This is a report about Global Visas of 28 towers street London (Information given to me by those scammed by the company and their names removed) this company is defrauding people by promising them a service, taking their credit card details and then they stop answering calls and emails. all their customers they defraud they find through google adwords advertising not only that they write their own fake positive reviews and set up fake websites with positive reviews only about their company which then they pay through adwords to show up high in google results when in fact is their own fake websites with positive reviews the fact that they make up their positive reviews which they put in google is emphasized by a recent review in the Mirror newspaper on the following links this company makes up fake positive reviews on websites andf then they advertise them in google searches as being genuine websites showing high up in the searches they seem to be misusing credit card information please read attached to this letter is a letter from PHIL WOOLAS THE MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION Global Visas was previously investigated by the people in december 2008, read the article by Eddie Fitzmaurice Dear Sir, First of all I would like to introduce myself as a former client of Global Visas myself, I have called them on the phone , they asked for my credit card details and to sign a contract online before checking my documents for a Visa Application, they took a deposit before me signing any contract with them and before them checking my documents to see if I have any chance of getting what I wanted , I was promised a permanent residence in 4 weeks before they checked my documents. I have asked for a face to face consultation with all my documents ready they agreed and they told me someone will call to tell me which documents to bring. After they told me what to bring I become suspicious as the sales agent told me something different than the case worker so I called the Home Office who advised me what they told me is wrong. I cancelled my contract with them after 4 days without submitting any documents and never being to their office. I have filed a complaint with them only to get a reply saying I owe them full fees. I have filed a complaint with Trading Standards but they were completely ignored by Global Visas( see attached letter). I have filed a complaint with the OISC 4 months ago. Global Visas has taken me to court 2 months ago for the unpayment of the 540 pounds left of my full fee telling the court the conversation on the phone when they told me what documents to submit to them was in fact a consultation worth 690 pounds.The list of documents to bring for the applications is a free information offered on the Home Office website. I was never informed they charge 690 pounds for a trivial phone conversation in which they tell you what documents to bring and I was told I would get a face to face consultation where they can see my documents. That’s my story short. The reason I decided to write you a letter this time is because OISC only investigates my case but they don’t see the bigger picture of this , they don’t investigate the following things: WHAT IS WRONG WITH GLOBAL VISAS CONTRACTS OFFERED TO THEIR CLIENTS Global Visas is offering a service that the consumer is paying for( immigration consultancy service). I have called Consumer Direct about this matter but they told me they dont deal with this, they referred me to Trading Standards. The fact that Trading Standards investigated this matter but Global Visas failed to return any calls or letters to them only shows how dodgy the company is. This company asks for your credit card details and takes a deposit over the phone before any contract is signed or before they assess any chance of you getting a visa. I believe that is illegal. The client letter they send to clients ( their contract) is not signed by anyone from their office but they want to enforce it. According to Consumer Regulations 1974 I believe a contract should be enforceable only if signed by both parties. I have sent you their contract that they offer to clients. In their contract they specify they charge you the full fee no matter if your case is completed or any work has been done on it., I believe that is unfair. In their clause of the contract they specify they are not liable for any delays or quality of the work done or if any work done. I believe this affects the statutory rights of the consumers as it allows the company to offer a service that is not fit for purpose but the company cannot be held responsible in any way, but the customer has to pay the full fees. Global Visas says in contract they cannot accept liability in the event that your application is adversely affected due to a change in the law, policy or quotas. This term in their contract allowes them to keep your full fees you paid to them even if something happens and you are not elligible for the visa you hired them to do for you. I believe this is unfair . I have specified this company is taking me to court for full fees although I have never submitted any documents for them to do a visa application and the contract was canceled 4 days after it was signed. I believe this is unfair. I believe OFT has taken Foxtons to court over unfair contract terms and I believe this is what we are dealing with here. http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/ They say within 3 days of you contacting there there will be a consultation and then all charges are due and any work done after that by Global Visas is done for free, this allowing the company to do no work at all after that but you cannot claim any money back from them, they say the money are for the consultation but they can even give the wrong advice during the consultation, they can even tell you you are not elligible for a VISA. I think the contract is designed as a scam . I have mentioned the above to the OISC but I have not received any indication they have looked into this matter by reading the enquiry letter they sent to Global Visas asking them to defend themselves against my complaint. So on the part of unfair contract terms in the contract of Global Visas I did not see any intervention from OISC. By no means I am trying criticise OISC now ( I believe they are doing their best), I am just trying to point out that we need to take a broader view to this matter. