By Gurbir Singh (Hamilton, New Zealand) Feb. 2, 2018:
Nearly one-third of all student visa applications submitted by Indian education agents to New Zealand Immigration were declined last year.
In the information released by Immigration NZ last week, out of 6425 fee paying and scholarship student visa applicants, 3004 were rejected for the calendar year 2017.
All these applicants were outside New Zealand at the time of applying and relate to those visa applications that were decided and completed during the year.
The reasons for decline in the approval rate have not been revealed.
As compared to India, 7327 students from China were granted visa approvals and only 542 applications were rejected by Immigration NZ to study in New Zealand.
The rejection rate of visa applications for education agents recruiting Indian students last year has actually come down.. This could be because of increased awareness or adherence of the immigration rules by education agents.
In the year 2015 and 2016, the decline rate of student visa applications from India was 51% and 54% respectively, whereas it was only 9% and 7% for China.
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Gurbir Singh is a New Zealand-based freelance Feature Writer & Journalist. Gurbir can be reached at: gurbir@journalist.com