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Fake letter leaves Nigerian international student without status, asked to leave Canada

Lola Akinlade arrived in Canada in 2016 as an international student from Nigeria.

Lola Akinlade says she had no idea university acceptance letter was fake

Lola Akinlade had a huge smile on her face on the day in 2019 when she walked across the stage at the Nova Scotia Community College, her new diploma for social services in her hand.

But underneath, she was worried.

“The happiness was not going deep down,” she said in a recent interview near her home in Middle Sackville, N.S.

A few weeks before graduation, the international student from Nigeria received a letter from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).

It said one of the documents she’d used to enter Canada in 2016 was a fake, and asked her to explain herself.

It’s a charge Akinlade said she knew nothing about before IRCC told her, but which has left her and her family in Canada with no immigration status and little to fall back on if they return to Nigeria.

Akinlade said the realization that she’d relied on a fake document to get her study permit left her devastated.

“That was the beginning of my trauma.”

Statistics released to CBC by IRCC, and the experience of people working in the field, suggest there could be many other international students in Canada in a similar situation.

Since IRCC began a new process to screen international student acceptance letters in December 2023, it has found more than 9,000 examples of fake letters, suggesting Akinlade’s case is far from unique.

Akinlade wants IRCC to reexamine her case, arguing she was a victim of a “rogue agent” who supplied her with a fake letter of acceptance to a Canadian school.

“Please look into my file,” she said. “I just want this to be sorted out.”

Akinlade started thinking about studying in Canada in 2015. She was working for a pharmaceutical company in Lagos as a medical sales representative with a business administration degree from a Nigerian university.

At an office outside Lagos, she met with a man who said he worked as an immigration consultant and would guide her through the process of becoming an international student by applying for a master’s degree in business administration for her.

Akinlade said she did not discuss a particular university with the agent, and just explained that she wanted to study at a high-quality Canadian institution.

Akinlade said she gave the agent documents such as her passport and university transcripts, along with payment. Several months later, he gave her a study permit to enter Canada, plane tickets and an acceptance letter to the University of Regina.

Akinlade flew to Canada in late December 2016, thinking she would start classes in January 2017.

However, she said while she was stopped over in Winnipeg en route to Regina, she got a call from the agent, who told her there were no spaces available at the university and she’d have to go on a waitlist.

“I said my primary aim was to come here to study. I don’t want to be on the waitlist.”

Akinlade began to search on her own for a new school and a new program, and stayed with relatives in Winnipeg until she was accepted at the Nova Scotia Community College for social services for a September 2017 start. She said she decided to switch to social services because it better aligned with the work she’d already done in the medical field.

Akinlade said she never contacted the University of Regina directly until two years later, when she received the letter from IRCC telling her the acceptance letter was a fake.

“I was kind of skeptical [after getting the IRCC letter] because I thought that wasn’t real, like a miscommunication or something,” she said. “So immediately I contacted [the] University of Regina.

“And that was when I learned the truth.”

Agent says letter came from another firm
Akinlade said since arriving in Canada she’s had little contact with the agent in Nigeria.

But CBC exchanged text messages with Babatunde Isiaq Adegoke, the agent Akinlade said she used to co-ordinate her Canadian university and study permit application.

Adegoke told CBC he guided Akinlade through the process of applying to enter Canada.

He agreed that he gave Akinlade the acceptance letter to the University of Regina. But he said the letter was given to him by a company called Success Academy Education Consult that he hired. He said it was located in the city of Ejigbo but has since moved to an unknown location.

He said he was surprised to learn the acceptance letter was fake, and he denied telling Akinlade she’d have to go on the waitlist at the University of Regina.

A close up of a university acceptance letter held in a woman’s hands.

Adegoke told CBC he was no longer offering study permit services, he had no contact information for Success Academy Education Consult and had not dealt with the company since 2018. He declined to do a video call for more information.

CBC was not able to find a business that matched Adegoke’s description. CBC made phone calls and sent emails to businesses with similar names, but none of the business owners said they recognized Lola Akinlade’s letter.

No immigration status
Akinlade lost her study permit in Canada because of the fake letter, and was denied when she attempted to apply for a post-graduate work permit and a temporary resident permit.

An IRCC officer wrote to her in March 2023, telling her the department believes she knew the document was fake, “as per balance of probabilities.”

Her husband, Samson Akinlade, and eight-year-old Nigerian-born son, David, joined her in Nova Scotia in 2018, and have now lost their temporary resident status. Their younger son was born in Canada in 2021, and while he has Canadian citizenship, he does not have medical coverage because of his parents’ status.

The three oldest members of the family have been asked to leave the country voluntarily. They cannot work or go to school. I’ll

“We’ve been surviving on our savings and I don’t know how long we can keep surviving on that,” she said. “It’s really, really hard.”

Akinlade said the family sold their home in Nigeria to fund the tens of thousands of dollars required for her Canadian tuition. She and her husband worked in Nova Scotia as caregivers before losing their immigration status.

