UK Immigrants Found Jobs Successfully In Spite Of Recession

06 Oct 2010

As per a report, 139,000 immigrants to UK have found jobs successfully after immigrating to UK, over the past two years. The report also added that recently arrived migrant workers contribute to Britain's economy and pay taxes while British workers are more likely to consume the claiming benefits.

The number of immigrants with UK work permits in the past two months had risen by 114,000 in a year and raising the economy to 3.85 million

At least 100,000 of the immigrants who have arrived since 2008 have come from outside the EU, according to a report by the Financial Times.

The report also said that different migrant groups had contributed in different ways to taxes and positive contributions for a few of the groups were offset by negative contributions by others.

Last year, net migration was 196,000.