The federal government says it’s hitting pause on planned deportations of international students who may have been caught up in a foreign acceptance letter scam.
The announcement from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) comes after dozens of international students received deportation orders which accuse them of using forged post-secondary school acceptance documents to get into Canada.
Immigration Minister Sean Fraser warned that “potentially a few hundred people” could find themselves affected by the scam and removal orders.
Fraser announced Wednesday that the government will be undertaking an analysis of “every individual case that is the subject of a removal order on the basis of
