Australia refused to grant visas to one-third of the Indian students who applied to its universities from July to October 2009 because they submitted fake documents, The Economic Times reported. The proportion is a substantial increase from the 6.5 percent of such rejections in the corresponding months of 2008, the newpaper said. “A forensic analysis of applications found extremely high rates of fraud within the documentation being provided in support of student-visa applications in India,” said a letter to the chief executive officer of Universities Australia by the immigration department. Last year, 95,000 Indians studied in Australia, making up almost 18 percent of its foreign-student population, the second-largest group after China.
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One Response to Australia Rejects One-Third of Indian Students Over Fake Documents
raymond_j_ritchie - January 6, 2010 at 8:12 am
This report only shows that 1/3 of the applicants submitted documents that even the Dept of Immigration were able to recognise as fakes. How many were forgeries is probably rather higher. The international students from India program has degenerated into an immigration scam in Australia. It is depressing to see how many Indian international students turn up at class registration never to be seen again. It gets worse. They go to work in the underground economy where they are preyed upon, work long hours and then walk home late at night in the most dangerous parts of Sydney and Melbourne and get mugged by thugs specialising in mugging Indians. The program was started with the best of intentions but as we all know the pathway to hell is paved with good intentions.