Foreign students will be banned from bringing family over to the United Kingdom, a report by The Sun has said.
An immigration crackdown is to be announced this week. By this announcement, the UK will limit the number of dependant visas for international students from Nigeria and other countries.
The crackdown will see all masters’ students and many other post grads banned from bringing family over.
The ban will however not affect PHD students whose courses usually last between three and five years, and are highly skilled. This follows the reports that net migration into the UK has skyrocketed to 1 million, with Tory MPs asking the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, ‘to get a grip on the rocketing numbers’.
To get a hold of the climbing numbers, UK ministers are said to be expected to announce the immigration clampdown tomorrow or Wednesday.
UK’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman said there were too many students coming into the UK and needed to be cut down. “There are structural pressures that mass and rapid migration poses to our country.”
In January, Braverman pushed for a visa change that would force foreign students out of the country if they don’t get a skilled job six months after graduating.
There has been an explosion in the number of people going to Britain piggybacking on their relative’s student visa, especially as the UK has become a top choice of study for Nigerians and seeking higher education abroad has now become a major means of permanent emigration.
Students brought 135,788 family members to Britain last year, nine times more than in 2019.
Last year also, 59,053 Nigerian students brought over 60,923 relatives.
