{"id":90269,"date":"2026-06-04T09:55:48","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=90269"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T09:55:48","slug":"universities-face-international-student-ban-over-visa-abuse-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/06\/04\/universities-face-international-student-ban-over-visa-abuse-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities face international student ban over visa abuse fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA24NSIF.img?w=768&h=533&m=6\" alt=\"There were 409,954 sponsored study visas granted in the year up to March 2026, the latest figures show. (Getty Images)\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Universities will be stripped of the right to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/home-news\/mahmood-student-visa-ban-chevening-scholars-universities-b2981211.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">recruit international students<\/a> if too many drop out from their courses over fears they are being exploited for visa abuse.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/universities-face-international-student-ban-over-visa-abuse-fears\/ar-AA24OGpC?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a210b9def614e4fa52c917442ad1985&cvpid=cc3270d3f9884696e7b85eaf9eb595c2&ei=5\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Universities will be stripped of the right to\u00a0recruit international students if too many drop out from their courses over fears they are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/student-visa.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90270,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90269\/revisions\/90270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}