UK Home Secretary Publish New Updates On Study & Dependent Visas
Do you know how many visas have been issued to everyone to come to the UK since the beginning of 2024, as the UK new rules came into effect? Do you know why many people’s certificates of sponsorship haven’t been approved till now? The number has finally been published alongside other updates from the UK Home Secretary James Cleverly, published on April 30th, 2024. The new updates mainly concerned the number of people the UK has granted visas since new rules began. The UK student and dependent visas and deportations as well.
How many visas had been granted so far for those coming to the UK since the beginning of January, when the new rules came to place? The new updates on student and dependent visas announced by the UK Home Secretary, James Cleverly, and what the Home Secretary mentioned about deportations. Britain’s record immigration level is finally starting to fall, with the number of foreign workers and students arriving here in the first three months of the year, falling amid a visa crackdown.
The UK has granted 139,100 visas to skilled workers, students and their families and health and care workers since January, a sharp decrease on the 184,000 that were issued in the first quarter of 2023. These groups were handed 1.13 million visas during 2023, and represented the majority of migration to the country. The latest figures come after the first asylum seeker was deported to Rwanda under Rishi Sunak’s migrant crackdown yesterday. A particularly stark drop was seen in the number of foreign students applying to bring relatives to Britain, with just 6700 visas issued to family members of those studying in the UK, compared with 32,900in the first three months of last year, a decrease of 80%. Meanwhile, the number of foreign students applying for visa fell from 72,800 to 40,700.
The times reports. Curbs which far most foreign students bringing dependence to Britain while they study, came into force on January 1st. Home Secretary James Cleverly said said this data shows a significant fall in numbers on the first of our measures to take effect. The figures, published by the Home Office yesterday, also show an 83% decline in the number of visas granted to health and care workers in the month of March, from 14,300in 2023 to just 2400 this year. However, there seems to have been a last minute rush for visas by relatives of foreign care workers who were barred from bringing dependants from March 11th, with numbers rising from 44,200in the first quarter of 2023 to 49,300 this year.
The numbers also show that 41,600 health and care visas were handed out in August last year, the highest month displayed in the new data. The encouraging figures are good news for Rishi Sunak, who has put migration policy at the centre of his bid to win a general election this year. The full effect of the schemes introduced this year are unlikely to be seen for another few months, but the the Prime Minister will hope the latest data is an indication he is on course to achieve his aim of cutting annual numbers by 300,000. Now that’s what the Home Secretary said, and he is happy the number of legal immigrants has gone down. He mentioned that care workers visas have dropped from 14,300 to 2400. What could this mean? Could it be that they have deliberately refused to approve COS. Because many are still waiting. Until now, it’s not approved. And now the government is publishing data. We will analyse this and tell you in the next Post the full reasons behind costs on delays till now.
For students and other visas. It seems to follow the same trend. And as you see, the government has willingly dropped figures by themselves. After all this has been done, they are still enforcing deportations and the first migrant has already been sent to Rwanda, which means they are really serious about the first flight, which will contain hundreds of migrants to take off from June 2024. All this is not good news for those considering the UK for now. Our advice is that if you want to come here, wait until when the elections are over, then you can apply. By then things will change. We will give you further updates on cost issuance in the upcoming post. What are your own thoughts on this issue? Is it right for the government to deliberately refuse people visas because of net migration cuts and for political reasons? Let us know in the comments section below.
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