As a testament to our abilities Active Professionals, formerly known as Canada Immigration & Business Services (CIBS) Ltd received the 2005/2006 Consumers’ Choice Award for Business Excellence in Immigration Consultants Category. An independent research firm conducted random surveys throughout Calgary of individuals and businesses. The purpose of this award “is to publicly identify those establishments, voted for by consumers as their choice for excellence. In 2005/2006 the “Immigration Consultants” category was added for the first time. We are delighted to be the first company to receive this award. According to the information from the Consumers’ Choice Award office, so far (Jan 2008) we are the ONLY Immigration Consultants Company in Calgary who was chosen for the award.

Thank you Calgary for choosing us as your NUMBER ONE Immigration Consulting Company!

The Consumer’s Choice Award Trade Mark is considered the seal of excellence. As such, it serves to enhance the city's business climate. Receiving the award not only constitutes the crowning achievement of the recipients’ efforts, but more importantly, it also represents one of the most valuable rewards of all, the knowledge that they have earned the trust and loyalty of consumers.

Back to Top of Page

Our clients compare our charges and find us to be up to 60% lower than our competitors. We challenge to find a lower fee for the same service and we offer to match the lowest fee, plus we will reduce 10% of the difference*. Our promise for Lowest Fee Guaranteed is 110%! We guarantee the most competitive fee for any service we offer at Active Professionals.

* Some Restrictions Apply. Ask Active Professionals for Details.

Back to Top of Page

Our Senior Consultant, Anwar Rehman, holds M.A., LL.B., and D.L.L. Degrees. Our Certified Immigration Consultant, Pedro Centano, has a B.A. (Political Science) from University of Alberta, as well certification from the Immigration Practitioner Program, York College of Industry and Technology, Ontario. Mr. Centeno is a Certified Immigration Consultant and a full Member of Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC). Our Accountant, Avanish Singh, has a 2 years Diploma in Accounting and Bachelor of Management Degree from University of Lethbridge, AB. Mr. Singh is a final semester student for C.G.A. Our Office Manager, Farah Rehman holds B.A. and has Diploma from SAIT Polytechnic, Calgary, in Business Administration (Specializing in Management). Our Web Designer, Adams Humphreys is a Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE). Active Professionals hires qualified and experienced staff. Our Creative Professional, Raymond Spidla is educated from Bow Valley College.

Visit us our Page “Our Team” for detail profiles.

Back to Top of Page

We do not sell dreams! We make more friends telling them the truth up front. We offer comprehensive advice from beginning to end. In order to preserve our hard earned reputation for existing and prospective clients, we endeavor to limit our client intake to those cases with a strong likelihood of success.

If we have doubts that your application will be successful we will be honest with you about your chances of success. We will refuse to represent a client who we feel is misusing the system. If Active Professionals considers the case overly complicated or out of our range of expertise we will turn down your case and may either refer you to one of our other business associates, or let you know that we have no prior experience for this particular kind of case. This is what differentiates us from other professionals. Our motto is: “100 % client satisfaction.” To achieve this we use the utmost care and a professional approach.

Back to Top of Page

At Active Professionals our team has over 50 years of combined Legal, Immigration and Business Experience. Active Professionals enjoys an excellent reputation with the public and authorities. We know the players, we know the rules and we have the necessary practical experience to support our understanding of these matters. We are experienced in handling both your issues and the stress generated by the process.

Our guarantee is endorsed by the trust and faith placed in our company by hundreds of satisfied clients. You may want to visit our Client Testimonials Page and read over 400 client testimonials from around the world.

Back to Top of Page

Active Professionals staff is members of a variety of Professional Associations which includes but not limited to Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC), Canadian Bar Association (CBA), International Association of Immigration Practitioners, Canadian Society of Immigration Practitioners (CSIP), AITC (Canada) and The British Pakistan Law Council. At present we have 2 staff members who have Commissioner for Oaths (Alberta) status from Alberta Justice. At Active Professionals, one team member also has Commissioner for Oaths (Saskatchewan) status from the Saskatchewan Department of Justice.

Visit us our Page “Our Team” for detail profiles.

Back to Top of Page

Active Professionals has a high standard for choosing the staff that handles your file. Because Paralegal, Immigration or Business Services, all require energy and dedication, we work hard to make it easier and more stress-free for our clients. We keep true to our word, and handle our client work with professionalism and efficiency.

Back to Top of Page

With our help, literally thousands of individuals from around the world have obtained success in their cases for the last 13 years. More and more people are choosing Active Professionals. Active Professionals benefits from a good reputation that keeps lasting over the years. Our office is known as “Reputation for Results”!

Back to Top of Page

The rules and procedures about the Canadian Immigration (for immigration clients) and Revenue Custom Agency (for tax and accounting clients) system keep changing. This can make it difficult for one to understand every law and rule. Our staff keeps up to date with the new laws, regulations and procedures. You should not wait to start the immigration process as you may lose advantages you have today. Once your case is submitted to the immigration office, most of the time you will not be subject to regulation changes.

