More than 700 Indian students have received deportation notifications from the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA), whose admission offer letters to educational institutions were discovered to be fake.
Chaman Singh Batth, one of the students who has received deportation notification, told indianarrative.com that after passing out from 12th class, about 700 students applied for study visas through Brijesh Mishra-led Education Migration Services in Jalandhar. From 2018 onward, these visa applications were submitted till 2022.
Reportedly, each student was charged between Rs 16 and Rs 20 lakh by Mishra for all costs, including admission fees to the prestigious Humber College. The amount paid to the agent did not include any airline tickets or security deposits.
Moneycontrol could not independently verify the report.
When Batth and other students arrived in Toronto and were on their way to Humber College, they got a call from Mishra who told them that all seats available in the courses offered to them were occupied and they would now have to wait until the beginning of the next semester i.e. 6 months, or take admission in some other college. However, he reimbursed their tuition for Humber College, which helped them believe in his sincerity.
Reportedly, the CBSA officers didn't believe the claims of innocence of 'victims' because there was no proof that agent Mishra had compiled and organised all the documents.
The CBSA also refused to accept the failure of the Canadian visa and airport authorities which issued visas and permitted entry by checking the authenticity of all documents.
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