Hi,

My wife and I will soon be attending an Emigrate show.

Before going can anyone advise us on which agencies/ immigration agents we should be looking out for?
i.e. the reputable ones, and also the 'dodgy' ones who will charge alot of money with alot of empty promises...


My wife is a nurse, and it was back in Nov 08 that she was interviewed and offered a job in Alberta (but due to cuts etc that has not materialised)

We are now going to this emigrate show to hopefully get some advice, and start the immigration process = gaining entry with points etc..

But any advice from anyone on here in the know/or who has went through the process with an agency/agent would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

P.s - we are now open to going anywhere in canada....

Hello,
check out this link.
The ARHA (Assiniboine Regional Health Authority) has experience with immigration process/nurses from foreign countries and it might be worth applying to them.

http://www.assiniboine-rha.ca/index..../postings?id=7

ARHA is in Manitoba (more or less south west corner), don't think an agency is at all is required, nurses are on high demand list everywhere as far as I know. Of course, you have to redo your exams and you have therefore to start on a lower level..but as far as I know, they have programs to help you along.

If more info needed, pm me.

cheers

Look out for Chloe Cartwright from Century 21 who is currently over in the UK attending the Emigrate Shows. She's not actually an immigration agent but a realtor who specialises in those moving over to the Calgary area from the UK. We first met her at a show in the UK three years ago and found her really good; she seems to know a bit about everything. We used her services and eventually bought our house through her. She is a buyer's agent. Basically, if you come over on research trips etc, she helps you out with various things and will take you around looking at properties etc. Her services are free; she gets her money from the vendor if you eventually buy a property through her. I know perhaps not exactly what you're looking for but if you see her at a show, shes definitely worth talking to. She knows people!

I would not use any agent. its easy enough to do everything yourself. inless like the last post, thier services are free. Agents charge you an arm and a leg just to check your papers over etc

We met Willis Brazolot at an Emigrate Show 3 years ago and used them to help us. In hindsight, although they were very good, and got our PR Visas, we could have saved ourselves alot of money and done it ourselves with the help from people on this website!

We wanted to go to the show at the weekend and could not. Would be nice if anyone who went could feedback what it was like.

With regards to agents, my advice would be don't bother. We shelled out thousands to one and they did very little and in the end I ended up doing the application and paperwork myself.

Their name was "workpermit.com"


The go through staff at an alarming rate so no one in the end deals with your application. We had a deadline to meet for all of our supporting documentation and the "new" lady who was dealing with it did not even know Canadian immigration law (she did USA) but was covering as the person employed left. In the end we were told the "owner" of the company who only spends 2 days a week in the UK was dealing with all Canadian applications.

Needless to say phone calls, emails and letters went unanswered and I had no choice but to do it myself. Which was a godsend in the end as the original application had so many errors it was unreal.

It seems that if you are organised and with the new process in place for immigration you CAN do it yourself. Avoid the agents, unless your application is soooo complex you need them.

If you have a straight forward application then do it yourselves and save your pennies. We used a agent, all they really did was give us incorrect advice and typed our application up nice and neat - we had to gather all paperwork, supporting doc's and actually fill the forms oursleves.

Our agent did do a money back guarantee, we had to fill a form out first with basic details, you could always do this and then if your offered a money back guarantee you know it's an easy application.