Tri-valley Fraud

The US has promised that it will protect the interests of hundreds of Indian students at the University of Northern Virginia (UNVA), which was raided yesterday by investigating and law enforcement agencies on charges of visa fraud.

The president of the California-based Tri-Valley University (TVU) has been indicted by a federal grand jury on the allegations of visa fraud and money laundering. The closure of the university, which has been accused of a massive visa fraud, had affected nearly 1,500 Indian students.Susan Xiao-Ping Su (41) was taken into custody on Monday morning a...

The United States has assured India of providing 'fair solution' to Indian students affected by the closer of California-based Tri-Valley University, which has been accused of a massive visa fraud.The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns has assured Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, during a meeting, that the US Governm...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao today to discuss the plight of the Indian students caught in the Tri-Valley University visa fraud.Rao alongwith the Indian Ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, is expected to meet Clinton at the US State Department today.The two Indian diplomats are likely to ...

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said the Indian students of California-based Tri-Valley University, which was shut down on charges of a massive visa fraud, should be absorbed in other US universities and not victimised."The student who came in good faith, they should not be victimised," Krishna told reporters in New York."It is necessary ...

Radio tags of two Indian students of California-based Tri-Valley University (TVU) were removed just ahead of the arrival of the Indian Foreign Minister in the US. But the families of these students claim it had nothing to do with any diplomatic pressure put by the Indian government on the US. They say this happened only because they appointed an at...

US immigration authorities have removed radio tags from the ankles of two Indian students from California-based Tri-Valley University (TVU), which has been shut down on charges of massive visa fraud."Immigration attorney Kalpana Peddibhotla had taken two of the students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and she has been able to obtain th...

After a strong protest lodged by India over the radio-tagging of Indian students, US immigration authorities had recently promised "good judgement and common sense" while handling the cases. But it seems the promise is not being kept.Hundreds of Indian students who were enrolled at the Tri-Valley University in California are being investigated by t...

Sasikala's daughter applied three times for US visa last year, hoping to enrol in Tri-Valley University. Initially worried, the mother is now relieved that the visa application was rejected each time. Tri-Valley University, a college near San Francisco, has been shut down on the grounds that it was running a massive immigration racket and serving a...

A group of anxious students gather nearly everyday at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, wondering if they will be deported.Today, there was an update for them, and it wasn't what they were hoping for.  Some of them could face criminal charges. The students are from Tri-Valley University, a college near San Francisco, that has been shut do...

The California University accused of a massive "visa fraud" by US immigration officials says the charges against the college are "baseless" and that it has not cheated any student.The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims that the college acted as a front for a massive immigration racket.  Ninety five per cent of the students are...

Students duped by the Tri-Valley University have sent a petition to the US Department of Homeland Security and also immigration and customs enforcement authorities saying they have not violated any law and they had no chance of knowing about the credentials of the university.The students also claimed that if deported, their families would be devast...

After video footage surfaced from Tri-Valley university campus suggesting Indian students were being radio-tagged as part of electronic surveillance by US immigration authorities, the Ministry of External Affairs has summoned the US deputy chief of mission.

After their university was shut down on charges of a massive immigration scam, Indian students in California have met the Consul General in San Francisco for help.    Ninety-five per cent of the students at Tri-Valley University (TVU), dubbed a "sham university" by US immigration officials, were reported to be Indian, most of them fr...

Hundreds of Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation from the US after authorities raided and shut down a university in the Silicon Valley on charges of a massive immigration fraud.The Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, a major suburb in San Francisco Bay Area, has been charged by federal investigating authori...

The US has promised that it will protect the interests of hundreds of Indian students at the University of Northern Virginia (UNVA), which was raided yesterday by investigating and law enforcement agencies on charges of visa fraud.

The president of the California-based Tri-Valley University (TVU) has been indicted by a federal grand jury on the allegations of visa fraud and money laundering. The closure of the university, which has been accused of a massive visa fraud, had affected nearly 1,500 Indian students.Susan Xiao-Ping Su (41) was taken into custody on Monday morning a...

The United States has assured India of providing 'fair solution' to Indian students affected by the closer of California-based Tri-Valley University, which has been accused of a massive visa fraud.The Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns has assured Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, during a meeting, that the US Governm...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled to meet Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao today to discuss the plight of the Indian students caught in the Tri-Valley University visa fraud.Rao alongwith the Indian Ambassador to the US, Meera Shankar, is expected to meet Clinton at the US State Department today.The two Indian diplomats are likely to ...

External Affairs Minister S M Krishna has said the Indian students of California-based Tri-Valley University, which was shut down on charges of a massive visa fraud, should be absorbed in other US universities and not victimised."The student who came in good faith, they should not be victimised," Krishna told reporters in New York."It is necessary ...

Radio tags of two Indian students of California-based Tri-Valley University (TVU) were removed just ahead of the arrival of the Indian Foreign Minister in the US. But the families of these students claim it had nothing to do with any diplomatic pressure put by the Indian government on the US. They say this happened only because they appointed an at...

US immigration authorities have removed radio tags from the ankles of two Indian students from California-based Tri-Valley University (TVU), which has been shut down on charges of massive visa fraud."Immigration attorney Kalpana Peddibhotla had taken two of the students to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and she has been able to obtain th...

After a strong protest lodged by India over the radio-tagging of Indian students, US immigration authorities had recently promised "good judgement and common sense" while handling the cases. But it seems the promise is not being kept.Hundreds of Indian students who were enrolled at the Tri-Valley University in California are being investigated by t...

Sasikala's daughter applied three times for US visa last year, hoping to enrol in Tri-Valley University. Initially worried, the mother is now relieved that the visa application was rejected each time. Tri-Valley University, a college near San Francisco, has been shut down on the grounds that it was running a massive immigration racket and serving a...

A group of anxious students gather nearly everyday at the Indian Consulate in San Francisco, wondering if they will be deported.Today, there was an update for them, and it wasn't what they were hoping for.  Some of them could face criminal charges. The students are from Tri-Valley University, a college near San Francisco, that has been shut do...

The California University accused of a massive "visa fraud" by US immigration officials says the charges against the college are "baseless" and that it has not cheated any student.The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) claims that the college acted as a front for a massive immigration racket.  Ninety five per cent of the students are...

Students duped by the Tri-Valley University have sent a petition to the US Department of Homeland Security and also immigration and customs enforcement authorities saying they have not violated any law and they had no chance of knowing about the credentials of the university.The students also claimed that if deported, their families would be devast...

After video footage surfaced from Tri-Valley university campus suggesting Indian students were being radio-tagged as part of electronic surveillance by US immigration authorities, the Ministry of External Affairs has summoned the US deputy chief of mission.

After their university was shut down on charges of a massive immigration scam, Indian students in California have met the Consul General in San Francisco for help.    Ninety-five per cent of the students at Tri-Valley University (TVU), dubbed a "sham university" by US immigration officials, were reported to be Indian, most of them fr...

Hundreds of Indian students, mostly from Andhra Pradesh, face the prospect of deportation from the US after authorities raided and shut down a university in the Silicon Valley on charges of a massive immigration fraud.The Tri-Valley University in Pleasanton, a major suburb in San Francisco Bay Area, has been charged by federal investigating authori...