The Migration Advisory Committee ... (MAC) submitted on the Graduate Route, as it highlights the benefits that overseas students provide to the UK higher education system and the economy at large.

May 14, 2024 at 3:31pm BST. The UK’s graduate visa route is “not undermining” the integrity and quality of the higher education system and should remain, the Government’s migration ...

Professor Brian Bell, chairman of the MAC, told reporters: “If that’s right, or even ballpark right, getting rid of the graduate route would have fairly small effects on net migration, because ...

In a letter to the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), James Cleverly asked the body to assess if the graduate visa route – which allows overseas graduates to stay in the UK for two or three ...

Economic migration has been a significant driver of the surge. Of those coming from outside the EU, 41pc came on work visas in 2023. More recent Home Office data for the 12 months to June 2024 ...

The graduate route is open to international students in the UK who have completed a course of ... Our statement to the Migration Advisory Committee was duly noted in last year’s review of the ...

The independent Migration Advisory Committee (Mac) did not find evidence of widespread abuse of the route – which allows overseas students to stay in the UK for two or three years after graduation.

Scrapping the graduate visa route for international students would have a limited effect on reducing net migration, a Government adviser has suggested. Recent immigration policy changes – such ...

Graduate visa route should remain in place, say Government’s migration advisers The Migration Advisory Committee found no evidence of ‘significant abuse’. Published May 14, 2024 ...