During the pandemic September 2021 to September 2020, the UK visa has been issued to a vast number of Indian students more than it did in the previous years.
Due to the increasing demand for the UK visa, even the visa processing has been taking a lot of time.
The British High Commissioner to India Alex Willis tweeted that a huge rush from India to the UK was recorded from September 2020 to September 2021.
The UK student visa went up by 102% with 90,669 students moving to the UK and the skilled worker visa recorded a rise of 47% (53,295) last year. The huge demand is why the visa turnaround is taking longer than usual. As a result, the team is working through the cases, he tweeted.
According to the data issued by the British Home Office, In comparison to the last year, there was an increase of 45,667 (+102%) grants to the Indian citizens, which reached 90,669. This is also 197% higher than the previous ending September 2018.
The Indian citizens remain the nationality with the second highest number of sponsored study grants. Thus, the Indian and Chinese citizens contribute to more than 53% of all sponsored study grants. Check: Scholarships to study in UK
As per the British home office, the pandemic travel restrictions recorded passenger arrival in the UK with a decrease of 69% in September 2021. Similarly, the visas granted were 19% less during this ending period.
The UK Home office notified that there were an estimated 21 million passenger arrivals in the year ending September 2021, which also included the returning UK immigrants, resulting in a decrease of 69% (43 million) compared to previous year. Know more about studying in the UK
The decline was due to the outbreak of pandemic covid-19 and the imposition of travel lockdown. However, in the ending year September 2021, around 1,115,155 visas were granted, which is 19% less than last year and 64% fewer than the year before the global pandemic.
According to the statistics issued by the UK home office, Out of the total UK visas granted in the last 12 months, 23% was a visit visa, 18% was for work purposes, 4% of the visas for family, 39% for study purposes, and 15% for other purposes.
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