Question follow-through · 120634
Asylum: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department operates a policy of ending study visas for nationalities where asylum claims from students go beyond a certain percentage.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 17 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 23 Mar 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Immigration and borders
- Visas: Asylum · 18 Mar 2026
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- Visas · 18 Mar 2026
- Overseas Students: Sudan · 18 Mar 2026
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Votes on this topic
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
- Immigration and Asylum Bill: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 13 Jul 2026
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Recorded timeline
13 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether her Department operates a policy of ending study visas for nationalities where asylum claims from students go beyond a certain percentage.
17 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 Mar 2026
Answer published
From 26 March 2026, we will refuse sponsored study visa applications from main applicants outside of the UK who are nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan. Additionally, we will refuse Skilled Worker visa applications from main applicants ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Visas: Asylum
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many of those in the UK on Skilled Worker and Study visa routes have gone on to claim asylum by nationality, per quarter for the last four quarters.
Visas
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how the 18 month review of visa brakes will be conducted.
Visas
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 18 month review of visa brakes includes considerations other than asylum-rates.
Visas
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether the 18 month review of visa brakes includes engagement with Departments other than her own.
Overseas Students: Sudan
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the potential impact on atrocity prevention in the decision to introduce student visa breaks for nationals of Sudan.
Overseas Students: Afghanistan and Sudan
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment was made of the potential impact of the decision to introduce student visa breaks for nationals of Sudan and Afghanistan on access to higher education in those countries.
Visas: Afghanistan and Sudan
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether a cost-benefit analysis was conducted of the visa brake being applied to Sudanese and Afghan students.
Refugees: Resettlement
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the new refugee study and work pathway schemes will be open to nationals from Sudan and Afghanistan.
Refugees: Sponsorship
18 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if the new community sponsorship safe routes will be open to nationals from Sudan and Afghanistan.
Refugees
19 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, when the new refugee study and work pathway schemes will open.
Overseas Students: Sudan
26 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what if any, review process is available to Sudanese students currently holding UK university offers following the recent policy changes which impact their ability to obtain visas.
Oppression
17 Apr 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what mechanisms her Department has developed for the reporting and monitoring of transnational repression.