Before you pay
Guides
Written for one purpose: helping you check an offer before money changes hands — and helping you act if it already has.
- Gulf (labour)20 June 2026
How to verify a Gulf recruitment agent
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.
- Canada20 June 2026
Signs of a fake Canada consultancy
The warning signs of fraudulent Canada immigration consultancies — guaranteed PR promises, fake job offers, and how to check if a consultant is actually licensed.
- Other20 June 2026
What to do if you've already paid a fraudulent agent
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.
- Gulf (labour)20 June 2026
How to check an RA licence on eMigrate
A walkthrough of checking a Recruiting Agent licence number on the government eMigrate portal, and what the result actually tells you.
- UK20 June 2026
UK care-worker visa — how to check the job is real
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.
- Germany20 June 2026
Germany nursing and Ausbildung offers — what to verify
How to check German nursing recruitment and Ausbildung (apprenticeship) offers from Kerala — language certificates, contracts, and recognised recruitment routes.
- Australia20 June 2026
Australia student visa — checking agents and admission letters
How to verify an Australian education agent, confirm an offer letter with the institution, and spot forged CoE and admission documents.
- Gulf (labour)20 June 2026
Visit visa vs work visa — the "convert it later" trap
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.
- Other20 June 2026
Paying an agent — rules that protect you
How to pay recruitment agents and consultancies safely — receipts, bank transfers, staged payments, and the payment demands that signal fraud.
- Gulf (labour)20 June 2026
How to verify an overseas job offer letter
Checks that expose forged offer letters and demand letters — verifying the employer, the signatory, attestation, and contract terms before you pay or resign.
- Canada20 June 2026
Canada study route — red flags before you pay a consultancy
Warning signs in Canada student-visa offers — fake admission letters, IELTS-waiver claims, PAL-era promises, and how to confirm a DLI admission yourself.
- Other20 June 2026
Your rights if an agent withholds your passport
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.