Many protesters have alleged racial bias in the incident, though a vast majority of those who took the course and passed were Indian international students too.
A Grattan Institute study warns that Australia's policy of offering international students extensive post-graduation work rights fosters false hopes of permanent residency. The study also emphasises the need to be honest with international students to maintain Australia's attractiveness and address population concerns.
Brijesh Mishra, a citizen of India, is facing criminal charges in Canada in connection with a group of international students who were provided fake college admission letters to enter Canada.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser is establishing a new task force to investigate each case to determine if the students are innocent or complicit in defrauding the immigration system.
The House immigration committee has also voted unanimously to condemn fraudulent ‘ghost consultants’ and to ask the federal government to provide a permanent residence pathway
About a dozen Indian international students have camped outside the Canada Border Services Agency office on Airport Road in Mississauga to ask the government not to deport them for misrepresentation to Canada.
Official numbers, accessed by the Free Press Journal from the Western Australian government show 40,035 international students enrolled in universities across WA between January-September 2022, with Indian students comprising 7,900 of the total enrollments.
May 17, 2021
Aman Trivedi was all set to pursue a master’s degree in international affairs from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin come August. When the Delhi University graduate started applying to schools abroad in September 2020, he never could’ve imagined that India’s Covid-19 crisis would spiral the way that it did.
“I absolutely did not foresee the second wave of the pandemic mainly because there was a sharp decline in the number of cases towards the later months of 2020,” the 20-year-old told Quartz. “I did not make any contingency plan and the second wave of the pandemic completely changed my plans.” Trivedi has now deferred his admission by a year, and he is certainly not alone.