international locations within the 2000s and the problem was a significant impetus for the UK’s 2016 referendum vote to go away the EU.
Many Britons who voted to go away the EU cited excessive migration and the stress they mentioned it exerted on public companies as the rationale for his or her resolution.
Knowledge launched in Could confirmed internet migration to Britain reached a document 606,000 final 12 months with prime minister Rishi Sunak calling the quantity “too excessive”. He beforehand mentioned he was dedicated to bringing down the authorized immigration ranges however didn’t specify his recent border management plans.
