The UK has dispatched a pilot visa plan for global understudies, including from India, applying for a Masters degree course in select prominent colleges, that would permit them to stay in the nation for six months more in the wake of finishing their course.
Edu newsThe Tier 4 Visa Pilot Scheme, dispatched by the UK Home Office this week, is interested in understudies from around the globe who win a spot at one-year Masters courses at Imperial College London, Oxford, Cambridge or Bath colleges.
It gives them access to a streamlined visa application, oversaw by their individual college and the chance to stay in the UK for six months after their studies to work, investigate further study, attempt a start-up or travel.
"This pilot plan is an empowering venture forward. The capacity to keep focused six months will convey advantages to the understudies and to the nation as our capable graduates will have the capacity to seek after their entrepreneurial thoughts, further study or add to the UK's ability pool," said Professor Alice Gast, Imperial College London's leader.
The plan will cover visa applications settled on or after July 25 this year and is interested in understudies beginning their studies in 2016-17 or 2017-18.
Just understudies applying for a visa for Masters courses of 13 months or less are qualified for this plan.
Undergrad and PhD understudies, and in addition understudies in Masters courses longer than 13 months, will keep on being required to present all important supporting archives with their visa application.
The pilot plan is required to keep running for a long time, when it would either be made changeless or adjusted in light of its prosperity.