Contested numbers on overstayers

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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.
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