Worldwide Immigration Trends Report
Fragomen’s Worldwide Immigration Trends Report tracks the changes surrounding the key drivers and themes of immigration policy by analyzing several key evolving political, economic and cultural factors. Each edition covers key insights surrounding the evolving immigration policy landscape, including short-and long-term implications for the mobility of employees and their employers.
While the pandemic triggered brain drain, skills shortages and an increased demand for highly-skilled workers (especially in technology roles), the effects of the war in Ukraine have become a factor of travelers’ and employers’ decision making in international assignments. In addition to health and safety concerns, now, national security and political stability in destination countries play a pivotal role in influencing travel decisions. Sparked by these disruptions, the economic downturn became a major factor in many assignment and mobility decisions as prices of travel and living abroad soared in many aspects. We are also seeing a cross-section of multiple employment- and mobility-related effects that are creating a hectic business environment across the world.
The trend: Skills shortages bring relaxed immigration policy to the forefront
Growing skills and worker shortages worldwide in an already economically unstable environment has created a space for immigration policy to help relieve these issues in progressive countries. Relaxed immigration policy has taken precedence over restrictive policies over the last year to help countries recover from post-COVID economic impacts and to help resolve the (growing, in some countries) worker shortages. We project that relaxed immigration policies will continue to prevail as countries continue to struggle with high inflation, low unemployment rates, and skills shortages worldwide over the next 12-18 months.
Images adapted from 2022 Manpower Group Talent Shortage Survey across more than 40,000 employers across all industry sectors in 40 countries and territories.
The trend: AI in immigration
The adoption of Artificial Intelligence in immigration processes by governments worldwide is proving transformative, offering unprecedented efficiency and precision in tasks traditionally managed by human operators. However, the advantages of AI use in immigration come with a unique set of challenges, including ensuring the accuracy of information, preventing biases, maintaining transparency in processes, ensuring data privacy and upholding accountability for errors.
Now Available: Fragomen’s Q2 2023 Worldwide Immigration Trends Report provides important summaries of the quarter’s trends
and projections, and Regional Overviews provide in-depth analysis for latest region-specific insights.
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