A US appeals court has ruled that students enrolled at a university set up by Department of Homeland Security to catch brokers of fraudulent student visas, can now take the US government to court.

Twenty one people have been charged this week after helping over a thousand foreign nationals obtain fraudulent student visas and foreign worker visas through a fake university created by the US government.

International students interested in studying in the US have a new source of information on immigration rules and visa processes – a video produced by the Student Exchange Visitor Programme (SEVP) and posted on its recently launched Study in the States website. Student to Student: Studying in the States is the first video of its kind from the Department of Homeland Security.

The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has issued a "notice of intent to withdraw" accreditation to California's University of Herguan after federal agents charged CEO, Jerry Wang, with visa fraud. Wang was arrested just a day after the US House of Representatives passed a bill that would require all HE institutions to have national or regional accreditation.