Almost half of those settling in the UK do so for family reasons such as marriage. A fifth of settlers start out as long-term workers who later commit to stay. About 15% are refugees or others given asylum protection.
A third of settlement approvals went to African nationals in 2003 and a fifth to those from the Indian sub-continent.
There are some 1m EU citizens, including Irish, in the UK. Last year 130,000 people from the EU's new eastern nations came to work in the UK.
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