Aug
6
According to a recent report from a UK visa company, applications for visas have jumped by over 80 per cent during the last seven months.
Ten years ago, approximately 300 people a week sought information about obtaining a visa to leave the UK - now the figure is 4000 a week.
The applicants are mostly young professional/skilled workers aged between 20 to 40 years old who wish to emigrate to countries such as the US, Australia and South Africa.
According to recent UK Office of National Statistics figures, the official number of people leaving the UK was 352,000 in 2005, up from 249,000 in 1995. Approximately 150,000 of those people migrated from London and the south east.