The Canadian Border Security Agency (CBSA) issued a notice of deportation for 700 Indian students. Many Indian students submitted their “admission offer letter” while enrolling for Permanent Residency. However, the agency found that the letters based on which the Visa documents were issued for these students were fake.
Concerning the Canadian rules, after they were eligible for permanent citizenship in Canada, they submitted the documents to the immigration office. It was then the students faced the issue.
After scrutinizing the documents based on which visas were granted to the students, the CBSA found that the admission offer letters were fake. An Indian student in Toronto, Chaman Singh Batth, affirmed that after granting the student a chance for a hearing, deportation notices were issued.
Mishra did not sign the visa document himself is what the students informed the court. He seemed to be a “self-applicant” who would not hire a middleman to apply for the visas as he made each student sign his form.
The CBSA officials did not believe the students’ assertions of innocence because there was no evidence against Mishra’s dupe.
To add to the 700 students’ disappointment, the CBSA was also oblivion about the negligence of the Canadian airport and visa authorities. The authorities issued visas and allowed them entry by checking the “legitimacy” of all the documents.
700 Indian students in Toronto
According to an Indian student in Toronto, Chaman Singh Batth, the head of the Education Migration Services, Brijesh Mishra was the medium through which these 700 students apply for study visas after completing their 12th in India. The Education Migration service was based in Jhalandar.
At an extorting rate of ₹16-₹20 lakhs from each student, Mishra filed these visa applications from 2018-2022. Additionally, he would charge the fees to a premier institute Humber College. The payment to the agent excluded only the deposits of air tickets and security deposits.
Mishra had the same storyline for all the students who arrived in Toronto through him. He would call each student and tell them that there were no more available slots in the classes they wanted to study at Humber College and that they had to wait six months until the next semester began. He would add that, to save time, the students could enroll for admission to other colleges.
Refunding the Humber College fee is the ace in the hole he used to keep his name clear and have the student trust his deed. From the sum of ₹16 lakhs that he had extorted from each student in the name of issuing visa and college admission, he would return the amount he claimed for college admissions. However, he would still be left with a hefty amount of ₹5-6 lakhs per student.
With no speck of doubt, the students, as advised by Mishra, contacted and enrolled themselves in other lesser-known colleges for a 2-year diploma course that was available then. After the commencement of their 2-year education, they got their work permits.
Cut to the current time, the parents of these 700 students tried contacting Mishra’s office in Jalandhar, which remained unanswered.
Reportedly, Mishra did not visit his workplace for quite some time now. Additionally, the website of his company, Education Migration Services, was also taken down.
Brijesh Mishra was not accused of such an illegitimate activity for the first time. Even in 2013, he was put behind bars for a similar crime of forging documents to send students outside India. With other directors, he also ran a fraudulent company called “Easy Way Immigration Consultancy”.
