Shivani Sharma says she dreamed of coming to Canada for higher education to get a better job, and to bring her husband and four-year old son here one day.
The family lives in Amritsar, a city in India’s northern state Punjab, where Sharma already had a well-paying job in pharmaceuticals. Â
Sharma wanted to apply to Vancouver Community College (VCC) but says Anil Kumar Sharma, who runs an immigration consultancy firm in India called Aryans Academy, directed her toward Granville College, a private institution in Vancouver. Â
So, Sharma, 29, says she and her husband used their life savings, and borrowed money from friends
