The term “immigration fraud”, for our purposes, is the exploitation of foreign citizens attempting to obtain permanent residency in Canada. This fraud is often perpetrated either by immigration consultants operating within Canada or foreign immigration ‘professionals’. The immigrant is often promised that by utilizing one of the aforementioned services that they can not only expedite the immigration process, but also guarantee their citizenship, usually at an extremely inflated cost. In some cases document fraud (misrepresentation) is encouraged by the fraudster in the form of the applicant entering in to a false marriage in order to obtain citizenship.
