Question follow-through · 4050
Visas: Overseas Students
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training and quality assurance processes are in place for staff assessing student visa applications where refusals are made on grounds of course credibility or academic progression.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Home Office
- Tabled
- 21 May 2026
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2026
- Answer
- 4 Jun 2026 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
21 May 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what training and quality assurance processes are in place for staff assessing student visa applications where refusals are made on grounds of course credibility or academic progression.
4 Jun 2026
Target answer date
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4 Jun 2026
Answer published
My response to your previous question of PQ 3544 confirmed that changes to the Basic Compliance Assessment (BCA) policy were first announced on 23 May 2024.Since then, I have continued to engage regularly with the education sector on the BCA policy and wh...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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