Illegal study abroad company invites foreigners to consult customers

TPO – Up to now, DSS Study Abroad and Settlement Company Limited (DSS Vietnam) has not been licensed by the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City to resume operations in the field of study abroad consulting, but it is still brazenly operating, organizing interviews between customers in need and foreign business owners...

Speaking with Tien Phong newspaper reporters on November 25, Mr. Ho Tan Minh - Chief of Office of the Department of Education and Training of Ho Chi Minh City said that up to now, the Department has not yet granted a license to resume study abroad consulting activities for DSS Vietnam.

In a recent meeting with Tien Phong newspaper on issues related to DSS Vietnam, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City also affirmed that it did not grant any operating licenses including: vocational education, job referral or job brokerage to DSS Study Abroad and Settlement Company Limited. Thus, currently, DSS Vietnam only has a company establishment license first issued by the Department of Planning and Investment of Ho Chi Minh City on February 6, 2018, and does not have any specific business licenses.

Although currently not licensed to operate in the fields of study abroad consulting, job referrals, or job brokerage, DSS still organizes meetings for clients with Australian business owners.

However, despite the law, on the website said to be owned by DSS Vietnam with the address dsseducation.com and the fanpage DSS Group - International Education and Immigration continuously posted information about introducing and recruiting workers for foreign businesses. DSS even organized many livestreams and online interviews between Vietnamese people looking for jobs and Australian business owners. Posted information about customers who were selected for foreign orders through the support of DSS...

DSS Group posts advertisements and job introductions from Australian business owners on its fanpage.

According to an expert in the field of labor and employment, the above activities of DSS Vietnam are consulting and supporting the connection between businesses and job seekers through intermediaries with the aim of choosing suitable jobs, promoting the signing of contracts between employees and businesses when employees make the final decision, so this is an act of job brokerage. However, to perform the task of job brokerage, companies need to have a relevant license issued by the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (including a deposit of 300 million VND).

DSS continuously organizes cross-border livestreams connecting Vietnamese people with Australian business owners to provide consultation and job introduction.

Previously, on the morning of November 26, at the 6th floor Hall of a Guest House under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs on Hai Ba Trung Street, Da Kao Ward, District 1, DSS Vietnam organized a live and online discussion on the Zoom platform. The discussion was called "Skilled Migration Visa with Immigration Lawyer Alan Duri" between customers and a person introduced as a former judge of the Supreme Federal Immigration Court in Australia. However, after more than 30 minutes of the discussion, the local authorities came to make a record and requested to stop the organization because it had not been licensed...

Information DSS Group promotes the seminar with foreign elements on November 26 at the Guest House Hall of Meritorious People (under the Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs) in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City

The seminar took place with many customers attending.

Regarding this incident, information from the People's Committee of Da Kao Ward, District 1 said that after receiving people's complaints about DSS Vietnam organizing a discussion with foreign elements at 168 Hai Ba Trung, the local authorities came to inspect and make a record of the incident, and are currently coordinating with relevant authorities to verify more information to continue to handle it properly.

After being asked by the government to stop the live and online discussion at the Guest House Hall for Meritorious People, DSS Group continued to organize a livestream with the person believed to be the former judge of the Supreme Federal Immigration Court in Australia, Alan Duri, on the afternoon of November 27.

More readers accuse DSS Vietnam of collecting money but not sending it abroad.

After Tien Phong newspaper published shady information about the operations of DSS Vietnam, especially the collection of money from customers under a contract of "visa agreement... to go abroad" but not in reality, many other readers who fell into similar situations continued to report to Tien Phong newspaper.

Specifically, customers NTNH; NTHM; VTTN; QG... signed 482 visa agreements to work in Australia in occupations such as meat processing; elderly care, etc. for a long time but still have not been able to go.

Working with Tien Phong reporters, these customers said that after signing the contract and paying hundreds of millions of VND to DSS Vietnam, they were able to take online courses in English and vocational training. However, the quality of the training was not as expected, so most students had to take additional self-study outside. As for meat processing, some students reported that DSS Vietnam required them to go to a facility in Long An to practice, but due to the remote location and difficult travel, some did not continue to participate...

“When we were consulted and signed a contract with the company, we had confidence because their company is located in the Representative Office of the Ministry of Education and Training in District 3, Ho Chi Minh City. However, during the process of working with the company, we gradually lost confidence in the training and care methods. They did not provide us with any documents, if any, their names and addresses were deleted; when introducing foreign businesses for interviews, there was no information about the company…”, a customer was upset.

Previously, as reported, many readers sent petitions to Tien Phong newspaper to report and denounce DSS Vietnam and DSS Australia for collecting money from them but not sending them to work abroad. Going deeper into the investigation, Tien Phong newspaper also discovered other unusual activities of DSS Vietnam such as operating with expired licenses; collecting money in foreign currency for DSS Australia; operating outside its functions; consulting and introducing people to work abroad; owing wages, not paying social insurance... for workers.

Regarding this incident, Ms. Luong Thi Ha - Chief Inspector of the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City said that the Department is synthesizing information from other relevant agencies to advise the People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City to handle it.

Regarding this incident, the Department of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs of Ho Chi Minh City has transferred 2 complaints against DSS Vietnam from citizens to the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department. In addition, the District 1 Police Department also has a form to transfer the complaint of citizens against Ms. Nguyen Le Van - Director of DSS Vietnam to the District 3 Police Department; the Ho Chi Minh City Police Department also has a form to transfer the complaint against Ms. Daisy Nguyen - Director of DSS Australia and Ms. Nguyen Le Van - Director of DSS Vietnam to the Economic Police Department.

Nguyen Dung

Source: https://tienphong.vn/cong-ty-du-hoc-chui-moi-nguoi-nuoc-ngoai-den-tu-van-khach-hang-post1695525.tpo