Question follow-through · 940
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the risk that increased student visa refusal rates may cause otherwise compliant sponsors to breach the 5% refusal threshold.
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 13 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 18 May 2026
- Answer
- 19 May 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
13 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the risk that increased student visa refusal rates may cause otherwise compliant sponsors to breach the 5% refusal threshold.
18 May 2026
Target answer date
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19 May 2026
Answer published
The tighter Basic Compliance Assessment (BCA) metrics, set out in the Immigration White Paper on 12 May 2025, will come into effect in June. Metrics will not be changed according to fluctuations in student visa refusal rates, which vary over time due to c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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