{"id":1111,"date":"2013-06-27T06:17:32","date_gmt":"2013-06-27T06:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:25:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:25:16","slug":"international-students-myth-3-laws-should-be-tighter-because-some-students-stay-illegally-in-this-country-after-graduating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/06\/international-students-myth-3-laws-should-be-tighter-because-some-students-stay-illegally-in-this-country-after-graduating\/","title":{"rendered":"International Students Myth 3: Laws should be tighter because some students stay illegally in this country after graduating."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"float: right;\" ><a class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-via=\"\" data-count=\"none\" data-related=\"mohanjith:S H Mohanjith\" data-lang=\"en\" data-url=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/06\/international-students-myth-3-laws-should-be-tighter-because-some-students-stay-illegally-in-this-country-after-graduating\/\" data-text=\"International Students Myth 3: Laws should be tighter because some students stay illegally in this country after graduating.\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=&#038;count=none&#038;related=mohanjith%3AS%20H%20Mohanjith&#038;lang=en&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fhelpmeinvestigate.com%2Feducation%2F2013%2F06%2Finternational-students-myth-3-laws-should-be-tighter-because-some-students-stay-illegally-in-this-country-after-graduating%2F&#038;text=International%20Students%20Myth%203%3A%20Laws%20should%20be%20tighter%20because%20some%20students%20stay%20illegally%20in%20this%20country%20after%20graduating.\" >Tweet<\/a><\/span><i>In the third of a five-part series on\u00a0<i>common misconceptions about international students and visa laws<\/i>,\u00a0<\/i><b><i>Nicole Froio<\/i><\/b><i>\u00a0looks at the law and international students.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>Myth 3: Laws should be tighter because some students stay illegally in this country after graduating.<\/h2>\n<p>There are\u00a0<i>no figures\u00a0<\/i>that actually show how many people stay in the UK illegally after graduation. There <i>are<\/i> figures to support that <strong>bogus colleges<\/strong> have brought around 50,000 illegal \u2018students\u2019 who aren\u2019t studying at all, but working illegally.<\/p>\n<p>It may be that the government is targeting the wrong people. The focus of immigration laws isn\u2019t on bogus colleges that are helping illegal immigrants in, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/may\/24\/uk-immigration-crackdown-loss-international-talent\">on the students who seek education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the main points of the House of Commons debate on the subject was that there are no reliable statistics to judge whether international students are the main root of the illegal immigrants problem:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>\u201cI&#8217;ve lots of statistics but &#8216;in every statistic lies a human story&#8217; and we should consider that\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8211; Islington North MP Jeremy Corbyn<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><em><em>Tomorrow: does scrapping the Post Study Work visa mean there will be fewer illegal immigrants in the foreign graduates\u2019 pool?\u00a0<\/em><\/em>Nicole Froio blogs at\u00a0<a href=\"www.wordsbynicolefroio.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.wordsbynicolefroio.com<\/a>\u00a0and tweets at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/NicoleFroio\" target=\"_blank\">@nicolefroio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TweetIn the third of a five-part series on\u00a0common misconceptions about international students and visa laws,\u00a0Nicole Froio\u00a0looks at the law and international students. Myth 3: Laws should be tighter because some students stay illegally in this country after graduating. There are\u00a0no &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/2013\/06\/international-students-myth-3-laws-should-be-tighter-because-some-students-stay-illegally-in-this-country-after-graduating\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88894,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,297],"tags":[605],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1251,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions\/1251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}