Overseas Students: Employment

(asked on 4th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Home Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of increasing the number of hours that people on student visas can work.


Answered by
Tom Pursglove Portrait
Tom Pursglove
This question was answered on 11th December 2023

The Student route is primarily for study, not for work, but many students can work up to 20 hours per week during term time and full time outside of term time.

We currently have no plans to increase these working hour limits. They ensure the route is not being used as a backdoor to the UK’s labour market and protects the UK’s reputation for educational excellence.

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