IMMIGRATION REPRESENTATIVES

Find out if your representative is authorized

Don't fall a victim of immigration FRAUDS

You can check if a person is licensed to represent immigrants or to give advice.

• Citizenship or immigration consultants must be a member of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants.
• Lawyers or notaries must be a member of a Canadian provincial or territorial law society, or the Chambre des notaires du Québec.
• Paralegals (Ontario only) must be members of the Law Society of Ontario

If they are not members in good standing, you should not use their services.

Most law societies let you check online to see if a person is a member in good standing.

Law societies in each province and territory

• Law Society of British Columbia
• Law Society of Alberta
• Law Society of Saskatchewan
• Law Society of Manitoba
• Law Society of Ontario
• Barreau du Québec
• Law Society of New Brunswick
• Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
• Law Society of Prince Edward Island
• Law Society of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Law Society of Yukon
• Law Society of the Northwest Territories
• Law Society of Nunavut

The Canadian Bar Association

Chambre des notaires du Québec (French only)

Other contacts

• Canada Border Services Agency
• Canadian Council of Better Business Bureaus
• Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
• Office of Consumer Affairs
• Royal Canadian Mounted Police

How do I report immigration fraud?

Call the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) Border Watch Toll-Free Line at 1-888-502-9060 to report:

• suspicious activity at the border
• a marriage of convenience
• a person who has given false information on any immigration application or
• a person wanted on an immigration warrant

What you tell the tip line is private. Your identity stays protected.

How do I report citizenship fraud?

You may report a person who:

• pretended to live in Canada to become a citizen or
• hid information about their case

In Canada

• Call the Client Support Centre and choose the citizenship fraud tip option in our automated telephone system, or
• Send an email to IRCC.CitizenshipFraudTips-Fraudedecitoyennete.IRCC@cic.gc.ca.

Outside Canada

• Contact your nearest Canadian visa office, or
• Send an email to IRCC.CitizenshipFraudTips-Fraudedecitoyennete.IRCC@cic.gc.ca.

How do I report Internet, email or telephone scams and fraud?

If you or someone you know has been the target of a telephone, Internet, email or other type of scam and gave personal or financial information by mistake, you should:

In Canada

Contact the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre.

Toll-free: 1-888-495-8501