Home Department written question – answered at on 17 July 2013.
Andrew Smith
Labour, Oxford East
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department
(1) if she will exempt visa applicants who have previously undertaken study at a UK university from the pilot studies into the requirement for cash bonds for immigration purposes;
(2) what assessment she has made of the effect of the introduction of a cash bond for immigration purposes on non-EU PhD candidates studying at UK universities who use student visitor visas to return for viva voce examinations;
(3) if applications for student visitor visas will be included in pilot schemes on a requirement for a cash bond for visa applications.
Mark Harper
The Minister for Immigration
We plan to introduce a pilot scheme later this year to test the impact of requiring financial bonds in limited circumstances, from a minority of visitors from selected nationalities who present a high risk of overstaying. The details of the scheme are still being finalised and will be announced in due course.
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