Visa crackdown on international students sparks concern for Nottingham uni community

A new crackdown by the Home Office to remove international students overstaying without legal reason will likely negatively affect UK cities, including Nottingham.

The campaign from ThinkTank comes in response to what the Home Office has called an “alarming” sudden increase in international students claiming asylum after their student visas have expired.

It hopes the campaign will contribute to the measures being taken to improve visa compliance and is a part of the Plan for Change initiative.

A report in 2023 by analysts at London Economics, brought to attention that Nottingham is among the cities that receive the greatest financial boost from international students.

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To remind students of their expiring visas, the government is also using a direct messaging campaign that will contact students during the autumn season when asylum applications are predicted to rise.

They say asylum applications from “work, study and tourist visa-holders” have more than tripled under the previous government with international students making up of around 40 per cent of those claimants, by far the highest proportion, and accounted for 37 per cent (41,400) of all claims by the end of June 2025.

Border Security and Asylum Minister Dame Angela Eagle declared: “We are taking decisive action to halt the significant growth we inherited in asylum claims from legal routes – which had more than tripled since 2022.

“While the UK will always be open to the best of international talent, our visa system must not be used as a backdoor to claim asylum.

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“Through innovative measures like directly messaging students for the first time, the government is working to prevent dubious claims that cause unacceptable delays, incur costs to the taxpayer and threaten the integrity of Britain’s borders.”

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