Hi Guys,
I work in the oil field. My friends had been recommending me to start express entry for many years but I didn't have the time or the motivation to start the process. I concluded I need to do something different; how you may ask? I made upfront payment of 7800 AED to one of the immigration consultants in UAE for entire process (August 2018). My reasoning for this was that by investing such an amount of money, I'll finally have the necessary motivation (or fear of loss of money) to kick start my ambitions. I'm earning very well and this has stopped me from ever considering immigration but things have changed now. Anyways, coming back to my point, this method worked for me. I got really motivated and started gathering stuff for spousal application in EE and have already submitted documents for WES (For myself & Spouse) and achieved CLB 10 in all modules of IELTS in my second attempt. First attempt, I got CLB 9 in two modules and CLB 10 in the other two. Now I'm just waiting for my wife's IELTS and our WES evaluation reports.
However, during these last two months while I was doing this stuff, I realized that this immigration consultancy is either misinformed, misguided, incompetant or indifferent to my cause. Time and again, I felt disappointed and had to research this forum for information rather than them telling me. Now I confronted them and their management has said that they'll clean up their act from now on (and this time I truly believe they will). Even though the contract says that no amount is refundable, I got their management to agree to refund 4500 out of 7800 AED.
Your suggestions will help me decide. Do you think I should do this remaining process on my own or continue with these guys for the rest of the process? I believe it's not really lost money since this acted as catalyst for me to get around to get to this process which I wasn't for at least three years.
I work in the oil field. My friends had been recommending me to start express entry for many years but I didn't have the time or the motivation to start the process. I concluded I need to do something different; how you may ask? I made upfront payment of 7800 AED to one of the immigration consultants in UAE for entire process (August 2018). My reasoning for this was that by investing such an amount of money, I'll finally have the necessary motivation (or fear of loss of money) to kick start my ambitions. I'm earning very well and this has stopped me from ever considering immigration but things have changed now. Anyways, coming back to my point, this method worked for me. I got really motivated and started gathering stuff for spousal application in EE and have already submitted documents for WES (For myself & Spouse) and achieved CLB 10 in all modules of IELTS in my second attempt. First attempt, I got CLB 9 in two modules and CLB 10 in the other two. Now I'm just waiting for my wife's IELTS and our WES evaluation reports.
However, during these last two months while I was doing this stuff, I realized that this immigration consultancy is either misinformed, misguided, incompetant or indifferent to my cause. Time and again, I felt disappointed and had to research this forum for information rather than them telling me. Now I confronted them and their management has said that they'll clean up their act from now on (and this time I truly believe they will). Even though the contract says that no amount is refundable, I got their management to agree to refund 4500 out of 7800 AED.
Your suggestions will help me decide. Do you think I should do this remaining process on my own or continue with these guys for the rest of the process? I believe it's not really lost money since this acted as catalyst for me to get around to get to this process which I wasn't for at least three years.
