‘Brexit' Vote Worries European Up-and-Comers Lured to Britain

There are concerns that London in particular would suffer if the flow of skilled immigrants fell. About a million European Union citizens from other countries work in London, a city of more than 8.5 million people.

Young Europeans interviewed for this article said they were worried that they may no longer be able to live and work in Britain. Entrepreneurs, many of whom flocked to London because of the relative ease of creating start-ups, said they were concerned that they may have to put their business plans on hold.

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Rose Carey, the head of immigration at Charles Russell Speechlys, a global law firm based in London, said she had seen an "unprecedented amount" of applications for British citizenship in the last few months... She said she did not expect the government to just kick out all the European nationals living here, but to "put in place transitional arrangements to protect the people who are already here."

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That the referendum is taking place at all has deeply offended many Londoners from other European countries, who are not allowed to vote and feel they have contributed a great deal to the life of a deeply international city.