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.
Ottawa: 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, a special report by Anju Agnihotri Chaba in the Indian Express. says
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They have recently been issued deportation letters from the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) recently.
According to media reports, these 700 students had applied for study visas via Education Migration Services (located in Jalandhar) headed by Brijesh Mishra, who had charged more than Rs 16 lakh per student for all expenses, including admission fee to premier institute Humber College, but excluding the air tickets and security deposits.
These students had gone to Canada on a study basis in 2018-19. The fraud was discovered when these students applied for permanent residency (PR) in Canada for which the ‘admission offer letters’ came under scrutiny
The CBSA had examined the documents based on which the visas were issued to the students and found the ‘admission offer letters’ to be fake.
Experts said most of the 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.
This education fraud is one of its kind which came to the fore in Canada for the first time.
These students had gone to Canada on a study basis in 2018-19. The fraud was discovered when these students applied for permanent residency (PR) in Canada for which the ‘admission offer letters’ came under scrutiny
Experts said the fraud was a diret consequence of the large number of applicants to Canada.
A Jalandhar-based consultant, who has been sending students to Canada for the past 10 years, told The Indian Express that in such frauds multiple factors are involved.
It starts with getting forged offer letters from colleges to providing forged fee payment receipts to students for seeking visas as visas are issued only after depositing the fee to the colleges.
“In this case most of the students were provided the offer letters of such colleges where they did not study eventually after landing in Canada.”
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