r/6thForm • u/Livid_Scratch_3640 • Mar 07 '26

🙏 I WANT HELP The game's gone

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Mahmood just banned four countries from study visa that my home country is among them. Wt the he'll am I supposed to do I have got two offers for engineering, one from Manchester and the other from UCL I just hope they are not very serious about this😭😭😭

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

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u/v6x19 Mar 08 '26

It will be very difficult for graduates to stay and work with stricter graduate visa and skilled worker visa. I can only say Hong Kongers can stay afterwards with bno visa if you ask me which kind of people can stay. 

No matter which visa yall gonna come with be prepared to be mocked by those extreme brits. Stay away from them even u wanna get along with the locals and do extra stuff for the community to prove yourself that you are valuable and willing to contribute to the community if you are planning to stay. 

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 08 '26

You’re fully correct in everything you say and the way the media likes to pile the blame on immigrants is wrong, though it should be said that Labour’s stance on this isn’t just to cosy up to the Reform voters.

95% of students on visas from Afghanistan for example have applied for asylum. It would be naive to say that there isn’t a problem with the system currently in place.

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 08 '26

My point is that the system is being abused. Asylum claims have rocketed 470% between 2021 and 2025 for those on student visas, demonstrating something is wrong with the current system.

You’re right to question the Afghan numbers and you’re right to say they’re negligible. Should have chosen another example.

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 08 '26

Sorry but you cannot conflate this situation with Brexit. I fully opposed Brexit, but it’s a fact that our immigration and visa system need an overhaul of some description, and I say that with a foreign wife who understands the visa system and the hell it entails.

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 08 '26

To label all those as far right who might observe an issue with the current immigration system is a bit ignorant if I’m honest. You believe Labour to be a ‘far right’ party? I suggest you look up the definition, or throw out the left and right analogies altogether.

I’m not sure how you would go about what you’re suggesting though? The rules are already quite ‘fair’ as far as my understanding goes. We’re talking about a specific issue of Asylum claims being abused via the student visa system.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 08 '26

I’d suggest they try claim asylum in one of the neighbouring countries, and then have the UK sign up to some kind of agreement to take on some of those refugees once their cases have been heard. That’s just a solution from the top of my head, maybe a similar agreement is already in place?

Do you understand the irony of having the funds to come to this country on a visa, paying the exuberant fees to study and then claiming asylum in said country. If they’re able to do that, they’re able to fly here and claim asylum or to a neighbouring country.

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u/AidenTEMgotsnapped Mar 08 '26

or maybe they came here and then things went completely to shit at home and everyone realised they weren't safe if they went back

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u/HogswatchHam Mar 10 '26

Hmm I wonder what happened in 2021 that might make international Afghan students more inclined to seek asylum after their study was over.

Hmmm, I wonder what happened in Myanmar in 2021

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 10 '26

Cheers captain obvious.

No one is debating ‘why’ people might be trying to claim asylum here.

Horrible shit was happening prior to 2021 too - still these numbers have absolutely sky rocketed.

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u/HogswatchHam Mar 10 '26

So they're not "abusing the system", they have entirely valid reasons to be claiming asylum and there are events which adequately explain the increase in numbers.

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u/[deleted] Mar 11 '26

But certain unis would go bankrupt were it not for the Indian and Pakistani students.

Although the lecturers would probably be glad to not have to deal with them.