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MAY ANNOUNCES STUDENT VISA EXTENSION CRACKDOWN By Alan Oakley
The Home Office has announced a series of changes to the Tier 4 visa for students, including new rules that affect applicants’ eligibility to work.
As of August, new students at publicly funded colleges will not be allowed to work, bringing the rules into line with those for private colleges. There are also changes for the dependants of those on Tier 4 visas. From autumn they will no longer be able to work in low-skilled or unskilled jobs. They will, however, be allowed to engage in part-time or fulltime skilled work. New restrictions will also be placed on those looking to change from a Tier 4 visa to either a Tier 2 or Tier 5 visa. They will no longer be able to do so from within the UK and will need to leave the country to apply from abroad. Students will no longer be able to extend their Tier 4 visas in the UK, either. The only exception will be for students studying at an ‘embedded college’, one with a formal link to a university recognised by the Home Office. If they wish to apply for another course, they will need to do so from outside the UK. New rules will also prevent Tier 4 university students from switching to a new course unless there’s a link to their
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Business secretary Sajid Javid: “People coming to Britain to study should be studying, nothing more.”