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Ukrainians received the most residence permits in Europe

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The number of foreign nationals who received a residence permit (permit) in Europe in 2015 reached a historic high: 2,61 million residence permits. The main increase occurred at the expense of the Ukrainians, who lead the list of recipients of residence permits, reports on Thursday the statistical agency of the European Union Eurostat.

This is an absolute record since 2008 of the year, when the ministry began collecting similar statistics. In 2008, the number of permits issued slightly exceeded 2 million, and in the following years it was less. Compared to 2014, the number of residence permits issued by the year increased by 12% (then 2,3 million permits were issued).

The report took into account the countries of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland that are part of the Schengen zone.

As follows from the report, most of the primary residence permits were issued in the 2015 year of the United Kingdom (633 thousand) and Poland (541 thousand). Collectively, these 2 countries issued more than 45% of all residence permits in Europe. France issued 226 thousand of primary residence permits, Germany - 194 thousand, Italy - 178 thousand. Thus, in Poland the number of foreigners with a residence permit per thousand population reached 14,3 - this is the third figure in Europe after Malta and Cyprus, where the share of foreigners is traditionally high. In general, in the EU countries, this figure is only 5,1 per thousand people.

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The first place among the recipients of a residence permit retain the citizens of Ukraine. If in the 2014 year, a residence permit in the Schengen countries received 302,8 thousand Ukrainians (13% of the total number of permits), then in the 2015 year - 500 thousand, or 19,2% of all issued residence permit. This is more than citizens of the United States, China, India, Syria, or Morocco, who received a residence permit in Europe.

Out of half a million Ukrainians who moved to the EU, 430, thousands (over 85%) received permission to reside in Poland. A large proportion of Ukrainian citizens are also among those who received permission to reside in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Lithuania and Slovakia.

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At the same time, Russians prefer to leave for Finland, Latvia and Bulgaria (in these countries they are in first place among recipients of a residence permit), as well as in Lithuania, Greece and the Czech Republic (in second place) and in Malta (third in number among all issued Residence permit).

Belarusians prefer to emigrate to Poland (they are the second recipients of residence permits in the country after Ukrainians), as well as to Lithuania and Latvia. Poland is also popular with Moldovan citizens: they are third in number among recipients of residence permits in this country after Ukrainians and Belarusians.

Eurostat divides the grounds for residence permits in Europe into “family”, “study”, “work” and “other”. Like a year earlier, the vast majority of Ukrainians (75%) received a residence permit precisely because of employment. In contrast, Russians received only 18,4% of residence permits in Europe “for work”, and citizens of Belarus – 7,2%. At the same time, for “family” reasons, Russians received 37,2% of residence permits in Europe, Ukrainians – 5,9%, and Belarusians – 3,7%.

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