• regulate the profession of immigration consultant en immigration and

• protect the interests of consumers of immigration consultant services i.e. our clients and the clients of Certified Canadian Immigration Consultants (CCIC) in general.
  
  

• determines strict competence and professional conduct standards which CCIC's must abide by (please read sectionThe CCIC label: a quality label)

• manages a complaints mechanism which clients may recur to in case of dissatisfaction with the service provided by or disagreement with a Certified Canadian Immigration Consultant, and has the power to discipline an immigration consultant

• requires from consultants that they maintain errors and omissions insurance coverage.
  

Abraham Assayag, CCIC: authorized to represent you before the government of Canada

Canada's immigration law and regulations mandate that any paid counsel you hire to represent you before the Government of Canada in an immigration procedure, must be a member in good standing of one of three groups of professionals as described in the following table:

Recognized organization	Title of authorized representatives
Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC-SCCI)	Certified Canadian Immigration Consultant (CCIC)
La chambre des notaires du Québec	Notary (QuebecProvince)
Anyone of Canada's provincial law societies	Lawyer

Canadian immigration services will not deal or communicate with paid representatives who are not thus authorized to represent clients .

For further details please consult the CSIC's website at http://www.csic-scci.ca/.