Work visa consultant in Ahmedabad, and what we will not do

A work permit follows a real job, not the other way round

Every work permit system starts from the same place: an employer who wants to hire you, and a government that checks whether hiring you is allowed. The application is the last step, not the first. That is why no consultant can sell you the outcome, and why the ones who imply they can are describing a transaction that does not exist.

What a consultant can genuinely do is everything around that job: read the offer against the rules before you accept it, work out which permit stream it falls under, assemble the evidence that stands up, and file it. Those are real and they are worth paying for. None of them is the job itself.

Why we do not find you the job

Recruiting Indians for work abroad is a licensed business. Under the Emigration Act, 1983, nobody may carry on the business of a recruiting agent without a Registration Certificate issued by the Protector General of Emigrants. We hold no such certificate, so we do not recruit, we do not broker jobs, and we take no fee from anyone for finding you work. We are immigration consultants. The visa file is the whole of our job.

Read that twice if you have been shopping around Ahmedabad, because it reframes most of what you will have been told. A firm that offers to arrange employment abroad for a fee is either registered with the Protector General of Emigrants, in which case it can show you the certificate, or it is operating outside the Act. There is no third option and there is no such thing as an authorised sub-agent.

Three things you will be told in this city

These reach our office most often, usually after money has already moved. Each is answered from the authority that makes the rule rather than from our opinion of it.

“We have an LMIA and a job offer ready for you. Eight lakh, and half up front.”

An LMIA is the employer’s application and costs the company CAD 1,000 for each worker they want to hire. IRCC says on its own page for India that the company must pay this fee. Nothing about it is yours to buy, and the worker who pays for it has bought a document that was never for sale.IRCC — Know the rules before you apply to travel to Canada from India

“This is an open work permit. No job needed, you can go and find work there.”

Open work permits are real and narrow. IRCC states that most people applying from outside Canada cannot get one, and that most applicants must apply from inside Canada. Sold from India as a first move, it is close to always a lie.IRCC — Open work permits

“Our man knows the officers at the visa office. That is what you are paying for.”

IRCC says hiring an agent will not get an application processed faster or approved, and that agents do not have special connections with Canadian visa officers. Officers follow the same steps whether you hired anybody or not.IRCC — Know the rules before you apply to travel to Canada from India

How to check any of this without taking our word for it

The Ministry of External Affairs tells emigrants to do these three things. They work on us as well as on anybody else, and they take about ten minutes.

1. 1

   Ask to see the certificate

   MEA tells emigrants to ask a recruiting agent for the original Registration Certificate issued by the Protector General of Emigrants, and not to deal with them unless it is registered and still valid.

2. 2

   Do not deal with sub-agents

   Sub-agents are not permitted under the Emigration Act, 1983 and the Rules made under it. The man in the next town who knows a man in Dubai has no standing of any kind.

3. 3

   Nobody may charge you for the job itself

   Where a country puts recruitment costs on the employer, as the UAE does, a demand for money from you is not a fee. It is the offence.

For a Canadian offer specifically there is a fourth check and it is ours: check the offer against the public records, which reads it against the employers who actually hold a positive labour market impact assessment and against IRCC's list of employers found non-compliant. Bring the letter in and we will run it with you, whether or not you become a client.

And before you choose anybody in this city, including us, run the ten-minute check on their licence. It is the same four steps whoever you are sitting in front of.

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