HE United Kingdom prohibit foreign students from bringing their dependent family members with them from January 2024, cBritish Home Secretary Suella Braverman announced this Tuesday as a measure to control immigration, but the measure does not cover certain postgraduate students.
“I am pleased to explain a package of measures to help us achieve our reduction target migration open“While we support the government’s priority of growing the economy,” Braverman said in a parliamentary statement.
In particular, measures include: abolition of the right of foreign students to bring their dependents -if it is not included in the graduate courses determined as a research program- and end the possibility of changing their status from student to worker before completing their education.
The minister gave the same information. The government will take action against “unscrupulous education agents who promote improper practices to sell immigration, not education”, in cases where these applications serve as a screen for obtaining a visa to enter the country.
For this, as the Minister of the Interior explained, The government will improve communication regarding immigration rules for international students.
According to the government, Nearly 136,000 visas were issued to dependent students in 2022, eight times more than 16,000 in 2019.
The minister set himself a target. reduce the number of both legal and undocumented immigrants, given the increase in boats crossing the English Channel from France to England. According to estimates, so far this year, More than 5,000 migrants crossed the Canal’s waters.