Government Imposes Visa Curbs on Family Members of Foreign Students

UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman arrives to attend the weekly Cabinet meeting at No. 10 Downing Street in London, on May 23, 2023. Leon Neal/Getty Images

Foreign students apart from postgraduates on research programmes will be banned from bringing dependents to the UK from next year, the government has announced.

Downing Street said the move amounts to the “single biggest tightening measure a government has ever done.”