Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what recent assessment she has made of the adequacy of the English language requirement for applications for student visas from Kenya; and whether she has plans to review that requirement for those applicants.
Kenya is not included on the Majority English Speaking Country (MESC) for immigration purposes, so applicants from Kenya must meet the English language requirement in another way.
Student applicants are currently required to show a B1 or B2 competency level on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, depending on their course of study. There are several ways they can prove this:
Our assessment is these options provide an appropriate means for applicants for student visas from Kenya to meet the English language requirement.