Visas: Overseas Students — Written Question

Question

Kate Osamor

Labour (Co-op) — Edmonton and Winchmore Hill

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of alternative measures to blanket nationality-based suspensions of student visas, such as targeted enforcement measures based on indivi

Answer

Mike Tapp

The decision to introduce the visa brakes was driven by clear evidence of high levels of visa-linked asylum claims across all four nationalities. By year ending September 2025, asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan ...

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