Global Mobility & Immigration Law

The UK has Good News for Indian Students—and, Perhaps, Bad News for the US

Shareholder Irina Plumlee was quoted in a recent Quartz Magazine artice, which discusses the UK returning to its pre-2012 rule of letting foreign students get work visas for up to two years after graduating.

Close on the heels of prime minister Theresa May’s exit, the UK is bidding farewell to her post-study work rule for international students.

As home secretary, in 2012, May had slashed the time foreign students got to find a job, from two years after graduating, to just four months. This week, her successor Boris Johnson said he plans to reverse the restrictive immigration policy, which had hit Britain’s popularity as a global education destination.

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