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Article: Visa scam language school in shock closure.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 2003
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Byline: HUGH DOUGHERTY
A LANGUAGE school exposed by the Evening Standard as being at the centre of a visa scam has closed.
Evendine College operated three language centres in London but also acted as a "visa shop", providing false information to immigration authorities to let its " students" work illegally.
The college was put under investigation by the Home Office after the Evening Standard revealed how it offered to guarantee a student visa to a Czech journalist posing as an immigrant - despite her making clear she had no intention of studying.
But today it was revealed the college had closed with staff and students being greeted by ...