NewsImmigration New Zealand staff are manually checking nearly 900 applications from Sri Lankan students which used a finance company now at the centre of a student visa scam, Immigration Minister Iain Lees-Galloway says. Immigration New Zealand (INZ) is investigating the fraud involving Sri Lankan student applications, the New Zealand Herald reported. "Immigration NZ are going to manually review the 895 applications that came from Sri Lankan students through the Mumbai office in 2017. They're going to see which of those involved this particular finance company," Lees-Galloway said today. "It's a pointless exercise and what INZ has done instead is to refuse applications that involve that finance company.

Source: Sunday Times July 31, 2018 05:26 UTC