After the pandemic, there has been another pandemic but we can call it a good one. Students in abundance have been going to foreign countries to pursue their higher education. Due to the overwhelming response immigration offices have been facing backlog issues. Now that most students are applying for visas, more students than before are also getting rejected. Before the pandemic, the visa refusal rate in Canada was 15% whereas now it has shot up to 41%. In 2021 225,402 study visa applications were processed as per data by the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. Out of the 91,439 were rejected. The Canadian high commission found 2500 cases of forged documents from Indian students in order to land a student visa in Canada. The Australian government also found 600 cases of fake paperwork, particularly from the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana. According to an Indian newspaper IndiaTimes, students from Punjab are being relentlessly rejected by the Canadian government because of fraudulent bank statements and birth certificates, fake paperwork regarding the schooling gap, and the mistrust of foreign officials.
