The Indian students, who mostly belong to Punjab, are facing deportation after the authorities in Canada found “admission offer letters” to educational institutions to be fake.
Indian students protest against deportation orders issued by the Canadian government. Image via Twitter
The Punjab Government has decided to provide free legal aid to around 700 Indian students who are facing deportation from Canada. The Indian students, who mostly belong to Punjab, are facing deportation after the authorities in Canada found “admission offer letters” to educational institutions to be fake. The matter came to the fore in March when these students applied for permanent residency in Canada.
In a statement, Punjab NRI Affairs Minister Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal said most of these students belong to Punjab and they will be assisted by lawyers who are experts in immigration laws in Canada, news18 reported.
Besides, Dhaliwal has also written to all MPs of Punjab origin in Canada to solve the issue of these students so that the future of the children can be secured. On Tuesday, Dhaliwal sought the intervention of External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar in the matter.
Presiding over a meeting with civil and police officers associated with the NRI department here, Dhaliwal issued instructions to all deputy commissioners and senior superintendents of police to scrutinise documents of travel agents and immigration agencies and send a report by July 10.
He expressed concern that many travel agents are running immigration agencies illegally. Dhaliwal said Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann has already given clear instructions to improve the system.
Special campaign against fake travel agents soon
He said if the system is transparent and clean, then there will be less scope for human trafficking by illegal travel and immigration agencies. A special campaign against fake travel agents and immigration agencies would soon be launched in Punjab so that nobody could be involved in human trafficking, he said.
Dhaliwal also said in the last 10 years, if any immigrant Punjabi has been deliberately implicated in a wrong case, then it should be brought to the government’s attention. Such cases will be investigated and the victims will get justice, he said. He further said NRI meetings will be held for the first time in those villages of Punjab whose immigrants have done good work in their villages or earned the name at the national or international level.
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