Question to the Home Office:

To ask His Majesty's Government what their policy is towards applicants for student visas from Myanmar; and whether they intend to continue to provide opportunities for Myanmar students to study in the UK.

There is currently an unsustainable strain on our asylum system. Nationals of Myanmar present some of the highest proportions of asylum claims to visas issued on the Student route.

We have needed to act to reduce the strain on the asylum system, in order to ensure that the system remains fair, credible, and sustainable. Our decision to introduce a visa brake on the Student visa route for nationals of Myanmar, and for three other nationalities, was data-driven, with the number of asylum claims on this route in the year ending September 2025 reaching 1,650% of their 2021 levels.

The brake will be kept under regular review. It is not intended to be permanent. It will, however, only be released once the government considers it appropriate to do so.