According to certain latest reports pouring in from the various sources, the British Home Secretary has declared significant amendments to the country’s student immigration scheme. Theresa May, the secretary has proclaimed a chain of modifications to the scheme of the Tier 4 student permit which, according to her, would enable the nation to continue to draw the finest overseas students to the British shores while simultaneously preventing fake students from getting and abusing the nation’s Tier 4 student permits.
She added that certain effective measures would be there to bring the abuse to an end while at the same time inspiring a growing number of real students from abroad to express interest in the British education, and file submissions for the student visas. The British secretary further said that under the previous administration several students from abroad arrived on the British soils, not for study purposes but job purposes, even as numerous colleges and educational institutions were busy promoting not British education but UK immigration.
Consequently, when London brought to an end untrained migration, what actually occurred was that the submissions presented for the student permits headed north by 30% to become a historic 303,000. The increase in the numbers meant that—at certain places across the globe–the UK Border Agency (UKBA), the concerned organization, had no options except to defer student petitions.
She continued that come April 2013, and the UKBA will take several more interviews of the candidates for student permits. She added that more than 100,000 interviews would be conducted during the forthcoming fiscal year which begins in April. May further said that–post becoming worried that the existing paper-based permit submission method was being mistreated–she asked the UKBA to do a pilot study to find-out if the system was being mistreated, and taken for granted by unscrupulous students, and all those involved with the said affair.
The UKBA did the said study during 2011 in Pakistan and some other nations regarded to be high risk. Around 2,300 candidates were interviewed for Tier 4 student permits even as the object of the interviews was to find out if the aspirants were real students, or whether they were planning to visit Britain on a student permit for job purposes.
Those conducting the interviews examined the candidates to find-out whether their English skill was really good enough, and if they could successfully conclude the course for which they had duly filed petitions, and if they had sufficient knowledge in the subject which they claimed that they hoped to pursue studies in. The secretary concluded that the lesson learnt was apparent–abuse was extensive and widespread.
