Submitted on Saturday 26th November 2022
Rejected on Wednesday 30th November 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Remove international students from net migration statistics.
Please stop classifying international students as 'immigrants' and making policies based on this limited view. Design a creative policy that encourages the most talented students to choose the UK & through which Britain's international graduates can solve for our critical skills & labour shortages.
By design, international students are in the UK temporarily, for a limited period of time. How, therefore, are they immigrants?
International students make a net positive contribution of at least £26 billion per year to the UK & are the source of almost 70% of our education export earnings. They sustain jobs all over the country. In many ways they subsidise the world-leading research that goes in British universities. They further ties of trade and culture, going back as friends of the UK.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you are concerned about immigration arrangements regarding international students, but we're not sure exactly what changes you'd like the Government or Parliament to make to these arrangements. Your petition calls for "a creative policy that encourages the most talented students to choose the UK", but it's not clear what you want this to look like.
You could start a new petition explaining clearly what you would like the Government or Parliament to do.
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