More Indian student visas have been declined than approved in the past 10 months, as Immigration New Zealand battles widespread fraud....
Over the past two years, Immigration's Mumbai office - which processes all student visas from Indian nationals - uncovered 265 education agents who submitted applications with fraudulent information. It also found 338 applicants had used imposters, 340 with fraudulent funds and 39 with forged documents. Since 2010, 1248 Indian nationals were either deported or left voluntarily, 74 of them in the year to April.
Immigration NZ area manager Michael Carley said the agency and the Immigration Advisers Authority (IAA) were aware of these fraudulent methods.
"To help address this, the IAA and INZ ran a campaign in India earlier this year encouraging people to use a New Zealand licensed adviser if they were seeking assistance to come."
"India-visa rejection rate tops 50pc"
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