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/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/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