Contested numbers on overstayers

Contested numbers on overstayers

News:

1. Indian professionals protest against allegedly unfair VISA rules, outside UK Parliament in London recently.

Important facts:

2. The controversy has affected India-U.K ties in a series of events such as:

• Britain has not relaxed visa rules for Indian’s since very long.
• U.K crackdown on “bogus colleges” that enrolled international students.
• Figures from exit checks revealed that around 4,700 international students had overstayed their visas in 2016-2017.
• Memorandumof Understanding (MoU) on the return of illegal was signed during PM Modi’s this year visit to the U.K.
• In June Britain excluded India from relaxed visa norms for students.