Shifting from Lived Experiences to Heard Experiences
In both advocacy and community, I have been hearing a lot about ‘lived experiences.’ While generally a positive term about showing up with authenticity and reflecting only on what you know and have...
View ArticleThree Challenges I Can Already Foresee: Canada’s Temporary Public Policy for...
On 14 April 2021, the Minister released a Temporary Public Policy (“TPP”) for international graduates, including the creation of a 40,000 cap for those with a recent Canadian post-secondary credential...
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Five Things I Wish International Students Knew Before Applying for Canadian...
Setting the Scene: Where We Are At and Where We Are Going I have been struggling with this post – to capture the experiences of the many prospective clients/international student applicants who have...
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How the Federal Court of Appeal, Federal Court, and We as Young Racialized...
Last month I had the privilege of presenting to the CBA National Administrative Law Section’s, Vavilov, One Year Later panel (see: https://www.cbapd.org/details_en.aspx?id=na_NA21LAW04A) I was...
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Express Entry: Three Things to Ask Your Representative About Your eAPR Before...
As many of you are aware, Express Entry took a new direction last week when 27,332 Invitations to Apply were issued to Canadian Experience Class applicants at a record-low 75 CRS points I will not...
View ArticleNew Post (via Edelmann Blog), Some Updates, and Some Thoughts
Hello VIB Readers: I have been on a bit of a summer hiatus with writing new posts. I am currently teaching two courses and as well winding down a third job supervising law students at Allard’s Law...
View ArticleFederal Court’s Decision in Lo and Three of My Interpreter/Interpretation...
The Lo Decision In Lo v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2020 FC 684, Justice Elliot heard the judicial review of a Sponsor who received a negative decision from the Immigration Appeal Division...
View ArticleEmpty Tinfoil and Tenfold Erasure – A Poem
The streets have changed we last said hi. We didn’t even have a chance to say bye. Abandoned blocks bursting with a newfound energy that most call a problem and sometimes even call the police on....
View Article“Too Often Silent and Therefore Complicit”– A Poem on Anti-Blackness
Dear M: I still call you my first Black friend. But having a Black friend ain’t never enough but an excuse to divert from the reality of anti-Blackness in my own life. I can’t just give you daps while...
View ArticleCBA Immigration Section Founder’s Award Paper and Some Sharing of Gratitude
Hi Readers: I have been relatively quiet of late, grappling, as many are with the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Regis Korchinski-Paquet, Chantel Moore and thinking about how...
View ArticleDear Anxiety – A Letter
Dear Anxiety: I have a hearing in less than two hours. I am writing you to spill my heart and in hopes that I put you to a resting space in the very back of my head. You have occupied a place at the...
View ArticleProtected: Exclusive Family & Friends Preview of My Founder’s Award Paper
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post. The post Protected: Exclusive Family & Friends Preview of My Founder’s Award Paper appeared first on Welcome to Vancouver's Immigration Blog.
View ArticleRecently quoted in CBA National Magazine’s: ‘The pandemic and the long-term...
Panellist Will Tao, a lawyer at Edelmann & Co. Law Offices in Vancouver, worries that international graduates or students have the most trouble advocating for themselves, and are unable to access...
View ArticleStudy Permit: COVID-19 Program Delivery – What It Says and What It Doesn’t
Oh, the joys of our immigration practice and the frequent changes it brings along. I am scheduled to speak on study permits this upcoming Friday for the Canadian Bar Association’s National Conference....
View ArticleReflections on Chief Justice Crampton’s “Best Practices on Judicial Review...
Chief Justice Paul Crampton in a recent piece for the CBA’s National Immigration Section’s COVID’s 20:20 A Vision for Lawyer Expertise During a Pandemic and Beyond presented a conference paper titled...
View ArticleFive Immigration Tips for Coming Out of the Pandemic (Part 1)
I wrote this hopefully relevant piece with five immigration tips on coming out of the pandemic. While no one has a crystal ball, I would expect that there is a greater emphasis on the back end (people...
View ArticleCorona’s Down Time Made Me Realize…..
On the surface level, you see accomplishments/accolades/doing things I wasn’t supposed to do at my age, and frankly undeserved privileges in many circumstances. Below the surface, you have unresolved...
View ArticleInternational Students – A Recent Podcast, an Upcoming Presentation, and a...
Hi VIB Readers: It’s been a minute. A Recent Podcast I wanted to share something I did not too long ago (Pre-COVID). I recently joined Canadian Immigration Lawyer, Mark Holthe on his podcast, Canadian...
View ArticleAre we R.228-ing too many R.229s? – New COVID-Based Quarantine Act...
Introduction I did an earlier-COVID post about the criminal inadmissibility consequences of the Quarantine Act. In today’s post I want to update the Government’s approach here but also bring a larger...
View ArticleThe Conversations For Us and the Conversations Between Us
We’re in a world stuck between two conversations. One conversation is for us. The other is between us. In one you are telling us what we should do, how we should act, setting the lines between...
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