Immigration falls as EU citizens quit UK after Brexit vote

Net migration to the UK fell to a three-year low after an exodus of European workers following the June 2016 Brexit referendum. Arrivals outnumbered departures by 246,000 in the 12 months through March 2017. That was down a “statistically significant” 81,000 from a year earlier and was also the lowest figure since March 2014, the Office for National Statistics in London said Thursday. EU nationals quitting Britain accounted for much of the change. The outflow was most pronounced among citizens of the eight central and eastern European nations that joined the bloc in 2004, including Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic.