Agency Fees

[jade]

Agencies are no longer allowed to collect any agency fees from employers and applicants unless they are a lawyer, para legal or immigration consultants with good standing with the immigration....... This is the new law..... And yet, you try to get a license for an employment agency, they will give you a license without even asking if you're a lawyer, para legal, or immigration consultant!!!! It was a new law finalized in January, 2012. I don't know what to think about this but it seems like they are trying to discourage everyone from getting foreign workers overseas!!! We need foreign workers!!!! Confusing and discouraging...

 

[job_seeker]

Agencies have tie ups with immigration consultants/lawyers [agencies can't sign Imm 5476 (appointment of representative)] but the ICCRC member or a lawyer retained by the agency can. So the employer still talks with and pays the agency and probably the deal is the consultant/lawyer get a certain percentage of the fees paid for the employer looking to hire a foreign worker.

Agencies are no longer allowed to collect any agency fees from employers and applicants unless they are a lawyer, para legal or immigration consultants with good standing with the immigration....... This is the new law..... And yet, you try to get a license for an employment agency, they will give you a license without even asking if you're a lawyer, para legal, or immigration consultant!!!! It was a new law finalized in January, 2012. I don't know what to think about this but it seems like they are trying to discourage everyone from getting foreign workers overseas!!! We need foreign workers!!!! Confusing and discouraging...