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Dear (MP NAME),
We the International student’s of the UK studying at various universities and colleges in the UK like to contact you regarding the UKBA’s latest proposals on the student immigration system. We have already invested considerable amount of time and money (tens of thousands of pound) in the hope of attaining a brilliant world class UK education experience and thereby preparing ourselves as a good global citizen.
One aspect of these proposals is a plan to scrap the post-study work visa (henceforth referred to as PSWV). This category was created in order to retain the UK’s best international graduates and to make UK university education more attractive to students. International students currently studying here in UK were essentially promised a two year Tier 1 PSWV upon choosing to study in the UK, and we are sure you can appreciate the invaluable experience student’s gain in working here before heading back home. Indeed, one of the main reasons that many international students choose to study in the UK is because of the opportunity afforded to them in the PSWV. Students who take PSWV contribute significantly to the UK economy, not only financially, but also ensuring its advancement and international outlook. PSWV also act as incentive for students to choose the UK for their studies, and help UK HE to attract the brightest and the best from across the globe.
What the proposal seemingly fails to recognise is the positive cultural and economical contribution of international students to the UK. A recent report from the Nottingham Business School and the Association of Business Schools estimates that Business Schools in the UK (typically containing an extremely high proportion of international students) generate £2 billion in direct income for the UK economy, with an indirect impact of some £7.5 billion annually. We understand that the government has set very ambitious targets in terms of reducing immigration numbers, and we do respect that there does exist a specific problem with regard to bogus ‘institutions’. However, it is these ‘institutions’ that must be targeted and not innocent students.
It strikes us as both unfair and immoral that
a) this opportunity, and inherent incentive for students to study in the UK should be removed, and
b) that current students, who were encouraged to apply for two year PSWV after completion of their course and thereby attaining extremely valuable work experiences for those two years at the start of their professional life, will now discover it to be just an illusion.
The principles of fairness and predictability require that no retrospective changes should be applied to current students. We believe that retrospective changes send a negative message to current and future students and the public in general. The most important factor in business is trust and students who are planning to invest their time and money in UK should know that they can rely on a consistent and predictable student’s immigration policy.
In the past, whenever there was a policy change the affected immigrants were always given the required transitional period and we hope justice will prevail this time as well.
One of the similar schemes with its Transitional Arrangement can be found here (
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/worki ... l/#header1)
We hope we have expressed how deeply concerned we are about the implications of these proposals and we hope you will look into the problem and do something reasonable within your power to uphold and preserve the British value of fairness in these tough times.
Thank you very much for your time and we do hope to hear from you very soon.
Yours sincerely,
(YOUR NAME)
International Student at (UNI NAME),
United Kingdom
