Pakistani nationals submitted the most applications for British Citizenshiplast year, data from the UK’s Home Office has revealed.
According to details, it received 8,888 applications for BritishCitizenship from Pakistani nationals between July 2020 and June 2021.
Following Pakistan is India, whose citizens filed 7,253 applications forcitizenship during the same period.
Despite a surge in the number of applications for British Citizenship fromEU nationals over last year, the two countries with the highest applicationcounts lie outside of the bloc.
With an 83% year-on-year increase, EU nationals submitted 74,384applications for British Citizenship last year.
Italy follows Pakistan and India at third place with over 6,000applications. Italy is followed by Romania and Poland at fourth and fifthplace with over 5,000 and 4,000 applications respectively.
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Interestingly, the Home Office has publicized these statistics at a timewhen the UK continues to grapple with the ongoing labor crisis.
An Australia-based parcel courier and freight delivery reseller, Pack andSend, has also published a study that analyzed the global Googlelink searches on citizenships fromlast year.
According to the study, surprisingly, UK residents searched for ‘BritishCitizenship’ 197,400 times on Google last year. They searched ‘CanadianCitizenship’ over 15,000 times.
