Sophie Barrett-Brown in Lawyer Monthly on what is driving drop in EU net migration

29 March 2019

In the week the UK was due to leave the EU, the government has launched a new marketing campaign to promote the EU Settlement Scheme to secure EU nationals rights to live and work in the UK.This comes against the backdrop of EU net migration having reached its lowest level since 2009,with the latest quarterly migration statistics, published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in February 2019, revealing yet another significant drop in EU net migration to the UK. In an article for Lawyer Monthly, Senior Partner and Head of UK Practice, Sophie Barrett-Brown, looks at what is driving the drop in EU net migration.

Read the full article here.

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