Universities have started banning Indian students as Australia's Department of Home Affairs is considering one in four applications from six states as "fraudulent" or "non-genuine."
One in four applications now being deemed as “fraudulent” or “non-genuine” by the Department of Home Affairs, the report said.
Two Australian universities - Federation University in Victoria and Western Sydney University in New South Wales - have separately announced bans on the intake of students from some Indian states citing concerns over a rise in fraudulent visa applications.
The education agents were instructed to not consider students from Punjab, Haryana, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. (Representational Image)(Courtesy issa.house.gov)
The education agents were instructed to not consider students from Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The report indicated that one in four applicat...