Immigration minister Damian Green gave this speech to the Reform Think Thank on Tuesday 1 February.
‘Reforming the immigration system and reducing the level of immigration to a sustainable number is one of the big tasks of this Government.
There are too many bogus students and abuse of the system must stop, Damian Green said when defending plans to clampdown on the student visa system.
A Bangladeshi national was stopped at Birmingham airport with fake student documents, seeking entry to the UK to work rather than study.
The UK Border Agency has announced a revision to their service standards for visa processing times in order to improve the service provided to their customers.
Following our earlier post, UKBA Removes Institutions from the Tier 4 Sponsor Register, we can now provide our readers with an update on suspended colleges from Tier 4, covering some of the issues raised by our readers.
Aimed at preventing terrorists from coming to the UK posing as students, the points based system has been criticised by a new report for delaying and even refusing genuine students a UK visa.