The Home Secretary of the United Kingdom has defended the international student package measures that seek to block Nigerians and other foreign students from bringing their dependents into the UK.
In a video posted by Sky News on Wednesday, Immigration Minister, Robert Jenrick, representing the Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, said the measures are meant to protect the UK public services and housing supply from the pressure of rising dependents of foreign students.
Jenrick told the Parliament during a question and answer segment, that the number of dependents arriving in the UK based on study visas of international students has risen from 16,000 in December 2019 to 136,000 in the year to December 2022.
