Indian Embassy advisory to Indian students on sham US universities |
The Indian Embassy in Washington, DC issued a bulletin April 10, advising students from India on how to spot sham U.S. universities.The advisory followed a sting operation in February, in which Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an arm of the embattled Department of Homeland Security, set up the sham University of Farmington in Farmington Hills, Michigan. ICE arrested more than 600 students who were enrolled at the university; most were deported, while some were released on bail.Identifying fake universities has been a continuing issue for students from India. In one of the most egregious cases, ICE investigated the sham Tri Valley University in San Francisco`s East Bay Area for over a year before it shuttered the school down in February 2011, arresting several hundred students from India and rendering them immediately deportable. Ironically, ICE kept Tri Valley University on its list of approved schools on the Student and Exchange Visitor Program Web site even as it was investigating the college. It continued to keep the school as accredited on the SEVIS site for about eight months after it shut it down and arrested its founder.
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