Sunday, January 31, 2010 LONDON: Britain has temporarily suspended student visa applications from Northern India, Bangladesh and Nepal. The UK Border Agency, according to a report by a British media, took this step apparently as a precaution to a surge of applications. According to reports, student visa applications from Bangladesh, Nepal and northern India, have been put on hold for at least a month for now. British officials were quoted saying that the system had been overwhelmed with the number of applications. There also concerns that many cases were not genuine. Director of a student counselling agency, also an approved partner of the British high commission in Dhaka, providing counselling services for prospective UK students, confirmed what the UK officials said. Wishing to remain anonymous, this student counsellor said the high commission had admitted to serious backlogs. He was not surprised with the suspension either. The student counsellor said, "The UK Bor...
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