UK visa crackdown to hit Indian students

The UK on Monday announced that it will ban overseas students from outside the European Union to work while they study in the country from the next month, a move that will hit students from countries such as India. UK immigration minister James Brokenshire said that from next month students from outside the European Union who come to study at publicly funded further education colleges in Britain will lose the right to work for up to 10 hours a week. Immigration offenders want to sell illegal access to the UK jobs market, and there are plenty of people willing to buy, Brokenshire said. Hardworking taxpayers who are helping to pay for publicly funded colleges expect them to be providing top-class education, not a backdoor to a British work visa. "Our reforms which include introducing English language testing, removing sponsorship rights from hundreds of bogus colleges, and restricting students' access to the jobs market are all of our plan to control immigration for the benefit of Britain," he said, as the latest rules were launched in the UK Parliament. Business Today