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26 novembre 2014

Visa rort alert as foreign students bring in $16bn

By Julie Hare. INTERNATIONAL students contributed $15.74 billion to the Australian economy in the past year, the highest figure since the industry peaked in 2010. The booming demand is being driven by the weaker Australian dollar, improved work rights and a simpler visa system, but there are growing concerns that increasing numbers of students are gaming the system in the hope of gaining permanent residency. More...

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3 novembre 2014

Strasbourg: Une antenne de la préfecture facilite les démarches administratives des étudiants étrangers

Par Alexia Ighirri. Pas de passage par la préfecture pour eux. Les étudiants étrangers de l'université de Strasbourg (Unistra), et notamment ceux venant de pays hors Union européenne, soumis à l'obligation de détenir une carte de séjour, n'ont pas besoin de quitter le campus pour monter leur dossier administratif.
L'université de Strasbourg et la préfecture du Bas-Rhin et de l'Alsace ont en effet ouvert une antenne des services de l'Etat à l'Agora de l'université, dans le bâtiment Le Platane sur le campus central. Un système qui reste encore peu développé en France et qui, à Strasbourg, permet de délivrer environ 4.000 titres de séjours par an. Voir l'article...

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3 novembre 2014

Student visa rules condemned by employers

By Sean Coughlan. A business leader has accused some MPs of "cheap and pathetic gestures" in their approach to student visas.
Simon Walker, director-general of the Institute of Directors, said he was "appalled" by how overseas students had been caught up in targets for reducing immigration into the UK. More...

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15 octobre 2014

Visa program opens doors to overseas talent

By Brenda Bouw. When Ukrainian-born entrepreneurs Stanislav Korsei and Oleksandr Zadorozhnyi decided to uproot their lives and move to Canada last fall in search of a better business environment, they didn’t imagine how well it would go – at least not so quickly. Read more...

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27 septembre 2014

Glyndwr given more time in visa licence appeal

By Chris Havergal. Glyndwr University has said it has been given more time to appeal against the suspension of its visa licence to sponsor non-European Union students. More...

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7 septembre 2014

Security Gaps in Student Visa Program

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is struggling to track down more than 6,000 foreign nationals who overstayed their student visas and have not been located since, ABC News reported. Read more...

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10 août 2014

Undocumented Students as Students

By Alexandra W. Logue and Samuel L. Shrank. Are we missing out on an opportunity to enhance the supply of people in the United States who are prepared for careers that require higher education? Should we encourage the presence of undocumented immigrants in that pool?
Discussion about who has the right to come to the United States and what they are entitled to after arrival has been ongoing since our country’s founding. Read more...

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7 août 2014

Britain may review student visa policy affecting Indians: Deputy Prime Minister

Britain may soon review its immigration policy that has hindered thousands of Indian students from heading to its world-renowned universities. Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, will push the government to review its visa policy, if his India visit later this month convinces him that the "reservation of Indian students are genuine", Kounteya Sinha reported for The Times of India. More...

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4 août 2014

Visa rules mean UK is 'unwelcoming' for foreign students

By Emily Chan. Universities say that new immigration measures will be an "enormous burden" at a time when international students are "crucial for the UK economy". Stricter rules on student visas give the impression that the UK “does not welcome international students”, say higher education experts. Read more...

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3 août 2014

Student visa rules tightened by government

By David Matthews. Universities and colleges told proportion of visa refusals allowed will halve. More universities could lose their licences to sponsor international students after the government announced it would introduce stricter rules on recruiting students from outside the European Union. More...

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