UK Student Visa Rules

Comment on Foreign Investors Economic Impact by SEO Dave.

There has been a tightening on issuing student visas to the UK because of widespread abuse. Many so called students (really illegal immigrants) pay a small amount of money for false documentation to educational institutions that either don’t exist or do exist, but some within them are abusing their position to make money selling documents to people who want to live in Britain to work.

What exactly do you want Britain to do with regards to illegal immigrants who found a quick loop hole to gain access to the UK to work illegally by buying fake documents to prove they are studying here?

The student visa issuing was a big problem, it’s been tightened up recently and I’m sure mistakes will be made, however your example blog page above only has a few comments from people who were rejected for a UK visa and a couple of “I saw someone deported at a UK airport who seemed legitimate”. The site you linked to is far from proof of a widespread problem.

The British government (the Labour one) wants foreign investors, skilled migrant workers and foreign students to enter Britain since it’s good for our economy. Unfortunately there’s the perception that the media propagates (it’s news) that immigration is out of control and the British people have to some degree turned on immigrants.

It’s not racism though since they have the same problem with Polish immigrants that are white. There are areas in Britain where the number of immigrants has been too high and it’s caused strains on public services and strains between the different cultures. Had the Labour government controlled immigration better over the past decade or so we wouldn’t have this problem now.

I will say there’s an increasing religious and cultural intolerance developing in Britain against Islam/Muslims which far-right groups are trying to foster to benefit from politically (to some degree it’s working, but the recent general election shows not much though: the BNP didn’t get a single MP).

The problem we have is like with all religions and cultures there are extremes, there’s extremist Christians and there are extremist Muslims. In part because of the Iraq and Afghan wars there’s been an increase in extremist religious activity in the form of terrorist acts against Britain like 7/7 (though no where near as bad as what the IRA did).

So we are seeing a tendency towards religious discrimination in Britain, but the vast majority of Britain is very tolerant of other cultures and religions and although the British government has gone way over the top on ‘protecting us’ with draconian measures eroding our civil liberties, that’s not the true face of tolerant/multicultural Britain.

I don’t see an Asian man with a back pack and immediately think Islamic terrorist with a bomb! Despite the perception given by the media that there’s an Islamic terrorist in ever Mosque, the actual number of attacks on Britain is very low considering we are at war with Afghanistan .

David Law