At Active Professionals we do not just do your paperwork and send your case file to the authorities. We provide you with a full range of services to help you through the whole process. Visit our “Services” pages to get a glimpse of what we offer.

Back to Top of Page

Word of mouth advertising (happy clients referring their family or friends to us) accounts for roughly 65% of our clientele. In some cases, clients have even cancelled contracts with other companies in order to become Active Professionals clients.

Our services go beyond simply assisting you in obtaining a visa. We also offer our employment services to all of our clients. We are a Licensed Employment Agency, authorized by Government of Alberta. Please keep in mind that not every Immigration Consulting Company has this additional service. We try to get quality jobs in Canada with reputable companies. Of course, this is a separate service from Canadian Immigration.

Back to Top of Page

It is illegal to use the word “Guarantee” in a Canadian immigration consulting business. The Government of Canada, Immigration Officer, has the final authority to approve or refuse an application. As ethical Immigration Consultants, we do not provide any kind of guarantee for success but at the same time we do not accept every file from our office. An initial assessment is a strict rule for immigration clients before we accept the file. In the past, we have refused many of cases where we think that client will be wasting his money and time. We make more friends telling the truth up front.

Back to Top of Page

We believe that this is one of the most important reasons for choosing Active Professionals. There are many other individuals or companies who operate from home basements or have only cell phone number or have post office box addresses or virtual office addresses (giving spurious impression that they actually have a commercial address) - or offer to meet you in Tim Horton’s coffee shop. We, however, have established professional quarters in a commercial office location. Our doors open at 9:00 a.m. and close at 4:30 p.m. We have multi line telephone systems and independent fax number which is available to fax 24/7. We are conveniently located, near the city centre, where parking is still free of charge! &>Read More

Back to Top of Page

We are able to meet with you on short notice. For emergency cases, we take the time to accommodate you, even on the same day. For routine cases, we may book an appointment for you on the same day or the next working day. From the time you retain us, we get on with your case and file it forthwith. We are fully aware that waiting is stressful and we respect that our clients’ time is important.

Back to Top of Page

We offer flexible payment plans as per your financial needs. We normally do not request the entire fee at once, unless it is a small amount. Money is never an issue with us. Our main goal is to provide you with outstanding service in the hopes that you will give us a referral in the future.

The majority of our clients are referred through other satisfied clients and by word of mouth. Our fees are clearly set out in our retainer agreement. Our fees are on a pre-arranged flat fee basis, which our clients to accurately budget their expenses with no unexpected costs. We use plain language and request that our clients read the agreement twice before they sign and we answer any questions you have to make sure you are comfortable with the agreement. We always tell our clients to read before they sign any document, this will make your life easier.

We endeavor to keep fees as low as possible so that they are proportionate to the complexity of the client’s file. Our fees are up to 60% less when compared to those of other Canadian firms.

We have even been open to bartering arrangements. For example a client who owns a printing press recently retained out services for his parents’ sponsorship application. We used his service to print our business cards and letterheads. On another occasion we traded services with a computer technician. When we consider bartering services we have a Strict Policy that no straight exchanges of services will be performed. You pay for our service, we give you an official receipt and when we need your services we will pay you upon receipt of a proper invoice from you. We believe in a win/win situation.

We always ask our clients who own businesses to leave their business cards so we can pass them on to other clients. In this way your business/profession gets free advertising.

Back to Top of Page

Our staff is committed to provide individual and personalized service. We take the time to get to know our clients. Once we understand the problem we tell the client in plain language about their options and our recommendations. We are a group of effective listeners. We listen to our clients, as we believe that effective listening is crucial in the best service.

Back to Top of Page

We provide a complete range of Paralegal, Immigration and Business Services. For details of our Services, please visit our web page “Services”.

Our goal is to provide one-stop Paralegal, Immigration and Business Services through our office. We often refer our clients, without any referral fee, to an appropriate professional if we cannot help.

Back to Top of Page

Back to Top of Page

Depending on your needs you have a choice of services that can be tailored specifically to your case. You can either retain Active Professionals to handle your file from A to Z, or provide you pre-submission services. One of the best things about our company (unlike some companies in Canada) is our flexibility – depending on how much work you want us to perform and how much money you are willing to spend on your project. We are here to help you, even when you want to handle an immigration file on your own, but are stuck with some questions. We offer either in-person or telephone consulting.

We will never force you to retain our services. However, we ask you to keep in mind that one minor mistake can delay any file or have it be rejected completely.

Our website summarizes basic information regarding main categories, frequently asked questions and details about Canada. We do not state that our services are “better than another company”, “we have the best service” or “our success rate is the best.” As the client, you decide whom to retain for your file.

Before you decide to retain our services, visit our “Client Testimonials” and see what other clients from different countries say about Active Professionals.

