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Over seven million people entered
Over seven million people entered the UK from outside the EU in
2003: of whom 180,000 came here to work and over 300,000 to study,
with the rest coming here as business visitors and tourists.People from
overseas spent almost £12 billion in the UK, and overseas students
alone are worth £5 billion a year to our economy. At a time when we
have over 600,000 vacancies in the UK job market, skilled migrants
are contributing 10-15 per cent of our economy’s overall growth.