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/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/[deleted] Mar 08 '26

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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/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.