| Heading: |
Visas: Overseas Students |
| Question ID: |
1760047 |
| UIN: |
27488 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-01-29 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5158 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rupert Lowe
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Rupert Lowe
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of excluding (a) family members and (b) dependents from student visas. |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-02-06 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4253 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Seema Malhotra
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| Answering Member handle: |
SeemaMalhotra1
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@SeemaMalhotra1
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| Answer text: |
The Student route already restricts most students from bringing their dependants to the UK. Partners and children are the only family members which can be sponsored by students as dependants and only if the relevant student meets certain relevant criteria... |
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| Answering body ID: |
1 |
| Answering body name: |
Home Office |
| Tweeted: |
true |