OPINION – The E-Race-d Migrant Workers of COVID-19: Why Canada’s Colourblind...
COVID and Migrant Workers as a Starting Point While we rush to seal our loosely-defined borders and legal exceptions, let us not lose sight of the reality of who it is ‘doing the work‘ as low-paid...
View ArticleOn the Philippines and the Canadian Filipinx Migrant Community – Lou...
Q&A with Canadian Immigration Lawyer, Lou Dangzalan In today’s special blog, I am chatting with my friend and fellow immigration lawyer in Toronto, Lou Dangzalan. Lou and I went to the University...
View ArticleQuoted in Ritesh Matlani’s Medium piece: “The pandemic and immigrants — when...
Recently, I haven’t been as active as I wanted to be. Partially because others have been doing a fantastic job and I am a huge believer in not overcrowding the information airways when others are doing...
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...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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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...
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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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