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Dear James Naish MP
@jameswnaish
We were pleased to see your recent initiative in support of Hong Kong BNO visa holders, which has been warmly received across social media.
https://t.co/9YjQyEsIFk
As you will appreciate, however, many other children outside this cohort have also seen their university aspirations curtailed in the post‑Brexit landscape.

In his recent remarks, our Prime Minister’s @Keir_Starmer words — especially his commitment that “every child can go as far as their talent or ability will take them” — genuinely gave us the sense of hope we have been waiting for. Those words resonated deeply with us as parents who believe that every child deserves a fair and equal opportunity to fulfil their potential.

Similarly, our Secretary of State for Education, Bridget Phillipson, @bphillipsonMP has also expressed her support, affirming that “every child can achieve and thrive.”
https://t.co/1jsbeFWYmA

Also as noted in the Home Affairs Committee Oral Evidence (HC 1409, 21 January 2026, p.22), https://t.co/IqeUsZ1h5b expert testimony acknowledged the severe impact on families whose children reach university age before their parents obtain settlement. Parliament itself anticipated this problem, underscoring that the resulting disadvantage is both foreseeable and unreasonable under the preserved terms of the legacy routes.

On the subject of legacy routes, it is worth noting that, internally within UKVI, ECAA casework is processed within the EEA and Hong Kong Unit, confirming its legacy classification. All three cohorts share the same defining characteristics:
• Treaty linked
• Legacy protection schemes
• Designed to prevent cliff edge loss of rights
Even CP 1448 explicitly categorises ECAA as a “legacy unsponsored work route” within the wider Work family of routes. This classification is significant for three reasons:
• Legacy routes are preserved precisely because they reflect historical responsibilities or transitional arrangements.
• ECAA stands in the same structural family with other two treaty-origin cohorts; routes which CP 1448 does not propose to restructure.
• ECAA stands in the same structural family of treaty-origin legacy routes, all of which are designed to manage transition and avoid retrospective disruption, yet only ECAA is proposed to be restructured.

ECAA visa holders — a cohort whose route closed five years ago, with no possibility of new applications, zero impact on net migration, and whose numbers are expected to decline naturally as a transitional arrangement already in place — have been awaiting a decision since September 2025.
The already lengthy six‑month average processing time has now been exceeded, and unlike other routes, there is no option to purchase priority processing.

CP1448 A Fairer Pathway to Settlement (November 2025) estimates that between 1.3 million and 2.2 million people will settle in the UK between 2026 and 2030. Against this backdrop, the remaining few‑thousand‑strong ECAA cohort risk being overlooked.

For these reasons, ECAA families and their children are looking to your leadership to ensure that they, too, can access home fees and student finance on the same equitable basis as other legacy cohorts. We would be deeply grateful for your advocacy on this matter.

Thank you for your precious support.

Yours Sincerely
@jameswnaish @PutneyFleur @MikeTappTweets @UKLabour @LordsJHACom @meralhece

[tmtulgar @tmtulgar]

Dear Minister,
May I kindly ask the Home Office Minister what measures he is taking to reduce the UK labour market’s structural dependence on migrant workers — so that Voters' frustration about irregular migration are not addressed at the expense of lawful migrants who work, contribute, and pay taxes regularly.

What assessment has he made of the prolonged delays affecting ECAA Turkish Businessperson visa holders @ecaavisaowners — a route closed to new applicants for five years and contributing zero to net migration — including cases where second‑extension applications have been on hold since September 2025, compelling circumstances have been submitted twice, yet the case was assigned to a caseworker only after eight months, and applicants have been told of ‘unexpectedly high volumes’ despite the route’s very small and declining caseload just few thousands.

What assessment has he made of cases in which applicants, after waiting eight months, sought to vary to ILR with their children and attempted to obtain a next‑day decision for a spouse who is legally employed, despite paying NIC s/he had to pay also the IHS and Super Priority fee, but instead received only a £1,000 apology and were told that no decision could be made due to ‘complex issues’, with no refund, no explanation, and no deadline.

And in light of the visa brake introduced in March 2026 — which restricts outside the UK Student visa applications for nationals of Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan, and Skilled Worker applications for Afghan nationals, while still permitting inside the UK extensions and switching — what justification is there for leaving inside the UK ECAA applicants and their families, whose business plans have already been scrutinised twice in five years, in open‑ended uncertainty, with cases labelled ‘complex’ or ‘not straightforward’, and with no explanation, no timeline, and no service standard.

