The Prime Minister’s Office had rejected calls by the Home Office to lift the salary threshold for foreign workers from £26,000 to £33,000 to bring down numbers.
The United Kingdom government has announced that it had commenced the implementation of its policy banning Nigeria and other foreign students in the country from bringing in family members through the study visa route.
The UK Home Office on Monday in a post on X (formerly Twitter) said that only those on postgraduate research or government-sponsored scholarship students would be exempted from the development.
The Home Office announced that “We are fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration. From today, new overseas students will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK. Postgraduate research or government-funded scholarships students will be exempt.”
Also, the UK Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, in a post on X on Monday confirmed the ban on foreign students from bringing in dependents to the country.
He wrote, “From today, the majority of foreign university students cannot bring family members to the UK. In 2024, we’re already delivering for the British people.”
SaharaReporters in May reported that the United Kingdom announced its move to ban most foreign students from bringing their families over to Britain in an immigration crackdown.
The Prime Minister’s Office had rejected calls by the Home Office to lift the salary threshold for foreign workers from £26,000 to £33,000 to bring down numbers.
The move came as official figures showed that net migration has rocketed to 1 million.
It was reported that some Tory MPs have broken cover to call for Sunak to curb the rocketing numbers.
The crackdown will affect all master’s students and many other postgraduate students and it will prevent them from bringing family over.
The ban will not apply to PhD students, whose courses usually last between 3 and 5 years and are very highly skilled.