700 Indian students face deportation from Canada

Wednesday 22nd March 2023 06:26 EDT
 

More than 700 Indian students are facing deportation from Canada after the authorities in the North American country found their ‘admission offer letters’ to educational institutions to be fake. They received deportation letters from the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) recently.

According to media reports, these 700 students applied for study visas through Education Migration Services, which is based in Jalandhar and is run by Brijesh Mishra. For all costs, including admission to prestigious institution Humber College but excluding air tickets and security deposits, the company charged more than Rs 16,00,000 per student.

In 2018–19, these students had been to Canada for academic purposes. The "admission offer letters" came under scrutiny when these students sought for permanent residency (PR) in Canada; that is, the CBSA looked at the paperwork used to grant the students' visas and discovered the "admission offer letters" to be fraudulent.

Experts said most of these students had already completed their studies, got work permits and gained work experience as well. It’s only when they applied for PR, they landed in trouble.

A Jalandhar-based consultant, who has been sending students to Canada for the past 10 years, told media that in such frauds multiple factors are involved – from getting forged offer letters of colleges to providing forged fee payment receipts to students for seeking visas as visas are issued only after depositing the fee to the colleges.


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