UK Implements Limits on Family Migration for Overseas Students

The UK government has announced that it will remove the right of some international postgraduate students to bring family members into the country, as part of measures to reduce annual net migration. The new measures will be effective from January and will target postgraduate students except those on research programmes. The government said the number of dependants had jumped eightfold since 2019, to 136,000 people last year. Student visas accounted for the largest proportion of migration to the UK with 486,000 issued last year.