Spain News - Emigrate UK
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Expats in Spain battle for homes
As reported by This Is Money, expats in Spain are battling to save their homes after losing their life savings to an Icelandic bank's equity release programme. Hundreds of forgotten UK victims of failed bank Landsbanki are now on the verge of having their properties foreclosed after a legal battle of four years.
Many victims are retired...
Brain drain hits Spain
The Spanish population is shrinking for the first time in recent history due to a slow but steady wave of emigration.
Highly-educated Spaniards are searching for work in different countries, as well as hundreds of thousands of immigrants returning home. Despite Spain’s high unemployment rates, many of the people leaving the country are...
Fewer Brits Electing to Move to Other Countries
There is a growing immigration problem in the UK, there is no question about it. However, there is a rising emigration problem as well. In fact, there is a huge slump in the number of Brits that are choosing to leave the UK to live in neighboring countries like France and Spain. The number of British citizens who are leaving the UK has almost...
Brits said to be One of the Most Negative Groups of People Towards Immigration
A new survey, done by the German Marshall Fund, took a look at international attitudes toward immigration. The results of the survey are actually a little shocking, as a number of people admitted that they had a negative outlook on immigration as a whole.
The survey showed that the United States, the land of the free, had one of the most...
Britain Still Planning to Limit Non-European Union Emigrants
Despite all of the recent reports on emigration, the British government is still considering plans to reduce the number of emigrants coming to the UK from outside the European Union. This includes emigrants from such countries as India. In fact, India is one of their main focuses, because this is where most non-European Union emigrants come...
Asylum Seeker Kills Lover and Found in Spain 14 Years Later
Just recently, an asylum seeker arrested for killing his older love in west London fled a hospital during a fire drill. He turned up in Spain nearly 14 years later.
Apparently reports show that Miguel Da Silva strangled Susan Martin, age 44, to death in her room in Notting Hill the day before she planned to leave him and return home to...
UK Sees 62 Nigerians Deported
Reports are now showing that a total of 62 Nigerians have just recently been deported from the UK. Apparently these people have been deported because they committed emigration offenses. Reports show that the emigrates were deported on charter flight 009 from London.
So far, sources are saying that the deportees consisted of 52 males and 10...
Spain Sees Increase in Emigrants Over the Past Decade
New emigrants coming to Spain now take the proportion of non-Spanish residents to just over 12 percent. The number of emigrants registered as living in Spain has already increased more than sixfold over the last 10 years, according to figures released by the National Statistics Institute.
Some 5.6 million non-Spaniards were registered as...
Italy claims to be the friendliest country in Europe
Just days after over one thousand African workers were forced to flee a southern Italian town as victims of violent attacks an Italian MP has made the bold assertion that his is Europe's most welcoming country.
European Affairs Minister Andrea Ronchi said that Italy did not have any race-related issues and blasted fellow European Union...
Expat health tourism in Spain threatened by doctors
Doctors in Spain have spoken out in support of recent allegations by the country’s politicians that ‘health tourists’ are merely freeloading on the back of the Spanish health insurance.
Citing the large UK expat community in Alicante as an example, the SiMap union claimed expats account for up to 20 percent of all hospital...
