Canadian authorities have determined to not instantly deport the Indian college students (File)
Canadian authorities have determined to not instantly deport the Indian college students who have been trapped in an alleged immigration rip-off and had reached the nation with pretend college admission letters.
A process pressure has been fashioned to look into every case and assist the victims of the fraud, introduced the nation’s immigration minister, Sean Fraser, on Wednesday.
I issued an announcement relating to the distressing state of affairs confronted by worldwide college students with fraudulent acceptance letters. Your well-being stays our precedence, and we’re taking motion to deal with this situation. https://t.co/ofd3r8IDqG See under for a abstract of our measures. pic.twitter.com/E0ILgmRaZL
— Sean Fraser (@SeanFraserMP) June 14, 2023
“Worldwide college students, who’re real candidates who got here to Canada to review and have been victimised by fraudsters, might be given permission to stay in Canada. Those that are complicit in a fraudulent scheme will bear the total penalties underneath Canadian regulation,” he mentioned.
Imminent deportations have been halted throughout this evaluate course of, Fraser added.
The Canadian authorities had final week placed on maintain the deportation of the scholars, days after they hit the streets towards the opportunity of their pressured departure to their very own international locations. Nevertheless, it was not identified what the following transfer was and the way lengthy the reduction would final.
The Canada Border Companies Company had just lately issued deportation letters to round 700 Indian college students, principally from Punjab, after it discovered their admission letters to Canadian universities to be pretend.
Most of those college students arrived in Canada in 2018, however claimed the problem of pretend letters surfaced solely after 5 years after they utilized for everlasting residency.
The problem reverberated within the Canadian parliament the place Prime Minister Justin Trudeau mentioned his focus was on “figuring out the culprits and never penalising the victims.”
“Victims of this fraud may have a possibility to show and current proof for his or her case. We recognise the immense contributions that the worldwide college students carry to our nation,” Trudeau had mentioned.
Overseas Minister S Jaishankar had earlier mentioned that the federal government has taken up the problem with Canadian authorities. He had mentioned the Canadians agreed that it will be unfair (to deport) if the scholars had not executed something fallacious.
