A cap on the number of children foreign students can bring into the country is being considered by ministers as they look for ways to tackle “bad migration”.
They are concerned that some overseas students bring as many as six dependents with them and suspect that some are using it as a back door to settling here permanently.
Ministers are understood to be looking at ways to tighten the rules, which allow students to bring in a spouse and any dependent children, as long as they can support themselves.
Sources said that the cap was “potentially” one solution, although a final decision was yet to be made.
Suella Braverman, the home secretary, and Nadhim Zahawi, the Cabinet Office minister, are said to be discussing
