Time running out for duped TVU students
Washington, Jan 30 (PTI) Hundreds of Indian students,duped by a California-based "sham" university, are franticallyknocking at the doors of colleges begging for admission intheir desperate attempt to save their academic careers andavoid deportation back home. These students, said to be around 1,500, were studyingat the California-based Tri Valley University, which was shutdown by the federal authorities last week after investigationrevealed that this relatively new academic institution hadindulged in massive and wire fraud and helped foreignnationals illegally acquire immigration status. Following a raid at the University building inPleasanton, California, federal authorities swooped down onits students 95 per cent of who are from India, mostly fromAndhra Pradesh for questioning and interrogation. Immigration attorneys and Indian American communityleaders who have been helping these students told PTI thatscores of them have been a detained, released on bond, andmany of them h...