Out to woo Indian businesses and students, British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday announced his country would introduce same-day visa services for investors and said there would be no limit on the number of students from here studying there. ...
06:03 PM, Feb 18, 2013
Britain's stringent norms in student visa has resulted in decline of number of Indian students in higher education by nearly a quarter last year. Students from India coming to study at UK schools and universities fell by 23.5 per cent overall, including a 28 per cent drop at postgraduate level. ...
06:25 PM, Jan 12, 2013
London: From Thursday onwards, Indian citizens seeking to enter Britain for more than six months will need to be screened for tuberculosis before they are granted a visa, official sources said. The costs of screening and subsequent treatment will be met by those people applying to come into the UK, the Home Office said, and added that the screening is specifically targeted at migrants from India and 66 other 'high...
08:01 PM, Aug 13, 2012
London: The new student visa system in Britain that was introduced to prevent abuse has led to a decline in the number of students coming from India, but the overall number of international students has not changed, according to a Home Office minister. "I accept there has been a decline in the number of students coming from India," Home Office minister of state Lord Henley said. During a debate in...
05:42 PM, Jul 20, 2012
London: Two men of Indian origin, who accumulated over 800,000 pounds from an immigration scam that involved setting up three bogus companies as fronts to help people stay in the UK illegally, have been jailed for 11 years. Solicitor Srinath Aredla, 39, and Santosh Koletti, 33 who lived in Hounslow, West London, set up three bogus companies that issued payslips and wage payments to their clients, making it appear that...
04:27 PM, May 22, 2012
London: For the first time, Britain is breaking the link between the number of years a migrant spends in the country and permanent settlement, by introducing a 35,000-pound annual salary threshold for those seeking to avail the privilege, a move that is likely to affect Indians. Until now, permanent settlement was automatic: if a migrant spends five years in the UK in an immigration route that leads to settlement, and...
07:37 PM, Feb 29, 2012
London: Britain's immigration officers have launched an investigation after an Indian-origin lecturer at a college was covertly filmed advising students how to cheat at MBA exams and exploit loopholes to obtain visas. Lecturer Surya Medicherla was filmed giving students tips on how to cheat in exams and how to deceive the UK Border Agency (UKBA) at the Rayat London College, whose degrees are validated by the University of Wales. A...
02:04 PM, Oct 05, 2011
New Delhi: In what could be a setback to many Indian students aspiring to study in Britain, the UK government has announced a major overhaul of the student visa system, tightening the entrance criteria and the post-study work route. There will be restrictions on work placements on courses provided by non-university sponsors, Chris Dix, Regional Director, UK Border Agency on Wednesday told reporters here, maintaining that new rules are to...
04:26 PM, Mar 23, 2011
Zakir Naik's 5 year visa granted to him in July 2008 was revoked. ...
01:57 PM, Jun 27, 2010
The new rule come into effect even as Prime Minister Gordon Brown called for the election on May 6. ...
10:45 AM, Apr 06, 2010
New rules for student visas come into force from Wednesday. ...
09:12 AM, Mar 03, 2010
Chandigarh: Students wanting to go to the United Kingdom for higher studies from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal are a disappointed lot because the UK Border Agency has temporarily stopped accepting any new student visa applications from New Delhi, Jalandhar and Chandigarh. This decision to not accept visa applications from 3 centres in North India has nipped in the bud, the dreams of hundreds of students eyeing a foreign degree. CNN-IBN ...
09:50 AM, Feb 05, 2010
High Commission suspends accepting new visa applications in N India. ...
07:40 PM, Jan 30, 2010
Over 90,000 counterfeit documents were found during raids. ...
03:06 PM, Jun 04, 2009
