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| Immigration fell in year to June - Office for National Statistics | |
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| Immigration to the UK fell in the year to June 2013, the Office for National Statistics says. | |
| Some 503,000 people came to live in the UK in the year ending June, compared with 517,000 people who arrived during the previous year. | |
| Meanwhile 320,000 people left the UK - down from 349,000 the previous year. | |
| Net migration - the difference between the number of people coming to and leaving the country - increased from 167,000 to 182,000. | |
| Prime Minister David Cameron wants to get UK net migration below 100,000 before the next election in 2015. | |
| The ONS said the number of people coming to the UK from the EU had gone up by 25,000, mainly for work. | |
| Immigration from outside the European Union (EU) saw a "statistically significant" drop to 242,000 in the year to June, from 282,000 the previous year, it said. | |
| China now tops the table for the number of new immigrants, followed by India, Poland, the US and Australia. | |
| Meanwhile, the top five destinations for emigrants were Australia, the US, India, China and France. |