{"id":28891,"date":"2026-03-04T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=28891"},"modified":"2026-03-04T08:26:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T08:26:57","slug":"uk-bans-study-and-work-visas-for-afghan-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2026\/03\/uk-bans-study-and-work-visas-for-afghan-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"UK bans study and work visas for Afghan citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The UK government has imposed an emergency brake on visas for nationals from four countries, including Afghan citizens, halting work visas as well.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Guardian reports that the government has stopped study visas for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar, and Sudan, and halted work visas for Afghans.<\/p>\n<p>Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood described the move as unprecedented, aimed at preventing abuse of the visa system, with some migrants allegedly using legal migration routes to claim asylum.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2021 and 2025, 39% of UK asylum claims came via legal routes such as study visas, with students from the four targeted countries accounting for much of the increase.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmood had previously threatened a similar halt to all visas for Angola, Namibia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo in November, unless their governments agreed to take people back from the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK government has imposed an emergency brake on visas for nationals from four countries, including Afghan citizens, halting work visas as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":28893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,984,31,6],"tags":[576,1540,1606,1607],"class_list":["post-28891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-migration","category-afghanistan","tag-uk","tag-afghans","tag-study-visas","tag-work-visas"],"views":41,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28895,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28891\/revisions\/28895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}