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COMPANY ITSELF On the accreditations page of Global Visas they specify Canada Law Society although Global Visas are not lawyers they are only advisers and they cannot be approved by any Law Society. They use the logo of Home Office on their accreditations page even though I am not aware of the fact that Home Office gives accreditations to immigration advisers. On their website Global Visas specifies they have overseas offices in Canada, South Africa, India, USA. I have checked and none of these offices are companies registered for tax purposes in those countries and they also do not have licences and accreditations in those countries to act as immigration advisers. Feel free to check yourself on the accreditations page of Global Visas and on http://www.dnb.com/us/ When I have mentioned this to OISC their reply was that this is not under their jurisdiction, then whose jurisdiction is this in? A UK set up company who has offices abroad which are not licensed or registered as companies, how does that help with the reputation of the company? I believe that’s why they became a global company, it is easier to scam in other countries which do not have regulations like the UK. Global Visas UK office is giving immigration advice to people wanting to move to Canda, USA, South Africa , Australia. Still, when people who are willing to do that are being conned by Global Visas and try to complain to the OISC office the shocking reply is that they only deal with complaints from people wanting to come or stay here, for the other types of Immigration advice of a Global Visas UK office you have to go to Canada, USA , etc authorities. Well their offices do not have accreditations abroad so to whom are those people supposed to complain? GLOBAL VISAS OWN EMPLOYEES ARE POSTING ON THE INETERNET POSTS Saying the offices abroad are not registered for tax purposes and they are stealing peoples money Please check http://www.complaintsboard. On the OISC website is only said they take complaints against advisers accredited by them but when you go to them about Canadian Immigration advice given by UK based accredited advisors they say is not their business even though you are a UK resident and you are complaining about a UK based OISC accredited adviser. I think is hilarious and a paradox the fact that in this country they complain about the failure of the immigration policy and the fact that there are too many foreigners coming here but when the foreigners want to leave and they are stopped from leaving by bogus set up immigration companies like Global Visas the government does nothing to regulate these advisers who instead of helping people leave they scam them and stop them from, leaving when the government is so desperate to stop people from coming and encourage foreigners to leave? Any foreigner, ready to leave to Canada, Australia, USA, is scammed by Global Visas and stops this from happening but the govern does nothing, even though they are desperate to reduce the number of foreigners in this country. WHATS WRONG WITH THE DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL VISAS, LIAM CLIFFORD For starters he is registered on the companies house website as a disqualified Director, I believe he didn’t receive this for best behaviour. Feel free to check http://wck2.companieshouse. http://wck2.companieshouse. Also Carl Thomas, the long terms business partner of Liam Clifford and co owner of Global Visas is registered as disqualified on the same government own website http://wck2.companieshouse. This website offers free information for the public under The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data protection Act 1998 give people the right to see or receive information.The Freedom of Information Act gives the public the right to see official information held by public authorities and includes information held by Companies House. The Data Protection Act allows a member of the public to see the personal information that is held about them by organisations of all types, including Companies House. Mr Clifford also seem to have a history of making up his own accreditations, feel free to check http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/ Mr Clifford has confessed also in a press release that he has spent time in jail( good behaviour?). Feel free to check http://www.england-matters.me. Once, he was arrested and thrown into the cells of the Old Bailey as a result of his previous government job of keeping people outside the UK. During his time in the Old Bailey cells, he realised his country needs help and that "people who work for UK PLC should never have to spend time in the cells for a job well done". I believe he is even trying to turn a jail sentece in his favor by portraying himself not as a conman that I believe he really is but as a hero. Mr Clifford and his company has been previously investigated by the newspapers and has been forced to hand money back to his clients. Feel free to check http://www.people.co.uk/news/ Mr Cliffords dodgyness is emphasized by the myriad of companies he has set up with almost identical names , he set up one even on his home address with the name of Global Visas UK when his company in 28 Tower Hill London is called Global Visas. He has set up also more than one company who can use Global Visas as a trading name. I believe this raises the question of Phoenix companies. Please feel free to check
