UK Bars Nigerian Students, Others From Bringing Dependants

    The United Kingdom Home Office says effective January 1, 2024, overseas students including those from Nigeria will no longer be able to bring family members to the country. "We are fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration,” the UK Home Office said in a New Year post on X (formerly Twitter). “From today (Monday), new overseas students will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK.” The Home Office, however, exempted postgraduate research or government-funded scholarship students from the ban. "We are fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration. "From today,

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UK bars Nigerian students, others from bringing family as dependents

The United Kingdom has put in place a law that will see Nigerian students, and others studying in the UK from bringing family as dependents except under specific circumstances. This is as the UK government aims to bring immigration into the country which stands at about 1 million down. Under the new rule, the UK will remove the permission for international students to switch out of the student route and into work routes before their studies have been completed to prevent misuse of the visa system. Sky News also added that “there will also be a review of the maintenance

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