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A Fake University – Inside Higher Ed

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International students say they were recruited by the University of Farmington — set up by the U.S. government as part of a sting operation focused on student visa fraud — after their institutions lost accreditation. Some blame the government for setting the students up.

Read the court documents in the cases of the individuals who pleaded guilty to recruiting students to the University of Farmington — a fake university set up by a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as part of a sting operation to catch visa fraudsters — and you’ll notice a pattern.

A number of the “recruiters” turned to Farmington after the colleges they attended lost accreditation, or, to put it more precisely, when the U.S. Department of Education revoked recognition for the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools in December 2016, leaving them and about 16,000 other international students enrolled at institutions without federally recognized accreditation (ACICS’s recognition has since been reinstated).

The students, all citizens of India, subsequently enrolled at Farmington. They began recruiting their friends and collecting commissions from the fake university, which had no classes and no professors and was staffed with federal agents.

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