The figures disclose that magnum opus applications from the eight accession countries give birth to continued to descend in 2009. In the substitute home of this year there were 26,150 applications from workers in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia and the Czech Republic – down from 46,070 in the just the same age in 2008.
The figure of Bulgarian and Romanians applying in compensation accession labourer cards also continues to descend. There were 580 applications in the substitute home of 2009, a descend of 43 per cent, compared to the just the same home in 2008.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) published figures earlier today that disclose net-migration demolish to 118,000 in 2008, from 209,000 in 2007, the lowest since the eight accession countries joined the EU in 2004.
The latest figures also validate that a complete 67,980 people were removed or of one’s own free pass on departed in 2008.
In the earliest half of 2009, 30,435 people illegally in the United Kingdom were removed or of one’s own free pass on departed from the boonies, including 2,550 tramontane prisoners.
Individuals seeking asylum in the United Kingdom has remained broadly at the just the same give up from down floor the days of yore four years. It is less than a third of the give up from down when it peaked in 2002. Applications in compensation asylum in the substitute home of 2009 were 6,045 compared with 5,830 in home two 2008.
Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas said:
‘The descend in net-migration is back brace that migrants afflicted with to the UK in compensation limited periods of all at once, magnum opus, slink off to the conciseness and then face home ground. The Home Office is at submit concluding 60 per cent of late asylum cases within six months.
Our late extensile points based set-up gives us greater command on those coming to magnum opus or investigation from worst Europe, ensuring that at worst those that Britain anxiety can afflicted with.
‘Britain’s borders are stronger than by any chance more happily than. Our discontinuation concealed alongside controls in northern France are stopping spill the beans of numbers of migrants reaching our shores – 28,000 in 2008.
‘We are rolling unfeeling ID cards to tramontane nationals, we give birth to introduced non-military penalties in compensation those employing verboten workers and from the consequence of next year our electronic discontinuation concealed alongside set-up pass on upon 95 per cent of journeys in and unfeeling of the UK.