Processing and quality assurance of the International Passenger Survey (IPS) data for the first quarter (Jan to Mar) of 2020 identified a possible issue in the data, namely an unexpected large rise in the number of non-EU student contacts. There were also 276,000 NINo registrations to non-EU nationals. Users are advised to be cautious when making inferences from estimates with relatively large confidence intervals. Our transformation overview report provides the latest update on the transformation journey. Different patterns from different sources. Administrative data will be used to deliver new measures of migration from November 2020 onwards, making use of all available data to fully understand migration. A guidance note has been published to explain the revision. Find out more about the reasons behind the trends and migration policy. In the Pacific, migration from the Pacific Islands to core countries, notably Australia and New Zealand, has also been a recurrent pattern in the past decades. is the comprehensive global search, discovery, and viewing source for digital content created by the United Nations. For UK trade, and travel and tourism statistics, a statement was released on 21 May 2020 on the impact of the IPS suspension, and how the ONS are responding to this. As non-EU student immigration feeds into overall immigration and net migration estimates, we have also produced revised estimates for these figures. International Passenger Survey (IPS), estimates by individual quarter Dataset | Released 27 August 2020 Estimates of international migration, by individual quarter, up to Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2020. At the same time the number of applications for visitor visas in the second quarter of 2020 was 99% lower than in the same period in 2019. To offset the increase in non-EU student immigration seen in the IPS figures because of oversampling, Home Office (HO) visa data have been used to produce an adjusted estimate for non-EU student immigration. The vast majority (86%) of sponsored study visa applications in the year ending September 2019 (latest available data) were to study at higher education (university) institutions, and the number of non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals arriving at universities was the highest level on record. Transformation of the population and migration statistics system: overview Article | Updated 27 August 2020 Latest update on our population and migration statistics transformation journey. Solid lines indicate adjustments have been applied (see note 2). EU long-term international migration, UK, year ending June 2010 to year ending March 2020. This is an increase of 8% on the previous year. EU nationals working in the UK make up a higher proportion of the accommodation and food service activities industry than other industries. As of 2000, there were 49.9 million international migrants in Asia and 5.8 million in Oceania, accounting for 29 and 3 per cent, respectively, of the 175 million international migrants worldwide. An error was identified when quoting EU emigration estimates. Where estimates involve more than one characteristic, such as estimates by citizenship and reason for migration, estimates are published that are based solely on the IPS data. Different types of lines have been used to represent where adjustments have and have not been applied. The latest available IPS data cover the vast majority of the year ending March 2020 (up to 16 March - when the IPS was suspended), which we have published today. 2 Orodek Bada nad Migracjami Instytut Studiów Społecznych UW Stawki 5/7 00–183 Warszawa Tel. The Office for National Statistics' (ONS's) migration statistics use the UN-recommended definition of a long-term international migrant: "A person who moves to a country other than that of his or her usual residence for a period of at least a year (12 months), so that the country of destination effectively becomes his or her new country of usual residence.". This report describes recent trends in the international migration of doctors and nurses in OECD countries. Latest available Home Office data also published today show that the number of work-related visas (including short-term or temporary work) granted in the year ending June 2020 was 144,938, 22% lower than the previous year. Decisions to migrate are complex, and a person's decision to move to or from the UK will always be influenced by a range of social and economic factors. This includes passenger numbers for international air travel between the majority of UK and foreign airports. The latest period available (April to June 2020) showed that there was a decrease in both the number of EU (down 284,000 to 2.06 million) and non-EU (down 84,000 to 1.27 million) nationals in employment. This has created a net migration estimate of 58,000 for EU citizens. The Migration research and analysis page brings together a range of statistical and research reports on migration published by the Home Office. In the latest available Home Office visa data (up to year ending June 2020) the number of Tier 4 (sponsored study) visas granted for all lengths of stay (excluding student visitors) was 255,776, 1% higher than the previous year. This was entered in error and has now been corrected. Digging a little deeper, you can see EU long-term immigration has fallen since 2016 and is at its lowest since 2013. Recently the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have started to ease travel restrictions for British travellers where countries are assessed as “no longer presenting an unacceptably high risk to British people traveling abroad.”. Home Office Immigration Statistics, year ending June 2020 Release | Released 27 August 2020 Includes both short- and long-term visas (including dependants) for non-European Economic Area (EEA) nationals and is available for the year ending June 2020. Despite this, 99,000 EU citizens still came to the UK long-term to work in 2018, a level similar to 2012. For non-EU migration, our preliminary adjustment applies from 2012 through to the latest quarter. Although operators are asked to report all passenger journeys, in some cases the actual point of uplift or discharge is not recorded. The increases in non-EU immigration since 2013 have mainly been driven by a rise in the number of Asian citizens - particularly East and South Asian citizens - coming to the UK, now at 329,000 in the year ending March 2020. Thus in the Asian and the Pacific region, alike elsewhere in the world, international migration has become a structural reality, setting in motion the dynamics for further migration in the years to come.