According to Office of National Statistics data, over 504,000 more individuals entered the United Kingdom than left it in 2017.
The United Kingdom has had the greatest net migration since the end of World War II.
Last year, an estimated 504,000 more individuals entered the United Kingdom than departed, a number bigger than the population of Liverpool.
It surpasses the previous post-war record of 329,000 for net migration.
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) reports that more than one million people entered the country in total last year.
In addition, the analysis anticipated that 35,000 persons crossed the English Channel in small boats during the year ending in June 2022.
According to figures given by the Ministry of Defense earlier this month, however, this number exceeded 40 thousand.
The expected total number of persons who entered the United Kingdom was 1,1 million.
According to the ONS, the majority of the increase was caused by the influx of students coming to study. In the year ending in June 2022, a total of 487,000 student visas were issued, an increase of 71%.
Despite a 77% increase in applications, the number of individuals granted refuge in the United Kingdom in the year ending June 2022 was 24% fewer than in 2019.
The total number of asylum applications was 63,089, the largest since 2003 and 75 percent more than at the height of the European Migration Crisis in 2016.
The number of work visas issued jumped by 72% compared to the latest comparable pre-pandemic data in 2019, reaching 331,000 by June 2022.
More than 170,000 visas were awarded to Ukrainian nationals seeking refuge from the civil war.
Approximately 28,000 British people with abroad status from Hong Kong entered the country as part of a program announced in January 2021 to assist them in escaping probable persecution. A separate resettlement scheme for refugees from Afghanistan saw the arrival of 21,000 individuals.
During the same period, 45,000 British citizens departed the country.
Jay Lindop, head of the Centre for International Migration at the ONS, stated, “Several global events have affected international migration trends in the twelve months leading up to June 2022.
“Combined, these were unparalleled. The end of lockdown restrictions in the UK, the first full period following the UK’s exit from the EU, the war in Ukraine, the resettlement of Afghans, and the introduction of a new visa route for Hong Kong-born British citizens (Overseas) have all contributed to the record levels of long-term immigration we have seen.
