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With a dotting increase in student visa applications from north India and fearing some malfunctions, the United Kingdom has announced that no fresh student visa applications would be accepted at any of its three centers in the region from 1 February 2010.
This temporary suspension was announced by the British Deputy High Commissioner and the Regional Director of the UK. Border Agency. If numbers have to be believed, 1,800 student visa applications were received between October and December 2008, but the number of applications have remarkably  increased in 2009, with about 13,500 applicants.






It has been reported that such suspension will allow the Border Agency to continue to verify applications to manage the visa process efficiently for the consumers in north India.Some restrictions like the applicants would have to seek appointment by email first for the visa process has been put in force to ensure the security. As for the applications received till this month-end, they will be scrutinized to see if the applicants are bonafide students and have the financial backing they claim.
In 2008-09, India witnessed 4,70,645 applicants under various categories accounted for 19 per cent of the global demand for entry into the UK. In the students’ category, India and China accounts for the largest body of foreign entrants into the UK universities.


 

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