September 28, 2004
Dramatic Increase...
From an email just received from Outbound Publishing. Original article available here.
Immigration figures just out show that the number of new migrants entering Canada increased by 20 per cent in the first quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2003.
The UK was the eighth most popular source country for new Canadian immigrants in the first quarter of this year. A total of 1,317 Brits became new permanent residents of Canada between January and March this year - a 25 per cent increase.
At the same time, the USA is suffering a dramatic decrease in immigration admissions.
In the space of 12 months, legal immigrant admissions to the US dropped by 33 per cent, from 1,063,732 to 705,827, the newly released ‘2003 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics’ has revealed.
The decrease, moreover, was even more marked for British immigrants, with the total number of Britons admitted into the US to begin legal permanent residence dropping from 16,181 in 2002 to 9,601 last year. This is a 40 per cent decrease in 12 months, and a 52 per cent drop in the space of 24 months; British immigrant admissions to the US have averaged over 15,000 per annum for the past decade.
Sounds like Canada is increasing in popularity and the lure of the USA is finally fading…
Posted by Garry at September 28, 2004 03:57 PM