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April 13th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The study carried out last month by the National Audit Office (NAO) also found that a flawed immigration crackdown may have allowed up to 50,000 bogus students into Britain.
The NAO estimated that around one in six of student visas granted went to workers whose intention was to take jobs.
Border officials conducting face-to-face interviews for student visas found that more than 40 percent of the applicants should be blocked for poor language skills.
But under the current form-filling visa system, just 20 percent of those from Pakistan are turned away.
Home Secretary Theresa May will now order that every person in Pakistan applying to study in Britain will have to be interviewed first.
Every Pakistani student wanting to come to Britain will face tough new tests after a pilot scheme found that as many as four in ten applicants may be bogus, according to the study.
Home Office figures have revealed that thousands of student visa applicants cannot speak English, despite claiming they want to study in the UK.
The Home Secretary has now decreed that anyone wanting to come to study in Britain from Pakistan must be interviewed by border agency officials before a visa is granted.
An estimated 10,000 students apply to come to the country from Pakistan every year.
Whitehall sources said that in 2006 12 percent of visa applicants were interviewed, but by 2009 this had fallen to just one percent.
Students make up two-thirds of the migrants coming to the UK from outside the EU.
The coalition has already barred more than 11,000 foreign students from entering Britain after their college courses were exposed as bogus.
One in every five colleges – more than 450 in total – offering places to overseas students have lost their licenses, and have been banned from bringing any non-EU students into the UK.
A pilot of the new “culpability test” of interviews was carried out in Pakistan last year.
It was followed up by similar tests in 14 locations across the world. Between December 2011 and February 2012, more than 2,300 student visa applicants were interviewed by officials.
Some 38 percent were deemed bogus in Bangladesh, 27 percent in Sri Lanka, 29 percent in India and 28 percent in Egypt. Campaign group Migration Watch heralded the findings as a victory for its three-year call to re-introduce interviews for all overseas students.
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