Question follow-through · 12625
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that student visas are not used solely to gain residence in the UK.
About this written question
A written question asks a government minister for information in writing. Parliament publishes the question and any answer.
- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 4 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 11 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that student visas are not used solely to gain residence in the UK.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
11 Nov 2024
Answer published
To obtain permission on the Student route prospective Students must demonstrate that they have a sufficient level of English, funds to maintain themselves, relevant qualifications, a genuine intention to study and be sponsored by a licensed college or uni...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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