Rejected petition Amend working hours and self-employment rules for international students

We want the Government to abolish the weekly 20-hour working cap and allow international students to work as many hours as home students and pursue self-employment.
The average student's living costs are £1,078 a month. The 20-hour cap leaves international students struggling to meet basic costs.

More details

Students are at the sharp end of the cost-of-living crisis, and international students are particularly affected. Unlike home students, they cannot access student finance, so many are forced to work to fund their studies. But they are limited to 20 hours of work and week and cannot be self-employed.

The cap on work limits not just the right to work but also curtails the economic contributions of international students, which was £25.8 billion to the UK economy in 2019, according to HEPI.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/647658

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 23 November 2023
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.