“We already invested our lives in Canada, so there is nothing to go back to fall on [in Nigeria],” she said.

‘Rogue agents’ a common concern
Akinlade’s lawyer, Amanat Sandhu, said the family is filing a humanitarian application to stay.

Sandhu said it’s common for her downtown Toronto firm to see what she describes as “rogue agents” supplying immigrants with bad information.

“Overall, there’s a lot of people that get into this sticky situation where they trust an agent and then the agent doesn’t perform the way that they’re supposed to,” she said.

Canadian schools are also concerned about the actions of these agents, said Graham Barber, the assistant director of international relations at Universities Canada.

Barber said in his more than 10-year career he’s seen a “handful” of times when students actually showed up on a university campus believing they were enrolled when they were not.

Canadian universities concerned about agents ‘swapping’ fake acceptance letters

He believes the more common method is for students to be quickly “swapped” from a university to a private career college.

“These agents really were swapping out some of those letters of acceptance later in the process and utilizing the good name of a university in order to increase the chances of that student getting a study permit,” he said.

Last year, the federal government instituted a new checking process with Canadian schools to verify real letters of acceptance. Barber said it’s working well, but his members are troubled that their brands are being used in this way.

“Any university whose logo is being used without their permission, whose brand and good name is being used without their knowledge, that’s incredibly, incredibly worrisome,” he said.

IRCC releases numbers
The new letter of acceptance verification process began on Dec. 1, 2023. Before it began, the department acknowledged many students “sincerely” came to Canada to study, but some who knew about the fake letters had “no intent” of studying.

Between that day and July 1, IRCC said it has caught 9,175 letters that were never issued by a Canadian school.

Those 9,175 letters were out of a total of 361,718 letters checked by IRCC and the schools.

These letters “may be an indicator of fraud,” IRCC wrote in a statement, but each one will need to be checked by an officer.

The department declined to make anyone available for an interview, and agreed to answer questions only by email.

It said it is “focused on identifying culprits, not penalizing victims” of fraud.

In response to questions about Akinlade’s case and why IRCC believes she knew about the fake letter, IRCC pointed back to its officer’s decision based on the “balance of probabilities.”

“Applicants are responsible for all the information on their application,” IRCC wrote, noting that Akinlade had an opportunity to address the officer’s concerns.

Onus on the applicant
Sandhu said it’s not clear to her exactly why IRCC believes Akinlade knew the letter was fake.

“If we’re going off of hunches, I feel that most officers can be very skeptical when it comes to applicants that claim they were victims of a rogue agent.”

Sandhu acknowledged that Canadian immigration rules put the onus for everything in the application on the applicant.

“Even though you may have used an agent, you are still supposed to be aware of everything,” she said.

Akinlade said she has learned a “lesson” about finding a reliable agent to help her, but she believes if IRCC looks again at her case it will find she was not complicit in the fake letter.

Her lawyer is submitting her humanitarian application to IRCC in the coming weeks but the application does not give her any right to stay in the country, and it is not clear how many months it could take to process.

“I really want to be investigated,” she said, adding that the whole experience has been “traumatic” for her family.

“This is not something I pray for my enemy to experience.”

CBC

Before NYSC

1. Get your statement of results
2. Request your academic transcript or download the one on your portal and merge it into a PDF.
3. Request for proof of English as the language of instruction in your university (letter from the registrar's office).
4. Ensure that you have a good relationship with at least 3 lecturers.

Done and dusted is dangerous!!!!
You are not done until you are done.

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1. Write standardized exams in line with your next phase of life (GRE, TOEFL, GMAT, etc)

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2. Explore professional training and certifications (ICAN, NIM, etc).

3. Do not ignore the opportunity to intern (research assistantship, Ass. QC analysts, etc)

4. Explore opportunities (some described below).

A. Scholarships

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6. Don't run with the multitude, realities after NYSC differ.

7. Don't be under pressure (After NYSC, what next???), You may hasten yourself to many errors.

8. Grow yourself in welcoming rejections. You may get a few while applying.

9. Apply as much as you can

10. Pray as much as you can.

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If you haven't accomplished any of the above,

1. Be truthful to yourself (Are you willing to stay in the state of deployment or go back home?)

2. Resist pressure (Being alive is more important than anything else, don't let anyone overpush you).

3. Develop a mindset that no one owes you anything (It helps in managing disappointment).

4. Identify platforms where legal opportunities are shared.

A. LinkedIn
B. Twitter
C. Opportunity desk
D. Opportunity for Africans
E. Scholarship hub.
Etc.

5. While applying and waiting, get yourself busy

1. Write a manuscript from your undergraduate project
2. Submit conference abstracts
3. Register with an organization (volunteer) and start gathering experience.
4. Start learning a hands-on skill that you may need later in life. Could also be digital training in Bioinformatics, data science, AI, ML, coding, programming, etc.

If all of these fail????

Keep trying!
You only need one major opportunity!
When it comes, you'll forget the days of pain
Let that keep you motivated.

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