Overseas Students

(asked on 27th October 2016) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made, other than by using passenger survey data, of the number of international students each year who break their visa obligations by remaining in the UK after their course has ended.


Answered by
Robert Goodwill Portrait
Robert Goodwill
This question was answered on 7th November 2016

The independent Office for National Statistics (ONS) has confirmed that the International Passenger Survey (IPS) continues to be the best source of information to measure long-term international migration.

The ONS published a report in January 2016, “International student migration: what do the statistics tell us?” which can be found here:

http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/rel/migration1/long-term-international-migration/student-migration---what-do-the-statistics-tell-us-/student-migration---what-do-the-statistics-tell-us.pdf

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