Most immigrants to the UK now come from China, figures show David Cameron has visited India twice in the last 12 months in an attempt to convince students there that the UK Government is not trying to restrict their access to Britain. However, he has been warned that the Tory's tough rhetoric over immigration has led to thousands of Indian students choosing to study elsewhere. The economic problems faced by the Eurozone has also led to a surge in migrants coming to the UK from countries like Spain and Portugal. According to the statistic, 27,000 people came to the UK from Spain last year, up from 17,000 in 2011. The Government's bid to reduce net migration to the "tens of thousands" has been dealt a significant blow after the figures showed that it has gone up in the last year. Net migration - the difference between the number of people emigrating and the number of immigrants arriving in Britain - was 182,000 in year ending June 2013, an increase of 15,000. There has been a significant increase in the number of EU nationals coming to the UK for work. Net migration from the EU has gone up by 72,000 in the previous year to 106,000. There has been a decrease in net migration from non-EU countries, from 172,000 to 140,000. Theresa May, the Home Secretary, said that the "unwelcome rise" in net immigration shows that the Government must act urgently to curb the number of workers arriving from poorer EU countries. "In all honesty, whatever the Government does in terms of reducing the pull factors that draw people to Britain, as long as there is such an enormous disparity between EU member states in terms of income per head, there will be an overwhelming incentive for people to move from poorer member states to richer member states," she wrote on the PoliticsHome website. That not only puts pressure on communities in countries like Britain, it robs poorer EU member states of their most talented people. So in future, we must put in place new arrangements to slow full access to each other's labour markets until we can be sure it will not lead to mass migration. Mrs May added: "And European net migration is up by almost half in the last year, from 72,000 to 106,000. This significant increase in European net migration is fuelled by net migration not just from Eastern Europe but the older European member states too, particularly Spain. This suggests that the economic problems faced by Eurozone countries are behind this new trend.