US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has ordered an ``extensive and thorough review'' of a foreign exchange program that has been used by US businesses as a source of cheap labor and exploited by criminals to import women to work in the sex industry. In the latest debacle for the J-1 Summer Work Travel visa, a federal indictment unsealed last week accuses the mafia of using the cultural exchange program to bring Eastern European women to work in New York strip clubs.

People applying for a British visa under the points-based system will have to now file their applications online. The British High Commission here announced today that from Monday next, the applications need to submitted online as the UK Border Agency will no longer accept manually completed applications under the points based system.