It's relatively easy to overstay, fairly difficult to live in the UK without a visa, since both landlords of rental properties and employers are supposed to che

It's relatively easy to overstay, fairly difficult to live in the UK without a visa, since both landlords of rental properties and employers are supposed to check for them, and most of them do, so you wind up stuck in a pretty unstable position. For most graduates I'd imagine that's not particularly desirable. A quick search brought up an article which suggests that maybe ~7,000 people a year are overstaying their student visas (a high estimate, as that includes people who have left but the government didn't get a record of it), out of ~half a million granted a year, which is not exactly a huge influx compared the maybe ~50k a year who overstay a tourist visa instead, the ~15k a year who cross the channel on small boats, or the ~1 million a year moving into the UK legally. https://news.sky.com/story/i-had-no-idea-how-life-would-be-inside-the-lives-of-those-who-overstay-their-visas-and-go-underground-12931042 https://news.sky.com/story/i-had-no-idea-how-life-would-be-i...