16 Jun 2021

PhD student faces deportation after enrolment cancelled

From Morning Report, 8:50 am on 16 June 2021

An international student completing his PhD in New Zealand is begging to be let back into his course.

Prithwish Sain, a chemistry student at Waikato University has spent more than $200,000 dollars on his studies here, and says he was due to finish by the end of this year but now faces being deported.

His enrolment has been terminated following a "complete relationship breakdown" with his PhD supervisor.

Emma Hatton has more on this.