Canadian Commercial Group: Hassan Al-Awaid

Canadian Citizenship Dept: As part of the crackdown on immigration fraud, Ottawa announced earlier this week it was in the process of revoking the citizenship of about 3,100 people, according to CBC. In March 2011, the RCMP laid 53 charges against Hassan Al-Awaid , 57, of Bedford. Al-Awaid was the president of Canadian Commercial Group, a company that offered help to immigrants. Now hundreds of his clients will lose their Canadian passports and hundreds of people who obtained Canadian citizenship through a Halifax-based company will have their citizenship revoked, News has learned. Remi Lariviere, a spokesman for Citizenship and Immigration Canada, said they have now identified 430 cases connected to a Bedford company where they believe citizenship was gained through fraud and those clients will now have their Canadian citizenship revoked. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.