first of all good luck and congratulations to every one who passed the interview! — now the real «problems» will start — life in Canada is not easy in the first year J!
regarding the personnel in the Tel Aviv consulate.
1. Mrs. Joan W. Amir — brunet/blond, she has been there from the late 80's and probably the most experienced of all the workers. With her we had some disagreements over the years.
2. Mrs. Anna — Dina Fine — dark longer hair, she is working as Designated immigration officer since 1999 or 98. She is actually very pleasant.
3. Poulette Sanders — in charge of the interview dates! not doing interviews — unfortunately!! She is probably the most pleasant person.
4. Ada — she is the one that usually comes out and returns your file stating that it is not complete J
All are non Canadians.
Unlike the rumors that are going on — we have never had court cases against any one of them. The only person with whom we ever had a complaint against was Natalie Mathiassen — and it was right after Nancy Shalom — former employee of the embassy opened her own office and it seemed like (never proven) that our clients stared to receive bad treatment.
Natalie was removed promptly and replaced by Mr. Dumas — who was probably the best ever immigration officer in Israel, it was he who had reduced the waiting period from 2 years in 1994 — 1995 to 4 month and less.
Consulate personel does not like «most» consultants because it is them who introduced the forged documents into the systems — there are companies that «specialze» in this kind of activities — and are well known to the consulate — that is also the reason for the relatively new request of «Bituah Leumi». It is always better to submit the application by yourself then to wrk with some one who has bad reputation with the consulate.
Today there is no Canadian based consultant or Lawyer working in Israel except us.
Mr. Dumas (the former immigration officer) was replaced by Mr. Mark E. in 1999 — the waiting period is again 2+ years (think what you want about his way of work — he never does interviews unlike Mr. Dumas.)
Soon Mark will be replaced too — they «should» be replaced every 3-4 years.