How Can Canada Mitigate Immigration Fraud? | The Agenda

People around the world look to Canada as a pathway to a better life. They spend thousands of dollars to come here, often employing immigration agents to help navigate what can be a complicated process. But as the experience recently of some international students who are facing deportation shows, there are several ways the process can go wrong. For insight on how to safeguard people and the system from fraud, we welcome Jack Kim, partner at the immigration law firm, Fragomen; Kim Ly, founder and principal of Borders Immigration Consultancy; and Nicholas Keung, Toronto Star immigration reporter.
00:00 Introduction
00:46 What percentage of Canadian immigration applications are fraudulent?
01:23 Importance of public trust in the immigration system
01:52 Most common types of immigration fraud
03:26 Immigration fraud among international students
06:28 Are Canadian colleges complicit in fraud?
08:30 Monetary incentive for education agents
10:34 Fraudulent English language tests
12:45 How does fraud go undetected?
16:14 Reliance on an honour’s system
17:47 IRCC is underfunded
18:43 Lack of transparency with AI algorithms
20:12 Want Canada to be welcoming, but not an easy-to-get-to country
20:28 Does fraud give rise to anti-immigration sentiment
22:38 Difference between a regulated and unauthorized practitioners
25:07 No jurisdiction over overseas agents
27:24 What is fraud costing Canada?
29:09 What can the Canadian government do to mitigate fraud?
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