More Indian students going to UK |
One of the more compelling contemporary politicians in Britain, foreign secretary Boris Johnson is increasingly seen as the Tories` best bet against a resurgent Labour`s Jeremy Corbyn should there be another mid-term general elections. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Boris`s late father-in-law, Sir Charles Wheeler, was the BBC`s South Asia correspondent in Delhi in the late 1950s, who reported on the 1959 Tibetan Uprising. His mother-in-law Dip Singh is a Sikh from West Punjab who migrated to India after Partition and his wife Marina QC wears her Indian identity on her kurta sleeve. In this exclusive interview to TOI, Johnson tells Naomi Canton more Indians are visiting the UK than ever before. He points out that the number of Indian students in the UK continues to rise.Most recent figures show a 10% increase in Indian students gaining visas - and 91% of these applications are successful. More and more Indian students and young professionals are choosing to go to the UK to further their ambitions, showing that Britain is open for business. This year until June, Britain gave nearly 500,000 visas to Indians - an eight per cent rise on the previous year. In fact, Britain issues more visas to Indians than any other country in the world, apart from China.Nearly every Indian who applies for a visa gets one: 90% of applications are granted.
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