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UK bars foreign students from bringing family over
UK bars foreign students from bringing family over
The United Kingdom has set up a new law that will see Nigerian students and other foreign students studying in the UK from bringing their family as dependents except “under specific circumstances.”
Under the new rule, the UK will remove the permission for international students to switch out of the student route and into work routes before their studies have been completed to prevent misuse of the visa system.
Sky News reports that “there will also be a review of the maintenance requirement for students and dependents and a crackdown on unscrupulous education agents who make use of inappropriate applications to sell immigration, not education”.
This change takes effect in January 2024 to allow students starting courses in the UK time to plan to adapt to the new law.
In a written ministerial statement published on Tuesday, Home Secretary Suella Braverman said recent immigration figures had shown an “unexpected rise” in the number of dependants coming to the UK alongside international students.