An Indian woman living in Scotland has spoken of her fight to clear her name over fraud allegations on a scandal-hit English language testing programme.
Nidhin Chand was accused of using a stand-in to sit an English language test for her visa application.
The Home Office cancelled 36,000 student visas after cheating and fraud was uncovered at test centres. It said the study visa system has since been reformed and "these reforms are working".
The scandal came to light as a result of a BBC documentary that looked at centres administering the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC).
Ms Chand - who is engaged to Linlithgow SNP MP Martyn Day - tutored English in Kerala, south India, before completing a master's degree in the UK.
The 41-year-old told BBC Scotland's The Nine: "They say I have used a proxy. I have told everyone I haven't used a proxy.
"I said, 'Please talk to me and then you will realise whether I have to use a proxy or not, tell me whether you can understand my English…'."
Due to her spouse visa, Ms Chand is no longer at risk of being removed from the UK. However, she said she is desperate to correct her record.
She continued: "I have been crying every day… It is painful when someone calls you a fraud and arrests you in front of the public and humiliates you.
"When they took me to the police station they said, 'It is about UKVI (UK Visas and Immigration) and [the Home Office] has taken a decision, you are illegal, you have done something wrong, there are deception charges'. I haven't deceived anyone."
In 2014, an investigation by BBC Panorama revealed systematic cheating and fraud on TOEIC exams at test centres in England.
As a result, the Home Office ordered the US firm providing the exams, Educational Testing Service (ETS), to check over 58,000 tests taken between 2011 and 2014.
Voice-recognition software suggested proxy test takers were used in more than 30,000 cases. More than a thousand people were removed from the country as a result of the investigation.
