Like other ones, Indian aspirants have dreams to fly high in their career. In that pursuit of education, they turn to the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia and many other countries where they can learn and mold themselves to face off with the struggles of making career.
This is not easy. Apart from being a scholar or having lots of degrees in your hand, there are many daunting challenges interrupt your way.
Let’s catch up with the most prominent ones:
- Confusion over legalities
It’s hardly possible that you are aware of legalities that are meant for prospective NRIs who want to study abroad. The reason is certainly the revisions, the add ons and tenets, which frequently change. So, it is really tough to tap on almost every update regarding studying abroad.
For instance, there would be just a few ones who know about provisional student visa and its validity. Those who are willing to temporarily shift to foreign, they have to get it. It is generally valid of six months. Besides, such students should have the proof of admission to the foreign university to a full time regular academic course in a recognized educational institution.
- Discrepancies in documents
This is certainly something that can pick on your nerves. There are some mismatches or typo errors that we don’t bother about before applying for visa or passport. These can be related to names, address or date of birth or anything vitally mentioned in your document.
So, the students should always check their documents of birth, address and education to see if there is any mismatch. If all of your documents have identical information, you can go ahead with the immigration procedure without any hassles. But if there is any, you have to make it up look identical in all certificates beforehand. This can be a few months long procedure. So, you should always be attentive to these discrepancies and correct them from the Municipal corporation if it is connected to date of birth and SDM office for aadhar updates.
- Delays in attestation
As above gone, any discrepancy can defer your admission in the foreign university. Likewise, you should know about the attestation procedure and the competent authorities. On state level, the human resource department of the state puts the stamp of the education certificates, transcript and personal documents, which are later counter-attested by the MEA or Ministry of External Affairs in India.
However, the MEA has also provided the right to procure documents for attestation to only four agencies whose details you can draw from the official government website.
It can be more than a month long procedure to get documents or certificated attested. So, you should go for it three months before applying for visa.
- Lacking professional advice
More than half of the issues arise for students for being a naïve to actual knowledge about the visa, immigration documentation or attestation procedures. The dubious agents take advantage of this situation and make money by trapping you with the fake information.
So, it’s always important to have a trustworthy source of advice. You can research and visit a legal advisor to consult about the immigration process and the contextual information.
- Funds discrimination
The tax rules are dissimilar for a native and an NRI. So, the students who are in the part time jobs for making some dollars should always be concerned about it. However, there are some privileges that are reserved for students only. You can get benefits of them, but only when you know about them.
So, acknowledge about them before you catch a flight for learning a course abroad. Thankfully, there is the internet that can help you to know about everything that you don’t know.
