{"id":3297,"date":"2023-05-23T15:36:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/?p=3297"},"modified":"2023-05-23T15:47:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-23T15:47:42","slug":"britain-to-ban-foreign-students-from-bringing-family-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaparrot.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/23\/britain-to-ban-foreign-students-from-bringing-family-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain government to ban foreign students from bringing family over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United Kingdom is set to announce new restrictions to ban foreign students from bringing family over to Britain.<\/p><div class=\"afric-content\" id=\"afric-2012425006\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schools.nyc.gov\/hello?utm_source=ecm-digital&#038;utm_medium=cpc&#038;utm_campaign=lac-dex-2026&#038;utm_content=french\" aria-label=\"French&#8212;300&#215;250\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/africaparrot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/French-300x250-1.gif?fit=300%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"  class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"   \/><\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a report by The Sun UK, all masters students and many other post graduates will be banned from bringing family over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ban will not apply to PhD students, whose courses usually last between 3 and 5 years and are very highly skilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows the reports that net migration into the UK has skyrocketed to 1 million with Tory MPs asking the Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, \u201cto get a grip on the rocketing numbers.\u201d To get a hold of the climbing numbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was reported&nbsp; that \u201cRishi Sunak is expected to come out fighting on immigration \u2013 pointing out they are figures he inherited as they date back to the year ending December 2022 \u2013 two months after he became PM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere has been an explosion in the number of people coming to Britain piggybacking on their relative\u2019s student visa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStudents brought 135,788 family members to Britain last year \u2013 nine times more than in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 59,053 Nigerian students brought over 60,923 relatives last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The immigration clampdown is expected to be announced on Tuesday or Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Kingdom is set to announce new restrictions to ban foreign students from bringing family over to Britain. 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