Data from the Ministry of the Interior shows a radical reduction in immigrants from the EU
The new immigration policy of the United Kingdom has produced a large increase in visas granted to Asian workers and a radical reduction in those from European Union countries, according to data published by the Ministry of the Interior for the period between the months of June of 2021 and 2022. Those dates make it possible to avoid migration disruptions during the pandemic.
The Government gave 331,233 visas for qualified workers to whom British companies offered a minimum salary of 32,000 euros per year, or lower salaries for professionals in specific sectors in need of personnel, such as health or education. The total figure includes temporary visas, especially focused on agricultural crops.
Almost half of the visas, 46%, were granted to citizens of Indian origin, followed by Nigerians and Filipinos. Before the Brexit referendum, those from the EU were 71% of immigrants in the United Kingdom, and now account for 12% of those benefiting from work visas. Before January 31, 2020, EU citizens did not have to apply for a visa.
Spain is twelfth in the ranking of countries by number of visas for skilled workers -1,690-, less than Italy, Germany or France; and nineteenth in storms, 598. In this category, Ukrainians are the most benefited with permits to work on crops, followed by citizens of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In student visas, China stands out (107,494), followed by India (90,574) and Nigeria (33,547). There are 3,615 Spaniards.
The ‘Asianization’ of the university population goes hand in hand with that of the National Health Service (NHS), where there has been a slight decrease in professionals from the EU since 2016 and the percentage of personnel from the Philippines has risen, due to the need to cover 100,000 vacant places, in a public service that maintains these figures of lack of personnel at least since 2018. More than 5,000 Spaniards work in the NHS.
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A study by the Oxford University Migration Observatory has analyzed the effect of the end of the freedom of movement of community workers in the British labor market. In public health, the number of EU employees increased between June 2019 and June 2021. It also increased in construction and transport; and it fell by 25% in the hotel industry.
The analysis points out that the pandemic has created staffing problems in different sectors in different countries and concludes that, although the departure of workers from the EU may have had an effect on some sectors that are based on labor cheap – as is often the case in the hotel industry – is not the main cause of the problems.
The UK population includes 14% of residents who originate from a foreign country. It is, according to OECD data, the same percentage as in Spain or the United States. Net immigration does not seem to have changed from figures that were alarming to Brexiteers. Since his victory in 2016, the geographic composition of immigrants has changed.
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