Canada Deportd Indian Student Karamjeet Kaur for Fake College Letter after 5 years
Canada Deportd Indian Student
Karamjeet Kaur for Fake College Letter after 5 years
In a new development, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada decides to deport
25 year old Karamjeet Kaur,
Indian student on 29 May
As per the Refugee Board, Karamjeet’s admission letter is fake. Strange enough that the Board detects her admission letter as fake after five years. This is despite the fact that she made every effort to prove that she did not know the letter was fake but the authorities do not seem to be in a mood to accept her plea.There was no oversight or verification system.
Karamjeet lives in Edmonton in Canada and comes from a poor and rural Punjabi family back home, who spent their life savings to help her go abroad to study and work.
After Karamjeet had made her application for permanent residency, it was then when she was notified about the situation.
According to the Canada Border Services Agency, her admission letter from Seneca College in Toronto, which had secured her student visa, was a forgery.
Somehow, Kaur eventually managed to get a transfer to NorQuest College in Edmonton, from where she graduated in 2020 from a business and administration management programme.
Since her studies, Karamjeet has secured employment as a supervisor for a company in Edmonton and got married to a Canadian citizen.
Her work permit expires in November 2023 but prior to this ruling, she was heading to become a permanent resident of Canada.
After Karamjeet’s application for permanent residency, it was then she was notified about the situation.
The Canada Border Services Agency informed her the admission letter from Seneca College, which helped her get a student visa, was a forgery.
In a media during a protest regarding the deportations of Indian students, Karamjeet admitted that
“We thought that the immigration process is very strict and that they verify everything when they are giving the visa.
She was really shocked she been living in Canada which she has already been here five years. Canada is my country now and terms Canada is her iwn country.
However, Avnish Nanda of the law firm Nanda & Company, has taken on Karamjeet’s case. Speaking of her candidacy as a model immigrant needed in Canada, Avinash reiterates
She’s contributed so much, and she has the kind of character commitment to this country that we want in young immigrants.
Nanda said immigration officials in both India and Canada believed that Karamjeet’s college admission letter was legitimate.
According to those trying to help students in Canada like Karamjeet Kaur, it’s revealed that the same education agent in India gave as many as 700 students fraudulent admission letters to Canadian post-secondary schools.
Jaswant Mangat is representing about 40 students in various stages of their admissibility hearings before the immigration board.
He explains that the visa processing of his clients was done too hastily, often within a week and that there wasn’t an oversight or verification system.
He further added that the agents [in India] know that (Canada’s immigration) system is unable to detect fraud, they’ll continue to commit it.”
According to lawyers and activists who spoke with The Canadian Press, this decision will likely have ramifications for hundreds of other international students in Canada/
Especially, those Indian students who have allegedly received similar fake admission letters from the same or other scrupulous ‘education agents’ in India.
This a problem that is growing significantly in Punjab, where the pretext of a new life abroad via studies is alluring innocent people to give their life savings to these so-called ‘agents’.
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