International students would be allowed to stay in the UK for two years after their graduation. Currently, graduates with bachelor’s or master’s degrees are allowed to look for work for only four months. From next year all international graduates could qualify for a two-year period to work in the UK, increasing their chances of finding long-term employment after studying, according to the new policy of UK Home Office (HO).
Previously foreign students in the UK were allowed to stay in the UK for two years after their graduation from the UK universities under the Post Study visa scheme till 2012. However, Theresa May as a Home Secretary scarped that policy which resulted in a drastic drop in the number of international students’ enrollments at the UK Universities .
Under the new proposal, the visas would have no cap on numbers and would allow graduates to apply for jobs regardless of their skills or the subject they studied. The government said part of the aim was to recruit talented graduates in disciplines such as maths, engineering and technology.
The HO officials said that the new immigration route is available for those students “who have successfully completed a course in any subject at undergraduate level or higher at a higher education institution and had complied with their Tier 4 student visa.
The British Universities has long campaigned for the change of the policy, welcoming the new strategy they said this would put back the UK educational institutes where they belong as a first study choice destination for the students from across the world.
