questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that sponsors are not penalised for student visa refusals driven by (a) country conditions, (b) geopolitical instability and (c) other external factors.
answerText: The tighter Basic Compliance Assessment (BCA) metrics, set out in the Immigration White Paper on 12 May 2025, will come into effect in June. Metrics will not be changed according to fluctuations in student visa refusal rates, which vary over time due to c...
heading: Visas: Overseas Students