Trust is something you should be able to verify.
Good agents and bad ones look the same from the outside. This page explains how to tell them apart, whether you are checking us or anyone else.
Four things you can check about us
- 01
Ask for a name and a number, in writing.
On the first call we tell you who your counsellor is and how to reach them. If anyone cannot give you that, here or elsewhere, walk away.
- 02
Every offer letter comes from the university itself.
Real offers arrive through the university’s applicant portal or from an official university email address. We never send you a document by message and call it an offer. You can log in and see the offer yourself, and you should.
- 03
We never take money for admission, a visa, or “processing”.
University fees go to the university. Visa fees go to the government. If anyone asks you to pay Bihar Scholars for either of these, it is not us. Tell us, and we will deal with it.
- 04
Write to us and a person replies.
study@biharscholars.com goes to a real inbox read by real people. We reply within one working day, in plain language, and we put things in writing whenever you ask.
Five signs of a fake agent. See one, slow down. See two, walk away.
- 1
“Guaranteed visa”
No one can promise a visa. Not an agent, not a lawyer, not the university. Anyone who claims otherwise is either not telling the truth or hiding a fee that becomes due when the application fails.
- 2
Money first, details later
A registration fee, a processing fee or a “file-opening” charge, before you have even seen a shortlist. Honest guidance starts with a conversation, not a payment.
- 3
An offer letter sent only by message
If you cannot log in to the university’s own portal and see the offer there, treat it as fake until it is shown to be real.
- 4
One university, pushed hard
When every student is sent to the same college, whatever their marks or budget, the agent is not working in your interest.
- 5
No name, no address, no written terms
A phone number that keeps changing, an office that moves, and terms that are only ever spoken. A real business is easy to find.
Is this offer letter real? Four checks that take ten minutes.
In 2023, around seven hundred students found out at the Canadian border that their offer letters were fake. Ten minutes of checking would have saved every one of them.
- 1.Ask for the login to the university’s applicant portal. Every real application has one.
- 2.Find the admissions office email on the university’s official website, not in the letter, and ask them to confirm the offer.
- 3.Check that the course, intake and fee on the letter match the course page on the university’s site.
- 4.If the university publishes a list of its representatives, check that the agent appears on it.
Does something not feel right?
Message us before you pay anyone. It costs nothing to ask, and we will tell you honestly what we see.