5 Easy Ways to Identify Fraudulent Visa Agents

5 Easy Ways to Identify Fraudulent Visa Agents

By Oluwatoyin Ajayi

Whenever you want to hire a Visa Agent for your next visa application, make sure you look out for the following red flags:

1. Fraudulent visa agents do not have a timeline for your application. it is easy for one to be played by this, especially if they are assisting you to apply for a permanent residence or work permit. Usually, fake agents gives feedback like 'Your  application has been submitted on your behalf and the embassy is working on it" which you neither get any proof of application submission nor direct feedback from the embassy. Soon or later, they begin to give excuses and passing blames and faults on an invisible embassy.

2. Fraudulent visa agents cannot explain and give accurate details with your visa application. They usually have problem with explaining their methods of operations and have outdated or fake information to share.

4. Fraudulent visa agents have zero accountability. Just as they do not have accurate details, they cant really give or account on their services cost. There is always a request for additional fees from you to pay.

3. Fraudulent visa agents gives useless and unreasonable promises. If you are very observant, you can easily detect lies from what they say. 

5. Fraudulent visa agents do not have a physical office. They might even own a physical office but it usually a temporal and weird one. 

Proper investigation before action in this case prevent being duped. Be wise!