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12 avril 2014

Universities using ‘extreme measures’ to meet visa requirements

By . House of Lords committee calls for ‘proportionate’ checks on students. Universities are resorting to “extreme measures” to make sure they do not fall foul of immigration compliance requirements, a House of Lords report has found, such as fingerprinting international students before lectures. More...

20 mars 2014

Australian immigration say student visa applications up

workpermit.com - Immigration, work visas and work permit servicesMore than 74,000 international students applied for Australian student visas in the three months to September 2013, according to Australian immigration. This is the highest figure for four years and seems to show that Australia has recovered as a favoured destination for international students after a three year slump in popularity. Australia became extremely popular as a destination for international students during the first decade of the 21st century. In 2002, 274,000 international students began study in Australia.
By 2009, there were nearly 500,000 people in Australia with student visas. While this was welcomed by many Australians, others complained that many students, from India in particular, were using forged academic qualifications to gain entry to the country and were coming to Australia not as students but as permanent migrants. More...

18 mars 2014

China extends deadline for Carleton student to pay fine to avoid jail, deportation

By Megan Delaire. Jesse Konrad, a Carleton University student studying business in China, no longer faces immediate imprisonment and deportation thanks to help from family, friends and strangers in Ottawa. But his struggle isn’t quite over.
As of Friday, Konrad had until Monday to pay a $2,000 US fine for studying in China for 42 days with an expired visa. However, on Monday that deadline was extended by two weeks after the Konrads were able to show authorities in China they were serious about paying the fine through their use of the crowdsourcing website GoFundMe. More...

14 mars 2014

Foreign PhDs welcome Swedish visa reform bill

The LocalSweden's migration minister wants foreign PhD students to be granted permanent residence after four years of research, welcome news for highly-skilled international researchers who have lobbied for reform.
Migration Minister Tobias Billström on Thursday announced that the government had submitted a proposed bill to the legal council, Lagrådet, which examines whether new laws are compatible with existing legislation. From there, the bill would be passed on to parliament for a vote.
If the legislation passes the Riksdag, a foreign PhD student who has spent four of the past seven years employed as a researcher will be able to apply for permanent residence. More...

9 mars 2014

Universities acting as ‘extension’ of visa authorities

By . Academics vent anger over treatment of international students.
More than 150 academics have claimed in a joint letter than universities are acting as an “extension” of government immigration authorities, and eroding the trust of their students in the process. More...

9 mars 2014

Student visas: new immigration minister ups the ante

By . The government’s new immigration minister has threatened to make it tougher for education institutions to keep their student visa licences. In a speech likely to dismay universities, James Brokenshire warned that he has “considerable concerns” about some education institutions; rejected fears that immigration policy is harming “world-class” universities as a “ludicrous fiction”; and dismissed anger from academics about the immigration checks they must mount on students. More...

2 mars 2014

Universities being used as proxy border police, say academics

The Guardian homeBy . Academics accuse UK Visas and Immigration of undermining trust between universities and students in crackdown. More than 160 academics have written to the Guardian to protest at being used as an extension of the UK border police, after universities have come under more pressure to check the immigration details of students. The academics, from universities including Oxford, Warwick, Durham and Sheffield, accuse the Home Office immigration agency of "undermining the autonomy and academic freedom of UK universities and trust between academics and their students". Read more...
2 mars 2014

Student visa collapse for India and Pakistan continues

Times Higher EducationBy . But overall net migration still shoots up following influx from EU. The latest migration figures indicate another sharp drop in students from the Indian subcontinent coming to the UK, although the overall number of student visas issued has increased. Study visas issued to Pakistani students were down 55 per cent in the year to December 2013, and down 21 per cent for Indians. In January it emerged that the number of international students studying in the UK in 2012-13 had fallen for the first recorded time, with a 25 per cent drop in first-year Indian students. These latest figures, released today by the Office of National Statistics, suggest that this collapse has continued into the 2013-14 academic year. Read more...
2 mars 2014

University donations could trigger visas for investors, suggests committee

Times Higher EducationBy . Wealthy foreigners could gain visas and an accelerated route to British citizenship by donating large sums to universities, a new report suggests.
Recommendations for the reform of the Tier 1 visa route for investors have been released today by the government’s migration advisors.
The Migration Advisory Committee suggests that around 100 “premium route” visas, offering a route to citizenship in two years rather than the normal five, should be auctioned off to the highest bidder each year. Read more...
1 mars 2014

UK: Student visa fraud uncovered!

You would like to get a student visa for the UK but do not speak sufficient English? No problem, thanks to bogus documents and an amazingly well subverted student visa system your admission is almost guaranteed. A British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) documentary on student visas has unveiled large-scale fraud, involving language exam centres, UK home office approved colleges, private banks and immigration consultancies, namely Studentway Education and Bright Consultant Services.
As the biggest source of non-EU immigration to the UK, student visas account for approximately 200 000 visas issued yearly. An application and an extension of a student visa, however, requires a proof of English proficiency, an educational back record, a bank statement proving sufficient own resources, as well as a written confirmation from a home office approved college. The BBC Panorama documentary showed how all of these requirements can be met with the necessary extra money. A compulsory English proficiency exam with multiple choice answers provided by the examiner plus an English native speaker taking the oral exam instead of you can be available from GBP 500 onwards. Academic back records come as a real bargain for only GBP 250. And a bank statement proving you have more than you ever dreamt of can be purchased for GBP 250 to GBP 280, depending on whether you want to engage in identity theft or forging an official bank statement. A written confirmation of a home office approved college, however, is a bit more expensive with a price of GBP 2 500, but great discounts are offered for only GBP 1 800.
The fraud scandal has obviously spurred immense outrage. In the case of the English proficiency exams, the UK home office has temporarily suspended all English exams run by Educational Testing Service (ETS) related to immigration purposes. ETS, however, has not been directly involved in the fraud scandal, as the two institutions in questions, Eden College International and Universal Training Centre, were independent examination centres. Eden College International and Universal Training Centre likewise have denied any complicity in and prior knowledge of fraud at its institutions. The UK home office has furthermore suspended Leyton College in East London which has also been involved in the fraud scandal. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) has meanwhile opened investigations concerning the two UK colleges in question

BBC News

Youtube - BBC Panorama documentary

QAA - Press release

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Leyton College

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