Written Question·Home Office·UIN 27488

Visas: Overseas Students

Tabled: 29 January 2025
Answered: 6 February 2025

Question

Rupert Lowe

Restore Britain — Great Yarmouth

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding (a) family members and (b) dependents from student visas.

Answer

Seema Malhotra
The Student route already restricts most students from bringing their dependants to the UK. Partners and children are the only family members which can be sponsored by students as dependants and only if the relevant student meets certain relevant criteria...
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