According to the school’s website, Tri-Valley University is a Christian school located in Pleasanton, Calif. It offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in fields such as medicine, engineering and law.The students, most of whom are from Andhra Pradesh, said in their petition: “We plead with you not to penalise us or our families, and bring shame to our entire village and towns we come from by deporting us from the US and causing us loss of name, reputation, money.”
The petition was addressed jointly to the secretary of the US department of homeland security (DHS) and the director of the US immigration and customs enforcement (ICE).
The students said they believed that the university was a bonafide and legitimate institution that had been registered with the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database. “It seems patently unfair to expect foreign students who are not familiar with the American way of life and its system to be aware of potential irregularities in the university and its set-up, internal fraudulent practices of the owners and other domestic problems,” they said.
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