Guides

Written for one purpose: helping you check an offer before money changes hands — and helping you act if it already has.

• How to verify a Gulf recruitment agent

  Gulf (labour)

  Step-by-step checks to confirm a Gulf job agent is legally registered before you pay any fee — eMigrate licence, office checks, and offer-letter verification.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Signs of a fake Canada consultancy

  Canada

  The warning signs of fraudulent Canada immigration consultancies — guaranteed PR promises, fake job offers, and how to check if a consultant is actually licensed.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• What to do if you've already paid a fraudulent agent

  Other

  Practical steps after paying a fake recruitment agent or consultancy — evidence to gather, where to complain, and how to improve your chance of recovering money.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• How to check an RA licence on eMigrate

  Gulf (labour)

  A walkthrough of checking a Recruiting Agent licence number on the government eMigrate portal, and what the result actually tells you.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• UK care-worker visa — how to check the job is real

  UK

  How to verify a UK Health and Care Worker visa offer — sponsor licence register, Certificate of Sponsorship checks, and the fees no one should charge you.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Germany nursing and Ausbildung offers — what to verify

  Germany

  How to check German nursing recruitment and Ausbildung (apprenticeship) offers from Kerala — language certificates, contracts, and recognised recruitment routes.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Australia student visa — checking agents and admission letters

  Australia

  How to verify an Australian education agent, confirm an offer letter with the institution, and spot forged CoE and admission documents.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Visit visa vs work visa — the "convert it later" trap

  Gulf (labour)

  Why travelling to the Gulf on a visit visa for a promised job is the most common migration fraud from Kerala, and how to tell what visa you actually have.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Paying an agent — rules that protect you

  Other

  How to pay recruitment agents and consultancies safely — receipts, bank transfers, staged payments, and the payment demands that signal fraud.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• How to verify an overseas job offer letter

  Gulf (labour)

  Checks that expose forged offer letters and demand letters — verifying the employer, the signatory, attestation, and contract terms before you pay or resign.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Canada study route — red flags before you pay a consultancy

  Canada

  Warning signs in Canada student-visa offers — fake admission letters, IELTS-waiver claims, PAL-era promises, and how to confirm a DLI admission yourself.

  Updated 20 June 2026

• Your rights if an agent withholds your passport

  Other

  Passport retention by agents or employers is unlawful — what the law says, how to get your passport back, and where to complain in Kerala and abroad.

  Updated 20 June 2026