A Toronto based immigration firm offered a job to an undercover CBC journalist who posed as a Chinese national looking for permanent residence in Canada for $170,000.
Canadian diplomatic missions from around the world were questioned about the integrity of these job offers and they identified prevalent inherent difficulties.
• Hong Kong reported "high rates of fraud or suspected fraud and only 15-22 per cent of AE offers were found to be genuine."
• Beijing said that "21 of the 33 files chosen for review found the applicants were not working for the employer or had never worked for the employer."
• New Delhi found that "over 60 per cent of the cases never worked for the employers in Canada."
• Seoul said "that out of 29 cases landed in 2008, only eight appeared bona fide, 12 cases found collusion between the employer and/or applicant and/or agent."
The federal government did not provide recent numbers when asked. Shannon Ker, a spokesperson for Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) wrote that "the vast majority of applications received by IRCC are genuine." Adding, IRCC has trained its employees "how to detect fraud and the appropriate steps to take when there is sufficient cause to suspect it is taking place."
Kurland said that, in his view, Ottawa and provincial regulators aren't doing enough. However, "there is an actual anxiety that the province and the feds have insufficient enforcement resources to keep things honest, and a lack of enforcement is an invitation for abuse”.
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Read the article here:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/immigration-jobs-fees-china-canada-1.5272394
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