Pakistan to take up with UK the Visa rejection of thousands of students
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LONDON - Pakistan’s new high commissioner to the United Kingdom Sahebzada Ahmed Khan has said that he is aware that thousands of Pakistani students fail to get visas to UK each year despite fulfilling all requirements.
He stressed that he will be raising this issue with the Home Office soon and will advocate the case of Pakistani applicants.
The number of Pakistani students trying to get UK visas for higher education has sharply dropped in the last few years and only a handful students are no able to come to UK universities. Pakistani students are amongst the biggest victims of UK govt’s new visa regulations which have focussed on targeting international students.
“Our students face extreme difficulties in obtaining visas for UK. I will be interacting with the UK government to find out the problems to know what are the reasons behind mass refusals. This will be amongst my priorities,” the high commissioner said.
Sahebzada Ahmed Khan said that he will be visiting universities in UK to meet Pakistani students to get to know their problems.
“Nearly 1.5 million Britons are of Pakistani origin, they are the real asset of Pakistan in this country and I will try my best to increase interaction with them. We will be interacting with them not only through our consulates but also directly through the high commission. We will welcome Pakistanis to get in touch with us,” said the high commissioner.