EXCUSES GIVEN TO IMMIGRATION REPRESENTATIVES.
Newbie Immigration Lawyers are told when they get hired by an Immigration Lawyer Firm that business is so bad they can’t afford to pay them very much. They promise the possibility of one day they may become a partner in the firm, if they work real hard. LOL.
The lawyers making all the money have convinced the newbies (they are milking like a dairy cow) that they're broke, over worked and under paid because of immigration consultants under cutting them. The newbie is just happy they finally got hired. I guess when you have a massive boot on your neck....you'll believe anything.
The experienced Immigration Lawyers keep the newbies pay so low they can’t break free and start up their own firm. The total annual salary newbie Lawyers receive is insufficent to cover the rent for a standard office. New Immigration Lawyyers are no better off then indentured servants and it is all the fault of Immigration Consultants. They convince the newbies that only because of the firms name and location the firm is making any money at all.
After a couple of months working for these senior Lawyers they let the newbie out of the office to attend a CBSA interview or a no chance for release detention review. That is where the newbie Lawyer meets an Immigration Consultant who is driving a Bently, Tesla, Mercedies or a BMW while he is driving a ten year old VW. When the newbie returns to the office and tells one of the partners that he met Mr/Ms ______________ an Immigration Consultant that seems to be making huge money. The standard response the senior Immigration Lawyer gives is that Immigration Consultant is a CROOK even if they don’t know the Immigration Consultant.
The newbie returns to his cubicle and continues reading case law hoping to learn something he can impress his bosses with. After another year of sitting in his/her cubicle she borrows thousands to open their own Immigration Office and goes bankrupt within seven months all because of Immigration Consultants undercutting his/her fees, the end!
A person who immigrated to Canada from ____________ sees the immigration business as roads paved with gold because the Immigration Consultant did nothing to get them permananet residency status. There are so many people form their own country that would be willing to hire them to submit an application or bring their relatives to Canada. They pay approximately $7,000.00 to take an online or inperson consultantcy course taught by an immigration consultant who can’t make any mony as a Regulated Canadian immigration Consultant (RCIC). Taking the Online Consultancy course at Queens University will cost $14,000.00
That when they finish their course with __________ they can also pay to take a preparation Course for the regulators Full Skills Exam. It is explained to them that the regulator ICCRC requires that they must earn 16 Continuing Professional Development credits each year so education never stops because the immigration act and regulations keep changing.
After paying to write the Full Skills Exam to join ICCRC then they have to pay to join ICCRC. Then there is the errors and ommissions insurance they must purchase. They’re are now a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC).
The next thing that happens is they are contacted via email from the Cananadian Association of Professional I Immigration Consultants and informed they should join that organization. The new RCIC wonders how CAPIC got their email address. CAPIC claims they should join because CAPIC lobby on behalf of RCIC and they can save money by paying CAPIC for their CPD videos.
The new RCIC creates their own website and starts looking for an office which he/she quickly learns they can’t afford. The he/she starts contacting other Immigration Consultants looking for work to no avail. Then the new RCIC starts contacting large Immigration Lawyer Firms who don’t really seem interested in their consultancy course certificate.
Frustrated at paying around $10,000.00 Canadian Dollars to become regulated the newbie (RCIC) contacts ICCRC Executives and CAPIC Executives inquirying why they have no immigration clients.
BOTH ICCRC & CAPIC CLAIM IT IS ALL THE FAULT OF “GHOST CONSULTANTS”.
Neither the College they attended, ICCRC or CAPIC informed the NEW RCIC that because no one required him to be taught how to represent a immigration client at a tribunal that they are missing out on a hundred million worth of immigration business.
NOTE THAT NEITHER ICCRC OR CAPIC BLAMED THE LACK OF CLIENTS ON IMMIGRATION LAWYERS.
Roy Kellogg
