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by Frontier Mole » Fri Dec 26, 2008 10:10 pm
Danish,
All Lloyds College students had their leave curtailed. Not one single person at the time of the college closure was given leave or had leave.
The test court case lasted a few minutes as the legal rep did not even turn up, the AIT threw the case out. The legal rep was also the college owner.
Since then hundreds of Lloyds "students" have been found and removed. I hammered a Lloyds student in court only a couple of weeks back. He is in a detention centre as we speak, waiting to go home.
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Those that think the PBS PSW system is the same as the old IGS are in for a surprise. The HO used to grant IGS without much of a to do. The problem was the level of abuse. PSW has come in, now there are far greater checks and more requirements to gain PSW. Some IGS have been refused even on the transitional arrangements, so PSW is a tougher visa to get hold of.
Data collection in the beefed up PBS system now easily identifies where there are concerns. The fact that a college pumps out hundreds of PGD's does not go un-noticed anymore. Even more so when the number of students registered at said college would be lucky to top 20!
PBS has the resources and now UKBA is dealing with the issues of abuse far more effectively.
Some one posted something about various accreditation bodies; yes I agree bogus colleges were easily duping these bodies. They never did unannounced visits, so there was always rent a mob to show that the college was full and everyone was accounted for when the accreditation body visited. DIUS will disappear as the only way to be accredited in the future for colleges teaching overseas nationals will be through the PBS licence system. That means random unannounced visiting as a regular part of policing the system. It will not be perfect but it will be far better than it was.
The net is tightening around the bogus colleges. It will be the latter part of 2009 before the system is fully in place. All students by September 2010 will be part of the PBS system. No more jumping between colleges, no more bunking off to work full time in Tesco and no more disappearing into the ether without it being reported.
For those than come to the UK to actually study, none of the above will concern them. Those that come to work and masquerade as students will not last long in the new system. This is what CCL is really all about, the first of many UKBA successes at busting a major bogus college scam.
CCL "students" you can say what you want, believe what you want but remember those that did not attend or study and paid for the fake qualification have killed off any chance for those that took the effort and might have actually achieved a success in gaining their qualification. Do not try to blame UKBA for your deception, you abused the system and the system bit back.
CCL "students" will not get PSW, that is just not going to happen. If I am wrong, I will come back to forum and say so. The onus is on you to prove your qualification is valid. How can you do that? The college operators are not in a position to help you. The qualification was not accredited by an independent body so it is a worthless bit of paper. There will be a mountain of evidence from the raid and the BBC has film evidence, for what it is worth.
Stop deluding yourself, if you are relying on a PGD from CCL to get PSW then it is not going to happen. Even if you were a genuine student you will be refused. The scale of the fake qualifications that were bought / issued will ensure that those poor sods that did the work, passed the exam will be the collateral damage from the scammers and fake students alike.
CCL is just one college; there are a few others that closed recently for the same reasons. So as you can see this is just the start of a long and continuing operation that will carry on far into 2010 and beyond.
