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Online survey: Did your Canadian advisor toe the line?
A national online survey has been produced to highlight and help prevent scams by immigration representatives.
The survey will be available for the next two weeks on the Citizenship and Immigration Canada website and aims to help migrants to know how to protect themselves from falling victim to dishonest and unethical behaviour at the hands of immigration representatives.
Despite many success stories, there are still times when migrants can be offered dishonest advice and given false information which can potentially harm their dream of living in Canada. In a survey carried out by Emigrate in 2008, of the 287 people polled on whether their consultant was successful, 14.6 per cent thought they were excellent, 13.6 per cent thought they were satisfactory and 2.8 per cent thought the service they received was unsatisfactory. Interestingly, 60 per cent of the migrants polled didn't use a consultant at all, preferring instead to enter the process independently. However, since the survey significant changes have been made to the Canadian immigration system, and this may have resulted in more prospective emigrants enlisting the services of an immigration professional.
Jason Kenney, minister of citizenship, immigration and multiculturalism, commented: "I've heard a lot of unsettling stories of how people have been taken in by dishonest immigration consultants or unethical representatives. The government enforces Canadian law when immigration fraud is proven. But we'd prefer to prevent the wrongdoing in the first place to protect the integrity of Canada's immigration system and protect people from harm."
The survey is confidential and voluntary, with the aim of creating a national picture of the situation to find a way to reduce further cases of malpractice.
Further articles on Canadian immigration and much more can be found in Emigrate magazine, available now from a selection of retailers across the country.
08 July 2009