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The team

You will deal with these three.

There are three of us, so the people you meet at the first consultation are the people who stay with your file. Mansoor takes every first consultation himself, and whoever talks you through a course is the person who prepares the visa file at the end of it.

Mansoor Ameen, Founder & Consultant at Linking Overseas

Mansoor Ameen

Founder & Consultant

Mansoor has been advising students on overseas study since 1999. He opened this practice on Montieth Road in 2012, and he still takes the first consultation himself. Not as a courtesy. The shortlist is the decision everything else hangs off, and he would rather argue it out with you in the room than have it passed down through somebody else.

Students tend to mention his availability before they mention his advice. One wrote that he answers doubts “regardless of the time”, which is generous of him and hard on his evenings. Another came back to him years after a UK MBA to pick a course in Canada, which is the more telling compliment.

He handles the UK visa files personally, and he will tell you when a university is not worth what it charges.

Come to Mansoor for

  • First consultations and shortlists
  • UK applications and visa files
  • Anything you cannot get an answer to elsewhere

Nada Altaf

Advisor & Consultant

Applications are rarely lost on grades. They are lost on a transcript in the wrong format, a referee who never replied, or a statement written the night before it was due. Nada works on the assumption that all three will happen unless somebody is watching.

That means the SOP gets a structured interview and real edits rather than a template, referees get chased early enough to be useful, and every document is checked against what that university actually asks for, which is never quite what the last one asked for.

Come to Nada for

  • Statements of purpose, drafted and edited
  • Transcripts, references and portal submissions
  • Every university deadline, tracked
Vishnu Sree, Senior Consultant at Linking Overseas

Vishnu Sree

Senior Consultant

Most families take the first loan their own bank offers. Two to four percentage points sit between lenders, and on twenty lakh over ten years that gap is somebody’s first car. Vishnu makes families look at the comparison before they sign.

The harder part comes later. A sanction letter that satisfies a branch manager can still fail a visa officer if it is conditional on collateral nobody has registered yet. That refusal lands months after the money felt settled. So the letters get read line by line here, before they go near an application.

Come to Vishnu for

  • Lender comparison and collateral questions
  • Financial documents for the visa file
  • Canada and Europe applications

Why the practice stays small

One small team, from shortlist to visa.

With three consultants, the people you meet at the first consultation are the people who read your documents, check your funds and prepare your visa file. Nothing is handed on to someone who has not met you.

When you have a question, you ask the person who already knows your file.

“Mansoor Sir was of great help and assistance to me since the year 2012 when I moved to UK for pursuing MBA… Now I’m in Canada which was also through Mansoor sir’s guidance…”

Anne Carol · Sheridan College, Canada

What to bring to the first meeting

It runs about forty-five minutes, in the Egmore office or on a call, and it costs nothing. Bring these four things and you will leave with a real shortlist instead of a second appointment.

  • Your marksheets

    Every honest answer about where you can get in starts here, and averages get remembered wrong.

  • A budget range you have actually discussed at home

    Not a number you hope is enough. The real ceiling, including what a loan would add.

  • Your English test score, or the date you plan to sit it

    It changes the shortlist, and the visa sets its own bar on top of whatever the university asks for.

  • Whoever is paying

    The money conversation goes better with the person funding it in the room than relayed afterwards.

Sindur Plaza, 2nd Floor, Montieth Road, Egmore, Chennai 600 008, Tamil Nadu, India. Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM IST.

Know where you stand before you spend a rupee.

Book a free 45-minute consultation with Mansoor, in Egmore or on a call. Bring your marksheets and a budget range, and leave with a shortlist you can act on.