With 273 per cent hike in visas granted over the past few years, Indians have taken over Chinese as the largest group of foreign students studying in the UK.
With 56,042 granted work visas in the past year, Indians also continue to be the top nationality granted visas in the skilled worker category.
Reinforcing Indian contribution to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), Indian nationals also represented the highest number of visas at 36 per cent of the total under the tailored Skilled Worker Health and Care visa targeted at medical professionals.
The Home Office said that “There were 127,731 [study visa] grants to main applicant Indian nationals in the year ending September 2022, an increase of 93,470 (273 per cent) compared to 2019 (34,261). Chinese nationals were the second most common nationality granted sponsored study visas in the year ending September 2022, with 116,476 visas granted to main applicants, 2 per cent fewer than the number seen in 2019 (119,231)”.
Indians, with 41 per cent of visas granted, also dominated the new Graduate Route visa introduced in July last year to allow international students the chance to stay on and work at the end of their degree.
Launched in May this year, the special High Potential Individual (HPI) visa, in order to attract the brightest graduates from the world’s top universities around the world to work in the UK, also saw a 14 per cent grant to Indian nationals despite no Indian university being on the approved set of top global universities.
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