700 international students face deportation will get ‘fair outcome’: minister | 24CA News
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser is promising a “fair outcome” for over 700 worldwide college students from India dealing with deportation after falling sufferer to a faux faculty enrolment rip-off.
Fraser didn’t, nonetheless, make clear whether or not the deportation orders in opposition to the scholars could be placed on maintain whereas the instances are resolved.
“We are actively pursuing a solution for intl students who are facing uncertainty due to having been admitted to Canada with fraudulent college admission letters,” Fraser mentioned in his tweet on Wednesday.
He added those that have “taken advantage” of worldwide college students would face penalties.
According to a press launch issued by advocates on behalf of the scholars, these now dealing with deportation orders got here to Canada in 2017 and 2018 on scholar permits.
The press launch says the scholars have been issued “fake college admission letters drafted by their immigration consultants, namely a Jalandhar-based consultant named Brijesh Mishra.”
“After landing in Canada, the consultants told students that they could not enroll in that particular college for various reasons, such as deferral or unavailability of seats. The students were told to change colleges, which they did in order to begin their studies,” the press launch states.
“Over the last five to six years, most of the students have completed their studies, entered the workforce, started families and have applied for permanent residency (PR). They were unaware of the fake offer letters until they began applying for PR.”
Fraser mentioned Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada can be working carefully with Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) to resolve the problem. Global News has reached out to Fraser’s workplace for extra readability on whether or not the deportation orders are nonetheless lively.
The workplace of Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino, to whom the CBSA solutions, mentioned it had no additional feedback at the moment.
Minister Fraser’s assertion is “on behalf of the government on this issue,” a spokesperson from Mendicino’s workplace mentioned.
A bunch of scholars have been protesting near Toronto Pearson Airport since May 28. Aside from the continued protest, in addition they protested exterior the CBSA workplace on May 30. On Thursday, they plan to carry an indication exterior Mendicino’s constituency workplace in Toronto.
Mishra, the immigration advisor cited within the press launch, allegedly charged these college students hundreds of {dollars} and is claimed to be behind the faux admission letters. Mishra’s firm is now closed and he has reportedly not been seen for a number of months.
India’s minister for exterior affairs, Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, mentioned Canada shouldn’t punish college students who got down to research in good religion.
“If there were people who misled them, the culpable parties should be acted against. It is unfair to punish a student who undertook their education in good faith,” Jaishankar informed reporters in New Delhi on Thursday.
The authorities of Punjab, the state to which many of the college students in query belong, known as on the Canadian authorities to think about “humanitarian and compassionate grounds” whereas resolving the problem.
Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal, Punjab’s minister of Non-Residential Indian (NRI) affairs wrote a letter to Fraser on Thursday, assuring him that Punjab will take care of the culprits with “the full force of the law.”
“They (students) come from various economic and social backgrounds. Some of the families have mortgaged the meagre agricultural land they had to pay the tuition fee of their wards,” Dhaliwal wrote in his letter to Fraser.
“The students have invested 5-6 defining years of their lives in Canada. If they are deported to India, they will face financial ruin, social ridicule, mental health issues and tremendous other hardships.”
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