Take up case of 700 Punjabi college students deportation from Canada: Sukhbir Badal
CHANDIGARH: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Badal on Friday requested Union Exterior Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar to take up the case of 700 Punjabi college students, who face imminent deportation from Canada because of no fault of theirs, with the Canadian authorities.
In an announcement right here, the SAD President mentioned 700 college students who had obtained deportation letters from the Canadian Border Companies Company (CBSA) after their admission provide letters submitted to an Ontario-based public faculty had been discovered to be pretend had been duped by an training migration service firm.
“The scholars are victims of a rip-off perpetrated on them. Performing in opposition to them is not going to solely endanger their future however will just about destroy 700 households because the dad and mom of the scholars have spent their hard-earned cash to coach their wards in Canada with the hope of being granted Everlasting Residency (PR).”
Giving particulars of the case, Badal mentioned the scholars paid Rs 16 to Rs 20 lakh to the corporate which purportedly facilitated their admission in Humber Faculty in Ontario by producing pretend admission provide letters together with pretend charge deposit receipts.
“The scholars got visas on the idea of this forgery by the Canadian embassy.” He mentioned upon arrival in Canada the corporate knowledgeable the scholars that their admission to Humber College had been cancelled and facilitated their admission to a different establishment after taking a fee between Rs 5 to Rs 6 lakh.
Badal mentioned the rip-off, nonetheless, got here to mild when among the college students utilized for PR and their paperwork had been scrutinized. “The truth that the scholars had been made to signal their functions as self-applicants by the corporate has put your complete blame of the forgery on them. It’s also a proven fact that the fraud may have been detected on the very onset if the Canadian embassy issuing visas to the scholars had performed a scrutiny of their faculty provide letter.”
Urging the Exterior Affairs Minister to apprise the Canadian authorities about your complete case, moreover stressing that the scholars had fallen sufferer to a rip-off, Badal mentioned “the Canadian authorities ought to be requested to contemplate this case sympathetically on humanitarian grounds.”