Written Question·Home Office·UIN 119436

Overseas Students: Sudan

Tabled: 10 March 2026
Answered: 17 March 2026

Question

Anneliese Dodds

Labour (Co-op)Oxford East

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential impact of her recent decision on Sudanese student visas on the Chevening Scholarship programme.

Answer

Mike Tapp
The decision to introduce a visa brake on the Student visa route for Sudan and the other three nationalities was based on data-driven migration and border security considerations. While we recognise that most people who apply to study in the UK do so genu...

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