Mar 31 2009
Immigration consultants in India!
Immigration regulations of many of the major developed countries encourage qualified applicants to become permanent residents and permit them to permanently live and work in destined country with their families including spouse and dependent children. At a later stage, they also permit such permanent residents to become citizens.
Preferred Indian destinations include Immigration to USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Singapore and Denmark- amongst many others. India provides amongst the largest number of skilled general skills Immigrants and tradespersons, including Information technology (IT) and Engineering, healthcare, marketing and management professionals.
With so many countries offering Immigration and permanent resident visa to skilled professionals and executives, choosing the right immigration destination is a major challenge for those who are qualified. And helping them in making a right choice are Immigration consultants who assess their background, qualifications, language skills, age vis-à-vis immigration rules and regulations. After assessment, such consultants guide their clients through the entire process ending with issuance of visa and post settlement services in the destined countries.
While one man shows and agencies fill the information gap in smaller cities and towns, the majority of Immigrant application comes from Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmadabad, Surat, Ludhiana, Chandigarh and Jullandhar. At a corporate level, by the years of service in existence, awareness, trained staff and support infrastructure two names stand out: ABHINAV AND WWICS.
Abhinav Outsourcings (www.abhinav.com), known popularly as ABHINAV is a boutique Immigration and visas consulting company and is servicing clients since 1994. With company run and managed offices in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore it is strategically located to service clients from major regional cities. ABHINAV has major international associations and alliances that ensure that clients get the desired and correct Immigration consulting and professional advice. The CEO of ABHINAV, Mr. Ajay Sharma is among the pioneer of Immigration consulting profession in India and was among the very first to start providing Permanent residency and visas consulting services in India. He has written – as an immigration and visa specialist- for almost all major Indian daily and financial newspapers. Though a busy CEO- his personal contacts are available to all his clients and that ensures immediate solution to a situation that cannot be resolved at the staff level.
Where ABHINAV stands out is its transparency and for the reputation it enjoys for not making wrong commitments. Also ABHINAV offers the complete bouquet of Immigration consulting services for almost all countries- Australia, Canada, UK, New Zealand, Denmark etc- that are inviting Immigrants. The shortcoming ABHINAV faces is that it does not have a network of operational offices that can offer the clients an advantage of one-to-one counselling. ABHINAV has made major investments in providing web marketing, on-line services and staff training. ABHINAV is also in the process of establishing a nationwide chain of franchising offices to achieve this objective. Company is known for its subdued pointed marketing and is known to do maximum business against referral marketing.
ABHINAV has a niche on marketing Immigrant Investor program for Canada and specialises in managing and guiding business and investor migrants. This category requires major expertise and knowledge skills as clients are high net worth seasoned businessmen. ABHINAV services are also preferred because the fee charged is reasonable and affordable.
WWICS, Worldwide Immigration consulting services (www.wwicsgroup.com) is another corporate level Immigration consulting player in India. Also in business since early 1990’s, WWICS claims to have the largest network of offices in India. It also claims to be world’s biggest and largest immigration consulting company. The basis of this claim, however, is not known. The company is known for its aggressive marketing style and chain of international and domestic offices. On investigation, however, it has been found that many of the claimed offices – mentioned on the company website and especially in smaller cities – are actually not operational. WWICS is known to market work permit – for various markets and especially for Canada but figures are not available to prove the actual success in getting such promised work permits. WWICS region on strength is Punjab, where is has the corporate office. In cities outside of Punjab, the company has presence but services in metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad get constrained due to highly demanding and educated clientele. It is learnt that company staff is driven by high incentive structure, creating a situation where impractical promises and commitment are made on regular and ongoing basis. Where the company stands out is the pro-active image of being a huge corporation engaged in Immigration consulting business. Though the fee charged by WWICS is almost double of what is charged by ABHINAV, the company still signs good business. And as they say, image is a key determinant in decision making process and nobody known aggressive marketing strategy better than WWICS and is known to do maximum business against new business.
To choose between these two main Immigration consulting companies in India is indeed a difficult choice for the prospective migrants. In the end, those looking for personalized one-to-one service expected of a boutique firm end up with ABHINAV and the ones looking for size and infrastructure end up being with WWICS.
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