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Only Education Consultant in India having two Directors successfully Completed ‘Education UK Certificate for Agents' Conducted by British Council and having 1/3rd Stake (Share Holder) in College in London (Approved by UKBA).

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	Errors to avoid when applying for a Tier 4 General Student UK Visa

Want to apply for a student visa to Canada? Read this! - Rediff

Rediff

Want to apply for a student visa to Canada? Read this!
Rediff
In the last part, counsellor Suchitra Surve of Global Education Counsel offered advice on studying in Canada. Here, she takes us through the Canadian student visa application process. Illustrations by Uttam Ghosh So you have finally decided to take up ...

Resources Expectations Overshadow non-EU Student Visa Relaxation in France - Science Careers Blog (blog)

Resources Expectations Overshadow non-EU Student Visa Relaxation in France
Science Careers Blog (blog)
On 12 January the French government backtracked on its decision to limit the employment of non-EU students when they finish advanced training in France. Under the new guidance, non-EU students with a two-year Master's degree or above can remain in the ...

Offices of 20 agents sealed in student visa scam - Times of India

Offices of 20 agents sealed in student visa scam
Times of India
CHANDIGARH: After unearthing a scam of student visas last year, Chandigarh police on Thursday claimed to expose a racket of unscrupulous agents who were fraudulently assisting gullible people in procuring work permits in gulf countries.

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Offices of 20 agents sealed in student visa scam - Times of India

Immigration: Feds tweak student visa program - Los Angeles Times

Immigration: Feds tweak student visa program
Los Angeles Times
The State Department this week took a small step to fix a controversial visa work travel program created nearly 50 years ago to foster cultural exchanges but that has, in recent years, morphed into little more than a source of cheap labor.

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student visa to defacto visa - Expat Forum

student visa to defacto visa
Expat Forum
To complete the scenario before my questions here's a little bit of summary about me. I arrived in Australia on June,2009 and lived with my relative for almost a year. I've met my boyfriend February, 2010 then started our relationship April,2010.

Father killed, mother deported, now Wash. college student in immigration limbo ... - The Republic

Father killed, mother deported, now Wash. college student in immigration limbo ...
The Republic
MANUEL VALDES AP SEATTLE — When he was a baby, Al Okere's father was gunned down by police officers in Nigeria. When he was a high school student in Pierce County, his mother was deported after losing her asylum plea, but not before spending two years ...

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Review of the Australian Student Visa Assessment Level Framework - US Migration Expert

Review of the Australian Student Visa Assessment Level Framework
US Migration Expert
The Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) has released a discussion paper which seek submissions on the issues raised in the Review of the Student Visa Assessment Level Framework Terms of Reference.

Private higher education colleges face “devastation” due to international ... - Re:locate Magazine

Private higher education colleges face “devastation” due to international ...
Re:locate Magazine
According to a report from a policy thinktank, private higher education colleges in the UK face being “devastated” by last year's government clampdown on overseas students. In a new report, CentreForum calls for the reversal of student visa controls ...

Missouri Immigration Bill Copies Alabama, Would Require Schools To Check ... - Huffington Post

Missouri Immigration Bill Copies Alabama, Would Require Schools To Check ...
Huffington Post
Republican state Sen. Will Kraus' bill would also allow police to question a person's citizenship at traffic stops and makes it a state misdemeanor not to carry proper citizenship documentation. The US Department of Justice last October blocked ...

