Beijing: China today announced plans to issue visas to hundreds of Indians stranded at home due to Covid-19 restrictions. Under this scheme, apart from business visas, visas of various other categories will be issued. “Indian students are welcome back to China,” Ji Rong, counsellor at the Chinese Foreign Ministry, Department of Asian Affairs, tweeted. The Chinese Embassy in New Delhi has announced the opening of visas for the families of students, businessmen and those working in China.

According to the announcement, the X1-visa will be issued to students who want to study for a long time for higher academic education in China. This includes newly enrolled students and students who have stayed in China and resumed studies.

More than 23,000 Indian students were stranded at home due to visa restrictions during the corona period.

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Ontario: Indian students who want to pursue a career in countries like Canada, Australia and United States are currently facing visa refusal at a large scale.

A colossal number of applications from Punjab aspirants to go abroad on a study base have been rejected by embassies of different countries.

The main reason behind this is said to be fake bank statements, birth certificates and fake documents being prepared by the applicants to clear educational gaps to obtain visas.

According to the information, in 2020-21, Australia’s Department of Home Affairs detected more than 600 such cases related to Punjab, Haryana, in which fake documents were used to obtain Australia’s education visa. At the same time, the figure of such cases detected by the Canadian High Commission in a year is more than 2500. Similar cases have also been detected by New Zealand, UK and US embassies.

Canada’s visa rejection rate has reached 41 percent. Before Covid, the rate was 15 per cent. According to many experts, due to Covid-19, the application is also pending for two years.

According to a new report by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, 225,402 applications for study visas were processed in 2021 and of them, 91,439 were rejected, or about 41 per cent were rejected.

9.5 lakh applications of Indians in queue for visas

Permanent residency applications of 96,378 people from India are pending with the Government of Canada for processing. There are 4,30,286 temporary residency visa applications. In addition, a total of 9,56,950 applications of different categories are pending with the Canadian embassies as of March 31, 2022. Canada has a total of 2.5 million applications pending from around the world.

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Ottawa: The immigration minister Sean Fraser has announced that Express Entry invitations to FSWP and CEC candidates will resume by early July.

Minister in a statement said that due to restrictions from 2020 and 2021 amid unprecedented Covid-19, there was a temporarily paused invitations to apply under the federal high-skilled streams, including the Canadian experience class, federal skilled worker class and federal skilled trades class and that led to a delay in the process.

The minister said that Invitations to apply will resume in early July, and the vast majority of new applications will be processed within the 6-month service standard.

Starting in summer 2022, former international students who are in Canada and have a post-graduation work permit expiring between January and December 2022 will qualify for an additional open work permit of up to 18 months. We are exploring a simplified, expeditious process for this, and details will be made available in the weeks ahead, the statement added.

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