How to verify an immigration consultant: CICC and MARA registers

How to verify an immigration consultant on the CICC and MARA registers

If you are about to pay someone in the UAE for advice on a Canadian or Australian visa, the individual advising you must appear on a public register, and you can check that register yourself before any money changes hands. Canada and Australia both publish the names of the people who may be paid to act for you, and both regulators treat paid advice from anyone else as unlawful. The check matters now because registrations change: in July and August 2026 OMARA cancelled one agent’s registration and barred two former…