Why has non-EU migration to the UK risen?

• The rest of the increase results from students (39% of the increase) and work visas (23% of the increase). [...] UK PAGE 5 COMMENTARY: Why has non-EU migration to the UK risen? Figure 4 The largest increase in the number of visas granted comes from the category labelled ‘other’, which includes the Ukraine visa schemes and the Hong Kong British Nationals Overseas (BNO) route. [...] India and Nigeria, the two countries that saw the largest increases in the number of student visa grants, were named among the immediate ‘priority countries’ in the government’s strategy. [...] About half of non-EU citizens granted status in the UK in the mid-2010s had seen their visas expire by the end of the second or third year after their initial visa was granted, and thus were expected to have left the UK. [...] UK PAGE 16 COMMENTARY: Why has non-EU migration to the UK risen? The Migration Observatory Based at the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, the Migration Observatory provides independent, authoritative, evidence-based analysis of data on migration and migrants in the UK, to inform media, public and policy debates, and to generate high quality research on i.