EXCLUSIVE: Home Office approves more EU migrants PER MONTH than all boat migrants ALL YEAR

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Home Office approves more EU migrants PER MONTH than all boat migrants ALL YEAR

EU migrants: Part Four – The extra 0.5m applications this year to settle in Brexit Britain

 

We analyse the official numbers of EU migrants and why they came

A four-part CIBUK.Org and Facts4EU.Org investigation into
who came to the UK legally from the EU – and why

  1. Part One – Where did the 6.9 million legal EU migrant applications come from?
  2. Part Two – How much more could they earn in the UK than in their EU country of origin?
  3. Part Three – Unemployment : How much better were job prospects in the UK than in the EU?
  4. Part Four – Half a million more applications for settlement from EU migrants so far this year [This report]
In this four-part landmark report, we provide the official facts

In today’s exclusive report CIBUK.Org and Facts4EU.Org can reveal that the Home Office is accepting more EU migrants each month than all the illegal boat migrants who have crossed the Channel this year.

In Part One of this landmark series of reports into legal EU migrants being granted settled status in the UK, we showed how the number of applications approved by the Home Office had gone over the 6 million mark. In today’s final Part Four in the series, CIBUK.Org can exclusively reveal that this number is still rising, long after we left the EU.

Readers may be surprised to learn just how many applications from EU citizens to live, work and receive benefits in the United Kingdom are still being received – and approved – by the Home Office.

Summary

EU applications to live in the UK since the EU Settlement Scheme started

 

1. Applications for settlement status, 28 Aug 2018 – 30 Sept 2022

 

      • Total : 6,874,700
      • Concluded : 6,686,530
      • Approved : 6,036,440 (90.3%)

[Source : The UK Home Office, latest data published Nov 2022.]

 

2. Extra Home Office approvals of EU applicants since the legal deadline of end-Jun 2021

 

      • July 2021 : 116,720
      • August 2021 : 93,950
      • September 2021 : 83,540
      • October 2021 : 61,310
      • November 2021 : 59,520
      • December 2021 : 45,140
      • January 2022 : 45,420
      • February 2022 : 43,310
      • March 2022 : 54,500
      • April 2022 : 35,030
      • May 2022 : 52,470
      • June 2022 : 44,960
      • July 2022 : 43,160
      • August 2022 : 41,050
      • September 2022 : 42,370

 

  • TOTAL NEW APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED AFTER EU’s legal deadline : 828,730
  • TOTAL APPROVALS BY THE HOME OFFICE since legal deadline passed : 862,450

[Source : The UK Home Office, latest data published Nov 2022.]

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3. Extra Home Office approvals of EU applicants in the first nine months of this year (2022)

 

      • January 2022 : 45,420
      • February 2022 : 43,310
      • March 2022 : 54,500
      • April 2022 : 35,030
      • May 2022 : 52,470
      • June 2022 : 44,960
      • July 2022 : 43,160
      • August 2022 : 41,050
      • September 2022 : 42,370

 

  • TOTAL NEW APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED by the Home Office this year alone : 489,120
  • TOTAL APPROVALS by the Home Office this year alone : 402,270

[Source : The UK Home Office, latest data published Nov 2022.]

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It is a fact that this year the UK Home Office has approved more EU migrants each month than the number of illegal boat migrants who have arrived all year.

Official deadline for applying for settlement : 30 June 2021, a year and five months after Brexit

The official deadline for all EU nationals, their dependents, plus EEA, EFTA and Swiss nationals (as required by the EU under its UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement) who claim the right to live in the UK after Brexit was 30 June 2021.

This has been extended by the Home Office many times, with no requirement in law to do this.

As shown above, almost 0.9 million have claimed settlement rights after the deadline and an astonishing 0.5 million have done so in the first nine months of this year. More than 400,000 have already been accepted this year.

 

Where are these people in the United Kingdom?

The official Home Office data shows that Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have barely been troubled. 94% of the applications received this year relate to England only.

This follows a similar pattern to the entirety of the 6.9 million applications since the scheme began, with 92% of them coming from EU nationals in England.

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