With a rapidly aging population and low birth rate, Canada’s Atlantic provinces have turned full force towards immigration. Nova Scotia, for instance, has nearly doubled its allocation of provincial nominees and Premier Stephen McNeil has…
View More Myth Busting in Nova ScotiaDear Minister John McCallum, We are reaching out to you as a group of Canadians and immigrants with a vested interest in seeing improvements made in the immigration system, a system we know all too…
View More Attn McCallum: Do Not End Open Work Permit ProgramPrime Minister Justin Trudeau has given his Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship a list of top priorities to work on in the coming months. While leading efforts to resettle 25,000 refugees in the coming…
View More Refugees, Siblings, Spouses and Grandparents Jump to Head of Queue
Dear Hon. Minister McCallum: I want to take this opportunity to share with my thoughts on family reunification. Attending an early platform-planning conversation you organized in 2014, it became clear that family reunification and the…
View More An Open Letter on the Family Reunification File
In my work assisting senior lawyers at my firm with their immigration appeal division and federal court cases, I have found myself increasingly handling cases where Chinese-Canadian and Indo-Canadian sponsors have had their sponsorship applications…
View More This “Sham Marriage” Sounds Like Mine