Canada has issued deportation notices to over 700 Indian students over 'fake admission offer letters', according to reports. They received the deportation letters from the Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) recently.
All these students had applied for student visas, from 2018 to 2022, through Education Migration Services—a Jalandhar-based agency headed by one Brijesh Sharma. Mishra had charged more than Rs 16 lakh per student for all expenses, including admission fee to premier institute Humber College, Indian Express reported.
However, after the students landed in Toronto, Mishra told them the seats in the courses offered to them had filled up, and he suggested they take up two-year diploma courses in another college. The agent returned the fee he had taken for the Humber college admission, making the students less suspicious of his motives.
The students completed their courses, and some even got work permits. The fraud came to light when the students applied for Permanent Residency (PR) in Canada. As per the rule, students need to submit relevant documents including the admission letters to the CBSA. A probe by the CBSA revealed that the admission offer letters were fake. The students were then issued deportation notices. Quoting the indianarrative.com, the Economic Times reported that the CBSA was not convinced by the students' claims about the agent. According to reports, the only option for the students is to challenge the deportation order in court, but the process could take three to four years.
Mishra is currently absconding. According to the Indian Express, this is not the first time Mishra has been accused of fraud. In 2013, when he was running an immigration agency called Easy Way Immigration, he was arrested for forging documents to send students abroad.
