Give current international students the right to the new Post-Study Work visa

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

A new 2-year Post-Study Work visa has been announced for international students coming to the UK from 2020. The visa excludes thousands of current international students in the UK. This exclusion means the majority of these students with job offers are unable to build successful careers in the UK.

Only 2.2% of UK employers are Tier-2 sponsors, which makes it challenging for existing international students with job offers to take employment without a Post-Study Work visa. It leaves them with no other option but to leave the UK. This adversely affects not only their careers but also their lives after having lived in the UK for three years and more for some students.

Sponsor employers: 30,451 (Register of Sponsors 2019)
Number of employer businesses: 1417,000 (Business Statistics 2018)

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Bring the date for the post-study work visa closer to help current students

Timeline

13 Sep 2019	Petition opened for signatures
17 Sep 2019	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11

Status Rejected

Rejected 17 Sep 2019

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