• Students will no longer be able to bring newly arriving dependants to the UK for courses after Jan 2024
• Students must complete their course before applying to change their visa to a working visa (including Skilled Worker, Global Business Mobility, Ancestry, etc)

In addition, from 7/8 August 2023:

• Surinder Singh & Zambrano routes under the EU Settlement Scheme to be closed to new applicants from 8 August 2023
• Validity for EU Settlement Scheme applications to include reasonable grounds for delay in applying (whereas currently, this is an eligibility criteria)
• Those with Pre-Settled Status will not make a further application for Settled Status - update also communicated separately that this will be for anyone with PSS from September 2023 onwards and it will be extended for two years automatically
• For GPs - extended visa grant for four months following completion of GP specialty training
• Additions to Shortage Occupation List for plasterers, bricklayers, roofers, construction workers, fisherman jobs
• Confirmation that New Zealand nationals can extend their existing two year Youth Mobility visas for a further one year (from 7 August)
•  Introduction of new Diplomatic Missions Interns Scheme for the Government Authorised Exchange route
• Amendments to the restrictions on access to public funds for Hong Kong BN(O) individuals and under the Private Life routes
•  Extension of the Ukraine visa scheme to May 2024
•  Allowing couples to apply together in the Adult Dependent Relative route, where only one requires the care of a settled person in the UK