Most people meet Larissa Castelluber at the moment their Canadian dream feels either within reach or slipping away. What they don't always see is that she has spent her whole career on the other side of that same table, deciding who gets to move, and helping them get there.
A career built around people who move
Before immigration consulting, Larissa's world was human resources and recruitment. She earned a background in International Relations and a Human Resource Management certificate from BCIT, then spent more than seven years in recruitment and global mobility in Canada, including large-scale projects in the mining sector, where getting the right people to the right place, legally and on time, was the whole job.
Global mobility is immigration seen from inside a company: work permits, LMIAs, relocation, compliance, the paperwork that decides whether a hire actually happens. Years of it gave Larissa something most consultants never get, an operator's instinct for how these files really move, and where they quietly fall apart.
Becoming a regulated consultant
In Canada, only a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) or a licensed lawyer can legally charge for immigration advice. It is a regulated profession for a reason: the field is full of unlicensed "agents" and "facilitators" who take money and disappear when a file gets hard.
Larissa studied immigration laws, policies and procedures at the University of British Columbia and became licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants, registration R710678. Her licence is Class L2 RCIC, active and in good standing, a status anyone can confirm on the public register in under a minute.
Founding Up Immigration
Up Immigration Consulting grew out of a simple frustration: the Canadian immigration process is confusing, high-stakes, and easy to get wrong, and too many people navigate it alone or trust the wrong hands. Larissa built a family-run consultancy to make it clear and reliable, combining licensed immigration expertise with the HR and global-mobility experience that shaped her.
Today her work spans the pathways that matter most to the people she serves: Express Entry, Provincial Nominee Programs (with a focus on BC PNP), LMIA, and citizenship applications. She serves clients across Canada, with a particular closeness to the Brazilian community making the same journey she understands from the inside.
Verify her licence yourself
You should never take a consultant's credentials on faith. Here is exactly how to confirm Larissa's licence on the official CICC public register:
How to verify with CICC
Open the CICC public register, choose "Search for an RCIC", type Larissa and Castelluber, and click Find. You will see College ID R710678, company UP Immigration Consulting, type RCIC-L2, and Entitled to Practise: Yes. Or go straight to her public CICC profile.
You can also connect with Larissa on LinkedIn or read her credentials summary.
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