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this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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No claims as to how many people this method has actually helped claim asylum successfully, just some anecdotes. If staying on in work after coming to study here is so hard that they're requiring international students to claim asylum in increasingly hare-brained schemes then that's surely the Home Office opening themselves up to this stupidity instead of just making it easier to emigrate after studying.
This could well be just as pathetic an attempt at journalism by the BBC as their Panorama on ADHD diagnoses which completely fucked a load of people over who were genuinely suffering with the disorder.
You are assuming that the overstaying former students actually graduated, that they are employable, and able to find a job.
Sadly I interview many graduates who have somehow got a degree from a British university but are incapable of functioning in the workplace because they don't speak English well enough.