The Government of Canada has made announcement that it would implement rigid regulations. The motto behind this step is to enhance the working conditions of applicants who come to work in the country on temporary basis as well as the care-givers in the nation.

The Federal government has confirmed that the employers have been exploiting and mistreating people who come here. According to Chair Nigel Thomson from the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, the new stringent regulation would see to it that the temporary workers don’t face any hassles here and it would be made sure that employers play their rules.

In order to take care of this issue, the Federal government has implemented these rigid rules to take care of the employees who are live-in caregivers, plus the ones who work on temporary basis. The steps would save them from potential exploitation from their employers.

The rules came into implementation in April 2010. In accordance with these regulations, the employers would be required to give the contracts which have properly demonstrated wages, benefits and hours of duties, including the leaves which would be granted to these employees.

Also, starting from April 2011, new regulations will apply a stricter and accurate assessment to employments for these categories before the employers are granted the authority to hire. It will take care whether the employer who is hiring the workers are following the guidelines or not.

Recently, Delhi police arrested twenty seven people at the IGI airport who were traveling to Dubai on forged passports and visas. Two airlines received a threat call of a possibility of the hijack of an airplane but in actually it was a racket of immigration which was busted. Police after arresting the twenty seven culprits is now searching for the source behind this crime.

The call center Kingfisher Airlines received s threat call that around twelve Bangladeshis who were traveling on fake passports are planning to hijack the airplane which was flying to Dubai. After a few minutes, another airline named Jet Airways also received the same kind of threatening call. The police then carried on with its search for culprits at various places and arrested twenty seven people who admitted that they were traveling illegally. But they were not the hijackers but illegal immigrants flying to Dubai. The calls to two airlines were made from Dubai and it must have been called by some rival immigrant agency who wanted to reveal the identity of their rival group.

The Deputy Commissioner of Police in a statement has said that the arrested men are from Iraq and they were traveling to Dubai as they were promised a job over there. The police said that the gang of fake immigration consultants who lure the clients with job promises abroad and send them to other countries on fake visas is channeled through five states in the country. Their one agent is in Delhi and the other is in Dubai, who looks after their travel expenses. Each client is charged with the amount of rupees one lakh for the entire process of immigration and most of them are aware of this truth that they are migrating illegally. On questioning them, they said that they are simply going on a vacation and nothing special. The twenty seven culprits are from West Bengal, Punjab and Haryana.

Now, that’s a good thing Canadian government is considering, for it will not harm and shatter the dreams of many people who intend to immigrate to Canada. As per new reports, Canada is all set to introduce a new legislation which would deter ghost or unscrupulous immigration consultants/agents from providing illegitimate advices to prospective immigrants. It would ensure that unlicensed immigration agents, including India-based ones will be facing tougher penalties for running false agencies.

The new legislation is likely to be introduced in the Canadian parliament this week, which will impose harder punishments for offering unlicensed immigration related services and advices. Along, Canada has also asked other countries, including India to oversee the immigration agencies that are offering services in various territories.

The step comes across as Canada has more unlicensed immigration consultants than those that are registered with the body that regulates immigration consultancies, Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants. According to Canadian immigration minister, the new Law would weed out immoral consultants who try to mislead prospective immigrants to Canada. Until now, lakhs of people have been misled by fraud consultants, in Canada, as well as outside the country. The law that is to be introduced soon, considers this as a serious offense, and as a result, unauthorized consultants may entitled to very harsh penalties.

There have been many cases where prospective immigrants ended up being victims of such immoral consultancies, which demand huge sum of money, but do not provide services in return. As for example, there are many consultancies in India, especially in Punjab that team up with their fraud partners in Canada and cheat on their clients by charging very large amounts of money.

Surrey saw huge marches of people which succumbed to immigration frauds on Saturday. They are asking the federal government to put in some strict checks on these Immigration consultants.

The organizer Aditya Mohan went on to say that plenty of folks in Vnacouver and Surrey have been victims to these fake Immigration consultants, hence leading to plenty of money loss from their sides. These agents promise immigration to Canada but end up committing fraudulence in various cases. They paint a very nice picture in front of them. They promise that they have to pay the money and ensure guarantee that their clan would be there by hook or by crook. People also go on to pay high amounts between $10,000 and $20,000 to these immigration consultants, but end up being on the losing side.

