Question follow-through · 128244
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of alternative measures to blanket nationality-based suspensions of student visas, such as targeted enforcement measures based on indivi
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 20 Apr 2026
- Target answer date
- 22 Apr 2026
- Answer
- 22 Apr 2026 · 2 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Apr 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of alternative measures to blanket nationality-based suspensions of student visas, such as targeted enforcement measures based on indivi
22 Apr 2026
Target answer date
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22 Apr 2026
Answer published
The decision to introduce the visa brakes was driven by clear evidence of high levels of visa-linked asylum claims across all four nationalities. By year ending September 2025, asylum applications by students from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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