Hi everyone and welcome to another video on my channel my name is Busi and this is a space where
I talk all things life abroad as a South African living in Canada as well as self-care on today's
video I am talking about whether or not you should be using an agency if you are moving to Canada
for example where I moved and I'm basing this on the number of questions that I've received
after i shared the process that my family and I used to move to Canada a lot of you have wanted
to know which agency did we use to move to Canada and if you've gone through the comments section
trying to find that information you'll see that I have not been sharing that information and the
reason for that is it honestly is not something that I recommend I do not recommend using an
agency I do understand that there are parts and places where agencies are needed and they might be
helpful and useful to people who are going through the immigration process but from my experience I
honestly think that you would have to have the most exceptional circumstances for you to have to
use an agency and the costs associated with using agencies are making sense if you are looking into
going through the process you probably know that agencies using agencies is not very cheap it's not
very cheap it's a very huge chunk of money that goes into it and as a person who's gone through
the process of using agents we actually tried to pull out of using the agency and the reasons for
that was it was a really big waste of money and the agency was just it was not very helpful there
were a lot of things that we had to be teaching them how to do when we were the ones who were
paying them a lot of money this video is not about going into all of those types of details but it's
a video where i want to encourage you to look at and consider going through the process by yourself
because it's possible and as a South African who is in Canada I know there aren't a lot of
people who are on youtube sharing their own immigration journey and how they went about
immigrating or what process they used and whether or not they used an agency or not and
on that front I do encourage you to look at videos from other youtube creators find people who have
immigrated and they didn't use an agency people who are sharing what they went through in terms of
the processes that they followed without having to use an agency if you just need to know that
it is possible to immigrate without using an agency as a person who's coming from South Africa
i haven't seen a number of youtube creators who are sharing the process of their immigration story
and I know that there are a lot of other people from Africa the continent in general
who are sharing on their story and they are in more numbers and there's a lot of them who have
moved without having to use an agency do your own research and if you really feel as though I don't
know like you're too lazy to do the research yourself and you want to go to an agency so so
they make your life easier and they tell you every single thing that you need to do they're literally
gonna go to whatever country you're trying to go to look at what the government of that country
requires go through that checklist give you that checklist and you still have to do the work
you still have to do the work they're not going to do any of the work for you whatever documents you
need to be putting together whatever tests you need to go and write you will still have to do
that for yourself and you could just save yourself a few bucks by investing the time and spending the
time to look at the process and the requirements that the government where you want to go
has and when you look at the Canadian government's website they clearly state it does not make your
case any stronger whether you're using an agency or you're going through the process yourself the
most important thing is that you're reading the requirements and you are giving the information
that they are asking for and you are filling in the application forms whatever forms you will have
to fill in you are making sure that you're not making silly mistakes on those application forms
and they are pretty straightforward if you can read if you understand english basic english you
can go through the process all by yourself so we used an agency in our process I do not think
you need to use an agency it is a big waste of money it was a big waste of money for us but we
had to go through that because we didn't know any better we didn't know any different and we didn't
have anyone tell us it's possible to actually go through the process by yourself if there is that
itch in you that really wants to use an agency then I'd say you know you need to look do your
research find that agency that you feel you wanna work with but just know that it is possible to go
through the entire process and not have to spend five thousand dollars or sixty thousand rounds
round about if you're in South Africa paying somebody else just to go and read things that you
could be reading for yourself that's where I stand on the immigration agency use and I'm in no way
discouraging you to use an agency if you really feel that your particular situation needs you to
use an agency but just be aware that you will be doing yourself a big disservice if you do not do
your due diligence and do your research unless you have five thousand or sixty thousand rands
roundabouts to pay for an agency that might not bring you the value that you're actually looking
for now I know the video might be a little disappointing to people who are expecting me
to give a name for an agency I have shared the agency's name with some of you who reached out a
couple of months ago and with sharing the name of the agency I also shared the terrible experience
that we had with them so people can make their own decision and decide whether they want to use
the agency or not but for this platform that I'm on right now youtube on this video I'm not trying
to share a service or a company that I do not believe is gonna give you value for your money
and that is the main reason why I am not sharing the name of the agency that we used if there is
one thing that I would like you to take from this video is the importance of doing your research if
you are thinking about immigrating and moving to another country you need to invest time you
need to spend time doing your research about that country about that government about the
requirements that that government is gonna have and require you to show before you can actually
even get anyway with the immigration process and to anyone who is watching this and thinking
I don't know where to start just go to the government's website I will add a link to
the description and read anything on the around immigration you will find yourself in a place
where you are able to see what the requirements the government has and they will give you
those steps that okay if you are interested in immigrating this is where you create this portal
this is when you submit that this is the documents or these are the documents that you will need
if you are going through this process to just say I don't know where to start you are not interested
in doing the research yourself and if you're not interested in doing the research yourself you
can go and pay an agency but you're still going to have to do the work for yourself and I think
what's going to push you then is the fact that you have spent like R60 000 or around $5 000 paying
somebody else to tell you things that you could have done the research to find out for yourself
but maybe you need that extra push and that encouragement from spending the money and then
having to do the things in any case let me know in the comments section if you have considered or
have even started the process of immigrating by yourself and if you are using an agency
how is that experience going share that experience with other people and maybe somebody has a super
positive experience about an agency and they found it so helpful that they want to share it with the
world that everyone should be using an agency I don't know i am just sharing my experience
through this channel and I would like to hear what your thoughts and experiences have been for people
who are currently going through the process I will see you on the next video. Thank you for watching.