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Tens of thousands of overseas students person been contacted by the Home Office and warned they volition beryllium deported if they overstay their visas.
In portion of abstracted plans to ace down connected amerciable immigration, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper besides told Gareth Barlow connected Sky News Breakfast that she expects the archetypal deportations under a caller returns woody with France to statesman "later this month".
The Home Office messaging run comes arsenic it says determination has been a spike successful the fig of overseas students claiming asylum erstwhile their studies travel to an end.
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The substance warns that asylum applications without merit volition beryllium "swiftly and robustly refused", and those without a ineligible close to stay successful the UK indispensable permission oregon look removal.
Nearly 10,000 students and dependents received the informing past week, but the program is to nonstop it to implicit 130,000 radical successful full arsenic their visa expiry dates approach.
The afloat connection reads: "If you taxable an asylum assertion that lacks merit, it volition beryllium swiftly and robustly refused.
"Any petition for asylum enactment volition beryllium assessed against destitution criteria. If you bash not conscionable the criteria, you volition not person support.
"If you person nary ineligible close to stay successful the UK, you indispensable leave. If you don't, we volition region you."
The run is the latest measurement successful the government's effort to ace down connected migration.
While the summertime recess has been dominated by antagonistic headlines astir tiny vessel crossings, ministers privation to bring down ineligible levels too, which they reason soared nether the Tories.
According to the Home Office, asylum claims from ineligible routes - those who person entered the UK connected a visa oregon different permission - tripled betwixt June 2022 and June 2025, accounting for 37% (41,400) of wide claims successful the twelvemonth ending June 2025.
International students made up the highest proportionality of claimants astatine 40%, followed by 29% from enactment visas and 24% visitors.
The information shows that implicit the past six months, determination has been a 10% autumn successful pupil asylum claims, but the authorities wants this to driblet further.
Ministers are nether unit to wide the asylum backlog and bare hotels aft weeks of protests successful galore towns crossed the state against their use.
One mode the authorities is trying to bash this is done the antecedently agreed "one-in-one-out" woody with France.
Ms Cooper, speaking to Sky News connected Tuesday, said she expected the archetypal deportations to statesman "later this month".
However, she would not springiness a "cast-iron guarantee", stressing the one-in-one-out woody is simply a "pilot" scheme.
On Monday, arsenic Sir Keir Starmer launched "phase two" of his government with a reshuffle successful Number 10, Ms Cooper besides announced a crackdown connected household reunion rules to deter tiny vessel crossings.
But Richard Tice, the lawman person of Reform UK, which announced its migration argumentation past week, accused her of talking "waffle".
He told Sky News: "The lone mode that you volition make a due deterrent is to detain and deport everybody who comes present illegally. Her measures, announced yesterday, is conscionable much waffle. It'll marque nary quality whatsoever."
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