Back to Top of Page

Our staff has come from different countries and has traveled around the world. Our clientele base is equally diverse; hailing from Canada, United States of America, Mexico, England, Pakistan, New Zealand, Algeria, Congo DE, India, Ukraine, Russia, Greece, Guyana, Hungary, Japan, Netherlands, Vietnam, Philippines, Haiti, Morocco, Ireland, F.R.G., Brazil, Australia, Malaysia, Portugal, Austria, Somalia, Kenya, Syria, Italy, Columbia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Poland, Ethiopia, Germany, Singapore, Romania, Guatemala, C.A., Tunisia, Ghana, Cuba, Macedonia, Tanzania, Russia, Nigeria, South Africa, Fiji, Venezuela, Lebanon, Poland, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Mongolia, and Jordan (we apologize if any of our clients’ countries are not on this list).

It is very difficult for us to answer when someone asks: “Which community or country do you deal with?” When asked this question, our response is: “We deal with the worldwide community.”

We treat all of our clients equally with respect regardless of their religious belief or personal/political opinions. Active Professionals strictly follows the Human Rights Guidelines and treats Christian, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Jewish or any other religion equally. At Active Professionals, all races (White, Brown, Black or Asian) and all sexual orientations (Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual) get the same respect that all human beings deserve. At Active professionals, our diversity is our strength.

Back to Top of Page

It may be easy to complete any do it yourself kit, particularly for immigration and paralegal services; however, the more difficult aspect is applying the legal principles in creative and practical ways to achieve your short and long-term objectives. We take pride in our ability to meet this challenge. Before we give an opinion, make a recommendation or advance an argument on your behalf, we always consider the practical implications.

Back to Top of Page

We encourage clients to seek professional advice before problems arise. Sometimes clients try to deal with their problems on their own to save the retainer fee but end up complicating their case. If you were purchasing your first home, wouldn’t you want to retain the services of a Professional MLS Realtor to ensure that the job is done right and that there are no unforeseen "surprises" when you take possession of the property? Let’s give you another example: we all know how to use scissors, but we still go to a hairdresser! Using the professional services we offer to assist you with your paralegal, immigration and business requirements makes equal sense.

Since our establishment in 1999, the firm has been approached by countless individuals who stated that they knew that they were qualified to immigrate to Canada and had all of the necessary documents. Many of these individuals went ahead and applied for Permanent Residence in Canada on their own and were unsuccessful, losing valuable time and money.

Life is very short. You do not have time to make mistakes, so avoid mistakes when you can. Someone says, it is wise to learn from your mistakes but it is wiser to learn from others’ mistakes. Clients can avoid disappointment and painful costly appeals (in case of immigration work) or audits (in case of accounting work) with careful preparation and planning. By helping you take a proactive approach to immigration, paralegal and business issues, we can save you time, money and aggravation.

Back to Top of Page

Our Senior Consultant, Anwar Rehman, was selected as a “Man of the year in 2005” from the Board of Directors for Great Minds of the 21 Century - a volume by the American Biographical Institute Inc, that focused on those who have proved the ability to be great leaders and thinkers, and have been recognized and celebrated because of outstanding accomplishments and contribution to society.

Back to Top of Page

Our Senior Consultant, Anwar Rehman, has been proudly selected in the Heritage Registry of Who’s Who in recognition of his endeavors and contributions to this organization and efforts to be the better Canadian Business Community.

Back to Top of Page

Every new client who signs the Retainer Agreement will receive “The Brick Builder/Contractor Pricing Certificate”. With this Exclusive Purchase Certificate you are entitled to any Brick Merchandise at Special Contractor Prices from Commercial Sales Division at 95655 MacLeaod Trail South Calgary, Alberta. The certificate will enable you to choose from hundreds of brand name furniture and electronic items.

Back to Top of Page

Our Referral Program will allow you to save money towards your fee by passing our name to your friends and relatives. The referral of your friends and family is the greatest compliment you can give us. This Referral Program is limited to clients who have retained our services and have an active file. This is another way Active Professionals offers our client to reduce their fee further. Ask us for details.

As a client, we will give you preference if you are interested in working with us as a Referral Agent, Translator/Interpreter or any other salaried position that becomes available. Visit our “Work With Us” page for details.

Back to Top of Page

We have developed an excellent network of US Immigration Lawyers, Real Estate Agents, Mortgage Brokers, Web Page Designers, Data Base Administrators, Bankers, I.T. Professionals, Lawyers, Auto Dealers, Certified Canadian Immigration Consultants (CSIC Members), Job Search Clubs, Travel Agents, Accountants, Bookkeepers, Translators/Interpreters and other professionals who can provide you the best guidance and network needed for you to start a new life in Canada.

We can quickly put you in the hands of other advisors if the need arises, without any referral fee to you.

Back to Top of Page

Every client who takes our services for a minimum of $1500.00 at one time* will be eligible to receive a VIP Guest Pass Certificate either for Fairmont Vacations Villas or Lake Okanogan Resort Kelowna B.C. to stay free of charge 4 days & 3 nights during weekdays (3 days and 2 nights for weekend) at villa anytime of year except summer months (may pay very minimum cost during summer months i.e. $50). OR 2 Luxurious nights and 3 days in a 2 bedroom Chalet through Banff Gate Mountain Lodge and Spa in Canmore, AB.

How often have you heard of a consulting business offering a benefit like this?

* Subject to qualification as to eligibility which includes income and age and availability.

Back to Top of Page