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I hope you do not overcome the same horrible experience like me!!
The following two agencies located in Toronto
ShineX Caregivers Inc.
Ellas Domestics
The person in charge is an old man named Mike.
They will come to convince you to hire an overseas live-in nannies from Hong Kong, because
the salary offered is much lower than the local, they will not charge anything to the employer,
and they will do everything for you, even they find you a temporary illegal nanny to work for you during
the process of the overseas nanny.... What a beautiful picture!!.
What comes out is, I chose a nanny from this ShineX agency. We have a telephone interview, then
we confirmed to take this nanny (who is still living in Hong Kong. After waiting for 1 month, my job offer
validation has been approved and passed to the ShineX agency, hopefully, they will help the nanny to 
apply for a working visa to Canada. After about 1 month, nothing realised, and one morning, I received
a long distant call from my selected nanny, she was very depressed, upset and scared. What she told 
me is that this Shinex is forcing her to pay immediately an incredible amount of placment fee USD2000 
before processing her visa. They even threatened the girl that if she did  not pay, they can cancel her
application. The nanny asked us to help.
The other day, when we called the agency, they told us  with very arrogant manner that they have already
cancelled the application of my selected nanny. They cancelled that without getting any permission from us!
They even threatened us that if we insisted to take the nanny to Canada, they can do whatever way they can
to jeopardize the nanny from working with us. 
In order to stay away from the trouble, I signed to cancel my application for this poor nanny. And I felt very 
sorry for this now!
My brother in law also hired an overseas nanny from this agency almost at the same time with me. They told him
the same story. After waiting for about 3-4 months, the nanny was successfully arrived in Canada last February, however, the nanny stayed there
for less than a month and the nanny resigned. Because someone is offering her a much higher salary. After the resignation,
this ShineX came back to my brother in law and asked them if they will choose someone to replace, but this time, they
recommended them to choose a local nanny through Ellas Domestics but have to charge them a replacement fee of almost US$500.-
And this ShineX and Ellas are playing a circle game with the employer. They kept earning quick money. Forcing the nanny
to pay very high placement fee and when they arrived in Canada, encouraging  them to quit the employer to another 
one with higher salary, then charge the employer a replacement cost to find a local nanny to replace.
If the nanny cannot pay the placement fee, they can even cancel their application without giving any prior notice or 
permission to the employer.
I hope you can spend your time to read all these stories. And no one else will commit the same mistake like us.
Our biggest mistake is using this Shinex agency!!

Gina
Toronto, Canada