Our reporter/ Effective January 1, 2024, overseas students including those from Nigeria will no longer be able to bring family members to the country, the United Kingdom Home Office has said.
“We are fully committed to seeing a decisive cut in migration,” the UK Home Office said in a New Year post on X (formerly Twitter).
“From today (Monday), new overseas students will no longer be able to bring family members to the UK.”
The Home Office, however, exempted postgraduate research or government-funded scholarship students from the ban.
The UK is one of the top destinations for Nigerian youths who are relocating in pursuit of better education, employment and security purposes, among other reasons. With Nigeria’s unemployment rate at a new record high of over 33.3 per cent, the mass exodus known as the ‘Japa’ phenomenon is in full swing.
The United Kingdom had first announced moves to stop overseas students from bringing migrants to the UK in mid-2023. The move was part of an immigration crackdown on students moving family members to the UK.
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