International students are having to defer places to Canadian institutions after not having their study permits processed in time for this semester.

Select international students intending to arrive in the US for studies in 2021 will be eligible for interview waivers, the government has said.

UK students wanting to study abroad in Spain this year have reported that they are facing visa processing delays of up to a month.

The letter expressed “continued concerns” as to whether international students will have their visas processed in time for the new academic year.

UniQuest has unveiled a dashboard designed to provide daily intelligence on institutional and benchmarked student visa refusal rates and reasons.

Immigration reform in the UK will see the creation of a new “fully digital border” including the adoption of US-style Electronic Travel Authorisations.

The US Embassy in Beijing announced last Friday that visa processing for Chinese students would resume in May after months of delays and cancellations.

Students’ hopes of being able to spend the summer in the US are being dashed despite the expiration of the Trump-era “work visa ban”.