Nearly 600,000 EU immigrants come to the UK for work

About 600,000 people have come to work in the UK from the eight nations that joined the European Union in 2004, the Home Office has revealed.

By the end of June, a total of 447,000 immigrants from the eight former Communist countries which joined the EU in May 2004 had applied to the Government's worker registration scheme. Of those, 20,000 are still to be approved.

The immigrants applying for work included 95,868 factory workers, 15,840 waiters and waitresses, 24,000 kitchen and cateri... (298 more words)

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