English High Chief to Nigeria Richard Montgomery says the UK government’s new arrangement on the limitation of unfamiliar understudy visas is pointed toward dealing with the strain on friendly administrations for researchers.
Montgomery, who expressed this during a meeting with the News Organization of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja, made sense that the arrangement was not aimed toward deterring Nigerian understudies from concentrating in the UK.
As per him, right now in the UK, Nigerians craving to concentrate on the UK have a 97% visa endorsement rate.
He encouraged Nigerians to see the new visa system in the UK in a greater setting, a thing which he said is “actually a positive for Nigeria and the Unified Realm”.
“Quite a while back, there were 20,000 Nigerian understudies in English advanced education establishments, and last year, the number expanded to 127,000.
“Thus, we had a five-overlay expansion in the number of understudies from Nigeria coming to UK colleges.
“We are happy that UK colleges keep on drawing in the best and most brilliant from Nigeria.
“Furthermore, in the more extensive setting, last year, the UK conceded 3,000,000 new UK visas of different kinds including understudies and different guests.
“Nigerians alone got 325,000 of those 3 million visas.
“So more than 10% of the visas from the UK are to Nigerian residents which is fabulous.
“The strategy change is about individuals who are doing non-research degrees coming to the UK as students, or for a one-year graduate degree program, and who choose to bring their wards.
“We have had an extremely huge ascent in the quantity of individuals coming from one side of the planet to the other, not simply from Nigeria.
“This has caused some stress on the UK.
“At times it is challenging to track down great convenience as an understudy and there is genuine strain on lodging and social administrations for understudies.
“In the event that you took a gander at it a long time back, just 1,500 dependants of understudies were coming to the UK from Nigeria, however presently it was 52,000 last year.
“I’m simply attempting to place it in legitimate setting, that this is a change.
“The words that are being utilized in the media to depict what is going on are distorting. We are making a change that empowers us to deal with the requests on administrations in college towns and somewhere else.
“Nigerians are extremely fruitful in obtaining visas. We have a 97 percent endorsement rate thus that is the huge setting,” Montgomery said.
He communicated the UK’s pride in its exploration organizations and advanced education which, he said, were recorded among the best hundred colleges on the planet.
The higher foundations, he said, are exceptionally open to understudies going to concentrate on in the UK.
He communicated the conviction that Nigerians stand to acquire greatly from the global openness and worldwide organizations presented by concentrating on in the UK.
The News Organization of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the UK Work space in May declared that from Jan. 2024, undergrad and expert’s understudies would never again be permitted to take their wards alongside them to the UK.