Five Tips to Paper Trail Like a Canadian Immigration Lawyer!
I have been very busy. Still there are no excuses I realize I owe about a billion posts for my one month hiatus. This represents the beginning of my seeking for forgiveness from my faithful...
View ArticleExciting Announcement Vancouver! – After Hours/House Call Immigration Legal...
Image 1 from Wikipedia Commons Image 2 by Russell Lee - U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17047107 Vancouver! Over the...
View ArticleWhy Canada’s Electronic Travel Authorization Scheme Needs to Be Fixed By...
In an earlier post last year I predicted that the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA program) may end up being akin to “visas for the visa-exempt.” True to form, even with the leniency period having...
View ArticlePort-of-Entry Examination Procedures – Walk Through YVR (via IRCC’s...
With summer season upon us. the end of the leniency period of the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) regime, and the development of Canada’s Interactive Advanced Passenger Information (IAPI)...
View ArticleRegionalism and Geographic Discrimination in Canadian Immigration? – A China...
Recently, my colleague Steven Meurrens uncovered via Access to Information and Privacy Request officer training guides used by Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) Beijing’s Temporary...
View ArticleReader’s Question: “I have a consultant working on my file, can I still see...
One of the things I pride my practice on is the fact I maintain a positive relationship with several immigration consultants across Canada. In fact, in my opinion immigration consultants serve a very...
View ArticleCanadian Immigration Updates – July 2016
In a throwback to my articling days, I was asked by the Firm to prepare a summary of the recent developments in Canadian Immigration Law for July. Writing it, I felt this information may be useful to...
View ArticleThe Case for Writing Employment Reference Letters in an Employer’s Working...
A recent Federal Court decision from Justice Alan Diner in Ouedraogo v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness) 2016 FC 810 raised a very interesting question that has at least sparked a...
View ArticleImproving the Immigration Detention Process – My Thoughts and Experiences
On 15 August 2016, Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, the Hon. Ralph Goodale made an announcement that the Government of Canada will be investing up to CDN $138 million dollars to...
View ArticleFinally Back Online! – Piece on Use of Ethnic Instant Messaging
As I write new content and catch up on my forced hiatus (I was locked out of my own blog), I’d like to share a piece I wrote for FACLBC’s Mentorship Blog relating to the use of instant messaging,...
View ArticleFederal Court Creates an (Incorrect) Legal Barrier for Post-Graduate Work...
Introduction Mistakes happen with applications – missing documents, incorrect fees, expired passports, leading to applications being refused. For those with refused applications, the general process is...
View ArticlePost-U.S. Election Thoughts – the Tightening of Canadian Temporary Residence
The United States election is over. Surprisingly for some, but not so surprisingly for the prophetic Michael Moore the Donald has won. While his victory speech was perhaps an after-the-election...
View ArticleIRCC’s Recent Gifts and My Canadian Immigration Christmas Wish List!
Canadian Immigration Santa IRCC Has Delivered Some Gifts This Holiday Season While the Eve has yet to hit, we have already been given a few gifts under the proverbial Canadian Immigrant’s Christmas...
View ArticleCanada’s New Spousal Sponsorship Forms/Process – The Good, The Bad, and The...
With the new Spousal Sponsorship Process having been formally rolled out, it is a good time to look at the changes and share some insights about what I like, what I dislike, and what I’m curious to...
View ArticleIRCC’s Parent and Grandparent Sponsorship Process 2017 – Preliminary...
Expression of Interest – Possible Issues Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”)’s Expression of Interest Webform is now open (until February 2nd). It asks for only the following...
View ArticleLife as a Canadian Immigration Lawyer – Is it for you? (Follow Up)
Life as a Canadian Immigration Lawyer – Is it for you? Last year I had the unique privilege of being part of Mark Holthe’s awesome podcast. For those that don’t know Mark, he’s an incredibly...
View ArticleList of Post-Graduate Work Permit Eligible Designated Learning Institutions...
In what I think is great move that should be paralleled by other provinces, Live Learn BC has posted on their website a link to institutions that are accepted for the Post-Graduate Work Permit Program...
View ArticleHow a Simple Hole Can Turn into a Big Difficulty to Mend – Case for Greater...
In Chinese (it was Chinese New Year last week, so feeling a bit cultural today), there is a proverb that goes as such: 小洞不补，大洞吃苦 xiǎo dòng bù bǔ, dà dòng chī kǔ In essence, if a small hole is not fixed...
View ArticleInternational Students – My Latest NCM Piece and the Pre-Edited (Elongated)...
For those that have been following my work over the past two years, international students (and graduates) have become a huge part of my practice. Through my work I have gotten to speak to hundreds of...
View ArticleVerifying Departure from Canada and Preventing a Deemed Deportation – There...
Canada is in the midst of finalizing preclearance agreements and exit control that will, in my opinion, be a game-changer for immigration. Such a system, if implemented correctly, would make Canada...
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