{"id":150198,"date":"2018-01-31T02:49:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=150198"},"modified":"2018-01-31T02:49:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T07:49:06","slug":"websites-falsely-promoting-a-2018-canadian-visa-lottery-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/31\/websites-falsely-promoting-a-2018-canadian-visa-lottery-application\/","title":{"rendered":"Websites falsely promoting a 2018 Canadian Visa Lottery Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135157\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canada.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-135157\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Canada.jpg\" alt=\"For more information on how you can protect yourself from immigration fraud, please see the Canadian government\u2019s website.(Photo: CIC News)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">For more information on how you can protect yourself from immigration fraud, please see the Canadian government\u2019s website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cicnews.com\/2017\/11\/immigrants-nearly-25-per-cent-of-canadian-workforce-new-data-shows-119895.html#gs.NOQh65E\">(Photo: CIC News)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Online posts promoting news of a \u201cCanadian Visa Lottery Application\u201d for 2017\/2018 or 2018\/2019 are misleading and readers are advised not to interact with the websites involved.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Ghana and Nigeria in particular have reported articles on a variety of websites entitled either \u201cCanadian Visa Lottery Application Form 2017\/2018\u201d or \u201cCanadian Visa Lottery Application Form 2018\/2019\u201d that promise readers an opportunity to apply to live in Canada.\u00a0 In fact, the Canadian government does not issue immigration visas through a lottery system and the promised application form does not exist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Immigration to Canada is achievable\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/canadian-immigration-visas.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">only through programs operated by Canada\u2019s federal government or through programs run by Canada\u2019s 10 provinces and three territories<\/a>. No other bodies or agents are authorized to run immigration programs to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the posts invite readers to submit their phone numbers and email addresses in the comments section. Readers should avoid providing any personal information through these websites.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how you can protect yourself from immigration fraud, please see the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cic.gc.ca\/english\/information\/protection\/fraud\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canadian government\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To find out if you are eligible for Canadian immigration, CanadaVisa offers a free online assessment form that you can\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadavisa.com\/assess\/canada-immigration-assessment-form.htm?site=cic&amp;amp;cat=artbot#skw=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complete here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online posts promoting news of a \u201cCanadian Visa Lottery Application\u201d for 2017\/2018 or 2018\/2019 are misleading and readers are advised &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":135157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[45364,45366,45365],"class_list":["post-150198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-immigration","tag-canadian-visa-lottery-application","tag-immigration-to-canada","tag-residents-of-ghana-and-nigeria","mauthors-stephen-smith","mauthors-cic-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}