May 24, 2024
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Visa applications plunge 25% as new migration rules take effect

Today’s monthly data provides an up-to-date picture of visa applications across key routes, with early signs that the government’s tough measures are reducing legal migration…reports Asian Lite News

Visa applications across key routes have fallen by a quarter in the first 4 months of 2024, as the UK Home Secretary’s package to reduce unsustainable migration continues to deliver.

Government measures to tighten student visas, which came into force in January, have prevented most international students starting courses this year from bringing family members with 79% fewer student-dependent applications in the first 4 months of 2024.

Students can also no longer switch their visa before completing their course, preventing people from using the route as a backdoor to work in the UK, while clamping down on institutions that undermine the UK’s reputation by selling immigration not education. There were more than 30,000 fewer student visa applications made between January to April 2024 compared to the same period in 2023. 

Data also shows that in the first full month the restrictions on care worker dependants were in place, and there was a 58% fall in Health and Care dependant application numbers, from 15,100 in April 2023 to 6,400 in April 2024. The government has been clear that the unprecedented rise in care worker dependant visa numbers had been both disproportionate and unsustainable.

Today’s monthly data provides an up-to-date picture of visa applications across key routes, with early signs that the government’s tough measures are reducing legal migration.

Home Secretary James Cleverly said, “The plan to deliver the largest-ever cut to legal migration in our country’s history is working. This monthly data is the most up to date picture of visa levels, showing that on current trajectories legal migration continues to fall across key routes. The British people deserve an immigration system that puts their interests first. Our approach is about control and fairness; to the highly skilled coming here who deserve a decent wage, to taxpayers who shouldn’t be relied on to support them, and to British workers who shouldn’t be undercut. We will continue to keep these measures under close review and if needed, we will not hesitate to go further.”

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