HOW MANY OTHER PHONY SOB STORIES HAVE BEEN LET INTO THE US ? Foreign Teenager Fooled ICE, State Department, U.S. College to Get a Student Visa; Indian Student Fakes Father’s Death For US Scholarship. Gets Arrested

Foreign teenager fooled ICE, State Department, U.S. college to get a student visa:

ndian student faked father’s death, fabricated high school records to get student visa

A foreign student is being deported after admitting to scamming the State and Homeland Security departments and a major U.S. university into helping him obtain a visa and a full ride to a college education.

The case of Aryan Anand of India has become a social media sensation and an embarrassing black eye for the government.

In a lengthy write-up on Reddit, he explains how he created a bogus website and email address for his high school that would ensure he would be the one submitting the fake records and answering any questions about them. He fabricated a death certificate for his father, who is alive, to obtain a full scholarship, and he bamboozled the State Department into clearing him for the student visa.

He settled in at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, where he applied for an internship and was hired, even though he was not authorized to work in the U.S.

He then blew the whistle on himself in his confessional post on Reddit. Another user saw it and forwarded it to investigators.

“I have built my life and career on lies,” he said.

He is now unraveling those lies. On June 12, he pleaded guilty to forgery in exchange for other charges being dropped. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested him and put him before an immigration judge, who ordered him deported.

The Times Herald in Northampton, Pennsylvania, reported that Lehigh was forgiving the $85,000 in tuition and other costs he bilked under the condition that he accept his deportation.

Jon Feere, a former chief of staff at ICE, which oversees the student visa program, said there is plenty of blame.

“Every step of the way, the right questions weren’t asked,” he said. “It really raises serious questions about how widespread fraud like this is within our system. This isn’t just a one-off case. This is simply a case where the person who engaged in the fraud admitted to the wrongdoing.” —>READ MORE HERE (or HERE)

Indian Student Fakes Father’s Death For US Scholarship. Gets Arrested:

The boy made a stunning confession about how he forged his class 10 board exam results and used fraudulent means to secure admission to a US college with a full scholarship.

An Indian student was arrested and deported after it came to light that he falsified documents to obtain a full scholarship. Aryan Anand, a student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, boasted about building “his life and career on lies” in a now-deleted Reddit post, which was later flagged by a platform moderator.

Anand made a stunning confession about how he used fraudulent means to secure admission to a US college with a full scholarship.

It included fabricating transcripts, essays, and even the death certificate of his father, who is alive.

Anand was arrested two months ago and faced up to 20 years in prison for felony counts of forgery and theft of services, reported 6ABC. However, at the request of university officials, he was expelled and deported to India instead. —>READ MORE HERE

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