**A Polish expert on migration says claims that half of all Polish immigrants to Britain have returned home are not true.**The Migration Policy Institute had estimated 1.5m mostly Polish Eastern Europeans had come to the UK since 2004 and that more than half had now left.
But Prof Krystyna Iglicka, of Warsaw’s Centre for International Affairs, said Poland saw no evidence of this.
“We do not see them here,” she said of the reported returned immigrants.
Prof Iglicka said Polish research indicated the contrary. Official estimates for Poles working abroad rose consistently until 2008, when they fell only very slightly.
“From our side this is not true,” she said. “We do not see them here; we do not see them in any other different countries.”
She also said figures from that year showed only 22,000 returned at Polish labour offices, which they would have to transfer benefits owned abroad.
Prof Iglicka’s own estimate is that about a million Polish migrants are still in Britain.
The Migration Policy Institute is an independent think tank in Washington, which analyses of the movement of people worldwide.