UK MOVES TO BAN NIGERIAN STUDENTS FROM TRAVELLING WITH FAMILIES

The United Kingdom is getting set to announce new restrictions that will stop Nigerian students and other nationalities studying in the UK from travelling with their families.

According to a report by The Sun UK, the crackdown, which will see all masters students and many other postgraduates banned from bringing family over, will be announced this week

Rishi Sunak is expected to come out fighting on immigration – pointing out they are figures he inherited as they date back to the year ending December 2022 – two months after he became Prime Minister.

A Tory Member of Parliament said today that Students brought 135,788 family members to Britain last year – nine times more than in 2019. Last year, 59,053 Nigerian students brought over 60,923 relatives.

However, the ban will not apply to PhD students, whose courses usually last between 3 and 5 years and are highly skilled.

According to data obtained from Home Office last year, Nigerians accounted for the highest increase in the number of dependants accompanying persons with study visas for the year ending in June 2022.

According to Daily Mail, Nigeria represented 40 percent of the total number of dependants between June 2021 and June 2022, and “some 34,000 Nigerians were given study visas in the UK, bringing with them a total of 31,898 dependants”