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Topic: student visa

Australia tightens student visa checks, moves India to highest-risk category. What it means

The downgrade is the outcome of an intense review conducted by Australia’s Department of Home Affairs late last year.

US visa rule tightened: Trump proposes 4-year cap on students, 240-day limit for foreign journalists

New proposed rule will end abuse once and for all by limiting the amount of time certain visa holders are allowed to remain in the US, says Department of Homeland Security.

‘Make all social media profiles public’—US embassy’s new advisory to student visa applicants

New Delhi: The US Embassy in India Monday issued an advisory to international students, asking all applicants for student and exchange visas to make...

Indian students, parents now looking beyond US colleges. ‘Will send my kid to UK, sleep easy’

At Akhil Daswani’s study abroad consultancy in Mumbai, students are increasingly adding more countries to their college application list. ‘Only 20 per cent have applied to just US colleges this year,’ he told ThePrint.

This JNU student is deleting social media posts in panic. ‘Don’t know what will offend US’

'There’s no manual on what is considered semitic and what is anti-semitic for them. So, I don’t want to take the risk,' the scholar said

Taking a page out of Trump’s book, UK to restrict visas for ‘high-risk’ nations like Pakistan, Nigeria

An upcoming Immigration White Paper is expected to outline measures to restrict work & study visa applications from nations with high asylum claim rates, The Times reported.

50% of students whose US visas revoked are Indians—report by immigration lawyers’ body

Report by American Immigration Lawyers Association says only 2% of students whose visas were revoked had history of engaging in political protests.

Panic-stricken amid Trump’s visa purge, Indian students look at private universities back home

Counselling agencies say Indians studying in the US are also considering relocating to countries like Canada, Australia, and UAE.

41% dip in Indian students headed to Canada, Russia sees a 34% uptick—govt tells Parliament

There has also been a decline in the number of Indians studying in the US, UK, while more students are opting to pursue their education in France, Germany.

Students from Punjab, Gujarat, Haryana now face higher rejection rate for Canadian, Australian visas

Education and immigration consultants say post-pandemic skyrocketing net migration figures as well as rise in cases of visa fraud led many countries to introduce new, stricter visa rules.

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This is how Strait of Hormuz shock is forcing a global trade reset

The current Iran war has laid bare a fundamental reality: 20 per cent of global energy trade cannot afford to rely on a single artery, no matter how resilient and cost-effective.

SEBI proposes return of open market share buybacks to support stocks

Regulator seeks feedback on allowing firms to repurchase shares via exchanges after tax changes, as markets reel from war-led selloff and foreign outflows.

South Korea’s Cheongung-II missile system makes its mark in West Asia war. Here’s why

UAE has been using this defence system, which is similar to America's Patriots, against Iranian missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.