Canada Migration Scam

Only Canadian lawyers and Re gulated Canadian Immigration Consultants (ICCRC members) who are Canadian citizens or Permanent Residents are authorized to provide Canadian Immigration services. To check whether the consultant is registered, please visitwww.iccrccrcic.ca

Australian migration agents are illegal

Others including Australian migration agents ( MARA members) are not authorized to provide Canadian migration services. The Canadian High Commission in Sri Lanka once investigated an Australian migration representative who operated as a concealed representative for Canada migration ( not declaring the representative in the application). All the clients of such r e p r e s e n t a t i ve received visa refusal. In addition, they were banned from applying again for five years. Even at present, there are such scammers openly operating in Sri Lanka with attractive advertising to lure unsuspecting clients. Also, some Australian migration agents illegally charge fees and persuade Australian migration clients to apply for Canada migration as Australian migration opportunities are fast dwindling.

Illegal Payments

An agreement must be signed between the client and the Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant ( not with Australian Migration Agent or such other unauthorized individual or company) and fees must only be deposited into the Canadian lawyer or consultant’s client account maintained under her/his name (not in to her/his company), a measure to protect the client by making the consultant personally liable in case of a fraud.

Illegal acts of agents/ representatives

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