Migration tsar backs student visa curbs
Telegraph
23-05-20 21:30
Plans to cut back on the right for foreign students to stay in the UK after they graduate have gained support from the government’s migration advisory committee chairman, Professor Brian Bell, amid concern that the scheme enables abuse. The government’s commitment to provide a two-year graduate visa did not specify work rights, which Prof Bell claimed have been “pretty much unrestricted”. The increase in graduates’ dependants was the most significant impact of the policy, contributing to a ten-fold increase in foreigners bringing dependants to the UK. The government, including the prime minister and chancellor, is said to be resisting calls to restrict the rights.