Within two years after the face, overseas students will have to find a job at graduated level under plans to tackle the rising migrant numbers of Great Britain.
Foreign graduates can stay in the UK for a maximum of two years without a job after ending at the university and can then remain if they find a lower -skilled job and switch to a work visa.
The graduated visa can be obtained by international students who complete their course and stay in the United Kingdom for two years, or three years for those who complete a doctorate without finding a job.
However, the government is now being considered a higher bar with sources that tell the times that careers in which salaries usually do not rise by a certain level after a few years that are the target.
According to Brian Bell, the chairman of the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), a graduation salary level can be defined as between £ 36,000 and £ 40,000 a year.
About 150,000 progressed to the graduated visa, the Mac estimated, which contributed to 10 percent of the total net migration.
Official data for the 12 months to June of this year show that long -term immigration was 728,000 higher than those who left the country.
Most overseas students on the graduated route compete postdoctoral lessons courses, while a third went to the universities of Russell Group. Students from India, Nigeria, China and Pakistan accounted for 70 percent of the graduated Visa.
Foreign graduates can stay in the UK for a maximum of two years without a job after ending at the university and can then remain if they find a lower -skilled job and switch to a work visa
According to last year's home office, of those who engaged the visa graduated, half left the country, while 43 percent moved to a skilled employee visa and 50 percent left the country. The rest opted for smaller visa schedules or for a student visa.
At the beginning of 2022, the government decided that care providers with a salaries of £ 21,000 a year are eligible for a visa with competent employees.
A fifth of those who left the graduated route to the visa of the skilled employees later became caregivers and a quarter in jobs that were paid less than £ 24,000.
Universities UK, which represents 142 institutions, said: 'Given the enormous economic, social and cultural contribution that international students make to the UK, both while studying and in later life, it will be important to have proposed changes based in our points based Carefully assessing immigration system. '
The home office said: 'Our upcoming white paper of immigration will draw up an extensive plan to restore order to our broken immigration system, linking immigration, skills and visa systems to grow our household workforce, to increase dependence on overseas work and the stimulate economic growth. We are not going to comment on what will be included in the white paper. '