And what consideration has the Minister given to the position of UK‑taxpaying lawful migrant families earning £30,000 to £50,000 a year — families who are neither on welfare nor wealthy — who are nevertheless treated as if they were overseas parents sending their children to study in the UK, and therefore required to pay international university fees of around £30,000 per year, creating a prohibitive barrier for households that are fully self‑sufficient and contributing to the UK economy. For five years, these children have been cut off from their dreams — and now they are being confronted with a further five‑year barrier blocking their path to higher education.
Thank you Minister.
Sincerely.
@PutneyFleur @UKLabour @LibDems @Conservatives
@LordsJHACom
https://t.co/E9yz5Wi2bh

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You can think of British universities as an export asset that brings foreign currency into the country. And unlike traditional exports, no physical goods are shipped abroad; instead, students come to the UK, and through accommodation and consumption they bring in even more foreign currency — making it, in effect, a twice‑as‑effective export product.

After Brexit, however, people who are ordinarily resident in the UK —who are neither on welfare nor well‑off— working and paying taxes, were effectively penalised with international student fees. Many families simply could not afford these fees, and their children were forced to abandon their educational aspirations. The official data shows the situation of UK universities as outlined below, following the questions.
https://t.co/8Wr9YCol74

❓Do you have any plans beyond increasing international student fees even further?

❓Do you agree with leaders who say that not everyone needs to go to university, and that graduates in fields with limited employment prospects end up unhappy?

❓Do you share the concern that, in the near future, AI may take over many jobs?

❓Do all these developments not pose a threat to the very existence of universities?

❓And finally, do you intend to raise your voice against what is happening?

According to the latest official data, 24 higher education providers in England (including seven with more than 3,000 students) are at risk of insolvency and market exit within the next 12 months. A further 26 providers are considered at risk within the next two to three years, bringing the total number of institutions facing serious viability concerns to around 50. The Office for Students has also warned that 45% of providers (approximately 124 institutions) could report a deficit in the 2025–26 financial year without additional mitigating actions.

Separately, the University and College Union (UCU) live tracker shows that 105 UK institutions are currently undergoing course closures, departmental shutdowns, restructures, mergers, or major redundancies. Thousands of jobs have already been cut and hundreds of programmes suspended or closed across the sector.

Some universities are closing entire faculties or departments, and at least one institution — the University of Essex — is fully closing its Southend campus at the end of the 2025–26 academic year (summer 2026). Around 800 students will transfer to the Colchester campus and approximately 400 jobs will be affected.

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@LauraTrottMP @tonyvaughanMP @AngelaRayner @labourlewis @Conservatives @LibDems

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@tmtulgar @Keir_Starmer Justice for all.

[tmtulgar @tmtulgar]

Dear Prime Minister,

Your message in today’s election‑day post — especially the words “so that every child can go as far as their talent or ability will take them” — genuinely gave us the sense of hope we have been waiting for. Those words resonated deeply with us as parents who believe that every child deserves a fair chance to fulfil their potential.

For the past five years, lawful‑resident families who have lived, worked, and paid taxes in the UK have been required to pay international university fees — often around £30,000 per year — as though they were overseas parents. Many families simply cannot afford this. As a result, talented, honest, well‑intentioned young people who could contribute so much to the UK are forced to abandon their dreams before they even begin.

We fully agree with you that settlement in the UK is a privilege. At the same time, from our perspective, a child’s access to higher education is a basic human right — one that should never depend on their parents’ visa category or on the unpredictable timelines of Home Office processing that causes material disadvantages for children of applicants in different visa routes.

Before 1 January 2021, the rules were clear and applied consistently to everyone, including British citizens returning from overseas: three years of ordinary residence before the first day of the academic year. This was reliably recognised as the sole and sufficient criterion for for home‑fee eligibility under the pre‑Brexit framework.
When viewed from the child’s perspective, nothing has changed.
We kindly ask whether you might raise these questions with your ministers:
> What has changed for the child?
> Can any child truly be treated differently?
> Are these children not all part of the same future we are trying to build together?
> Is this not contrary to Section 55 of the Borders, Citizenship and Immigration Act 2009, to Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, and to the UK’s stated commitment to DEI principles?
> How is it possible for one government department to introduce a policy change, yet another department does not step in to say that such a measure cannot be applied to children?

In the spirit of fairness and in line with the values you expressed today, we kindly request the reinstatement of home‑fee status for every child living in the UK, along with the restoration of their eligibility for Student Finance — applied retrospectively from 31 December 2020 onwards.

Thank you very much for your time, your leadership, and your commitment to giving every child the chance to go as far as their abilities will take them.

Sincerely Yours

https://t.co/8Wr9YCol74

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