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Immigration Officials: Immigration and Wennie Lee

immigration officials: In a decision released last week, Justice Richard Southcott ruled in favour of the 57 former clients of Beijing-based Flyabroad, saying immigration officials shouldn't have rejected them without giving each a fair opportunity to respond to the concerns raised, according to Toronto Star. Immigration officials should crack down on ghost consultants, but what happened in this case is the government actually went after the clients, said Wennie Lee, one of six lawyers for the applicants, who applied for permanent residence under the federal skilled workers class. WENNIE LEE By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., June 26, 2017 The Federal Court has ordered Ottawa to reconsider dozens of immigration applications from rejected applicants from China who failed to disclose they hired the same unregistered consulting firm. The whole point of the legislation requiring disclosure is to protect these individuals from falling into the traps of the ghost consultants. In what was believed to be Canada's biggest attempt to crack down on unlicensed consultants, sometimes called ghost consultants, operating abroad, Ottawa rejected en masse immigration applications filed from the address of Flyabroad over the last two years on the grounds of misrepresentation. The court found it problematic how the government proceeded with this case. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.