Verify us

If you found us through a Facebook or Instagram ad, you were right to check.

Nigeria has no shortage of people who promise jobs abroad and then ask for money. Some of them will show up in the comments under our own ads, using our name. This page exists so you can confirm, in a few minutes, who we are and how we work — and so you can recognise anyone pretending to be us.

Who we are

We are Soretum Legal Partners, a law firm registered in the Republic of Ireland with the Companies Registration Office, company number 678901.

We operate in Nigeria as Soretum Migration Services Limited, registered with the Corporate Affairs Commission under RC 1234567.

Our office in Nigeria: 12 Karimu Kotun Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.

You can check these registrations yourself. We are not asking you to take our word for it:

• Corporate Affairs Commission public search — search.cac.gov.ng
• Companies Registration Office public search — core.cro.ie

Our licences

Immigration advice is regulated. Here is where we are authorised and under what number. Every one of these registers is public and searchable — if a number below does not appear in its register, do not work with us.

Who decides your visa, and who does not

This is the part most people get wrong, and it is where most fraud starts.

Your visa is decided by a government. Not by us, and not by an employer. We prepare your case and lodge it through the official channels of the authority that decides it. That is the whole of our role in front of a government:

We deal with these authorities through their published channels — the same ones you could use yourself. We prepare the file, we make the legal arguments, we lodge on time, and we answer what they ask for. That is what a law firm does, and it is worth doing well.

What none of that means:

Nobody has a contact inside an embassy who can move a file. Nobody can guarantee an outcome. Nobody can buy you a faster decision. Not us, not an agent, not a “consultant”, not somebody’s cousin who works there.

If a person tells you they have contacts at the embassy, they are lying to you — and it does not matter whether they use our name or their own. That single sentence will protect you from most of the fraud in this market.

Who pays us, and why you don’t

Employers pay us when they hire you. You never pay us anything.

Not an application fee. Not a processing fee. Not a “file opening” fee. Not a refundable deposit. Not a fee for a faster review. Nothing, at any stage.

This is not generosity. It is how the work is structured, for two reasons.

It is the law where you are going. In Canada, the employer pays the Labour Market Impact Assessment fee and cannot recover it from the worker.¹ Charging you for recruitment would put our licences at risk in every corridor we operate in.

It aligns us with you. We are paid when an employer hires you and you start working. Sending an employer someone who is not ready costs us money. That is why we ask so many questions before we present anyone, and why we sometimes tell people that their route is not open today.

What you will pay for, and to whom

Some steps cost money. Those payments are real, and they never pass through us. You pay the official body directly:

• English tests (IELTS, OET, PTE) — to the test centre
• Credential assessment and registration with professional bodies — to that body
• Police clearance, medicals and document translation — to the issuing authority
• Government visa fees and biometrics, where they apply to the worker — to the authority or its official Visa Application Centre

We will always tell you what a step costs and who charges it, before you spend anything. If we ever recommend a paid service, we will say whether we have any commercial relationship with it.

How we contact you

Email only. Every message from us comes from an address ending in @mail.soretum.com. That is the only channel we use to start a conversation with you.

Your applicant number is how you check that a message is really ours. You receive it by email the moment you finish the questions on our site. It looks like this: SOR-2026-000000. Every genuine message from us shows it.

We do not contact you on WhatsApp. Ever. Not to introduce ourselves, not to ask for documents, not to follow up.

You may see our link shared on WhatsApp by a friend or a group — that is fine, and we give you a button to do it. But a WhatsApp message from someone claiming to work for Soretum is not from us.

What we will never do

• Ask you for money, at any stage, in any form
• Ask you to pay a “deposit”, a “processing fee” or an “agent fee” to any person or account
• Contact you first on WhatsApp, Telegram or by phone call
• Claim to have contacts inside an embassy, a high commission or an immigration department
• Guarantee you a visa or a job — nobody can, and anyone who does is lying to you
• Ask for your BVN, your bank details or your card number
• Ask you to send original documents to a private address
• Charge you to “speed up” or “prioritise” your file

If someone asks you for money in our name

Do not pay. Then tell us, so we can warn other people:

1. Take a screenshot of the message, including the phone number, profile name or email address
2. Send it to report@mail.soretum.com, with your applicant number if you have one
3. We will confirm within two working days whether that contact was ours

You do not need to have applied with us to report something. If you are not sure whether a message is real, ask us before you act on it.

Known impostor accounts reported to us: none reported yet.

The people who handle your case

Your file is prepared by lawyers, not by agents or sales staff. The team combines a principal admitted to the Nigerian Bar, who deals with you and with your documents, and admitted practitioners in each destination jurisdiction, who make the legal arguments and lodge the application.

Every licence number above belongs to a practitioner on this team, and each one is searchable in its public register. We publish the numbers rather than the names because the register is what you should check — a name proves nothing on its own.

Where else you can find us

• Google Business profile — coming shortly
• LinkedIn — coming shortly
• Our full terms, privacy notice and data policy — /terms/ · /privacy/

If a website, page or account uses our name and is not listed here, it is not us.