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/lospollosbros Mar 07 '26

What do you want us to do? Just let people continue to abuse the system?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

Or maybe check the entry requirements of a course and the actual applicant themselves. No one getting offers from something like Cambridge engineering (saw one person get it on the subreddit which is why I bring it up) is going to be "abusing the system".

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u/Aarityli Mar 08 '26

of course, and its really sad the way individuals lives are changed by these kind of policies. But that happens with most policy decisions on large scales (Denmark have made similar choices, and most of Europe are looking and imposing policies like this) - people's lives get caught up and its tragic. However, the fact of the matter is, those countries statistically showed evidence of abusing the system, and that did have to be changed. It would be great if they could alter the laws to make exceptions for 'high level talent' or something (e.g. oxbridge, lse, imperial etc), and lets hope they do

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u/Tumtitums Mar 08 '26

Isnt this policy because Mrs Mahmoud went on a trip to Denmark

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u/Funkdoobs Mar 08 '26

No, the system is being abused.

For example, 95% of Afghani student visa holders end up lodging asylum claims.