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March 9, 2010       Share:    

Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i_etTgFNtZilwJv4J4tzWpGBXCLAD9EAQ3VG0

Dozens of Arab Students in U.S. Visa Fraud

(AP) Gillian Flaccus - Eamonn Higgins, 46, was charged Monday with operating a ring of illegal test-takers who helped dozens of Middle Eastern nationals obtain U.S. student visas by passing various proficiency and college-placement exams for them, federal authorities said. Over a seven-year period, Higgins collected tens of thousands of dollars from foreign students from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait, Turkey and Qatar before he or his accomplices took their exams at ten southern California community colleges and universities using doctored IDs. Higgins may have worked with hundreds of foreign students, although authorities have only been able to definitively identify 119.

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