Hi dhaka12
In my application I nominated an unpaid friend who works as a lawyer to represent me.
The officer in SGVO informed me this representative is taking money from people and not an authorized consultant by CIC .
Therefor paying him or later promising to pay him is an offense and might result in refusal and rejecting further applications for two years. He even showed me some print outs from the representative site with success stories and visa images of past immigrants.
For me I was straight forward, this lawyer used to cone to my restaurant with his wife since 3 years and he was regular guest used to extend him discounts ,when I was doing homework to apply PR I got lot of unclear questions which CIC didn't post answers and in blogs many different opinions, so I called him he assisted me in the questions , and offered to use his name as representative since I was leaving Dubai to Singapore so I needed a registered mail adress for communication with CIC as at that time, and since I was less than 1 year in Singapore I put his name and address in Dubai.
Overall if a representative is not authorized by CIC and u pay or promise to pay u might end in trouble .
In my case hope the border agent believed me.
My ecas still shows in process , when I finished interview the officer came out to me smiling with my passport back , I asked him when do I expect my MR he answered it's the visa section who knows for him he is border agency to check on fraud .
In conclusion my file was at background checks otherwise they wouldn't have called me.
Hope all goes ok inshallah!
Btw after interview , if they have negative result , when do I expect to hear from them?