Immigration: are foreign students visitors or migrants?

Name: Immigration: are foreign students visitors or migrants?
Uploaded: 2012-07-16T14:21:39.000Z
Duration: 3 min 1 s
Description: The government is said to be under pressure to exclude foreign students from net migration statistics, although some claim that would be fiddling the figures to hit lower targets.

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The government is said to be under pressure to exclude foreign students from net migration statistics, although some claim that would be fiddling the figures to hit lower targets.

David Thompson reports on whether students should be classed as visitors or immigrants on official figures.

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UK Politics

16 July 2012