1. What should you consider before deciding to immigrate?
Immigration is a matter that will completely change your life, and you need to make a careful decision together with your family. Whether it is for the environment, for children's education, or simply for freedom, families need to evaluate the gains and losses and reach a consensus before taking action.
After immigration, the role of each person in the family, their economic foundation, and their evaluation of themselves and each other may all change due to changes in the environment. Some people like this change, some don't. Some people can happily live in a new world, while others will have their work separated.
There are thousands of reasons for immigrating. In fact, you don’t need to ask others for this reason, it is all in your own heart. If family members understand and support each other, especially if the couple can reach an agreement and are ready to face the rare challenges in life together, then you can come to us. In most cases, as long as a family has a unified mind and can persevere, successful immigration is basically just a matter of time.
Believe me, as long as people support each other together, the happiness and satisfaction gained in the new world will definitely be worth it.
2. Can immigrants handle DIY by themselves?
Immigration can be handled by yourself. If you have enough time and energy, and your English is good, and you read the official guide of the Canadian Immigration Bureau carefully, you can do it successfully step by step.
However, there are many contingency factors in the success of immigration. For example, in the Express Entry talent pool, the quality of competitors determines the level of screening scores, and the changes in immigration policy brought about by the coming to power of different parties in Canada. When you are preparing materials, The English materials prepared by some domestic institutions may not meet the requirements here, and you may encounter difficulties from your employer when applying for employment certificates, and many other uncontrollable factors.
At this time, a trustworthy immigration consultant with professional knowledge and experience can help you a lot. The value of the consultant lies in the many examples he has handled, including phone calls, copy preparation, and emails between him and the Canadian Immigration Bureau. Contact allows you to avoid some accidental risks to the greatest extent, thereby saving you time and energy, and improving your competitiveness among a group of applicants.
3. If you want to increase your success rate and decide to use professionals, why should you choose a licensed immigration consultant?
Leave professional matters to professionals. As an immigration consultant, there are too many commercial advertisements and self-promotions in the market, which makes people dizzy, dazzled, and even confused.
However, this matter has become simple for consultants who choose to provide immigration services to Canada. It is just that many people are easily deceived by advertisements and do not do some research themselves, resulting in money being paid in vain and the matter not being completed.
Well, the facts are this:
The Canadian Immigration Service stipulates that applicants who immigrate to Canada have the right to hire "representatives" to provide them with immigration consultation, fill out forms, submit application materials, and communicate with the Canadian government on their behalf.
Agents are divided into two types: paid and unpaid.
According to Canadian immigration, refugee and citizenship laws, only two categories of people are qualified to provide paid representation services: first, lawyers or paralegals who are qualified members of provincial law societies, or members of the Quebec Association of Notaries; second, those who have An immigration consultant who is a qualified member of The College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC), also known as a Registered Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC).
A lawyer or immigration consultant's membership number is also called a license number.
The College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC) is Canada’s only statutory immigration consultant regulatory agency.Only those who hold an RCIC license issued by CICC are legal immigration consultants in Canada..
If an immigration applicant hires an agent for a fee to assist in the application, he must attach the "Use Of A Representative" 5476 form to the application, and indicate the agent's name and the membership number of the relevant association in the form ( License number) and other information so that the Immigration Bureau can check whether the agent is qualified and contact the agent if necessary.
Chinese immigration companies must have a Canadian RCIC license
It is worth mentioning that Canada’s qualification requirements for immigration application agents apply to all countries.If an immigration company located in China handles Canadian immigration for applicants, the immigration consultant responsible for the process also needs to hold a Canadian RCIC license.
The registration number of the Industrial and Commercial Bureau usually held by immigration agencies in mainland China and the business license issued by China,Not recognized by Canada.Any licenses and certificates obtained by an immigration company in China cannot replace the RCIC license issued by the ICCRC Committee.
Under such regulations, many unlicensed consultants who do not hold CICC qualified membership status charge consultant fees when helping clients apply for immigration, but do not turn over the "Agent Use" 5476 form. This is also what happened in the case at the beginning of the article.
This type of unlicensed consultant is also known as"Ghost Advisor", that is, although it performs the duties of a consultant, its status as a consultant does not appear in the application documents.
How to identify an unlicensed intermediary?
People who intend to hire an immigration consultant as an immigration agent should first ensure that the consultant holds an RCIC license.
Not only that, because immigration agencies often borrow or steal other people’s license numbers, people can go to the CICC website to check and verify in person, where the license numbers, names and other information of all CICC members are public. The query URL is https://college-ic.ca/protecting-the-public/find-an-immigration-consultant.
The consequences of hiring an unlicensed consultant to apply for immigration are serious
First, according to Canada’s Bill C-35,It is a criminal offense to operate an immigration consulting business without a license. Violators will be fined up to 100,000 yuan or imprisoned for 2 years.
Moreover, once such applications are discovered by the Immigration Bureau, they will be rejected regardless of whether the applicant's materials are true or false and whether they meet the immigration requirements. And due to the suspected violation of the law, the applicant may not submit another immigration application within 5 years.
Not only that, once the Canadian Immigration Bureau seizes an unlicensed immigration company, it can find out all the current and past cases of the company through contact information, address and other characteristic information, and has the right to overturn or withdraw all cases involved.
In 2012, "Canada's largest immigration scam" shocked China and the world. After Xun Wang, an unlicensed immigration consultant in British Columbia, was caught, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 900,000 Canadian dollars. He had taken over 1,600 Among the customers, more than 700 have had their citizenship or permanent resident qualifications revoked, have been forcibly repatriated, or are facing immigration qualification hearings.
4. How to protect your own rights and interests during the immigration process?
RCIC licensed immigration consultants are supervised by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC). There are various professional ethics, professional conduct management methods, reporting and disciplinary procedures to manage certified immigration consultants. It is also compulsory for immigration consultants to take out professional fault insurance. Canadian licensed immigration consultants are all graduates of immigration consulting majors from recognized universities or colleges in Canada, and have reached CLB8, the Canadian national English standard, and then passed the CICC comprehensive skills test and criminal background check before being officially granted qualifications.
This major studies Canadian immigration regulations and policies and how to serve clients as an immigration agent. For example, their courses include regulations on how to manage customers' service fees. The service fees paid by customers must first be placed in a special customer account for supervision. Consultants can only provide corresponding services with the customer's permission. Only under the premise can the corresponding service fee be transferred to your account. If you have signed a service contract (Retainer Agreement) with an RCIC immigration consultant, once there is a violation in the service, you can go to the CICC website to report the member RCIC and ask CICC to handle it. After receiving the report, CICC must handle it and report the handling process and results to you.
Report URL: https://college-ic.ca/protecting-the-public/complaints-process
5. I don’t want others to know about my immigration process. Can you keep it confidential for me?
We deeply understand that immigration is a very cautious and sometimes controversial matter. From relatives and friends, from employers, colleagues, from classmates, everyone will have different understandings and opinions. During the application process, if appropriate confidentiality work is not carried out, it will indeed bring unnecessary pressure to the applicant, and the uncertainty of the immigration result may also cause trouble to the applicant's living arrangements. We assure every applicant who entrusts us that, in addition to strictly complying with the regulations of the Canadian Immigration Consultants Regulatory Commission on the safekeeping of confidential information, we are willing to sign a confidentiality agreement with the individual before the formal interview comes into contact with you to ensure that your Rights and interests will not be harmed due to leakage of confidentiality. Applicants should also rest assured that we will repay your trust in us with professional services and the best results.