For the year to June 2012 the number of student visas issued has decreased by 30% compared to the year before.
Commenting Graham said: “Immigration is a very important issue for people in Cheshire. I know that local people were deeply frustrated about the chaos which was the hallmark of our immigration system for too long. Labour used lots of hyperbole and rhetoric on immigration but they left it uncontrolled. Net migration to Britain reached more than 2.2 million people - more than twice the population of Birmingham. The system was broken and nothing was being done to fix it.
“We now have a Government which is doing what is needed to bring immigration under control. All the routes of entry into the UK are being tightened up. Economic migration has been capped, bogus students are being turned away, and the rules on family migration are being made more robust.
“We are now seeing the impact of this. Immigration is still too high but we now have a government which is determined to bring it down to sustainable levels in the tens of thousands.”