Why UK stopped students from bringing families, by envoy

He spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja, while giving reasons for the stoppage of foreign students from bringing their families into Britain.

Montgomery added that before his posting as High Commissioner to Nigeria, he had spoken to some of these universities on the policy change, which had been in the pipeline for some time. “Those coming to the UK for doctorate can still bring their dependants but if you are coming to the UK with a study visa for an undergraduate degree, or short term master’s degree am afraid the rules have been changed.

“In the case of Nigeria, in 2019, before the Coronavirus pandemic, there were only one and a half thousand dependants being brought in from Nigeria, with those on study visas,“In 2022, that figure had increased to fifty two thousand dependants so that’s a thirty fold increase in dependants. And it’s not just about Nigeria by the way.“It is also about all foreign students, we saw similar rises, for example amongst Indian students coming to study in the UK.

“Of which 95 per cent were approved and over 110,000 study visas were issued last September compared to 65,000 of the previous year, there’s almost a doubling of Nigerian study visas in 2023 which means the demand is really high.

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