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Big news - Home Secretary accepts my new clause in Immigration Bill lifting post study restrictions on foreign students! Real win for UK soft power. Many thanks to Conservative colleagues and the x-party MPs who backed it, esp @PaulBlomfieldMP
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The new clause means students at recognised universities will have an automatic right to stay on to work for two years on their Tier 4 student visa and, in addition, will no longer be counted towards any hard UK-wide net migration cap on numbers.
Huge effort on this issue over many years led by @UUKIntl is finally paying off - we’ve lost market share recently - from 12% in 2010 to 8% in 2016 - but these changes to our post study work offer will help bring us back into line with our big competitors around the world
