移民顾问涉欺诈 申请不成竟还以身相许

2月27日上午，多伦多警方宣布，已经对涉嫌欺诈的移民顾问Dunstan Munro展开刑事案件调查。

在2017年，移民顾问行业规范部门就已经将Munro的执照吊销。然而，有报告显示，在2018年，Munro依然称自己是“移民专家”，并继续在为客户提供服务。

目前，警方指控Munro涉嫌以“假结婚”的方式，帮助一名自己过去的顾客完成永久居民申请。在申请不成后，Munro表示可以为顾客提供虚假的证明，证明其与自己是同居伴侣。Munro已经被警方逮捕，并被控诉5000元以上的欺诈。该名嫌犯在三月份将会再次上庭。

回顾此前移民顾问监察部门作出的决定，在2017年的听证会上，监察部门确认了以下事实：

• 　　1. Dunstan Munro曾经是一名注册移民顾问。
• 　　2. Munro接收到了来自六名客户的投诉。

这些投诉从2012年开始便已经出现，一名客户投诉称，Munro帮助她申请难民身份以及工作许可。然而，Munro向她提供了不准确的信息与要求，在未经许可的情况下代替其在文件上签字，并且在被发现后概不退款。

而在另一起投诉中，客户委托Munro办理事实婚姻移民，而Munro同样没有在要求的时间内提交申请，并且与客户的沟通存在很大的问题。

类似这样的投诉还有其他四起，这些问题暴露了Munro无法完成作为移民顾问的基本要求，并且为他的客户带来了损失。

监管部门在2017年11月作出判决，判定Munro的执照吊销一个月，并要求其在2018年1月开始进入查看期，以便监管部门查看他在这一阶段的行为是否符合行业行为规范。同时，Munro还需要进行进一步培训，以确保在日后的工作中达到行业标准。

 

Toronto police charge suspended immigration consultant with fraud
By The Canadian Press
Wed., Feb. 27, 2019

Toronto police say an immigration consultant who had his licence revoked by an industry body is now facing charges in a fraud investigation.

Police allege the man’s professional licence was suspended by the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council in December 2017 and revoked altogether a month later.

Despite this, they say he continued to work as a consultant throughout 2018 through his company called Immigration Experts.

Between 2018 and 2019, Munroe was working as an immigration consultant and assisting a client with her application to become a permanent resident of Canada.

Police allege he failed to complete a permanent residency application in January of 2019 for at least one client, but then offered to sponsor her and tell authorities that he was in a common law relationship with her.

Dunstan Munro of Ajax was arrested earlier this week and charged with one count each of fraud over $5,000 and counselling an uncommitted, indictable offence.

Court documents from the Regulatory Council also show that Munro did not show up for his own licence revocations.

In several instances, Munroe “disregarded the rights and interests of his client repeatedly, and apparently without remorse,” those documents read.

In 2006, Jucelia Cox, who fled an abusive relationship in St. Lucia to Canada in 2002, also filed an official complaint with the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants against Munroe, after he failed to include St. Lucia’s lack of state protection for abuse victims as part of the argument in her case.

After Cox’s new counsel began an inquiry with immigration officials into her permanent residence application, she discovered the application had never even been filed.