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Sakshi Shetty (name changed on request) is worried. The 28-year-old executive at a Mumbai bank is all set to join an MBA course in the UK in 2013. However, from April 2012, the UK has discontinued the two-year post-study work route for international non-EU students. Now students from India need to successfully find a job with a UK Border Agency-licensed Tier 2 sponsor to remain in the UK after they finish their courses.

Wooing Indian business and students to his country, British High Commissioner James Bevan on Thursday sought to dispel the notion that the country's economy was on a slowdown and assured that visa services would be eased for "genuine Indian visitors, students and business people to the UK".

Bevan, speaking on the topic "The UK and India: Myths, Reality and Prospects" here, sought to bust "five myths" that Indians have about his country.

Officials at the UK Border Agency (UKBA) sat over more than 150,000 complaints of non-European students breaching their conditions of study, Britain’s chief inspector of immigration John Vine said on Thursday, prompting a senior MP to accuse the agency of putting off genuine Indian students.

Learn how to spend wisely on textbooks, clothing, and social activities at U.S. campuses.

For international students planning onstudying in the United States, the I-20 formestimates basic mandatory expenses, such as tuition and fees, meal plans, health insurance (if required), and textbooks. But having funds to cover these expenses doesn't help with budgeting for personal expenses, such as clothing, school activities, and entertainment