Canada makes new rules to stop student visa fraud

Amid the ongoing tussle between India and Canada, the latter has decided to make new and strict laws to check student visa fraud.

According to the media reports, the Canada Border Services Agency issued deportation letters to nearly 700 Indian students earlier this year. Most of these students were from Punjab. They had allegedly entered Canada on fake student visas.

Canada has made new rules for verification to protect students coming from all over the world from fraud. Under these rules, post-secondary Designated Learning Institutions (DLIs) will now have to verify each applicant's acceptance letter through a new verification process before issuing study permits starting December 1.

The Government of Canada has said that they have faced some serious challenges in the International Student Program. Canadian Minister Mark Miller said that after the new process, fraud with international students will be stopped. Under the new system, study permits can be issued only on the basis of actual approval letters.

The Canada Border Services Agency issued deportation letters to nearly 700 Indian students earlier this year. Most of these students were from Punjab.

Their admission letters for admission to Canadian universities were fake. However, the students had claimed that the issue of fake letters came to light only after five years, when they had applied for permanent residence.

Most of these students arrived in Canada in 2018. However, it was claimed that the issue of fake letters came to light only five years later when he applied for permanent residence.

India and Canada had been engaged in a diplomatic spat after Canada expelled an Indian diplomat accusing him of spying in the wake of killing of a Khalistani terrorist at Surrey in British Colombia in Canada. Canada alleged that Indian agents were involved in his killing a charge India categorically rejected.