Visa Farms

English teachers overseas have begun to refer to universities in Nevada as Visa Farms. The universities have been hit hard by the economy. The deans demand money as the colleges suffer. The way colleges make money is by providing a service. They open doors to churches on Sunday. They open classrooms up to night programs for adults. They scout for students overseas. This is how the 9/11 attackers got into the country. Students from foreign countries find desperate schools that will accept any student willing to pay. My wife and I live minutes away from the Student Union, the entrance to the university. We had a Chinese student that lived with us. He applied to over 20 universities in the United States. The only college that would accept him was in Las Vegas. I have taught classes, studied to earn an MBA, and worked in the oldest school of commerce in Prague. This students from China was completely unqualified. The Las Vegas university had four people, two professors, and two students, watch this student like babysitters. The professors asked the student from China to teach a class to American students. This saved the campus money on a real teacher. He could not boil an egg. Forget teaching him how to wash clothes. The room smelled for eight months. The bathroom grew mold. He wouldn’t buy toilet paper, but stole tissue from the university restrooms. Nor could the student drive. The culture shock sent him to the campus hospital. He was medicated. Each morning he threw up from the anxiety, but the campus helped him because he paid tuition. The campus became a Visa farm for students hoping to enter the United States. Foreign girls looking for husbands were told to apply to Las Vegas. We met them by the pool at the resorts. Some are former babysitters. They asked to rent rooms after they get into the country as au pairs. The girls are encouraged to drink with high rollers at casino bars once they leave the sun by the swimming hole. An engineer from Iran went to Jordan to obtain a Visa and then Las Vegas let him enter into the College of Engineering. He asked for a room to rent. I took him to the store to buy shirts. He had nothing. I couldn’t help him, because he was only willing to pay $350 per month for rent. That would not cover the cost of gas, water, and electricity. His hopes were completely unreasonable. Someone responsible for recruitment offered him an education at the university and he flew into Las Vegas thinking the government would take care of his financial needs including housing. If anybody from a foreign government can pay for a diploma at a Nevada university, the time has come to leave the city. If any foreigner can pay to enter the country by applying to this university for a Visa, where is the security? Schools suffer during this economy. The universities are lowering their standards. The college is a business. They provide a service to anyone willing to pay tuition. Time to leave Las Vegas. 

Reporting outside Colorado