How to make money by cheating international students?
A blatant fraud: forged documents, thousands of dollars and hundreds of victims.
In Steven Spielberg's "Catch Me If You Can" a young adventurer named Frank Abegnale was outsmarting public and private institutions. In this story the victims are the young guys. And this is not the only case.
Recently, more than 700 Indian students received deportation letters from the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA). Several years ago they came to Canada with visas and all their documents. After four years of study they applied for residency. That's when it turned out that the papers they were applying for were fake.
One of the students, Chaman Singh Butth, said that he applied for studying through Brijesh Mishra-led Education Migration Services in Jalandhar. MIshra also helped other students and charged about CAD 33,000 for thhe services.
Butth got all the necessary papers, and when he got to Canada, Mishra told him that the college courses he was telling him about were fully booked. The agent then suggested applying for another college, so Butth did it as Canada allows newcomers to change colleges upon arrival. That is why Butt did not suspect anything was wrong.
The fraud was revealed only after he and 700 others had applied for residency several years later. That's when the Canadian Border Services Agency discovered that the college admission documents with which the future students had flown to Canada turned out to be forgeries.
As there was insufficient evidence that it was Brijesh Mishra who collected and arranged all the documents, CBSA officials did not accept the victims' innocence claim. The authorities also refused to admit error in the actions of the visa and airport authorities who issued the visas and checked the entry permits.
Offer letters from reputable institutes are not subjected to much scrutiny. And if a particular college is quite reputable, an offer letter from it enhances the visa success rate, as compared with other private colleges.
But it is quite surprising how a big number of offer letters from a particular college was ignored at the embassy level, where a lot of scrutiny takes place before issuing the visa.
Mishra's whereabouts are now unknown, and the former students, who had plans for a career in their new beloved country, are now wairing for the final decision on deportation.
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