The future of 19 students from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh is staring at void when these students with American dreams were denied boarding on the San Francisco bound Air India flight on Sunday night at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Samshabad.
The Air India authorities implemented the instructions given by the Unites States Customs and Border Protection after the US government recently deported 14 Indian students who secured admissions in two California-based universities, Silicon Valley, San Jose, California and Northwestern Polytechnic University, Fremont, CA, which are blacklisted and are under ‘scrutiny’ for their alleged visa fraud.
As of now, Air India vowed to refund in full the cost of the tickets to the 19 students and they will be issued boarding passes as soon as clearance is received from Air India’s US office for their travel.
However, this is not the first time that the Indian students with American education dreams were cheated. In the past, universities such as Tri-Valley University and Herguan University in California, and the University of Northern Virginia in Washington DC came under the scanner for student visa misuse.