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Canadian authorities have decided not to immediately deport Indian students who were trapped in an alleged immigration scam and had reached the country with fake university admission letters.
A task force has been forced to look into each case, announced the country’s immigration minister, Sean Fraser, on Wednesday.
“Only those candidates found genuine or victims of a fraud will be allowed to stay in Canada. But those found to be guilty will be prosecuted under the Canadian law,” he said.
The Canadian government had last week put on hold the deportation of the students, days after they hit the streets against their forced departure to their own countries.
The Canada Border Services Agency had recently issued deportation letters to around 700 Indian students, mostly from Punjab, after it found their admission letters to Canadian universities to be fake.
The issue reverberated in the Canadian parliament where Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had said his focus was on “identifying the culprits and not penalising the victims.”
“Victims of this fraud will have an opportunity to demonstrate and present evidence for their case. We recognise the immense contributions that the international students bring to our country,” Trudeau had said.
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