What is OPIC and how should I perceive such assurances?
The Organization of Professional Immigration Consultants (OPIC) is an Ontario-based organization established in the early 1990s by a group of private, non lawyer consultants. Their primary objective was, and continues to be, to “regulate” and “legitimize” the practice of immigration consulting. A large number of its current membership comprise of former immigration officers who have departed from the public service to establish their own immigration consulting businesses. Some of its members are comprised of practicing lawyers. With the continued trend towards increased cutbacks in the public service, employment in the public sector no longer provides for the remunerative benefit packages and employment security that was traditionally provided to public service employees in the past. It is the opinion of the author of this commentary that current prevailing philosophy within the Department of Citizenship & Immigration to recognize OPIC as a service partner is more of an attempt to prov
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