Response to Home Office Statement on Student Visas | Migration Watch UK

Today the Home Office issued a statement on planned changes to the student immigration route to which Universities UK responded.

Commenting, Sir Andrew Green said:

“With 20% of recent British graduates unemployed it beggars belief that Universities UK want still more foreign graduates to be able to stay on and work. These new regulations need further tightening, not loosening.”

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