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Thursday, April 14, 2011
UK embassy warns students of unscrupulous visa agents
Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Since the announcement about changes in student visa by UK government, unscrupulous visa agents in Pakistan are taking advantage of prospective students by offering help with non-genuine visa applications while at the same time charging large sum of money for the service, said UK Embassy sources.
They said these agents were offering faulty advices to applicants resulting in incomplete or wrongly completed applications. The UK government recently introduced changes to the student visa route and the changes were designed to reduce the abuse of the student immigration system by those seeking primarily to work and also to protect legitimate students from being misled by questionable institutions. This causes delays to visa applications and in most cases applications are rejected. However, in some cases fake documents are also submitted by these agents, risking a 10-year ban on travel to the UK by the applicants.
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