Or Tangier export parking on a Saturday night! 
Here’s your answer half of them never go home, try getting that amount on the boats
Sponsored study visas
Between 2011 and 2016 sponsored study visa grants to main applicants were relatively stable at around 200,000 per year (figure 1). The number increased following the EU referendum in 2016, reaching 268,674 in 2019. Following a fall in numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of visas issued subsequently increased sharply, reaching a peak of 498,626 in the year ending June 2023. Numbers have stabilised in the latest year. The most recent increase was in part due to immigration levels increasing as COVID-19 related restrictions were eased, and followed the UK’s departure from the EU which ended free movement for many EEA nationals (excluding those with status on the EU Settlement Scheme) - EEA nationals have since accounted for around 5% of sponsored study visas to main applicants. For further discussion of the recent increases in visas see
On a student visa and wish to stay in the UK.
My friend Chloe is looking for advice on how to stay in the UK legally.
Chloe came to the UK on a student visa to do a master’s course at a university in London. She has since completed that course and was on a tier 4 graduate visa.
Her time is coming to an end in November.
Chloe has inquiry about this with a immigration/visa lawyer and there were only 2 options available.
- Get married with someone here so that she can get a dependent marriage visa
- Have a skilled job earning at learn £2,600/month (before taxes)
Options 1 isn’t viable as there is no-one willing to go through marriage with her and therefore unable to get a visa.
Option 2 isn’t viable either as she is not skilled enough to be able to job in such a short space of time.
I am looking for some advice/help/anything to be able to help her stay here in the UK so that she doesn’t get deported back to Africa.
I appreciate any help given here
Just under 3 million signatures on that petition.
Got an e.mail response today, this is part of itt.
Basically full of official narrative bullcrap, ‘black holes’ ‘previous govermment’, unprecedented challenges and the like, not to mention a positive spin on the budget.
It wont get off the ground, but you would think it would send a message to Starmer, but maybe not with his blinkered arrogance.
Love the 10 year plan reference, 10 years?
Not a chance.
Gone are the days when you saw the odd ‘Dixon of Dock Green’ type Bobby walking his beat around Christmas in a tall hat.
Now we see coppers in full black combat kit and baseball caps, armed with machine guns walking around our …
Christmas Markets.
Is this what our country has been reduced too?
We ALL know whether you admit it or not what the threat is, and what type of people it potentially comes from…unless you have been stuck up Uranus for the last few years.
as many are.
And still we are not only allowing, but actuallly WELCOMING in the type of people in their droves… unidentified with no knowledge of their past.
I just hope the people continually turning a blind eye to it all can live with their conscience if/when it kicks off.
Be vigilant !
they have some brass neck They think they will be in for the next decade do they. Sorry i will be surprised if the labour party havent outed him by end of jan
Meant Asia and Africa.
Might as well invite the whole population of Asia and India to live here on this small Island.The result will be a strange definition and shade of green.
When asked basically why he has done the far end of f/all about stopping the boats…which is a priority with a LOT of people…
All we got was another load of meaningless ‘word salad’, …he didn’t even manage to shoehorn in his ‘black hole’.
And there’s me thinking that was already the case, way before what’s happening now
Get ready for an influx of Syrians now.
Tbf at least the Syrians ARE proper bonafide refugees fleeing a war torn home, ie tge raison d’etre for the Asylum system…not like the shower of sh we have in the country now taking everything on offer and giving nothing back.
Send them …ers back, and welcome the Syrians as far as I’m concerned.
(Oh dear what am I thinking my Starmer’s and Lefty’s ‘’‘Racist far right bigot’’ persona slipped a bit there.)
I’m sure we will be open for most of the world’s problems for a long time yet.
I agree Rob. The govt response to the petition is vacuous. It says almost nothing, filled as it is with meaningless and superfluous jargon. It repeats the empty phrase ‘mandate for change’ twice. It even linguistically misuses the prime minister’s personal pronoun. ‘They’? How many prime ministers are there ffs? Unimpressed.
I am thinking it might be that Syrians who fled the country during and after the 2011 uprising will want to return now they are getting their homeland back from the oppressive Assad regime.
That maybe the case, all the millions of refugees in neighbouring Turkey may want to return, there again with the rebels who appear to have ousted Assad have/had links with al Qaeda that doesn’t look great.
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