Teacher complains vs Mabatid’s PinoyCare
A public school teacher sought the help of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) yesterday to investigate PinoyCare Visa Center because he was not able to go abroad even after submitting all the necessary requirements, paying his dues, and passing the exam.
Aspiring for a good career abroad, teacher Levi Cortes, 40, shared that he availed of the services of PinoyCare so he can secure the necessary papers to work in Canada as a teacher.
He attended seminars organized by PinoyCare Visa. He wants the NBI to help him get a refund of the visa processing fee since the company failed to give him a Canadian visa.
As early September 2016, he paid a sum of P78,000 for the visa processing alone and P5,000 for a Licensed Canadian Immigration Consultant. He also paid another P18,600 for International English Language Testing System (IELTS). He took the IELTS exam twice.
PinoyCare claimed that Cortes failed in the examination.
According to the British Council, IELTS is a series of examinations to assess one’s English skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking.
It is an assessment tool which is accepted by over 10,000 organizations worldwide.
He took the exam again and PinoyCare said he still failed. He said his rates fell between 5 and 7. The highest possible score is 9.
Upon checking with the Canadian government website, he found out that the minimum IELTS score requirement for express entry skilled worker is 3.
Cortes claimed that if this is the real scale, then he already passed the test because teachers are considered as skilled workers.
In a text message, PinoyCare owner Niña Mabatid said that Cortes’ scores were below 6.
Contrary to Cortes’statement, Mabatid clarified that the passing score of 6 is across the board as stated in the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA).
“MOA prevails. Let him lang. My lawyers will take care of it,” she said.
Mabatid remains firm on their claim that Cortes did not pass the exam so PinoyCare cannot do anything anymore.
“Unsaon niya pagpasar (sa) point system sa Canada nga bagsak man siya sa exam. Di na sala sa PinoyCare. Iya ng responsibility,” she said.
Cortes said that only the documents which he submitted for compliance were returned to him except for a copy of the MOA. He recalled that only the IELTS testing fee is non-refundable.
Back in 2016, a group of 15 nurses came to the show of the Tulfo brothers in Manila to complain against PinoyCare.
They were given six to twelve months guarantee that they will have their own visa but the company failed to give their visas. They waited for four years and the company earned almost a million pesos from them.
PinoyCare Visa Center, based on the documents sent by Mabatid, has no pending criminal cases in court as of February 2018. —
Lorraine Mitzi A. Ambrad/MBG