the CanadaVisa Team - 22 July, 2015
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) has launched an awareness campaign to inform immigrants about how to protect themselves from dishonest and unethical immigration consultants and representatives.
A new online survey on the CIC website invites people to provide their input to help the government in their efforts to prevent immigration fraud and other wrongdoing. The information collected will provide CIC with a better understanding of the nature and scope of the problem across Canada.
"Make no mistake - the Government enforces Canadian law when immigration fraud is proven," states Immigration Minister Jason Kenney. "But we'd prefer toprevent the wrongdoing in the first place to protect the integrity of Canada's immigration system and to protect people from harm."
Minister Kenney recently held a town hall meeting in Toronto as part of the awareness campaign. A similar one will be held in Vancouver.
The online survey will be available until May 17. It is voluntary, confidential, and does not ask for personal information from participants. The goal is not to deal with individual cases or enforce the law, but rather to gather information so that fraud prevention efforts by CIC can be increasingly effective.
