The number of international students applying for visas to study in the UK dropped this summer, according to new figures.Home Office figures showed 16% fewer visa applications were made between July and September than in the same period in 2023.Meanwhile,…
Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government
Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats…
UK ETA: How the new entry requirement affects you
The British government’s Home Office, responsible for immigration, security and law and order, in 2022, initiated work on an electronic travel authorisation system, known as ETA or Electronic Travel Authorization. The ETA, scheduled to launch in November of this year,…
He tricked me into coming for holidays from the UK and then abandoned me in Nigeria!
My story began years back; in 1997 when I went to meet my husband in the UK. Before then, he had come to Nigeria one Christmas time, we met, he told me he was interested in marrying me. I also…
Black women scared to report domestic abuse in case Home Office deports them
Black women are not reporting domestic abuse out of fear of being deported, a charity has warned. Ngozi Headley-Fulani, who runs Sistah Space, an unfunded domestic violence charity in Hackney, says the Windrush scandal and recent reports of mass-deportations to…