Just over 3.1 million first-time residency permits were issued in the European Union to non-EU citizens in 2017, a 4% increase compared with the previous year, with Ukrainian citizens (662,000 total beneficiaries) received the highest number of EU permits for the second year in a row, far outpacing the number of Syrians (223,000), Chinese (193,000), Indians (163,000, of which 44% were in the United Kingdom) , Americans (147,000), Moroccans (108,000) and Afghans (87,000) who also received Europea...