Nigerian migrants bring most relatives, UK govt says, considers tougher visa rules

 

The UK is contemplating tightening the principles on what number of family members migrants can convey into the nation.

 

Nigeria was talked about after it was found that it has the best variety of dependants in comparison with different teams of migrants.

 

In keeping with the Instances UK, UK Dwelling Secretary, Suella Braverman stated the federal government was contemplating tightening the principles on dependants after Dwelling Workplace immigration figures confirmed a “stunning inconsistency” throughout completely different nationalities coming to the UK to work and examine.

 

Primarily based on the Dwelling Workplace report, Nigerians accounted for 40% of all dependants who accompanied overseas college students within the 12 months to June 2022- regardless of Nigerian college students making up simply 7% of all overseas college students in that interval.

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Some 34,000 Nigerians got examine visas within the UK, bringing with them a complete of 31,898 dependants. An analogous ratio was recorded for work visas, with 8,972 Nigerians issued with one within the 12 months to June bringing with them 8,576 dependants.

 

By comparability, 114,837 Chinese language college students who got here to the UK final 12 months introduced with them a complete of 401 dependants – whereas 93,049 Indian college students got here to Britain with  24,916 dependants, the figures present.

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