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BREXIT VOTE ; EU nationals in urgency need of UK citizenship passport.

A Home Office report revealed there were 28,502 applications
for UK citizenship from EU nationals in the year ending June
2017 - up from 15,871 in the previous 12 months.
The figures reveal applications from some of the EU’s more
influential members, including Germany , France and Italy , rose
sharply.
Applications from German citizens almost tripled, rising to
2,338 while French applications were up 168.5 per cent.
The 2,950 applications from Italian nationals represented a
166 per cent risePoland topped the list of countries with the most EU
applications with 6,179 requests, following by Italy and
Romania.
Jonathan Portes, a professor at King's College London, said:
"Historically, immigrants from outside the EU have been much
more likely than EU migrants to apply for UK citizenship."
The news comes despite recent Office for National Statistics
(ONS) figures revealing tens of thousand of EU citizens have
left Britain in recent months, bringing net migration to its
lowest level in three years.
Figures released on Thursday showed net migration stood at
246,000 in the year ending in March 2017 - down 81,000
compared to the previous 12 months.
The Conservatives have pledged to reduce net migration to
the tens of thousands since 2010, but have so far failed to
meet the target.
Immigration minister Brandon Lewis said: "There is still more
work to do to bring net migration down further to sustainable
levels.
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