why not check the letter to mps and supporting documents on VBSI website?
abcd1 wrote:Mortgage/tution fees are just the tip of iceberg.
For WP holders it is a dicey situation. If a WP holder, after finishing 4 years in UK, loses job now, unless he can find another employer to sponsor WP [which is difficult more often than not] he will have to leave the country with family (dependants)!!! That's great hardship!!!
Suppose A is WP holder and B is A's spouse who studies in university.
B does not need separate student's visa as she is A's dependent.
Now if A loses job, as per rule, B also loses the right to stay in UK. The only way B can stay to convert her visa to student's one. For that she needs to leave UK. Now if she applies for student's visa, that'll be refused as she can't show funding during study (B lived on A's expense).
I'm not saying that B could have lived on dole having ILR. But an ILR would not force A to live UK immediatly and he can easily search for a job (which is easy to get if employer does not have to sponsor WP).
You may argue that A should move to HSMP - however, not all will qualify under HSMP and HO have very funny rules for refusing qualified applications!
I am sure, if you go on asking every person, hundreds of such instance will come out.
Think of those Indian doctors, many of whom even bought houses - now suddenly there are being told that unless they can get WP they will have to leave UK.