Shivani Sharma says she dreamed of coming to Canada for higher education to get a better job, and to bring her husband and four-year old son here one day.
The family lives in Amritsar, a city in India’s northern state Punjab, where Sharma already had a well-paying job in pharmaceuticals.
Sharma wanted to apply to Vancouver Community College (VCC) but says Anil Kumar Sharma, who runs an immigration consultancy firm in India called Aryans Academy, directed her toward Granville College, a private institution in Vancouver.
So, Sharma, 29, says she and her husband used their life savings, and borrowed money from friends and family to pay $13,500 in tuition fees.
However, soon
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