Gloria Delos Santos will dry clean your dress shirt for $1.99. She promises next day service.
She also claims that for $5,000 she can get an immigration visa to bring your relative to Canada in as little as three months.
The shirt will be delivered on time. Your relatives, not so much. If ever.
A Star investigation shows Santos is running a visa business from her Glory’s Dry Cleaning store in a Scarborough strip mall at Ellesmere and Midland Aves.
Sandwiched between a tattoo parlour and a barber shop, Santos deals mainly with the Filipino community. According to people who have paid for her services, Santos has told them she is connected to an official in the federal immigration department who can expedite the paperwork to bring loved ones to Canada.
A federal law passed earlier this year makes it illegal for anyone other than lawyers, paralegals or licensed immigration consultants to provide advice or make any representation at any stage of an immigration proceeding. Dry cleaners are not on the list.
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