No widespread abuse of UK graduate visa scheme, Home Office report finds
The UK’s graduate visa scheme is not being widely abused and should remain in place, a Home Office commissioned report has found.
An independent committee was asked to look into the visa route after home secretary James Cleverly questioned whether it was “undermining the integrity and quality” of the UK’s higher education system.
He wanted to ensure the route was “not being abused” and that demand for study visas was “not being driven more by a desire for immigration rather than education”.
The independent (MAC) has now found no evidence of “significant abuse” of the route, which allows international students to stay in the UK for two or three years after graduation.
