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Australia universities ban Indian students from six states, UT amid concerns over visa fraud-Education News

The education agents were instructed to not consider Indian students from Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.

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The report indicated that one in four applications is now deemed “fraudulent” or “non-genuine” by the country’s Department of Home Affairs. The ban was announced prior to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Australia on Monday, during which a large community event for the Indian diaspora was scheduled to take place in Sydney. In a letter on May 19, Federation University said that they have observed a significant increase in the proportion of visa applications being refused from some Indian regions by the Department of Home Affairs. “We hoped this would prove to be a short-term issue [but] it is now clear there is a trend emerging,” the letter said. Western Sydney University informed agents in its letter that they could no longer recruit students from Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat, citing a large number of Indian students who started courses in 2022 who had dropped out.

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