More Foreign Student Fraud at Lehigh
DHS needs to investigate the capacity of all schools to verify overseas documents
By Jon Feere on November 1, 2024
Lehigh
More cases of foreign student fraud have come to light at Lehigh University, raising serious questions about the extent to which American schools in general have the capacity to stop criminal foreigners from gaining admission to the United States.
A case involving an Indian national, who had received a full-ride scholarship and was exposed only because he admitted to his extensive fraud on Reddit, was the subject of an earlier CIS report.
Now, fraud perpetrated by five foreign students from Ghana has also been identified, exposing serious flaws in Lehigh University’s vetting process. Their blatant frauds not only gained them access to the United States, but also resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship funds. The five Ghanaian students are currently facing criminal prosecution for forgery and theft.
At issue is the ease with which foreign nationals have been able to deceive the U.S. government and an American university about their identities, submit falsified documents without raising suspicion, and obtain access to the United States and large amounts of financial aid in the process.
https://cis.org/Feere/More-Foreign-Student-Fraud-Lehigh
