Financial Sensitivity, Legal Fees, and Addressing This With Your Immigration Representative – Five Recommendations
Vancouver Is Getting Expensive. Legal Fees Are Hard to Come By Regardless of your income bracket, Vancouver has become a difficult place to get by from a financial perspective. The Lower Mainland is seeing shelter-to-income ratio figures where close to 40-45% of homeowners spend 30% of their household income on shelter. If we factor in […]
Why I Believe Refusing Some Post-Graduate Work Permits for Lack of Full-Time Study Is Problematic
Post-Graduate Work Permit Refusals are on the up and up. My colleague, Steven Meurrens, recently posted a chart showing how in 2016 the refusal rate for PGWPs began to spike: Source: http://meurrensonimmigration.com/the-post-graduation-work-permit/ I don’t have the numbers but I would suggest 2017 is seeing more of the same Some of the reasons are understandable: […]
I’ve Been Nominated by a Province and Need to Extend My Work Permit – Bridging Open Work Permit or Work Permit With Provincial Support Letter?
A question that I continue to get particularly from B.C. based, provincially nominated, clients requesting assistance on extending a work permit is how to choose between selecting an open bridging work permit or a province supported closed work permit based on a work permit support letter. Authority for the province supporting a foreign worker is […]
Announcement: I’m Starting My Teaching Career – Ashton College
Hi Vancouver Immigration Blog Readers: I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Been asked to step in on advocacy a little these last two weeks which is a change. The City of Vancouver committee that I currently chair has been asked to be part of a few City initiatives involving poverty reduction and immigration – […]
The Little Things that Send Back Spousals – Advice Blog
The December 2016 changes to the spousal sponsorship process has (to-date) served as a double-edge sword. While applications for many have sped up, for others, the process has turned into a nightmare. There have been increased cases of applications having be returned back to sender – for failing to meet the strict requirements of a […]
In Advance of the October 11th Citizenship Rules Changes – Some Best Practice Pointers
(Image Credit: Minister Hussein’s Twitter Page) With four major changes set to go into legal affect next Wednesday (October 11th), a lot of questions I have been fielding are from individuals who are asking me how they should prepare. First off, there’s no gaming the system. IRCC will not release forms until 11 October 2017 […]
What to See About CETA Re: Entry of Temporary Business Persons
On 21 September 2017, the much anticipated Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (“CETA”) came into effect. Along with the new trade agreement, Chapter 10 sets out the rules around temporary entry of business persons. As complex as the CETA negotiations were themselves, the agreement’s reciprocity agreement around business persons is similarly detailed and complicated. For […]
