This week, the United Kingdom will announce new restrictions that will not allow Nigerian students and other nationalities studying in the country from bringing their families over.
According to The Sun UK, this measure will affect the families of Master’s degree students and many other post graduates.
The ban will however not apply to PhD students, whose courses usually last between three and five years and are highly skilled.
This policy the reports that net migration into the UK has skyrocketed to one million with Conservative Party’s members of the British parliament asking the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak “to get a grip on the rocketing numbers”.
To get a hold of the climbing numbers, UK ministers are said to be expected to announce the immigration clampdown on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Sun reports that “Rishi Sunak is expected to come out fighting on immigration – pointing out they are figures he inherited as they date back to the year ending December 2022 – two months after he became PM.
“There has been an explosion in the number of people coming to Britain piggybacking on their relative’s student visa.
“Students brought 135,788 family members to Britain last year – nine times more than in 2019.
“Last year, 59,053 Nigerian students brought over 60,923 relatives.
“We have got to get a grip”, Conservative Party MP told The Sun on Sunday.
Source: Sunday PUNCH
