The Departement of Home Affairs is now classifying one out of every four applications as “fraudulent” or “non-genuine,” according to the study.
According to the Sydney Morning Herald, two Australian colleges, Federation University in victoria and Western Sydney University in New South wales, have separately declared prohibition on accepting students from certain Indian states due to an increase in fraudulent visa applications.
The education representatives were given instructions to disregard applicants from the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana.
According to the research, one out of every four applications is currently declared “fraudulent” or “non-genuine” by the country’s Department of Home affairs.
The prohibition was made public before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s three-day visit to Australia on Monday, when Sydney was to host a sizeable community event for the Indian diaspora.
In a letter dated May 19. Federation University reported that they had noticed a considerable rise in the percentage of visa requests from various Indian districts that the department of Home Affairs was rejecting. “We hope this would prove to be a short-term issue (but) it is now clear that there is trend of emerging, the letter stated.
In a letter to agents, western Sydney University stated that it could no longer accept application from Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat due to high number of India students who began their studies in 2022 but dropped out.
Punjab, Haryana, and Gujarat have been determined to have the biggest attrition risk inside India, according to the letter from the university dated May 8.
In addition, the letter stated that “due to the urgency of this matter the university has decided to pause recruitment from these regions in India, effective immediatlely.
According to a previous article from The Sydney Morning Herald, a noteworthy pattern has evolved in the way that some esteemed Australian educational institutions handle applications from Indian students.
Emails received from agencies connected to Southern Cross University, Victoria University, Edith Cowan University, the University of Wollongong, and Torrens University revealed a considerable tightening of scrutiny on these Indian students’ applications.
The issue was that sizeable portion of applicants seemed to have other goals in mind than following their intended degrees, one that were more focused on work chances in Australia.
The Punjab and Haryana Indian states were completely barred from applying to Edith Cowan University in Perth beginning in February.
In the months that followed, including Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Gujarat, Victoria University tightened its limit on student applications even further,
