No claims as to how many people this method has actually helped claim asylum successfully, just some anecdotes. If staying on in work after coming to study here is so hard that they’re requiring international students to claim asylum in increasingly hare-brained schemes then that’s surely the Home Office opening themselves up to this stupidity instead of just making it easier to emigrate after studying.

This could well be just as pathetic an attempt at journalism by the BBC as their Panorama on ADHD diagnoses which completely fucked a load of people over who were genuinely suffering with the disorder.