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Nigeria has been a major beneficiary of the post-Brexit migration visa rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd if you look at, say, the number of people getting work visas in the UK, these people play an incredibly important role in certain sectors, particularly our social care sector, the number of people getting work visas to go to the UK has gone from something like 10(thousand) to 20,000, six, seven years ago, to 80 (thousand), 90,000 a year in the last two years, last year and this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, we have 145,000 visit visas already approved this year, similar to last year. Student numbers are down. We had around over 100,000 last academic year. The initial figures suggest they\u2019re around 70,000 this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo student numbers, I admit, are down, but I think everybody agrees that it\u2019s a huge relationship. There\u2019s a lot of positivity in it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you apply with the right documentation and the right evidence, the approval rate is very high. 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