Are you a Foreign National in Canada and just graduated? If the answer is yes you might be eligible to the Post Graduate Work Permit that would allow you to work in Canada up to a maximum of three years. The Post-Graduation Work Permit Program allows students who have...
Judicial Review or appeal in Immigration Law In Canada, a vast number of government bodies and agencies provide a wide range of services to Canadians. Parliament, through laws grant decision making powers to the executive branch of the government such as...
Detention The law under which an individual is detained by Canada’s Border Services Agency, is mentioned at section 55 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, where it states that an officer: considered it necessary to complete an examination; was not satisfied...
Criminally Inadmissible into Canada, what are my options? If you are a foreign national and you have been found inadmissible into Canada on grounds of criminality there are several options that are available in order for you to be able to enter into Canada. Every case...
The granting of applications such as Labour Market Impact Assessments (LMIAs) and many work permits is subject to policy imposed by Canada’s immigration department. Policy – as distinct from law – can be altered by governments with ease, as...
Toronto immigration lawyer’s point of view on the above question is circumscribed by the location, i.e., being located in an urban setting in Canada. A significant factor when determining which country would be the best place to immigrate, would include whether...
Foreign nationals who seek to enhance their chances of success for immigration to Canada have many options. One such option is obtaining a job offer in Canada. The job offer must be supported by an Labour Market Impact Assessment, or an analogous process that is...
A key player in obtaining a visa to Canada is often a consular office or Embassy of a country. The consular office of importance is often the one corresponding to your own country of citizenship, or of a country you resided in for more than six months. Your own...
A permanent resident card is subject to maintenance. Like an automobile, the amount of maintenance depends on how the card is being used. For example, if you obtained permanent residency in Canada and then never left Canada for five years, there is relatively little...
There is often a chain of immigration that has its origins in one individual, perhaps named Bob, or Bilal, or Bhavik, or Bao, or Boris (hereinafter “Bob”). Bob may have immigrated to Canada as a skilled worker. Bob gets married to a foreign national who is sponsored...
[slider]The Express Entry system constitutes the gateway to filing a skilled worker application to live in Canada permanently. It is apparent that (at least with respect to the Canada Experience Class category), the minimum level of English or French language skill...
Depending on your country of citizenship, as well as your age (usually under 30 or under 35 years), you may be eligible for an International Experience Class visa. General Information is at Become a candidate – International Experience Canada. The program is...
PNP programs aim to serve the needs of the province that administers them. If the skills of a person seeking admission to a province happen to cohere with the economic aims of the province, then the chances of being nominated for immigration are greater. A nomination...
As the Express Entry system captures all of the skilled immigration to Canada, including Federal skilled worker in Canada experience class, the heart of the application is arguably, the work experience acquired by the applicant. The system is also geared towards...
The immigration department does not want student aged young people to be able to gain entry to Canada on a study permit and work in Canada unless they are actually studying as intended in their study visa application. Study permit holders must be enrolled in studies...
If you applying for a visa to be sponsored as a spouse or common-law partner to Canada, one issue may be marital history, specifically whether a divorce has been obtained. Questions may arise such as the reason for the divorce, and the subsequent marital partner’s...
he level of analysis Toronto Immigration lawyers use when assessing the Low Income cut-off has become more than merely looking up a table. The amounts for parents are 30% higher than the amount also known as the Minimum Necessary Income, for the sponsorship of a...
With increasing information sharing between governments, violations of the law can be more easily shared between governments. Such convictions may be easier for Canada Border Services Agency officers to detect. However, applying for a visa with some form of criminal...
Immigration detention may often occur when there is a breakdown in communication between a person holding (most often) a study or work visa and the immigration authorities. For example, the failure to keep an address updated with the immigration department (and/or...
Express Entry is characterized by ease of processing (for the immigration department), and as little accountability to the public as possible. One way accountability is reduced is by the fact that an Express Entry profile is not an application, but rather, data about...