The Fulbright Programme in Pakistan has started accepting applications for 2014.
The US government’s flagship scholarship programme awards full scholarships to deserving Pakistani students who wish to complete their Masters or PhD, in a field of their choice, in universities across the United States. These scholarships cover tuition fee, textbooks, airfare, a stipend and health insurance. Continue reading »
Top British businessmen have urged British Prime Minister David Cameron to remove Pakistani students from official immigration figures to avoid choking off a valuable source of wealth and skills.
The businessmen warned that visa restrictions designed to bring net immigration below 100,000 a year would deter wealthy foreigners from outside the European Union. Continue reading »
* Study shows 48 percent non-credible applicants granted visa in Pakistan
By Asif Mehmood (Daily Times)
LONDON: Getting a UK visa is going to become an up-hill task for Pakistani students, as they would have to go through assessment interviews in the future, Daily Times has learnt. The decision was taken after a British Home Office study found out that 48 percent of those granted visas in Pakistan were not credible applicants. Continue reading »
* Immigrants wanting to live in UK will have to learn first verse of UK national anthem
By Asif Mehmood (Daily Times)
LONDON: The British government is planning to make changes in the citizenship test according to which immigrants wanting to live in the UK will have to learn the first verse of the national anthem, the UK Home Office has announced.
Citizenship test known as “Life in the UK”, introduced by the Labour government in 2005, is compulsory for everybody who wants to become a British citizen. Continue reading »
ISLAMABAD: The United Kingdom (UK) Border Agency (UKBA) will implement new global changes to the immigration rules for those aspiring to work or study in the UK, read a British High Commission press release issued on Friday.
Full details of the changes, which come into effect on April 6, could be found on the UKBA’s website. These changes would not be applied to marriage settlement applications.
The UKBA is also introducing new measures to help improve the level of customer service to applicants from Pakistan, including a new online application system and a priority visa service. Continue reading »
LONDON: Foreign spouses will be able to enter the UK from the age of 18 after the courts ruled that banning under-21s was not a lawful way of dealing with the problem of forced marriages.
Immigration Minister Damian Green told MPs the Government would revert to the lower age limit from November 28. The measure will benefit many Pakistani young spouses who had been affected by the ban imposed by the coalition government. One of the two families who challenged the ban were Pakistanis. Continue reading »
Tough new rules and enforcement action to stop abuse of the student visa system and to protect legitimate students from being misled by questionable institutions has led to over 450 education providers in the UK that will no longer be able to sponsor new international students.
In total these colleges could have brought more than 11,000 students into the UK to study each year.
New UK Border Agency regulations have significantly raised the standards education providers must meet before they can bring international students to the UK. So far, over 400 colleges have lost their right to recruit international students after they failed to sign up for the new inspection system. As well as cutting abuse, the new standards will help ensure that genuine international students receive the highest quality education. Continue reading »
A British High Commission visa officer has been arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency, which is investigating a human smuggling ring, on suspicion of selling sponsorship letters to people hoping to obtain a visa for the UK, the Telegraph reported on Monday.
The authorities have also arrested three other men, including a travel agent; the newspaper quoted a source in the Federal Investigation Agency. A number of passports have also been recovered from a house in Rawalpindi. The detention of the High Commission visa officer will be hugely embarrassing to British officials in Pakistan who have invested a huge amount of time and money in detecting fake documents amid concerns that al-Qaeda operatives could arrive in Britain on visas obtained illegally, the report observed.
The Telegraph said Khurram Shahzad, a junior member of the visa section, seemed to have been arrested after a tip-off. An FIA investigator told the British daily that investigators were now trying to determine the scale of the alleged scam and track down any other suspects also working at the British High Commission. The paper quoted a Foreign Office spokesman in Islamabad as saying: “We can confirm that a member of the British High Commission visa section has been arrested. We are co-operating with the FIA in their investigation.
By Asad Farooq
KARACHI: The United States Consulate in Karachi and the Blinck, a social organisation, jointly organised a youth conference to mark the International Youth Day under the theme of ‘Youth Participation in Decision Making’ at a local hotel here on Friday.
About 100 youngsters participated in the discussion and action forum at the programme. Continue reading »
The Higher Education Commission (HEC), under its Foreign Funded Scholarship Programme (FFSP), is facilitating Pakistani students to avail 10 scholarships offered by the Moroccan Agency of International Cooperation (AMCI) for the academic year 2011-12.
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By Ali Hassan
In order to earn fistful amount of money to live a better and save future, citizens of Pakistan striving for their better future and earnings ultimately fall prey to traps of unscrupulous agents and earn a bad name to themselves and their country. Continue reading »
* Education consultants deceive unsuspecting students, parents promising visas and admissions in foreign universities
By Arsalan Haider
Although the standard of higher education in Pakistan is much better than it was 10 or 20 years ago with a number of universities, colleges and higher education institutions opening up during the last decade, still a large number of youths prefer to receive education abroad. Continue reading »
06 April 2011
The first major change to reduce immigration into the UK has been delivered today, as the government’s new annual limit comes into force. Continue reading »
Tougher entrance criteria, limits on work entitlements and the closure of the post-study work route are among the changes to the student visa system announced today by Home Secretary Theresa May. Continue reading »
Applications for the 2011-12 ‘British Chevening Scholarships’ programme in Pakistan are now open. The Chevening scheme offers successful candidates one year fully funded post graduate scholarships for study in the UK. For the 2011-12 programme scholarships are offered in the following areas of study: Security and Counter Terrorism, Governance and Democracy,Regional stability and conflict resolution, Media & Communications, and Economic Growth. Adam Thomson, UK High Commissioner to Pakistan said: “Chevening is a highly competitive process designed to identify the most promising of the next generation of leaders and influencers to promote an affinity and greater understanding between our two cultures.
We are very pleased to welcome new Scholars to study in the UK and wish them good luck for their future positions of influence and leadership in Pakistan. Continue reading »