Students face deportation after university loses visa licence

By David Jobbins. International students facing deportation from the UK after their university was stripped of its ability to admit students from outside the European Union – for breaches of tough new immigration rules – are struggling to find places elsewhere, against widespread criticism of the decision.
London Metropolitan University, or LMU, lost its highly trusted status (HTS) for sponsoring international students, as part of the government’s tighter immigration rules introduced in April this year.
Immigration Minister Damian Green said a UK Border Agency (UKBA) investigation had found evidence of a “serious systemic failure”, and that it appeared the university didn’t have the capacity to be a proper sponsor or to have confidence that “the students coming have the right to be here in the first place”.
UKBA found that of 101 sample cases, 26 students were studying between December last year and May despite the fact they held no leave to remain in the UK. More...