London:

The British government can limit visa applications from students living in countries, including Pakistan, who most likely claim to claim asylum in one step designed to reduce annual net immigration, a government official said.

The move comes after Prime Minister Keir Stormers Workers’ Party was punished at the local elections in England last week by voters who were angry with questions, including illegal immigration.

Next week, the government is expected to publish a political document, known as a White Paper that will determine how the government plans to reduce the net walk, which reached 728,000 people in the year until June last year.

“Our upcoming white paper in immigration will establish a comprehensive plan to restore order to our broken immigration system,” the home office said in a statement.

High levels of legal migration have long dominated Britain’s political conversation and was one of the biggest drivers for the Brexit referendum in 2016.

Out of the 108,000 people who claimed asylum in the UK last year, 16,000 students had visas, government data shows. The government does not provide a collapse of the nationalities for those who had students visas who continued to demand asylum.

But the government said that people from Pakistan, Nigeria and Sri Lanka were most likely to claim asylum in the UK after arriving at a work, students or visits.

In the wake of the party’s poor local election results last week, some working members in the parliament called for the government to do more to take a more crucial approach to issues such as reducing the net migration.

Jo White, representing a group of legislators in former Labor -Heart, known as the “red wall”, said the government should stop “pussyfooting around”.