Thread by @WCWOA

⚖️ "Pay to stay" court update ⚖️

It probably helps when the judges assigned to these #sueandsettle cases are @BarackObama appointees...

pacermonitor.com/case/21012918/…

"The proceedings in the UNNJ case will bear watching as it is possible that up to 1,076 individual F1 students implicated in the scheme may be affected by the result."

myattorneyusa.com/f1-students-in…

"Even if the plaintiffs prevail, it is entirely possible that some, if not most or all, will be found to have committed visa fraud in the individualized proceedings requested."

Or not... DOJ is going to expunge any record of visa fraud as part of the settlement terms.

"the government said some students "in all likelihood, knew that their academic recruiters were committing visa fraud" and that others "conspired with their academic recruiters to commit visa fraud."

insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/1…

"There was no school. There were no classes, there were no books. This was an operation that was set up to get visas for people."

"1,076 of these foreign individuals – all of whom were willing participants in the scheme"

justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/21-…