Luxembourg ordered 405 non-EU citizens to leave the country in the second quarter of 2025, according to Eurostat data published Tuesday.
It represents a 30.6% increase compared with the same quarter of 2024, when 310 people were ordered to leave.
Compared with the previous quarter, the rise was more modest: 26.6% more people received an order to leave in Q2 2025 than in Q1 2025, when 320 such decisions were recorded.
The EU statistics bureau’s latest figures mark the highest quarterly number of return orders recorded in Luxembourg since at least 2022. For example, just 220 people were ordered to leave in the second quarter of 2023, meaning the number has nearly doubled in two years.
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Across the EU, 116,495 non-EU citizens were ordered to leave in Q2 2025, an increase of 3.6% compared with the same period in 2024. Luxembourg’s year-on-year growth rate in return orders – 30.6% – was significantly above the EU average.
At EU level, 28,355 people left following an order to leave in Q2 2025, Eurostat said, up 12.7% compared with a year earlier.