On 1 October, Delhi Police announced the arrest of two men running an overseas job office called Dynamic Overseas in Netaji Subhash Place. At least 46 people were cheated. The case traces back to a single complaint made at a public hearing at the local police station on 1 August.

Police say 31 grams of gold coins were bought with the proceeds, and recovered computers, a printer and office stamps alongside the passports. One of the accused had already been booked for fraud in 2020.

Noida Police arrested three people, reported on 2 October, for allegedly cheating more than 100 job seekers with Canada work visa promises. The gang posed as being linked to a Canadian company.

Applicants were charged roughly Rs 25,000 each for paperwork, biometrics and medicals. Reports say five applicants went through the process in June 2026. When their visa barcodes were scanned, they came back fake. The consultancy operator who had sent those clients is the one who went to police.

Investigators allege the gang used forged Passport Request letters, virtual Canadian phone numbers and hawala transfers, with one member posing as a Canadian woman. One accused had been arrested by Chandigarh Police in 2023.

Patna Police arrested three people after raiding an overseas job consultancy, reported on 4 October. They seized fake certificates and interview letters alongside the passports. Reports differ on the exact count, somewhere between 108 and 118.

Job seekers were promised work in Gulf countries. Fake certificates and interview letters were prepared to make the process look real, and police are now investigating who produced the documents.

On 3 October the Special Crime Wing of Jammu Crime Branch filed a chargesheet against an education consultant. Police say Rs 37.94 lakh was collected from several people promised overseas work visas, mainly for Canada. The visas never arrived and the money was never returned.

This is a chargesheet, not a conviction. The allegations still have to be proven in court.

Thai police rescued two Japanese men aged 20 and 21 on 30 September, in a case reported on 5 October. They had been recruited online with promises of free flights, accommodation and a well paid job in Thailand.

The pair landed in Bangkok on 10 September. They were driven to a border district and taken through an unofficial crossing into Myanmar. At the compound they were forced to make hundreds of calls a day to elderly people in Japan, posing as police and prosecutors. Their phones were taken and they were told a ransom was required to leave. They managed to send their location to family and Japanese authorities, which led to the rescue.

An investigation by the Polish outlet Onet, reported on 1 October, found employment agencies using fake student status for foreign workers. One Colombian woman believed she was travelling to work at a meat plant, and discovered the agency had quietly enrolled her in school.

Student status made workers cheaper to employ. Private universities issued certificates that helped foreigners obtain visas or legalise their stay, and the investigation found the same schools appearing repeatedly in documents for workers from around the world. When inspections uncover the arrangement, it is the worker who loses the job and faces deportation.

On 1 October a US court sentenced an Afghan citizen to six months in prison for visa fraud. In 2017 he had paid someone to prepare a Special Immigrant Visa application, and that application included a false approval letter from the US Embassy in Kabul.

He signed and swore the evidence was true. In 2021 he paid another person to file a second application. Prosecutors say he knew there was a high probability it contained a false statement.

On 1 October, Assistant Minister Julian Hill outlined plans to change the migration agent code of conduct. Agents would be barred from helping with applications they know, or reasonably should know, lack a factual or legal basis. The government also says a taskforce is investigating unregistered operators giving unlawful migration help.

Officials say some agents sell false hope to clients with no real claim to stay, collecting fees for applications that cannot succeed. These remain proposals and are not yet law.

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