46 per cent drop in Indian students application: Australia

Hit by international student attack crisis,Australia has experienced a huge decline by 46 per cent of Indians applying for student visas in the country last year.

Hit by international student attack crisis,Australia has experienced a huge decline by 46 per cent of Indians applying for student visas in the country last year,country’s Immigration Department has said.

The total number of student visa applications around the world also dropped by over 20 per cent.

Department’s spokesman Sandy Logan said racism and violence issue against foreign students were not mainly to be blamed for the slide in visa applications.

It was also due to stricter and tougher scrutiny of applications and the immigration department has been rejecting a higher number of applications from India,he said.

“It is correct to say that there has been a decline in the number of student visa applications coming from India,” he said.

There’s also been a decline though in the number of student visas applications that have been withdrawn by those applicants. In August last year the government announced strengthened checking for high-risk segments of the student visa programme.

“It was a targeted series of checks as a result of analysis which suggested the risk was most significant in India,Mauritius,Nepal,Brazil,Zimbabwe and Pakistan.

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Once integrity checking is taken into account a student visa application has been refused,” he said.