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Allow 19/20 batch overseas students to apply Graduate route visa before 1st July

Submitted on Saturday 6th March 2021

Rejected on Tuesday 16th March 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Allow 19/20 batch overseas students to apply Graduate route visa before 1st July

Petition Details

Overseas students who came in Jan 20 for 1 years masters & graduating before summer 2021 faced extreme disruption academically & professionally more losing work offers and are in lot of stress. Since 1st lockdown businesses were closed and 19/20 students faced more hardships then Sep 20 batch.

Additional Information

As students came in Jan 20 and 1st lockdown were introduce in 23rd March 20, since June 1st still we are in national lockdown, students who wants to have experience in relevant field was counting on Graduate route but government launched this visa in July 2021, some have less then 15 days to become eligible for PSW, We respect UK education system and Home Office and Urge on behalf of Overseas students to consider reviewing eligibility for Jan 2020 students. NISAU UK & UKCISA also requested this.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Extend the 2 years post-study work visas to 2020 Graduates: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/571665

Extend new Graduate Route to 2020 and pre-July 2021 graduates: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/578675

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