Immigration Clampdown: Enable Nigerian College students Journey With Spouses, Don’t Break Households – NANS Tells UK

The Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students (NANS) has reacted to the UK’s new immigration guidelines.

NANS described the brand new guidelines which have its sole intention of separating {couples} and deliberately maintaining companions away from one another as inhumane.

The Nigerian College students’ physique which opposed this in an announcement despatched to SaharaReporters on Friday, mentioned such a coverage ought to “by no means be allowed to face not to mention maintain waters”.

The brand new immigration coverage launched by the Residence Workplace of the UK bans people on research visas (excluding these on analysis) from bringing in dependants. It’s implementation will start by January 2024.

Reacting to the brand new immigration guidelines, NANS within the assertion signed by its Vice President (Exterior Affairs),

Comr. Akinteye Babatunde Afeez, mentioned “despicable amongst these modifications is the change to relationship necessities for companions beneath the Pupil, Graduate, and Expert Employee routes”.

He mentioned, “About 30,000 Nigerian college students are enrolled in United Kingdom universities and within the 2021/2022 session alone, the federal government of the UK accrued about £2 billion from charges paid by the Nigerian College students alone.”

NANS, nevertheless, famous that stopping spouses from travelling collectively, particularly when it has to do with learning overseas would solely trigger “emotional trauma and the aim of going to review” would possibly even be truncated as there can be no focus “because the minds of those college students might be divided”.

The scholars canvassed that there needs to be some variations that needs to be considered whereas implementing the brand new coverage “in order that the connection between the UK and Nigerians wishing to review within the UK wouldn’t be short-lived.”

It added, “Create guidelines that might solidify relationships and construct households, not those that may break households and set them aside merely since you wish to fulfill an egoistical facet of your clime primarily based on an interview.

“I enjoin the Ministry of Overseas Affairs, NIDCOM and different stakeholders to name the federal government of the UK to order to rescind these arbitrary guidelines.

“The 686% enhance within the inflow of Nigerian college students within the UK shouldn’t be unconnected to the accessibility and acceptability it has proven to us from time immemorial.

“We even cared much less regardless of the exploitation and intimidation. This new immigration rule has damaged the camel’s again and we are going to struggle tooth and nail to ensure it doesn’t stand.

“Enable each scholar the flexibility to journey will their partner.”