According to the immigration consultant, eight out of ten cases from India face rejection, but the fee is not refundable once the case is rejected.

Various victims have their own tales to tell. Rajpal Kaur Jhuty stated that she spent additional working hours in the office only to go for an expert Immigration expert. Her intentions were to get her family from India. But the consultant lied to them as nothing came out as a positive outcome.

Another victim, Krishan Parashad stated that he paid a huge amount of $90,000, but nothing worked in his favor. He said that all his money has vanished, and now he is not even assured whether the application was ever filed or not.

Just one advice – stay away from fake immigration consultants and always opt for a experienced company (http://www.abhinav.com/)!

In an attempt to enhance the relationships with its neighboring nation Bangladesh, Indian government has confirmed that it would make the visa regulations easier for the nationals of Bangladesh.

According to Indian Minister P Chidambaram, the government has come out with proposals related to making the procedure linked to granting conference visa to the nationals of Bangladesh flexible for them.

He went on to confirm that the applicants for whom the visas would be relaxed may constitute those professionals who come to India on a regular basis and stay for longer durations, in addition to the exceptional cases.

The minister confirmed that India would also ease out the visa regulations on the basis of medical grounds. He also denied to the speculations that Indian would come out with a plan to announce a unilateral no-fire zone between the borders of the two countries.

He spoke on the issue of mutual relationships between both the countries till now, saying that the relations between the nations have enhanced in a major way since the last few years. But there are still some un-demarcated areas which need sheer importance. Hence, progress is going on in an attempt to resolve these facets.

Discussing about the issue of illegal immigration, he stated that it is a grave problem. But the government is making plans to cater to the issue.

Certainly, strong steps are on the cards, as far as the Indian government is concerned.

Of late, there have been many instances in Canada where unauthentic immigration consultants cheated on or trying to mislead immigrants. They are not going by the rules and regulations set by the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants. In the most recent case, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has identified a Windsor immigration consultant who has cheated on many immigrants and charged up to $100,000 in order to submit petitions to the Citizenship and Immigration Canada.

The consultant Francesco Salvatore (Sam) Burgio is not legally permitted to provide services, still he continued to do so. He held a membership with Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, but his membership was cancelled in 2006. The police has already identified more than ten victims of the consultant. Reportedly, he charged in between $2,000 and $100,000 just to submit prospective immigrants’ applications.

Currently, Canada has a total of 1,600 certified immigration consultants. The presence of immoral consultants and their illegal activities are harmful for both prospective immigrants and the image of the country’s immigration system. Canada’s immigration minister has appreciated the efforts of the associated that have tried to investigate the unauthentic consultants. He also urged the government and other law enforcement agencies to work together and identify immoral consultants.

Unregulated immigration consultants with their mistake and huge charges are posing difficulty for the prospective immigrants. There have been cases in Canada, as well as in the United States where people’s applications were not being submitted or had errors, because of which the dreams and future plans of their clients were shattered. Thus, it is very important for anyone intending to immigrate to any country should go through a background check and legal status before hiring an immigration consultant!

Before writing anything about this news piece, it is time and again advised to all the prospective applicants out there to hire the services of an experienced and trustworthy Immigration consultant before immigrating to a new country.

In another immigration scam, a consultant from Windsor has been accused of showing his presence in eleven frauds, in addition to tampering with the clients’ applications.

RCMP has come out with 10 victims who paid the requisites but fail to get any Immigration service in return. It has been said that a minimum of $2,000 to a maximum of $100,000 were paid from clients’ sides, only to get nothing at the end of the day. This fee was supposed to be given to the CIC on their behalf.

But gradually, the news leaked and the applicants realized that no further moment has been initiated on their behalf. Rather, the consultants are failing to provide any official documents from the side of CIC.

