Why do Clients LIE to their own Counsel's?
It is one thing to tell a fib to an immigration Officer or a Canada Border Service Agency Officer but to LIE to your own Immigration Counsel who is trying to assist you out of your own immigration problem, YIKES! His Canadian brother called me seeking our services and dropped a name of a well-known Immigration Counsel in British Colombia who had recommended my services. I asked him to send me an email highlighting what had transpired at a Port of Entry in British Colombia which he did.
The email informed me the potential client who was on a valid study permit for a College in Montreal according to his brother was accused of working without authourization R186(F) even though he was working in an essential service because he got paid after August 31st, 2020. I thought any funds received in the first two weeks of September 2020 should be easily explained as overtime funds owed or funds from the first two weeks of employment withheld.
Foreign students were being allowed to work off campus without a work permit for more then 20 hours a week due to COVID-19 forcing Colleges to close.
Brother felt that the CBSA Officer made a huge mistake and should of ordered his brother (excluded) instead of allowing him entry into Canada for further examination at Toronto International Airport for October 4th, 2020. I started to wonder who this brother was getting his Canadian Immigration opinions from because he was very forceful in his opinions..
A 44(1) report had been written on September 24th 2020 in Surrey B.C. when the foreign student applied for a TWP with an LMIA by a Canadian Long Haul Trucking company from Ontario. Why Surrey B.C. (POE)??? The brother told me they were advised to use that Port of Entry by an Imiigration Consultant in Brampton with an Indian sounding name. Seemed a little strange he was sent to Surry, B.C. POE because the potential client was living with his brother in Brampton, ON but many migrants use authourized representatives in their own ethnic community.
The Canadian brothers email claiming the potential foreign student client only stopped studying in March of 2020 when their father died. I innitially felt sympathy for the potential client but then remembered all Colleges in Quebec and Ontario were forced to close in March 2020. This email by the Canadian brother about the potential client only stopping studying in March due to his fathers death was a LIE!
After getting the same basic information by phone his Canadian brother had provided I sent the potential client a retainer agreement stating what action I planned on taking to attempt to resolve his situation regarding being admitted for further examination since there seemd no violation of the immigration regulations had occurred. I agreed to conduct further Immigration Consultation over ZOOM the following day after being retained.
ZOOM CONSULTATION!
I started the hour and a half ZOOM consultation by saying my condolences for the death of his father and then he told me the date his father had passed away. It was after the date when all colleges in Ontario and Quebec had been forced closed by each of the provincial governments. Then I asked which College and he said CDI for web developement and I said why not CDI College in Brampton were your brother lives. My Consultant recommended it! Which Consultant? He struggled to remember his name and then came up with a Indian sounding name that was not an authorized representative.
I asked how did he know where the POE Port of Entry was in Surrey B.C. and he informed me a female Immigration Consultant who he only knew her first name which sounded of Indian origin took him to the POE and told him were to walk across to the U.S. side. He informed me that his Brother knew her and recommended her.
I wanted to know his history, so I asked when and how did you come to Canada originally. He said June of 2016 of a Study Permit for Humber College to take a Mechanical Engineering program that he never finished. I found out he used a Ghost Consultant of Indian origin.
That in September of 2018 he obtained another Study Permit for the private Everest College to take Business Administration course which he also did not finish. I found out apparently, he used another Ghost Consultant of Indian origin.
In June of 2019 he got a Long -Haul Drivers License by taking a drivers course offered by JC Truck Driving School in Brampton. He also told me he was working part time in London, Ontario driving Long-Haul Trucks.
That in December 2019 received his third Study Permit (one year) for another private College CDI in Montreal QC to start in January on 2020. I started to ask question after question of why in Montreal when your brother lives in Brampton and CDI has a college in Brampton. He used the same answer time and time again my consultant recommended that College. He had trouble with the Consultants name but it again sounded that it was of Indian origin. When I asked what address he had been living in Montreal while attending CDI College he then admitted that he had never actually enrolled, paid his student fees or attended one single class.
Luckily for me our retainer agreements all have a clause that state all clients have a requirement to be truthful and accurate in all of the information they provide.
Dealing with an unscrupulous client is extremely easy for me with my decades of experience as a Case Presenting Officer at Mississauga Hearings and Appeals Office.
Our retainer agreement was for providing instructions when dealing with further scheduled examination at PIA with how to answer questions from any CBSA Officer to prove he was not inadmissible to Canada. These instructions I intended to provide would be the same for any client dealing with an admissibility hearing at the Immigration Division or an Appellant at the Immigration and Appeal Division.
I INFORMED HIM BECAUSE OF THE NUMEROUS INCONSITENCIES IN HIS STORIES AND OUTRIGHT FALSEHOODS HE WOULD HAVE ZERO CHANCE OF CONVINCING ANY CBSA OFFICER OR IMMIGRATION DIVISION MEMBER THAT HE WAS NOT INADMISSIBLE TO CANADA. I ALSO INFORMED HIM THAT I WOULD NOT BE REPRESENTING HIM FURTHER BECAUSE HE LIED TO ME AT LEAST ELEVEN TIMES.
Three hours later I received an email from him demanding a refund.
