Protecting Yourself From Canadian Immigration Employment Fraud – Three Preliminary Steps
Introduction Unfortunately, as I have blogged and written about on numerous occasions, there are way too many cheaters currently operating in the global world of Canadian immigration consulting, recruiting, and employment of foreign employees. There’s a whole other issue of incompetent practitioners, but in this post I want to tackle those who purposely are operating […]
Complex Immigration Scheme or Applicant in Impossible Position ?
Complex Immigration Scheme Particularly in cases where a bad faith relationship pursuant to r.4 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations is being alleged, Minister’s counsel may begin on a process of what I call “scheme formulating.” A process by which they will theorize the primary purpose of immigration as an elaborate scheme. First of […]
Opinion: Gentle Recommendation Not Firm Laws Should Guide the Citizenship Oath/Niqab debate
Introduction and Background The debate between the place of niqabs in Canadian Citizenship ceremonies is a complicated one. Well-reasoned arguments have been put forth by both sides, some like Omar Aziz who pointed out in his piece that while a woman’s freedom to dress as she wishes must be protected, the niqab itself challenges our […]
Counsel’s Increased Liability under the new Citizenship Act/Regulations
Many of you have may have noticed that I have been quite active in writing about the recently in-force Strengthening Canadian Citizenship Act [“SCCA”] and how it may affect Applicants. Earlier this week, I wrote this piece for New Canadian Media where I looked at good, bad, and ugly provisions of the SCCA and ultimately concluded that it’s contradictory […]
Excerpt from My Law School Personal Statement Back in 2010/11
A lot of individuals and friends of mine have now completed their LSATs and are in that second part of the battle, putting together a law school application. I thought it would be useful to put to and excerpt of what I wrote back in the day. I’m lucky and fortunate to be able […]
Guest Post: “Marouf” by Abigail Cheung
I’m proud to feature today the guest post of a friend of mine and soon-to-be lawyer extraordinaire, Ms. Abigail Cheung. Abigail has a long-standing interest in immigration law, and I am sure will continue to be very active both from a legal and policy perspective for years to come. Currently, Abigail is a Summer Articled Student […]
Cultural Challenges at the IAD
Two weeks ago, I attended a very interesting workshop held at the Law Courts Centre discussing the issue of how issues around ethnic diversity and race may affect the overall judgment of a legal decision-maker. Given that the speakers were a current judge and a former judge (now lawyer), I expected a very cautious discussion. […]
