Closing the student visa security loophole  

The student visa system has been the biggest hole in our border controls for a decade under this Government, and Ministers still seem to be floundering around trying desperately to correct their own mistakes. Less than a year after Tier 4 of the Points Based System was introduced, in response to media reports of chaos in the immigration system, the Prime Minister announced a joint DBIS- Home Office review of student visas. The results of this review include increasing the minimum English language requirement. This would obviously have serious consequences for genuine language schools. If the Government adopts these proposals, it could effectively close every language school across the country. The English language industry is worth £1.5 billion a year in foreign earnings to the UK economy, and we should be encouraging legitimate foreign students to come here to learn English. Conservatives...