When I visited our mission in New Delhi I was talking to officials. They told us about an individual who had applied for a visa, and while the person was standing in line, somebody came along and said,“You have to do this.” So the person submitted inaccurate information. The person would have had a visa if he had submitted the correct information, but he was talked into submitting the wrong information, and of course he didn't get a visa.
Now, the situation, on my subsequent visit to Delhi, had changed. You have licensed agents assisting both in visa applications and in landing.
As for the question of what happens abroad and to what extent we can really educate, you hear horror stories. Somebody might take a whole group of people from the former Soviet Union and convince them that Canada is the place to go and assure them that they could get here, and of course, at the end of the day it turns out to be a big hoax. People lose a lot of money, they are disillusioned, and of course it ends up giving Canada a black eye--not that it's any fault of ours, but this is the way it works out.
What kinds of experiences did you have at overseas missions?