Mr. Bruno Mateus Francio:

I thank the members for being here and for having this meeting. I booked for a course in Brazil. I looked at many websites on the Internet to see if the courses offered were good or not. I saw that Eden College was on the ICOS website and also on the MEI site, so I booked with it and I paid for the course in January. I came here and attended classes for one and a half months and then the school closed, which left all the students out on the street, as it were. Nobody, other than ICOS, was talking to us. We have sent many e-mails to the immigration service, INIS, and the MEI, but we never got a reply.

I have some friends in Brazil who paid for this course and they are still in Brazil. Some of my friends will go back to Brazil. I paid €3,000 for the course. It is a lot of money.