There were 140,000 Romanians and Bulgarians employed in the UK in the first three months after visa controls were lifted, figures show.
This was down by 4,000 on the final quarter of 2013, but up by 28,000 compared with the same time last year.
On 1 January, Bulgarians and Romanians gained the same rights to work in the UK as other EU citizens.
The Office for National Statistics figures show the number of people employed in the UK by country of birth.
'Inflammatory rhetoric'The government has not said how many new arrivals it expects as a result of the visa changes.
The pressure group Migration Watch estimated the UK could expect 50,000 arrivals a year from the two countries and the UK Independence Party predicted large numbers of new immigrants.
Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander says the data "gives the lie to UKIP's scaremongering on immigration".
He said: "The very modest number of Romanians and Bulgarians coming to work in Britain this year is in stark contrast to the inflammatory rhetoric of earlier this year."
The BBC's home editor Mark Easton said a "huge wave" of new arrivals clearly hadn't happened in the first three months of the year.
But he said it was too early to get a full picture of the numbers that would move.
"This is just the first three months, there may be all sorts of reasons why that number is not as high as some people predicted."
Are you Romanian or Bulgarian and working in the UK? Have you arrived since 1 January this year? You can email your experiences to haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk, using the subject line 'Working in the UK'.
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