{"id":200,"date":"2003-04-09T23:01:39","date_gmt":"2003-04-09T23:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:owlfish.com,2004:colinweblog.20030409230139"},"modified":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-30T23:21:00","slug":"09042003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2003\/04\/09042003\/","title":{"rendered":"Visiting the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.immigration.gov\/graphics\/aboutus\/statistics\/msrfeb03\/INSP.HTM\">these figures<\/a> there are approximately 15-20% fewer people being inspected crossing into the US since before the 11th of September 2001.  The figures don&#8217;t go back much further (they currently show seasonally adjusted figures, earlier figures show absolute numbers and so aren&#8217;t comparable).  I wonder how much of this drop can be attributed to economic woes versus a drop in the desire to either leave (residents returning count in the inspection stats) or enter the US?<\/p>\n<p>Contrast (if not comparison) with the UK is difficult because the immigration situation is more complex.  EU nationals entering and leaving the UK are not &#8220;inspected&#8221; and leave no paper trail (you generally just wave your passport at someone).  Travel within the UK&#8217;s common area (Isle of Man, etc) also confuse things.  Despite this there is an easy to read press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statistics.gov.uk\/pdfdir\/ott0403.pdf\">here<\/a> that covers the number of overseas residents entering the UK.  The situation seems to be broadly one of no change:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\nThe number of overseas residents arriving in the UK during the period December 2002 to February 2003, seasonally adjusted, was 16 per cent higher than in the same period a year earlier.  However, it should be noted that the end of 2001 and early 2002 were affected by the September 11th terrorist attacks in the USA.  Comparing December 2002 to February 2003 with the same period two years earlier (December 2000 to February 2001), there was an increase of one per cent in the number of overseas residents arriving in the UK.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to these figures there are approximately 15-20% fewer people being inspected crossing into the US since before the 11th of September 2001. The figures don&#8217;t go back much further (they currently show seasonally adjusted figures, earlier figures show absolute numbers and so aren&#8217;t comparable). I wonder how much of this drop can be attributed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}