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NEW DELHI – The Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has issued a demarche tothe United States Embassy in New Delhi over the detention of Indianstudents in the alleged immigration scam.
In the demarche, India called for the “need for immediate consular accessfor Indian officials to the detainees” and underlined that the students,”who may have been duped into enrolling in the ‘University’ should betreated differently from those recruiters who have duped them, DNA hasreported.
129 Indian student along with 8 other individuals were arrested after theUS Department of Homeland security busted an immigration fraud by settingup a fake university in Farmington Hills, Michigan state of US.
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WION has accessed the court documents in which it has been mentioned thateach of the foreign citizens who “enrolled” and made “tuition” payments tothe University knew that they would not attend any actual classes, earncredits, or make academic progress toward an actual degree in a particularfield of study – a “pay to stay” scheme”, clearly suggesting they are alsoconsidered culpable by US authorities.