Question is: why is this company still operating on the market? The only person suggesting this company is a leading and largest immigration company in this country is the companys own Director Liam Clifford in his thousands of press releases but no one but himself backs these affirmations. At the moment MR Clifford and his company seem to be at the centre of a scandal with his clients amid acusations of them not acting in good faith and in defavour of their clients, charging money for work which hasnt been done or was unecessary, providing false immigration information, deliberately taking money from people promising to take an action that cannot be successful and give misleading information to people, routinely promising people things which they cannot deliver and have no intention of delivering. all these concerns are illustrated on the following websites http://www.complaintsboard. http://www.shamscam.com/ http://www.consumercomplaints. http://www.clik2complaints.co. http://www.xomreviews.com/ http://www.ripoffreport.com/ http://www.touchlondon.co.uk/ http://www.canyoutrustthem. http://www.ripoffreport.com/ http://www.ripoffreport.com/ http://www.canyoutrustthem. http://britishexpats.com/ It has recently transpired from the Global Visas employees that Mr Clifford has sacked his entire Canadian Office. This raises the question of whether he sacked them all because they were honest. Liam Clifford stepped down in 2006 as a director of Global visas putting his wife as a director but if you google liam clifford 2007 in 2007 he still postes press releases on the internet as director , so he presents himself as a director even though he is not. Isnt this criminal offence? I believe that if Insolvency Services is not given any powers to fine Global Visas for breaches , Global Visas will just continue to make a mockery of the entire system and continue to re-offend because every time they scam someone they only get a slap on the wrist and even if OISC finds their report in the favor of the client Global Visas can still decide not to give a refund and OISC cannot do anything about it, even if you take Global Visas to court and win( which I intend to win against them) they can still decide to not give money back and just get themselves an unpaid County Court Judgement. I believe they are just making a mockery of the system, a company run by a disqualified Director, who continues to scam people even after being disqualified and all OISC can so is a slap on the wrist, not a shutting down of the company. This company is taking money from people who are students, cleaners, waitresses, people who don’t know how to write a complaint letter, where to complain, they don’t know their rights ,they cant read a contract or the small print, they don’t know where to go, vulnerable people who are easily ignored and fobbed off by Global Visas and Liam Clifford who made a fortune on their back. Excuse my bluntness but I am not a softly spoken lawyer, I am just a member of the public . do you think Armageddon will ever come for Global Visas? I have lots of emails of liam lying to his customers ,I have emails of him blackmailing his customers by promising a refund if they write a favourable letter regarding their company. I am ready to forward all the emails to an email address you have as evidence so I don’t need to print them, I Thank you very much for reading. This is a report about Global Visas of 28 towers street london they seem to be misusing credit card information please read attached to this letter is a letter from PHIL WOOLAS THE MINISTER OF IMMIGRATION Global Visas was previously investigated by the people in december 2008, read the article by Eddie Fitzmaurice Dear Sir, First of all I would like to introduce myself as a former client of Global Visas myself, I have called them on the phone , they asked for my credit card details and to sign a contract online before checking my documents for a Visa Application, they took a deposit before me signing any contract with them and before them checking my documents to see if I have any chance of getting what I wanted , I was promised a permanent residence in 4 weeks before they checked my documents. I have asked for a face to face consultation with all my documents ready they agreed and they told me someone will call to tell me which documents to bring. After they told me what to bring I become suspicious as the sales agent told me something different than the case worker so I called the Home Office who advised me what they told me is wrong. I cancelled my contract with them after 4 days without submitting any documents and never being to their office. I have filed a complaint with them only to get a reply saying I owe them full fees. I have filed a complaint with Trading Standards but they were completely ignored by Global Visas( see attached letter). I have filed a complaint with the OISC 4 months ago. Global Visas has taken me to court 2 months ago for the unpayment of the 540 pounds left of my full fee telling the court the conversation on the phone when they told me what documents to submit to them was in fact a consultation worth 690 pounds.The list of documents to bring for the applications is a free information offered on the Home Office website. I was never informed they charge 690 pounds for a trivial phone conversation in which they tell you what documents to bring and I was told I would get a face to face consultation where they can see my documents. That’s my story short. The reason I decided to write you a letter this time is because OISC only investigates my case but they don’t see the bigger picture of this , they don’t investigate the following things: WHAT IS WRONG WITH GLOBAL VISAS CONTRACTS OFFERED TO THEIR CLIENTS Global Visas is offering a service that the consumer is paying for( immigration consultancy service). I have called Consumer Direct about