UK government departments have been asked to set out their position on student visa reforms as the Home Office presses for restrictions, with opposition to post-study work limitations said to be coming from an array of departments including the Treasury.
The Times reported that Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has proposed reducing the time that overseas students can stay in the UK after completing their courses under the graduate visa route from two years to six months, a plan “strongly opposed” by the Department for Education.
Previous calls from Ms Braverman for a student visa “crackdown”, aired in the press from autumn to Christmas last year, were regarded as “noise” – with no government machinery turning to implement such plans.
