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Speculation over de-recognition of two American universities has left several Telugu students in the soup.
On Saturday night, nearly 20 students from AP and TS, who secured admission to Silicon Valley University and North Western Polytechnic College in USA, were forced to cancel their Air India flight tickets following rumours that both universities have been blacklisted by the US government.
Citing informal instructions from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Air India staff refused to take these students on board at RGIA at Shamshabad on Saturday.
Speaking to Express, Deepak Reddy of Hyderabad, who secured admission in Silicon Valley varsity, said, “We have showed them all documents including the university admission papers. We also had valid visas that were issued only last month. Yet, the staff stopped us at the luggage counter and did not allow us even to explain our position. They showed us a paper with instructions, according to which the universities figured among those blacklisted by the US.”
This development comes in the wake of the arrest of the CEO of Silicon Valley University in a visa fraud.
However, Air India is the only airline to have received such instructions so far.
Meanwhile, the students expressed confidence in the universities which claimed to have accreditation up to December 2017. In a communication with the students, after this incident, the university authorities dismissed the charges as baseless.
Notwithstanding the unexpected turn of events, the students have decided to board whichever possible flight to the US to join classes on time.
Rumours Mar Students' US Edu Dreams -The New Indian Express
On Saturday night, nearly 20 students from AP and TS, who secured admission to Silicon Valley University and North Western Polytechnic College in USA, were forced to cancel their Air India flight tickets following rumours that both universities have been blacklisted by the US government.
Citing informal instructions from the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Air India staff refused to take these students on board at RGIA at Shamshabad on Saturday.
Speaking to Express, Deepak Reddy of Hyderabad, who secured admission in Silicon Valley varsity, said, “We have showed them all documents including the university admission papers. We also had valid visas that were issued only last month. Yet, the staff stopped us at the luggage counter and did not allow us even to explain our position. They showed us a paper with instructions, according to which the universities figured among those blacklisted by the US.”
This development comes in the wake of the arrest of the CEO of Silicon Valley University in a visa fraud.
However, Air India is the only airline to have received such instructions so far.
Meanwhile, the students expressed confidence in the universities which claimed to have accreditation up to December 2017. In a communication with the students, after this incident, the university authorities dismissed the charges as baseless.
Notwithstanding the unexpected turn of events, the students have decided to board whichever possible flight to the US to join classes on time.
Rumours Mar Students' US Edu Dreams -The New Indian Express
