US set up fake uni to catch foreigners exploiting student visas


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The eight recruiters allegedly helped create fraudulent records, including transcripts, that students could give to immigration authorities.


Authorities contend that they collectively accepted more than $US250,000 in kickbacks for their work, not realising that the payments were actually coming from undercover agents who worked for Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE.


“We are all aware that international students can be a valuable asset to our country, but as this case shows, the well-intended international student visa program can also be exploited and abused,” Matthew Schneider, the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, said in a statement emailed to media outlets on Wednesday.


This isn’t the first time that the feds have set up a fake university with the goal of rooting out visa fraud.


Calling “pay to stay” a national security threat, officials announced in April 2016 that they had charged 21 people with recruiting international students who paid to enroll at the made-up University of Northern New Jersey so that they could get student visas.


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