Residence permits for non-EU citizens- EU Member States issued a record number of 2.6 million first residence permits in 2015- Main beneficiaries from Ukraine and the United States
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In 2015, 2.6 million first residence permits were issued in the European Union (EU i) to non-EU citizens, a record number since the data collection began (2008) and up by 12.1% compared with 2014. This increase was mainly due to the higher number of first permits issued for employment reasons (+23.5%, from slightly less than 0.6 million in 2014 to more than 0.7 million last year). Accounting for 28.9% of all first residence permits issued in the EU in 2015, family remained the main reason of deliverance, followed by employment (27.2%), other reasons (23.8%) and education (20.2%).
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STAT/16/3554