U.K. increases student visa application fees by over 200%. The UK has announced an increase in the cost of student & tourist visas. According to a statement by the UK’s Home Office on Friday, the cost of a visit visa for less than 6 months will increase from £15 to £115, while the fee for a student visa will rise from £127 to £490. The Home Office said the increases will enable the government to allow more funding to be prioritized for the public sector. The income from fees charged plays a vital role in the Home Office’s ability to run a sustainable immigration & nationality system, the statement added. The changes come less than six months after the Uk announced increments in the cost UK of visa applications & health surcharges “If we’re going to priorities paying public sector workers more, that money has to come from somewhere else because I’m not prepared to put up people’s taxes & I don’t think it would be right to borrow more because that would just make inflation worse,” Rishi Sunak, said in JulY
