UK’s higher-earning immigrants may be driven out by tougher rules, report suggests

Those with the lowest wages are the most likely to remain in the UK long term, the report found. Photograph: Paul Quayle/Alamy

Higher-earning immigrants are less likely to remain in the UK long-term and could be further deterred from staying by the government’s planned crackdown on settlement rights, analysis has revealed.

A report from the Migration Advisory Committee’s , Who Stays, Who Leaves?, follows about 900,000 journeys between 2014 and 2024.