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UK wants student "entrepreneurs" to stay
The UK has announced a new visa route for 2013 to encourage the "brightest and best" entrepreneurs to stay on in the country focusing on a quality over quantity approach to immigration.In a speech given last week by Immigration Minister, Damian Green, at the Policy Exchange, he outlined that in

China crisis as numbers tumble
AUSTRALIA is facing the most "challenging and volatile" environment in the $16 billion international student market for almost three decades, with enrolment numbers from China, Australia's biggest market, down for a second year by about 15 per cent.Plummeting Chinese enrolments, which once represented 25 per cent of Australia's international students,

AILS launches website dedicated to homestay
European study abroad network, the Agency for International Language Study (AILS), has launched a new website to promote its homestay language classes because of the increasing popularity of study in a teacher’s home.The site promotes the company’s total immersion programmes, in which participants are given private language classes by a

EF courts job-seekers with four new schools
It is also offering a special, nine-month study programme for accelerated “multilingual” learning. The EF Multi-Language Year, enables participants to choose two or three of EF’s 41 International Language Centers worldwide to create their own tailor-made study tour, learning up to three languages in a year.“For young people today, it’s

Visa option paper puts onus on providers
GROUPS of education providers who have a history of their international students not complying with immigration rules could find that their future students face higher hurdles in qualifying for a visa, according to a government discussion paper.To view the article in full, log-in to the The Australian here

International students used as cash cows, says student federation head
But after spending her early adult years living, working and studying in the city, the 25-year-old says she still feels unfairly pitted against her Canadian peers because of higher tuition fees."It’s been a rough ride," says Hunt, who’s been shelling out between $14,000 and $18,000 a year to study dance

Bologna fails to deliver on uniform education
After WWII study abroad programs were pushed as a means of encouraging international understanding and to “counteract the idiosyncrasies and the relative isolation of national systems of higher education," Ulrich Teichler writes in the new issue of the Journal of International Education.This ideal culminated in the 1999 Bologna Declaration, which

Hypocritical states just interested in cash cows
States have become the battleground for international students' rights, with Queensland's sudden termination of school tuition fee exemptions merely the latest example of a state-sponsored "cash cow" approach.Financially anorexic state government departments across the country have targeted overseas students to help plug budget holes, with no consideration of the big-picture

Policies 'deter' overseas students
Mrs Nargundkar's Education Access Australia had been one of the eight biggest providers of courses to overseas students.She said 2009 changes to immigration policy separating education from immigration, and more stringent student visas had left the schools in limbo.While the changes were designed to stop unethical providers, she said they

USA winning favour among the Swiss
The UK was still the most popular destination for the Swiss study abroad market last year, but the USA is catching up quickly, according to the latest research from the national education agency association.The findings come in a report from the Swiss Association of Language Travel Agents (SALTA) released last

Postal biometric appointments and residence permit reporting move online
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/february/01-online-services

English language tests for applications under Tiers 1, 2 and 4 of the points-based system
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/january/78-english-language

Online services replace phone lines for postal biometric appointments and help with biometric residence permits
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/january/71-online-services

Update for Tier 4 sponsors: educational oversight and other changes
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsfragments/54-t4-sponsors-education-over

Appealing immigration and asylum decisions from 19 December 2011
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/december/67-appeal-fees

Changes to appeals against immigration and asylum decisions from 19 December 2011
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/december/23-appeal-fees

Arrangements for Tier 4 sponsors allocated zero CAS under the interim limit
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2012/january/28-zero-cas

Changes to the student visa system - cutting abuse and raising standards
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/november/01-student-visa-system

List of financial institutions for Tier 4 is published
http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/sitecontent/newsarticles/2011/october/57-financial-institutions

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Member of AAERI	One of the Very Few Direct eVisa Agents	Member of IEAA	Member of NAFSA	Listed with British Counsel Education Agent List

Professional Qualifications related to Promoting Education Aboard of Directors, Competitive Careers Pvt Ltd::

Rupesh Patel and Upendra Patel have successfully Completed ‘Education UK Certificate for Agents'

Rupesh Patel has successfully completed the Education Agent Training Course by PIER Online

Mr. Upendra Patel has successfully Completed ISANA Test for National Code Online Tutorial for Australia

Working with other Peak bodies for Promoting Study Abroad:

Perth Education City – Promoting Study in Perth, Australia

EDUSPANA - Promoting Study in Spain.