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Sponsor Licenses for Colleges

Posted by: admin    Tags:      Posted date:  December 20, 2011

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New rules now in place have meant that over 450 colleges cannot sponsor new international students.

UKBA’s position is that they with to ‘cut down on abuse and raise the standards’. However, these new rules have meant that numerous institutions can no longer survive. A spate of suspensions and revocations of Tier 4 Sponsor licenses have forver many colleges to close.

However, institutions can be encourage by the decision in San Michael College Limites v Secretary of State for the Home Department (2011) EWCA CIV 1336 where the court of appeal found that the UKBA’s procedure in suspending and revoking a licence was unfair despite the college failing in some of it’s duties (inculding record keeping).

International colleges should not shy away from challening UKBA’s decision by means of Judical Review ot representations to the UKBA.