Foreign students in the UK face a risk of deportation if they stay longer than six months in the country after the end of their studies.
Claire MomForeign students in the United Kingdom may face a risk of deportation if they stay longer than six months in the country after the completion of their studies.
Under her proposal, foreign students would have to obtain a work visa by getting a skilled job or leave the UK within six months after the end of their studies.However, documents seen by The Times on Wednesday reportedly showed that the country’s department for education is strongly opposing Braverman’s proposal.
According to The Times, the files argued that the two-year visa is in line with most of the UK’s competitors, apart from the US which offers a year-long visa.But a Home Office source reportedly told the paper it was being used as “a backdoor immigration route” by people taking short courses at “less respectable universities”., Nigerians accounted for the highest increase in the number of dependants accompanying persons with study visas for the year.
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