A larger-than-life-size photo of Raghbir Singh Bharowal is plastered on the windows of his Surrey, B.C., immigration consultancy firm. He advertises services to hundreds of thousands of his followers on social media and has even announced plans to expand his business.
Signage beside his portrait on the exterior of his firm reads “Visa and Immigration Consultant.”
But Bharowal doesn’t have a licence to practise immigration consulting in Canada. It was revoked permanently by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC) last year for misconduct, and he was handed over $110,000 in fines, including restitution payments to past clients.
Just a handful of Canada’s 13,000 registered immigration consultants have ever been hit with such a penalty.
“He was found to have engaged in misconduct that was pretty serious, including threatening clients for deportation, reporting them to police, being dishonest, overcharging fees,” said Eoin Logan, an immigration negligence lawyer whose office, …