Ottawa has launched an information campaign in India to warn prospective immigrants not to use consultants there. The information campaign is the immigration department’s first paid media campaign, though it does regularly caution applicants and potential applicants to beware of unscrupulous agents through social media and other free communication channels, said department spokesperson Shannon Ker. The immigration law stipulates that only licensed lawyers and consultants can offer immigration advice and services at a fee. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW“It implies that the existence of criminals is exclusive to the immigration consulting profession,” Dory Jade, CEO of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants, an industry advocacy group representing 2,300 members, said in a letter to the immigration department’s operations director general Raymond Kunze. The ad campaign in India — in English, French, Punjabi and Hindi — includes newspapers, radio, Facebook, and Google.

Source: thestar July 01, 2019 22:07 UTC