Indian Consulate to organise free camp for Tri Valley students

Washington, Feb 2 (PTI) The Indian Consulate in San
Francisco and the South Asian Bar Association (SABA) will hold
a free legal camp for Indian students who have been affected
by the alleged immigration scam of Tri Valley University which
was closed by the federal investigating agencies last week.
The camp to be attended by SABA attorneys would counsel TVU students free of charge on their rights and immigration options, a consulate official said in an email.
The move, welcomed by the students, comes in the wake
of these Indian students running from one attorney's office to
the other seeking legal advice on what to do next.
While quite a few number of eminent Indian immigration
attorney's are providing advice to the students on a voluntary
basis, there are quite a few others who have started charging
money from these students.
The free legal camp would be held at the Indian
Consulate in San Francisco on Saturday.
Indian Embassy in Washington is working with its other
consulates too to work out similar free legal aid to Indian
students in other parts of the country as well.
Such a move comes after the Indian Embassy in
Washington over the weekend on its website –
www.indianembassy.org – set up dedicated helpline for its
students.
The advisory asked students of Tri Valley University
to write to minca@indiagov.org and edu@indiacgny.org to seek
guidance from the Indian authorities.
"The Embassy of India in Washington, DC has taken up
with the US State Department the issue of Tri Valley
University in California, so as to ensure that Indian students
are not subjected to any kind of discrimination or
victimization," the advisory said.
"The Embassy along with the Consulate General in San
Francisco have set up a dedicated e-mail address to enable the
affected students to communicate and seek guidance from the
Indian authorities," it said.