Chaotic visa system allowed 50,000 bogus students in.
An extra 50,000 bogus foreign students were able to enter the UK because of “extraordinary chaos” in the UK Border Agency, MPs warned today.
That was the equivalent of one in six of all foreign students who arrived in 2009, when the system was introduced
And three years later it is still in turmoil with officials playing “catch up”, according to the Commons Public Accounts Committee.
The UKBA was also criticised for an “unacceptable” failure to act quickly enough on abuses in the regime or remove bogus students.
The report comes a week after the agency, an arm of the Home Office, stripped a London university of its ability to sponsor foreign students after an investigation found one in four had no right to be here. (Telegraph.)