UK court strikes new English rules for visa
July 10, 2010 12:41 am
London, July 9 (PTI): English language schools in UK today won a High Court battle over new visa curbs that were alleged to be damaging to their commercial success, a measure to check immigration from India and other non-EU countries.
The legal case was brought against the new regulations that stipulate that students entering the UK to study must have a good standard of English.
The new rules were announced as part of the coalition government’s measures to curb illegal immigration from India and other non-EU countries.
English UK, which represents 440 language schools, says the regulations are “disproportionate and unjustified”.
The language schools said the restrictions would result in the loss of thousands of jobs and millions of pounds in foreign earnings.
Before the High Court verdict, Tony Millns, chief executive of English UK, had said: “It’s clearly absurd requiring students to know English before they come here to study it.”
