UK’s new visa rule: The British government announced a new immigration system focused on foreign students, including Indians. In this, the government has announced the grant of visa rights to students enrolled in British institutions to bring dependent family members along with them.
The British government announced a new immigration system focused on foreign students, including Indians. In this, the government has announced the grant of visa rights to students enrolled in British institutions to bring dependent family members along with them.
In a written statement to the House of Commons, UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman said that currently only international students on postgraduate courses designated as research programs can have members of their family, including children and elderly parents, as their dependents. Will be allowed to bring.
The Indian-origin minister said the new package of easier immigration measures was necessary after nearly 1,36,000 visas were granted to dependents of sponsored students in the year ending December 2022, more than eight times the 16,000 in 2019. Braverman’s statement said that the right of international students to bring dependents has been removed, unless they are currently enrolled in what are designated as research programs.
Not in postgraduate courses.
Removing the ability for international students to switch from student routes to work routes before the completion of their studies and reviewing maintenance requirements for students and dependents are listed among other new measures. The minister also promised to take steps to crack down on unscrupulous education agents, who are endorsing unscrupulous applications.
The new Graduate Route visa, which allows students to stay for three years at the end of their degree and gain work experience, said Jamie Arrowsmith, director of Universities UK International (UUKI), the representative body for 140 UK universities. Indians, who recently overtook the Chinese as the leading nationality granted study visas to the UK. About 90 thousand to one lakh Indians apply.
