Polish Immigrants leave the UK to return home

Polish immigrants seem to be leaving the United Kingdom in higher numbers than those who are requesting to go inside the UK territory. In its publication, the Times established that they are beginning to leave rather than entering as they started to do so in mass nearly four years ago.

Statistical information shows that 38,680 polish immigrants enter to the United Kingdom and signed to the government’s register for migrant workers in the last three months of 2007; this represented a decrease of almost 18% to the same period on 2006 of workers that both entered the UK and registered to the Government’s register of migrant workers.

Yet there is no way to be able to determine if the Polish immigrants are actually leaving the country or if simply they are not registering with the Government’s registry. This is because the UK has no embarkation controls on EU members.

It is believed that the integration of Poland to the EU triggered the emigration of Polish out of Poland into the UK and that the tightening and harsh economical circumstances are the cause for that many polish immigrants to return home. But the factors that involve this exodus back home are many and since there is no way to determine or acquire hard numbers, the debate is free for all.