The coalition government says it is reviewing English language requirements across the visa system.
Home Secretary Theresa May has expressed concerns about relaxing the visa system for Chinese tourists.
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The U.S. visa system is the single biggest obstacle in attracting more international tourists.
The prime minister also spoke of making Britain's visa system simpler for Indian businesses.
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We know that the American administration plans to liberalize the visa system for the Polish people.
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But there was evidence that Chinese visitors saw the visa system as "unfriendly and inflexible", he said.
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While the Schengen visa system allows holders to visit multiple European countries, Britain requires a separate visa.
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Government attempts to tighten the student-visa system attracted criticism from two reports by MPs within the past week.
They reflect the tightening up of the student visa system which was, and still is, open to flagrant abuse.
After graduation, however, Chatterji encountered the ludicrous process that is our visa system.
Immigration minister Phil Woolas recently admitted that the student visa system is "the major loophole in Britain's border controls".
The next argument is that the highly skilled immigration and work visa system is unregulated, leading to fraud and abuse.
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Changes to the student-visa system this year have left thousands of foreign students stranded at home and as angry as wet cats.
But our convoluted and restrictive visa system absurdly forces these same students to leave the country after graduation and compete against us.
Will we actually have a visa system that works, that tracks those who've overstayed, and then what does the future look like?
It believes the student visa system could be abused by people who want to come to Britain but have no intention of studying.
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The memo went out earlier this week as part of an effort to reform the student visa system, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
At the same time, greater emphasis on a demand-driven visa system would create new ways for workers to enter the U.S. who will be increasingly needed as baby boomers retire.
The problem has to do with the existing law that had a very specific criteria for who gets the waiver visa system, and that criteria was based on the rejection rate of visas.
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For example, the student visa system, which admits half a million non-EU students a year, needs a much more effective means of testing whether the applicants are genuine and intend to return home.
Earlier this year, the government proposed changes to the 457-visa system. and its "put Aussie workers first" slogan that many saw as aimed at undercutting the perception that the opposition's policies were more Australia-friendly.
New specialist routes will be developed further to improve the visa system for short-term business visitors and entertainers, as well as a "young talent" scheme to encourage the entrepreneurs and scientists of the future to immigrate.
We need the Home Office and the UK Border Agency to work constructively with universities to ensure that genuine international students are not discouraged from coming to the UK because of an unnecessarily obstructive visa system.
Then there are the boats based in Northern Ireland, often staffed with diligent, sober Filipinos taking advantage of a loophole in the visa system, who cope with the privations of life at sea better than the average Scot.
"Steps to reduce abuse of the student visa system are welcome but if the government's net migration target is to be met, they also need there to be a dramatic fall in the numbers of genuine students, " said Sarah Mulley from the Institute of Public Policy Research.
The Labor government, which opinion polls suggest will lose the Sept. 14 election to the center-right Liberal Nationals, has proposed changes to the 457 temporary work visa system and has said it would "put Aussie workers first" as the nation's economy has slowed, led by a cooling in the mining sector.
In 2009 Bahrain's own labour minister criticised the visa sponsor system, saying it was akin to slavery.
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