Our Recent Immigration Success Stories

Two Year Battle with IAD; Spousal Sponsorship Appeal Success

Our client retained our services after his application to sponsor his wife had been refused by an overseas visa office. Our office appealed this decision to the Immigration Appeal Division (IAD), and began to prepare him for his hearing. This was a complex appeal, involving past criminal charges, a refugee claim, a proxy marriage, and a couple who had never met in person. Both the genuineness of their relationship and the legality of their marriage were in dispute before the IAD.

After five volumes of disclosure, four hearing dates, hours of testimony, and both oral and written argument, our client has succeeded in his appeal. His wife’s application for permanent residence will now be processed and she should be joining him in Canada soon.

This Week’s Success Story: Work Permit – Significant Benefit – Intra-Company Transfer

We have been hired by a corporation in the UK, with subsidiaries in a few countries, including California, USA, to help them with the transfer of a regional manager to Toronto, Ontario.

They have registered a subsidiary of the USA company in Toronto, but did not have yet any employees. The newly appointed regional manager wanted to start his work of establishing and building the company in Toronto as soon as possible. After doing some research on the case and getting to know more about the scope of the business, we decided that the best way to proceed was with a work permit application under the “significant benefit” for Canadian economy and an intra-company transfer of the manager. We asked for a detailed business plan, to support the application, with emphasis on the benefits the Canadian economy would have by developing the business as planned. It showed that the company will be able to create a few jobs for Canadians and/or permanent residents, which is significant for the economy.

We also asked for expedited processing of the application and we are very happy to say that the application for the work permit was approved in record time and the foreign worker is already in Canada, starting to work on the new position.

This Week’s Success Story: Application for Rehabilitation Approved

We are pleased to report that our office was recently successful with our client’s application for rehabilitation being approved. This individual had been trying to rehabilitate an admissibility finding with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada for years self-represented, and then with our assistance challenged refusals at various appellate levels, and re-file applications. Thankfully the individual can now apply seeking to reunite with family in Canada.

This Week’s Success Story: Federal Skilled Worker – Express Entry

We receive many requests for help from people who are in the USA on a student or work visa and for one reason or another, they want to apply for permanent residence in Canada. Recently we have been hired by a person from India, who did his Master’s program in the USA and then obtain work visas. He is a highly educated individual, with very good work experience. We asked him for his personal history timeline and supporting documents. The job reference letters are really important in such applications, as there are a few items that must be included in the letter. After a couple of revisions, we finalized the letters to include all the required elements.

We created the profile in the Express Entry pool and because he had a high score, we received an Invitation to Apply (ITA) on the next draw.  We then proceeded in preparing the full application, asked for all the supporting documents and submitted the application within the 60 days allotted for this process. The processing of this application was really fast, as everything was well prepared and no supporting document was missing, all the information was correctly done and the visa officer did not have any questions or clarifications to ask.

Now this individual is happily a permanent resident of Canada, looking for a job in his own field and specialty, which we have no doubt he will find very soon.