Thursday 11 November 2010

The new international student visa- has it achieved anything?

The new international Student visa application- has it achieve anything?does it  helps the economic crisis today?


With the proud academic reputation in United Kingdom,it is now recognized as one of the country has a largest student recruitment every year from all over the world.
That is also one of the reasons why I am obtaining my law bachelors degree here in the United Kingdom, and now as a postgraduate student for LLM.  International Students need visas to enter the country and for the period of stay anytime before completing their studies.
After I received my offer from the University, the first concern is to apply my student visa. I went on to prepare all the documents like how I used to do it three years back, but this time round, I was told that there is a new rule for visa applications.

During year 2010, UK immigration has announced full details of the UK student visa changes under Tier 4 of the points based system. The intention of the changes is to make it more difficult for bogus students from outside Europe to gain entry to the UK. This follows a review of the Tier 4 visa system in November 2009.

The points-based system was introduced to provide a rigorous system to manage legitimate access to the UK to work and study, with the ability to respond to changing circumstances.
One of the thing that confuses me is that the goalposts kept shifting all the time: last year saw the introduction of a points-based system, and this year's curveballs included scrapping the requirement for university visa letters in favour of electronically issued Confirmation of Acceptance of Study (CAS) numbers, possibly to thwart forgeries. Imagine trying to grapple with all this on top of the many other hassles associated with moving abroad.

Some of my fellow international students friends  are quite upset, it appears, over recent announcements that the student visa scheme will be reformed to make it harder for applicants to get permission to enter the UK.

It's not that I don't understand my peers' frustrations about not getting a fair shake. Like many of them, I also pour tens of thousands of pounds into the British economy every year to study a legitimate course at a well-regarded school. So I, too, am sick and tired of being interrogated like a suspect on UK Border Force every time I clear immigration at Heathrow, just because I have a Tier 4 permit in my passport. Trust me – it's a whole lot less entertaining when the questioning looks are being directed your way.

All this is provided that the new government does a better job of tightening the rules than the previous one, which made a hash of managing the visa regime. The Question is, whether it is really doing a better job or doesn’t improve anything just yet?

The Education sector in UK is undeniably one of the contributing source of income of the country. On 23 January 2009, Government figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that the UK was officially in recession for the first time since 1991. In My Opinion, are the restrictions that apply on students really helps in overcoming the recession today? It is true that the prospect of change should be welcomed, but that well if the aim of this constant tweaking – to filter out fraudulent applications – had been achieved. The key aim is that of restricting the inflow of people enrolling in non-degree courses ( and those who attend bogus colleges with the real purpose of finding a job)-should eliminated.

Immigrant workers as I already stated out in the previous post, will somehow affect the employment rate in the country. The locals will not get a job,unemployment rate increase-which impedes the economic growth during the economic crisis.
Hopefully, things will be different once the new rules kick in – though that remains to be seen. At least in mid of 2010, the UK economy is experiencing a minor growth already.



Raychelle. CM TAN


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