Students may miss foreign university seats over CBSE marksheet delay

Lucknow: A delay in issuance of CBSE final marksheets after re-evaluation has thrown the overseas study plans of several city students into disarray as global universities near non-negotiable document deadlines.For Akansha Singh, who secured admission to a computer science programme in Berlin, the dream is slipping away. With a June 12 deadline and marksheets expected only by late June or July, everything has come to a standstill.“My visa process is frozen. The embassy won’t move without complete records. Months of effort have collapsed, and now I may have to stay back and study in India,” she said.The anxiety is widespread.Rohit Verma, admitted to a mechanical engineering course in Canada with a June 15 deadline, has already paid initial fees but now faces the real possibility of deferring his admission.“I was preparing for my visa interview. Now, without the marksheet, nothing can move. I may lose this intake entirely,” he said.For some, the setback has forced painful decisions.Sanya Gupta, who secured a psychology seat in the UK with a June 14 deadline, has abandoned her undergraduate plans abroad.“Everything — accommodation, travel — was ready. But without the marksheet, it’s all meaningless. So after discussion with my parents, I decided to do my UG from India itself and will pursue my PG from abroad,” she said.In several cases, families have invested heavily in coaching, application processes and visa work — now hanging by a thread.Aditya Singh, aiming for a data science programme in the US (deadline June 18), will now lose the opportunity.His father, Ramesh Singh, said, “We have spent significantly on this plan. Now we are scrambling for last-minute alternatives in India.”Similar distress echoes across cases. Neha Yadav, bound for Australia (June 16 deadline), and Arjun Patel, admitted to an IT course in Ireland (June 19), both say they are likely to lose their seats.Ishita Sharma has already missed her design programme deadline in the Netherlands.With universities abroad unwilling to relax timelines, students say they are being forced to reset their futures overnight.