RCICs
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC), Canada’s federal regulator for immigration consultants.
Licensed help
Find a licensed immigration professional
Navisa Prep organizes and checks your materials — it never advises. When you want advice on your situation, this page is the bridge: who may legally advise you, how to verify them, and how to hand over your organized file in minutes.
Navisa Prep is document-preparation software. It is not a lawyer, RCIC, or immigration representative, and it does not provide legal advice, guarantee any outcome, or submit applications. It shows you cited comparisons and options — every decision is yours. For advice on your situation, consult a licensed RCIC or lawyer.
The law
Who may legally advise you
Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (section 91) restricts who may “represent or advise a person for consideration” on an application or proceeding. For paid help, that means only:
Lawyers & notaries
Lawyers who are members of a provincial or territorial law society, Ontario licensed paralegals, and Quebec notaries (Chambre des notaires du Québec).
Unpaid help
Family or friends may help you without charging a fee — and any representative, paid or unpaid, must be declared to IRCC on the Use of a Representative form.
Verify before you pay
Check the official registers
A legitimate professional is always verifiable on a public register. If someone offering paid immigration advice is on none of these, walk away.
CICC public register
Every Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) in good standing, searchable by name or licence number. If a consultant is not on this register, they may not legally advise you for a fee.
Provincial law society directories
Lawyers (and, in Ontario, licensed paralegals) are regulated by their provincial or territorial law society. The Federation of Law Societies maintains links to every member directory.
IRCC: choosing a representative
The Government of Canada’s own published guidance on who may represent or advise you, paid and unpaid, and how to protect yourself from fraud.
The handoff
Arrive organized — the professional handoff summary
Inside your Prep workspace you can download a professional handoff summary: one document a licensed professional can pick up in minutes instead of billable hours.
Your entered facts and document inventory, with extraction statusThe cited criteria comparisons Prep computedEvery flag, the options presented, and the decisions you madeForm worksheet state with per-field source quotesDrafts you approved, and the current checklist state
Nothing is ever sent to a professional by us — you download the summary and share it yourself, with whoever you choose.
For licensed professionals
Prep users arrive with organized, source-linked files — intake done, documents extracted and verified, decisions recorded. If you’d like to receive referrals from Prep users looking for licensed advice, register your interest.
For licensed professionals only. We verify licences against the public registers before any referral relationship begins.