2023-05-23 19:39:56
He United Kingdom will prohibit foreign students from bringing their dependent family members with them from January 2024.
It is a measure to control immigration, although the measure excludes those who are studying certain postgraduate studies, announced the British Home Secretary, Suella Braverman.
Specifically, the measures include eliminating the right of foreign students to bring dependents. This, unless they are in postgraduate courses designated as research programs.
With this, they seek to end the possibility of them changing their status from student to worker before completing their training.
Likewise, the minister informed that the Government will take measures once morest “unscrupulous educational agents who may be supporting inappropriate solicitations to sell immigration, not education”.
According to it was highlighted by the BBC, the announcement was made before official statistics show migration reached a record 700,000 this year.
The foregoing, in reference to cases in which these applications function as screens to obtain a visa to enter the country.
For this, as explained by the head of the Interior, the Government will improve communication on immigration rules for international students.
According to the Government, in 2022 some 136,000 visas were granted to dependents of students, eight times more than the 16,000 in 2019.
The minister has set herself the goal of reducing the number of both legal and undocumented immigrants, given the increase in small boats that cross the English Channel from France to England.
It is estimated that, so far this year, more than 5,000 migrants have crossed the waters of the Canal.
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