this matter but they told me they dont deal with this, they referred me to Trading Standards. The fact that Trading Standards investigated this matter but Global Visas failed to return any calls or letters to them only shows how dodgy the company is. This company asks for your credit card details and takes a deposit over the phone before any contract is signed or before they assess any chance of you getting a visa. I believe that is illegal. The client letter they send to clients ( their contract) is not signed by anyone from their office but they want to enforce it. According to Consumer Regulations 1974 I believe a contract should be enforceable only if signed by both parties. I have sent you their contract that they offer to clients. In their contract they specify they charge you the full fee no matter if your case is completed or any work has been done on it., I believe that is unfair. In their clause of the contract they specify they are not liable for any delays or quality of the work done or if any work done. I believe this affects the statutory rights of the consumers as it allows the company to offer a service that is not fit for purpose but the company cannot be held responsible in any way, but the customer has to pay the full fees. Global Visas says in contract they cannot accept liability in the event that your application is adversely affected due to a change in the law, policy or quotas. This term in their contract allowes them to keep your full fees you paid to them even if something happens and you are not elligible for the visa you hired them to do for you. I believe this is unfair . I have specified this company is taking me to court for full fees although I have never submitted any documents for them to do a visa application and the contract was canceled 4 days after it was signed. I believe this is unfair. I believe OFT has taken Foxtons to court over unfair contract terms and I believe this is what we are dealing with here. http://www.oft.gov.uk/news/ They say within 3 days of you contacting there there will be a consultation and then all charges are due and any work done after that by Global Visas is done for free, this allowing the company to do no work at all after that but you cannot claim any money back from them, they say the money are for the consultation but they can even give the wrong advice during the consultation, they can even tell you you are not elligible for a VISA. I think the contract is designed as a scam . I have mentioned the above to the OISC but I have not received any indication they have looked into this matter by reading the enquiry letter they sent to Global Visas asking them to defend themselves against my complaint. So on the part of unfair contract terms in the contract of Global Visas I did not see any intervention from OISC. By no means I am trying criticise OISC now ( I believe they are doing their best), I am just trying to point out that we need to take a broader view to this matter. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE COMPANY ITSELF On the accreditations page of Global Visas they specify Canada Law Society although Global Visas are not lawyers they are only advisers and they cannot be approved by any Law Society. They use the logo of Home Office on their accreditations page even though I am not aware of the fact that Home Office gives accreditations to immigration advisers. On their website Global Visas specifies they have overseas offices in Canada, South Africa, India, USA. I have checked and none of these offices are companies registered for tax purposes in those countries and they also do not have licences and accreditations in those countries to act as immigration advisers. Feel free to check yourself on the accreditations page of Global Visas and on http://www.dnb.com/us/ When I have mentioned this to OISC their reply was that this is not under their jurisdiction, then whose jurisdiction is this in? A UK set up company who has offices abroad which are not licensed or registered as companies, how does that help with the reputation of the company? I believe that’s why they became a global company, it is easier to scam in other countries which do not have regulations like the UK. Global Visas UK office is giving immigration advice to people wanting to move to Canda, USA, South Africa , Australia. Still, when people who are willing to do that are being conned by Global Visas and try to complain to the OISC office the shocking reply is that they only deal with complaints from people wanting to come or stay here, for the other types of Immigration advice of a Global Visas UK office you have to go to Canada, USA , etc authorities. Well their offices do not have accreditations abroad so to whom are those people supposed to complain? GLOBAL VISAS OWN EMPLOYEES ARE POSTING ON THE INETERNET POSTS Saying the offices abroad are not registered for tax purposes and they are stealing peoples money Please check http://www.complaintsboard. On the OISC website is only said they take complaints against advisers accredited by them but when you go to them about Canadian Immigration advice given by UK based accredited advisors they say is not their business even though you are a UK resident and you are complaining about a UK based OISC accredited adviser. I think is hilarious and a paradox the fact that in this country they complain about the failure of the immigration policy and the fact that there are too many foreigners coming here but when the foreigners want to leave and they are stopped from leaving by bogus set up immigration companies like Global Visas the government does nothing to regulate these advisers who instead of helping people leave they scam them and stop them from, leaving when the government is so desperate to stop people from coming and encourage foreigners to leave? Any foreigner, ready to leave to Canada, Australia, USA, is scammed by Global Visas and stops