Cracking down on crooked consultants

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Victims of immigration fraud call for industry regulation
(CBC TV, British Columbia)
Metro Vancouver residents who lost thousands of dollars trying to secure their loved ones’ entry into Canada say the immigration consulting industry needs to be regulated against selling false hopes:
La « passe » des passeports – news report from Thursday, September 17, 2009
(Radio-Canada)
For many years, Immigration Canada has been a victim of massive fraud: Middle Eastern immigrants obtain Canadian citizenship without actually residing in Canada for the period specified in the Act.

“Ghosts”
(CBC Radio Toronto – Metro morning)
Matt Galloway poke with Toronto lawyer Guidy Mamann about unlicensed immigration consultants

Cleaning the sleaze out of immigration consulting
(The National Post)
Selling hope to the unwitting
(Maclean’s magazine)
He once ran an immigration ‘lottery.’ Now he’s back with a green-card program. We don’t have those, either.
Ghost agents slip through immigration loophole
(examiner.com)
Ghost agents, providing pen to paper filling out immigration paperwork on behalf of Canadians seems to be a pretty lucrative business making some Ghost agents thousands and thousands of dollars in Vancouver and the lower mainland:
‘Ghost agents’ slip through immigration loophole
(The Globe and Mail)
Federal government promises crackdown on unlicensed immigration consultants, who often collect fees from clients based on promises they cannot keep.

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