Six students challenge Home Office visa ban on four countries

The students bringing the claim have undergraduate degrees have received offers from universities including Oxford, pictured. Photograph: Paul Thompson Images/Alamy

Six students from Sudan and Afghanistan have accused the home secretary of racial discrimination and launched legal action to try to overturn a ban on them taking up university places in the UK.

The students – five from Sudan and one from Afghanistan – have undergraduate degrees in medicine and science-based subjects and received offers from universities including Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial College London.