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Canada, Australia rejecting Indian visas after over 3,000 cases of forged documents discovered

Permanent residency applications of 96,378 people from India are lying with the Government of Canada, under process. There are applications for temporary residency visas of 4,30,286. Apart from this, a total of 9,56,950 applications from different categories were pending with the Government of Canada as of March 31, 2022. Canada has a total of 2.5 million applications pending from around the world.

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Updated Aug 15, 2022, 17:42 IST

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Canada has a total of 2.5 million applications pending from around the world.
Permanent residency applications of 96,378 people from India are pending with Canada.
Canada rejected visa applications for 41% of students from India, 17% of China, 13% of US, 11% of UK students in the last year.

Chandigarh: A large number of applications from students of Punjab, who want to go abroad to study are getting rejected. The main reasons for this are fake bank statements and birth certificates and fake documents being prepared about the education gap and the suspicion of foreign officials regarding the same, reported Dainik Bhaskar.

In 2020-21, Australia's Department of Home Affairs has caught more than 600 cases related to Punjab and Haryana in which forged documents were used to obtain education visas to Australia.

At the same time, the number of such cases caught by the Canadian High Commission in a year is more than 2,500. Similar cases have also been caught by New Zealand, UK, and US embassies. Canada's visa rejection rate has reached 41%. Before Covid, it was 15%.

According to many experts, another reason for such a high rejection rate is also pending applications for two years due to COVID.

According to the new report of the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, in 2021, 225,402 applications for study visas were processed and 91,439 of them were rejected. That is, about 41% of the applications were rejected.

Visa officers in these countries doubt admission to normal courses. In many cases, the visa officer suspects that you are immigrating on the pretext of study. Students of commerce, non-medical etc. in India also apply for visas in Canada for easy courses like caregivers, diplomas in salon management, food craft etc.

This makes the visa officer more suspicious. He asks more questions and a visa is not given without a satisfactory answer.

Fake documents are prepared about the gap between re-applying once you have quit your studies. Experience certificates have also been found to be forged. At the same time, from birth certificates to passports, mistakes have also been made and caught.

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