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With the Trump administration tightening the issuance of visa for international students citing security reasons, students in India are trying to dupe the officials with fake credentials.
The Bureau of Immigration at the Hyderabad Rajiv Gandhi International Airport busted a racket in which students were using tampered documents to secure visas for the United States and UK. In the last two weeks, the BoI officials intercepted at the RGIA, four students who have successfully cleared formal visa interviews at foreign embassies, but with fake degrees, some sourced from dubious educational institutions. The students had obtained student visas and got enrolled in foreign universities and the fraud came to light only during the additional checks by the BoI staff during the departure.
The first case came to the notice of BoI on June 1 when Gopal Reddy, a student from Nalgonda district, confessed that his degree was fake. Earlier, Reddy went to the US on a student visa with a forged BSC degree obtained from Madurai Kamaraj University and enrolled at the Webster University in Missouri in September 2023. Then he returned to India after 15 months citing some personal reasons.
In 2024, tried to go back to the US but was deported from the Dallas airport due to an inactive Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) record. On reaching the RGIA, the BoI officials questioned Gopal and on verifying his documents, they found the degree to be fake. Then Reddy told that he obtained the certificate through one Katoju Ashok, an agent of Sri Dhanakalakshmi Overseas Private Limited in BN Reddy Nagar, Vanasthalipuram. The BoI officials arrested both Gopal and Ashok.
The BoI officials said that such cases reveal the role educational consultants in getting fake degrees and managing to secure visas to US and UK. Following this revelation, the BoI officials intensified scrutiny and found three more such students, heading to the UK.
On June 9, they caught one Mohammad Shahabazuddin with a fake BCom degree certificate from the Acharya Nagarjuna University. Other certificates including his Intermediate and BTech certificates were also forged.
Shahabazuddin said that he purchased a fake SSC certificate from one Yakub in Hyderabad for Rs 1.5 lakh and fabricated the rest using some software. With the help of the forged documents, he got a UK student visa.
On June 10, one Mohammed Azhar Hussain belonging to Seetharampuram Miryalguda was caught while boarding a flight to the UK. He too confessed of using fake certificates and a job certificate too provided by one Bharat from Emerge Migration Overseas Educational Consultancy in Miryalguda.
On June 12, the BoI officials intercepted Srikanth Marthala, 26, with a fake BTech certificate from Koneru Lakshmaiah Education Foundation. He told that he got the certificate by paying Rs 40,000 to a Guntur-based agent.
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