A new law in the UK prohibits Nigerian students and other international students from bringing their families as dependents unless “under specific circumstances.”
This is in an effort by the UK government to reduce immigration, which is now at about a million, according to Sky News.
To prevent abuse of the visa system, the UK will no longer allow international students to switch from the student path to the employment route before their studies are finished.
According to Sky News, “there will also be a review of the maintenance requirement for students and dependents and a crackdown on ‘unscrupulous’ education agents who ‘use inappropriate applications to sell immigration, not education,'”
The new policy will be in place by January 2024, giving students beginning their studies in the UK time to prepare.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman claimed in a written ministerial statement released on Tuesday and obtained by Sky News that recent immigration data had revealed a “unexpected rise” in the number of dependents arriving in the UK alongside foreign students.
