{"id":359749,"date":"2022-11-24T14:33:31","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=359749"},"modified":"2022-11-24T14:52:11","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T14:52:11","slug":"migration-to-uk-rises-to-record-504-000-with-ukraine-and-hong-kong-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/migration-to-uk-rises-to-record-504-000-with-ukraine-and-hong-kong-schemes","title":{"rendered":"Migration to UK rises to record 504,000 with Ukraine and Hong Kong schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian refugees and supporters protesting against the war outside Downing Street. Photograph: Vuk Valcic\/Sopa Images\/Rex\/Shutterstock Net migration to the UK has reached a record level of 504,000 after the arrival of Ukrainians and Hongkongers under government schemes and a jump in the number of international students. Asylum applications are at their highest for 32 years, but nearly 100,000 people are waiting more than six months to have their initial claims processed, official government data shows. The new net migration figure released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) is an increase of 331,000 in a single year and is at least 400,000 more than the home secretary, Suella Braverman, is aiming for. She promised in September she would try to get overall migration down to &#8220;tens of thousands&#8221; &#8211; a promise previously made by David Cameron and Theresa May but never achieved. It comes just days after the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, pledged to cut overall migration . Responding to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jump in number of international students a factor in figure that is at least 400,000 higher than home secretary is aiming for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}