Vancouver consultancy's contracts are 'bogus,' says former employee
Rozana Solita, a licensed immigration consultant and former employee of the B.C-based Promise Land Consultancy, or PLC Global, says the way the company operated was 'completely wrong,' offering immigration services to migrant workers who had not been matched with employers.
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