UK Immigration Watchdog Warns Possible Student Visitor Visa Abuse
United Kingdom immigration watchdog has warned the UK Border Agency for possible abuse of short term student visitor visa (SVV) by foreign nationals. The number of students arriving in the country on Tier 4 visas has dropped by over 25% compared to a rise in student visit visa by over 10% during the same period. [...]
The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has authorized its immigration staff to test the English language skills of the foreign students applying for a study visa in UK even if the students have cleared the UKBA approved English tests, to catch bogus student applicants. The UK immigration department implemented the new rule and issued the [...]
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UKBA Issues New Guidelines for International Students to follow on Arrival
August 5, 2012 No CommentThe UK immigration department has decided to further streamline the immigration process at the county’s airports to avoid relapse into lengthy queues at the immigration counters. United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has announced several guidelines for the international non-European Union (EU) students, coming to study in the UK, to follow at the country’s airports this [...]
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United Kingdom (UK) may have allowed more than 60,000 bogus students enter the country out of 141,700 in the year 2011 as claimed by Migration Watch UK. The report is based on UK Home Office three months pilot project suggesting about 44 percent of 2316 foreign students interviewed were bogus. The Home Office said that [...]
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The London Metropolitan University has been temporarily banned by the immigration office in UK to recruit overseas students on grounds of not fully complying with the rules specified by the agency requiring the universities and colleges to report any foreign student who failed to start the study programme. The basis of the ban, as told [...]
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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has been urged by a group of United Kingdom’s leading businessmen to consider excluding foreign students, particularly Pakistani students, from the provisions of the UK’s new immigrations reforms. Such requests, on part of the businessmen community, came after a considerable drop in student applications from foreign countries was seen. [...]
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United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) has been taking the inspection of local universities very seriously and has shown concern regarding scrutinizing University’s efforts to uphold its duties as a sponsor for foreign students. Lately, almost majority of Universities in UK, which sponsor foreign students on study visas, are expecting a surprise visit from the UKBA. [...]
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United Kingdom recently adjusted its immigration policy and took it one step further in restrictions. Particularly, UK visa rules for Pakistani students have been made stricter. The United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) now handles all the immigration applications. The agency recently conducted a research on the overall percentage in eligibility of foreign students applying to [...]
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It is rightly said that “Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century” maintains Perelman. Today the world has become a global village where boundaries are crossed with the help of papers called visas. One who wants to study should get a visa and go through an immigration process. [...]
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