Canada Migration Scam

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Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant may appoint an agent with the ICCRC approval ONLY. However, such Sri Lankan companies or agents accepting money from clients and/ or signing agreements with clients are ILLEGAL. AGENTS CAN ONLY REFER CLIENTS to a Canadian Consultant or Lawyer and only receive a commission from such lawyer/ consultant for such referral, nothing else.

All employees providing migration advice or assistance or application filling etc. must work only under the DIRECT SUPERVISION of a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant or a Canadian lawyer. Accordingly, Sri Lankan agent or her/his employees providing migration information, eligibility assessments, advice or application assistance or even filling a form are ILLEGAL acts.

Visa refusal, banning applicant for 5 years, imprisonment

Unauthorized representatives and her/his employees are liable for imprisonment up to two years and fine up to C$ 100,000 as they are committing criminal offences. In addition, such offenders are barred from entering Canada and also are denied a visa to many western countries.

Also, the application will be refused and barred from applying again for 5 years under the legal ground ‘Misrepresentation of facts’, irrespective of whether the client was aware or not that she/he is using an unauthorized representative.

Sources - Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Regulations, IRCC (Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada), Visa officer guidelines, ICCRC Regulations, Law Society of Upper Canada Regulations

-Bandula Abeysinghe

Attorney at Law Regulated Canadian Immigration

Consultant Zenith Immigration Lawyers www.zenithimmigration.ca