Incidents of Kenyans still going for agents who are promising jobs and visas in countries such as Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States continue to pile. And the consequences are proving to be very costly as one Kenya  has found out.

This Kenyan was busted for having used an unauthorized, compensated agent who solicited a fake bank statement for him. He was busted in the middle of his journey to Canada

“I applied for a Canadian visa last year, and luckily, I got an approval in March this year. I used a popular agency for the process,” he said. He went to explain his predicament as follows:

“Now, I was to travel last week but upon arriving in Ethiopia where I was supposed to do a connecting flight, the immigration officers there grilled me and particularly asked me about the bank accounts I used.

I was unaware on how to respond to this question, which lead to the officer putting an alert on my  Canadian visa. I missed my connecting flight to Canada. My luggage was also lost in the process.

Now, yesterday, I attempted to fly out again but officials at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport told me that my Canadian visa is now not approved for travel. I had booked a British Airways flight that was departing at 10pm.

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But get this, my visa is now pending for disapproval; so I am confused as to what to do next… Should I fly to Mexico then the United States and then Canada? If I use the Europe route there will be a denial of entry!”

Incidentally this visa revocation is not an isolated case. Many applicants who have been using unlicensed agents and fake bank statements are getting increased outcomes of visa revocations despite having been approved.

At the same time, Bizna Kenya can report that there has been increased issuance of procedural fairness letters over fraud.

Currently, there is no consultant in Kenya who has been authorized to conduct immigration business including filing applications by the Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada or the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC).

However, the CICC has a list of licensed consultants who can conduct legal immigration business. This list, which is available on the CICC website includes two Kenyans, Loise Githiga of Milele Immigration Services and Mbula Kalorina of Makland Canadian Immigration Services, who live in Canada.

The list contains names, business registration, practice license numbers and status.