According to British High Commissioner Alex Ellis, visit visas are now granted to visitors from India within 15 days of receiving applications. He added that a tiny fraction of more complex instances requires more time.
The high commissioner also urged Indian students who wanted to study in the UK to do so as soon as possible.
1,20,987 Indian students had traveled to the UK for academic purposes as of this October, according to Minister of State for External Affairs V Muraleedharan’s response to a question in the Lok Sabha.
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