Broken promises: Indian students at a Berlin university face deportation instead of graduation
High tuition fees and even bigger, broken promises. For Indian students at the International University (IU), the dream of studying in Germany has turned into a nightmare. "My life feels like hell," one of them told Euronews.
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00:00Deep Shambharkar's big dream seems to be shattered.
00:03Instead of graduating, he's facing deportation.
00:06The 25-year-old came to Berlin from India as a master's student.
00:10He has been studying business management at the private international university for over a year.
00:15But then he received a letter asking him to leave the country.
00:19I was really surprised to have it because in my case I didn't do anything wrong.
00:24I came here as a student. I came here to study. I came here for a better future.
00:30Studying, meeting friends, all that will soon be a thing of the past.
00:35The responsible authority suddenly no longer recognizes the IU sufficiently.
00:40His visa and those of around 300 other Indian students will not be extended, Deep tells us.
00:46Basically this thing started this year from the month of March.
00:51They started deporting students because they consider the course that IU offers is a distance learning course.
00:59I think this was because the university didn't launch or offer their courses or didn't have the proper accreditation of the courses which they were supposed to have.
01:11The argument, IU is not sufficiently equipped for face-to-face teaching.
01:16Nevertheless, until recently, IU attracted students with videos abroad.
01:21It advertises a typical German student life and the prospect of jobs in Europe.
01:26Instead, Deep is now stuck with a student loan of 20,000 euros that he contracted in India.
01:33IU would not refund the money despite the fact that Deep's past exams seem to be worthless as other universities would not recognize them.
01:43Deep tells Zero News.
01:45I'm kind of surprised and sad about it but unfortunately things don't work out how I wanted it.
01:54And it's kind of tough to face all the situation mentally and physically.
01:59There are a lot of private universities here in Berlin and I use the only one that is having problems with the visa right now.
02:06And the students are suffering a lot because of it.
02:10Deep has lodged an appeal against his deportation but he has little hope.
02:15IU said it regretted that students were asked to leave the country.
02:19The responsible authority had changed its procedure without informing the university.
02:25During my research, I spoke with other IU students.
02:29For example, with one student who is in India and has been in the first year already online.
02:33He should actually go to Berlin, but he doesn't have a visa.
02:38Another student here in Berlin will be told that they will be taken away from Suizid-Gedanzen,
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