Dealing with an institutional bureaucracy is a daunting exercise.Dealing with an institutional bureaucracy without understanding the underlying psychology is an impossibility!What’s in it for them?They want their job to be made easier…
Continue ReadingCitizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC) is not a collection of computers and voicemail systems. Although on certain days we would swear a statutory declaration that there is not a living breathing soul…
Continue ReadingThere may also exist a perception among certain immigration officers that lawyers are profiteering.In fact, CIC is a government institution that in part is measured by its ability to assist the public…
Continue ReadingMany lawyers have encountered the client who is progressing through the system only to find there is an admissibility issue i.e. minor criminality dating several years that jeopardises the entire system. In…
Continue ReadingIn an article I wrote a few years ago I asked -is Superman the greatest immigrant of all time? Superman was introduced to the world in June 1938 and as the fictional…
Continue ReadingThe proposed passage of Bill C-49 has resulted in vociferous criticism by human rights organizations and various legal associations among others. But as in all things it is instructive to take a…
Continue ReadingCounsel Evening Session AGENDA / ORDRE DU JOURMonday November 22, 2010 & Monday February 8, 20105:00 p.m. EST Boardroom 6B/C (6th Floor)74 Victoria StreetToronto, ONM5C 3C7 Moderator: Hazelyn Ross, Assistant Deputy Chairperson…
Continue ReadingI received several questions on this topic so I blended the questions. Q: I am in love with a man from Jamaica. I am in the processing of sponsorship him. We have…
Continue ReadingQ: I am a Canadian citizen who met and fell in love with a person from Argentina. She is in Canada, claimed refugee status and was refused. Meanwhile, we married and live…
Continue ReadingQ: I came to Canada from Venezuela in 1999 and received my Canadian citizenship in 2004. I have always worked and paid my taxes accordingly. Some of my family visited me in…
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