Three Moose Jaw Employers Facing Provincial Immigration Charges
Three Moose Jaw businesspeople are off to Provincial Court on November 25, 2025 for allegedly breaching The Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act, 2013 (FWRISA).
According to a news release Kartikkumar Prakashkumar Patel, Rutvik Hasmukhbhai Patel and Piyushkumar Mafatbhai Patel are each charged with three offences under Sections 22 and 23 of FWRISA.
The alleged offences took place between August 2023 and February 2024 at Guac Mexi Grill (4 Hochelaga Street West) in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan.
The trio is charged with:
Take action against, or threaten to take action against a foreign worker for participating in an investigation or proceeding by any government or law enforcement agency or for making a complaint to any government or law enforcement agency as prohibited by section 22 (f) of the Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act, contrary to sections 40 (1) (i) and 40 (2) of the Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act.
Take unfair advantage of a foreign national's trust or exploit a foreign national's fear or lack of experience or knowledge as prohibited by section 22 (g) of the Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act, contrary to sections 40 (1) (i) and 40 (2) of the Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act.
Being an employer charge a foreign worker a fee or expense for employment as prohibited by section 23 (5) of the Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act, contrary to sections 40 (1) (i) and 40 (2) of the Foreign Worker Recruitment and Immigration Services Act.
The Program Compliance Branch of the Ministry of Immigration and Career Training works to protect immigrants and foreign workers in Saskatchewan. Contact the Program Compliance Branch at pcb@gov.sk.ca or call 306-798-1350 if you have questions about the ISA, believe your rights have been violated, or want to file a complaint about the immigration or recruitment process.
No permission is needed to contact the Program Compliance Branch.
The trio are to be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
The charges are the first ever laid under the Province’s Immigration Laws.