New Delhi:
Indian students, who lost their student visa after the California-based Tri-Valley University was declared a sham, could be reinstated.
Indian Consul-General in San Francisco says the US Immigration department has said that it is ready to consider reinstating the immigration status of the Indian students who were duped.
This came hours after US ambassador to India Timothy J Roemer's statement that "The US is very sensitive and attentive to this (matter)."
The US envoy also said his country is proud that there are 1,03,000 Indian students in American schools.
"We want more students to come to America. We want our doors to be open for education. We will be attentive to the problems of the Indian students and we don't want any segment of the society to take advantage of these students," he said.
Duped by the authorities of Tri-Valley University in California, which has been shut down, hundreds of Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, faced the threat of being deported back home after having lost their student visa status.
Some of them were also made to wear ankle monitors so that their movement can be tracked, a move which has evoked a sharp reaction from India.