According to a representative from CSIC, John Ryan, the case has highlighted some of the critical issues including the need to perform a background check for the existing immigration consultants out there. He said that it is understandable that a majority of crowd would never go for an unlicensed doctor, so why take chances and hire an unlicensed immigration expert. This is just unwise.

So, next time, just trust on an expert Immigration consultant.

It seems Canada’s easygoing approach and welcoming nature towards the immigrants is giving the country a hard time! So, the question arises here- ‘Is Canada too soft on refugees from outside countries?’ Every year, thousands of refugees find shelter in the country. Canada happens to be the most welcoming developed nation in the world in terms of accepting refugees.

At times, it is found that many of the refugee applicants are not genuine. The applicants namely from Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan among many countries often end up disintegrate the Canadian immigration and refugee system. Many such cases of course question the country’s mild immigration laws that allow anyone to enter the country and file for refugee claim on such grounds that are not convincing or genuine enough!

But, now the time has come to address these issues for the sake of the country itself! Yes, in response to the increasing cases of bogus refugees in Canada, the country’s immigration department is going to come up with a new law. The law will keep an eye on the fraudulent refugee cases.

According to Canadian immigration minister, Jason Kenney, the new law to be amended would make the country’s immigration and refugee system faster and effective, recognizing the real refugee applicants and removing the fake ones from the country.

The changes to the legislation will also challenge immoral immigration advisers and consultants who guide the applicants to commit fraud, thereby breaking the country’s immigration regulations. It is often found that many outsiders come up with refugee claims in order to obtain a status in Canada, as guided by their consultants!

Reports say that Government is planning to implement a project that would assist the authentication of degrees in an online manner. In an attempt to pursue the same, a task force has been appointed to come out with a national database and further guarantee online verification of degrees. The step would further ensure that genuineness and accuracy is aptly provided in the system.

The task force will provide all the aspects of this project by this month’s end, which would further allow the government to take actions at the later stages. Reports say that any one of the mentioned: National Securities Depository Ltd or Central Depository Services (India) Ltd would be given the responsibility to further handle the database.

The step would definitely ensure weeding out fake resumes which influence the credibility in a major way. In addition, employers would be provided with authentic resumes, hence ensuring the genuineness of the employee too.

Stats say that almost 15% of resumes checked last year were decked with fake information, confirmed First Advantage Pvt. Ltd. Hence, the implementation of the step would surely ensure authenticity and stability throughout the process. The database would also store hard copies, for further maintaining the records.

The group has been appointed by HRD ministry and it will make sure that the degrees are verified in a quicker and inexpensive manner.

According to the chairman of the group Sanjay Dhande, the road map of the project has been crafted. Also, there should be a law to provide legal aspect to the database. He went on to say that only registered entries would be considered for employment.

The step would also assist plenty of genuine Immigration consultants acting in the arena, as it would allow them to work on authentic visa applications, hence minimizing the chances of deception and fraudulence to a major extend!!!

Quebec is one such concerned province in Canada that has recently rolled out a few regulations to the immigration consultants. This concern is for the potential immigrants who want to migrate to Canada. In an effort to discourage the unlawful immigration consultancy practices that have been cheating on many prospective immigrants, the provincial government of Quebec has recently announced what are the guidelines that from now onwards immigration consultants in Quebec should stick to.

As per the recent regulations proposed by the Quebec government, immigration consultants must clear a test and they have to register with the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants. Besides, they should have a clean background in this practice and fair knowledge of French language and should be residents of Quebec.

With this implementation, a public database will also help people identify which immigration consultants are accredited by the provincial government and those who are not recognized. The new guidelines for the consultants clearly indicate that the Quebec government will no more accept illegal immigration consultancy services that would deter prospective migrants from entering Canada. The government made it clear that all services will have to obey the guidelines, else they will have to stop their practices.

In appreciation of the guidelines, the Canadian federal government showed its keenness of implementing similar actions. However, the government is yet to reveal when it’s going to make this happen in the future!

The steps taken by the government of Quebec are undoubtedly commendable. Since, cases of cheating people by false or dishonest immigration consultants are common in many places. Hope, other countries and places would also take such steps in the near future and let lawful consultants provide services!