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Dozens of international students are in limbo after being rejected by the Quebec immigration department because of alleged irregularities in vocational programs at Lester B. Pearson School Board.

“There are hundreds of students who are here,” said an immigration consultant who recruits students from India to attend vocational schools in Quebec.

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“Some of them paid half their fees, which is in the thousands,” said the consultant, who asked his name not be published for fear of reprisals.

The students paid deposits on tuition fees to LBP Vocational College, but the Pearson school board claims not to have received them, he said.

“When they go to the school, the school is saying: ‘We didn’t receive the money,’ he said.

Pearson’s International Studies Program has posted a prominent warning on its website telling international vocational students to make payments to Lester B. Pearson School Board, not to LBP Vocational College, which it describes as “a privately owned enterprise with no affiliation” to the board.