![]() ![]() Apply for September intake.”Īnother Facebook post for Success Overseas Education Consultancy said: “UK dependant visa approved in just six days. One advert for Visa Planet Education consultants claimed: “Study in UK. So I sent my wife for post-graduation in the UK which helped me to get the dependant visa quickly.” Crackdown on dependentsĪgents in India promote their services on social media. Rohit Sharma, a worker from the Punjab seeking to come to the UK, told The Telegraph: “My dependant visa for Canada and the US was rejected. He is working as a sales executive at a grocery shop and we are making good money.” Our family decided to invest in my post-graduation in the UK so that I could take him along. One postgraduate studying at Central Lancashire University said: “My husband is a college dropout in India. They are helped by agents in India who advertise how they can secure dependant visas for their spouses within days without them even requiring an English language test certificate. Students have disclosed how they use the visa scheme to bring their less well-educated spouses to the UK as a backdoor route to work. The number of dependants brought to the UK by foreign students has risen tenfold from 12,800 in 2018 to 135,788 last year, amid evidence obtained by The Telegraph that low-skilled Indians are exploiting student spouse visas to come and work in the UK. “But let me be unequivocal that future numbers of legal migration are too high and I'm committed and the Government is committed to bringing those numbers down." "I'm considering a range of options to bring the numbers down," he said at the G7 leaders’ meeting in Tokyo. ![]() Rishi Sunak on Sunday promised action to bring down net migration, with announcements to be made “shortly,” though Government sources played down the chances of a package being unveiled this week. Ministers believe the ban would reduce immigration at a stroke, ending what they claim has been abuse that has helped push levels of net migration to record levels.įigures, due to be published later this week, are expected to show net migration hit record levels last year, with the total projected to be between 700,000 and one million. ![]() The move would mean more than 100,000 dependants currently brought into the UK by overseas students on masters, MBA and other postgraduate courses were blocked. All foreign university students on courses below a PhD are set to be barred from bringing family members to the UK, under plans being considered by the Government. ![]()
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