‘My family collected together the £1,250 to buy my UK student visa and pay the tuition fees upfront. Here in Britain, a quarter of all non-EU migrants (whether here legally or not) send remittances home, with Pakistan, India and Nigeria topping the list of destinations. This was 15 per cent of all global remittances to Pakistan, where money sent from abroad props up the economy and represents 9.4 per cent of the country’s GDP. ‘Yes, I already sent money to my parents,’ said one 27-year-old who I talked to outside the hotel. I have also discovered that Albanians coming here illegally think it is perfectly normal to send money home.