00:00People can stay after their international student visa, they can then work in the UK for another two years as part of a legal process.
00:09But we've seen instead around 15,000 students applying for asylum at the end of their visa,
00:16even though for many of them nothing could change in their home country during that time.
00:20And we will support refugees who have fled persecution, that's why we are bringing students from Gaza to be able to take up places here.
00:27But we don't want to see the asylum system misused by students who simply want to stay for longer.
00:34That's why we've been very clear, we need those numbers to come down.
00:37It's already started to come down as a result of things we've done in the course of this year,
00:41but we need to prevent that misuse of the asylum system.
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