this from happening but the govern does nothing, even though they are desperate to reduce the number of foreigners in this country. WHATS WRONG WITH THE DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL VISAS, LIAM CLIFFORD For starters he is registered on the companies house website as a disqualified Director, I believe he didn’t receive this for best behaviour. Feel free to check http://wck2.companieshouse. http://wck2.companieshouse. Also Carl Thomas, the long terms business partner of Liam Clifford and co owner of Global Visas is registered as disqualified on the same government own website http://wck2.companieshouse. This website offers free information for the public under The Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Data protection Act 1998 give people the right to see or receive information. The Freedom of Information Act gives the public the right to see official information held by public authorities and includes information held by Companies House. The Data Protection Act allows a member of the public to see the personal information that is held about them by organisations of all types, including Companies House. Mr Clifford also seem to have a history of making up his own accreditations, feel free to check http://blogs.mirror.co.uk/ Mr Clifford has confessed also in a press release that he has spent time in jail( good behaviour?). Feel free to check http://www.england-matters.me. Once, he was arrested and thrown into the cells of the Old Bailey as a result of his previous government job of keeping people outside the UK. During his time in the Old Bailey cells, he realised his country needs help and that "people who work for UK PLC should never have to spend time in the cells for a job well done". I believe he is even trying to turn a jail sentece in his favor by portraying himself not as a conman that I believe he really is but as a hero. Mr Clifford and his company has been previously investigated by the newspapers and has been forced to hand money back to his clients. Feel free to check http://www.people.co.uk/news/ Mr Cliffords dodgyness is emphasized by the myriad of companies he has set up with almost identical names , he set up one even on his home address with the name of Global Visas UK when his company in 28 Tower Hill London is called Global Visas. He has set up also more than one company who can use Global Visas as a trading name. I believe this raises the question of Phoenix companies. Please feel free to check
Question is: why is this company still operating on the market? The only person suggesting this company is a leading and largest immigration company in this country is the companys own Director Liam Clifford in his thousands of press releases but no one but himself backs these affirmations. At the moment MR Clifford and his company seem to be at the centre of a scandal with his clients amid acusations of them not acting in good faith and in defavour of their clients, charging money for work which hasnt been done or was unecessary, providing false immigration information, deliberately taking money from people promising to take an action that cannot be successful and give misleading information to people, routinely promising people things which they cannot deliver and have no intention of delivering. all these concerns are illustrated on the following websites http://www.complaintsboard. http://www.shamscam.com/ http://www.consumercomplaints. http://www.clik2complaints.co. http://www.xomreviews.com/ http://www.ripoffreport.com/ http://www.touchlondon.co.uk/ http://www.canyoutrustthem. http://www.ripoffreport.com/ http://www.ripoffreport.com/ http://www.canyoutrustthem. http://britishexpats.com/ It has recently transpired from the Global Visas employees that Mr Clifford has sacked his entire Canadian Office. This raises the question of whether he sacked them all because they were honest. Liam Clifford stepped down in 2006 as a director of Global visas putting his wife as a director but if you google liam clifford 2007 in 2007 he still postes press releases on the internet as director , so he presents himself as a director even though he is not. Isnt this criminal offence? I believe that if Insolvency Services is not given any powers to fine Global Visas for breaches , Global Visas will just continue to make a mockery of the entire system and continue to re-offend because every time they scam someone they only get a slap on the wrist and even if OISC finds their report in the favor of the client Global Visas can still decide not to give a refund and OISC cannot do anything about it, even if you take Global Visas to court and win( which I intend to win against them) they can still decide to not give money back and just get themselves an unpaid County Court Judgement. I believe they are just making a mockery of the system, a company run by a disqualified Director, who continues to scam people even after being disqualified and all OISC can so is a slap on the wrist, not a shutting down of the company. This company is taking money from people who are students, cleaners, waitresses, people who don’t know how to write a complaint letter, where to complain, they don’t know their rights ,they cant read a contract or the small print, they don’t know where to go, vulnerable people who are easily ignored and fobbed off by Global Visas and Liam Clifford who made a fortune on their back. Excuse my bluntness but I am not a softly spoken lawyer, I am just a member of the public . do you think Armageddon will ever come for Global Visas? I have lots of emails of liam lying to his customers ,I have emails of him blackmailing his customers by promising a refund if they write a favourable letter regarding their company. I am ready to forward all the emails to an email address you have as evidence so I don’t need to print them, I Thank you very much for reading.
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