Ottawa Under Fire To Reign In Immigration Consultants

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July 7, 2017 – Years of disarray in the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council – the organization set up to regulate the immigration consultancy industry – has resulted in a parliamentary committee recommending it be scrapped. Read our recommendations.
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July 6, 2017 – Years of disarray in the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council – the organization set up to regulate the immigration consultancy industry – has resulted in a parliamentary committee recommending it be scrapped.

The report recommends that in its place, the federal government should establish a new self-regulating agency to oversee immigration consultants.

The self-regulating body is especially being criticized for failing to ensure only licensed immigration consultants provide paid consultancy work.  This is not a new problem for Ottawa.

The ICCRC was set up in 2011 because of documented irregularities regarding how the previous regulatory body, the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, created in 2003, was being managed.  Regulating consultants was first studied in 1995 with a parliamentary report advocating a self-regulating body, tabled in October 2002 and a subsequent report in 2008.

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