In another visa scam, the culprit identified as Eamon Daniel Higgins, who is involved in visa frauds and scams, pleaded guilty to commit the concerned crimes and further assisting overseas students to stay in the United Students.

Aged 46, the convict had a scheme in which proxies used to attend the classes on the behalf of main applicants and also sir for the final examinations for the overseas students. Virginia Kice, representative from Immigration and Customs Enforcement confirmed the news.

Higgins is expected to be sentenced on August 9, 2010 as he was arrested in March this year. He is regarded as the main accused behind the scam which involved overseas students from all over the world, especially, Qatar and Kuwait, to name a few. He used to charge a heavy amount, somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500 to hire proxies who would further attend the lectures and a further amount of $1,000 if the applicants are interested in hiring someone who would take English proficiency test for them.

In addition, student’s ID cards were used to make fake driving licenses, so that the proxies would attend the classes on their behalf. Therefore, it has been speculated that the scam may involve so many people from higher authorities too, as it is not possible to commence the crime all alone.

Investigations are going on as to who all students are involved in the scandal, along with finding the actual motive behind it, apart from visa crime. Till now eight overseas students have been charged with visa deception.