| Montreal, QC | TBA | D.2023.809 | The RCIC engaged in allegations including accepting fees for a retainer to represent a refugee claimant while unauthorized to appear before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), subsequently misrepresenting their licensing status to the client and their staff. The RCIC failed to fulfill their professional obligations of honesty and competence, leaving the client without qualified counsel for the hearing and refusing to issue a refund despite delivering no quality services. | |
| Montreal, QC | TBA | CD.2023.876 | The RCIC engaged in allegations including repeatedly failing to disclose serious criminal proceedings and subsequent convictions to the College during their 2023, 2024, and 2025 annual renewals. Despite their 2025 guilty pleas for assault causing bodily harm, theft, and mischief; resulting in a 90-day intermittent prison sentence and two years of strict probation; the RCIC maintained that they had no obligation to report these matters, leading to allegations that they breached their duty of honesty and candour. | |
| Montreal, QC | TBA | CD.2023.640 | The RCIC engaged in allegations by fees for a refugee claim from a vulnerable client, doubling the retainer fee, and then failing to provide services, updates or communication. The RCIC reportedly responded to a refund demand with insults. | |
| Montreal, QC | TBA | CD.2023.550 | The RCIC engaged in allegations including failure to obtain the required L3 license to represent a client before the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB), missing critical deadlines, lack of communication with the client, refusal to refund fees for incomplete services, and failure to fulfill professional obligations as outlined in the Retainer Agreement. | |
| Montreal, QC | TBA | CD.2023.453 | The RCIC engaged allegations including failing to attend a scheduled hearing at the IRB, neglecting to prepare the client for the hearing, not submitting required documents to support the client’s refugee claim, and failing to secure alternative representation for the client. The RCIC is also accused of prioritizing another proceeding over the client’s case, addressing the client in a language not understood by the tribunal, and filing complaints against tribunal members without substantively addressing the allegations against them. | |
| Montreal, QC | TBA | CD.2022.630 | The RCIC engaged in professional misconduct by accepting money from a client without issuing a receipt and failing to complete the agreed-upon immigration services for the client’s brother, including not providing regular updates or informing the client when the Expression of Interest was not selected. The RCIC advised the provision of false or misleading information on immigration applications and coached the brother to misrepresent his experience during interviews; the RCIC ceased communication despite repeated requests, refused to issue a refund, and permitted unprofessional conduct by staff including threats of police involvement. | |
| Montreal, QC | TBA | CD.2022.568 | The RCIC engaged in conduct unbecoming by exploiting the client’s vulnerability and dependence, making unwanted romantic and sexual advances including non-consensual physical contact, and coercing the client by threatening to disclose private information to her family. The RCIC submitted immigration applications without the client’s knowledge or consent, included false statements harming the client’s husband, failed to properly communicate about applications, ceased work without justification, refused to refund unearned fees, and created a fake social media profile endangering the client’s family; the RCIC failed to act honestly, competently, and diligently, allowed personal interests to interfere with professional obligations, failed to keep the client informed, and engaged in unauthorized intimate conduct within one year of the professional relationship. | |