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Recently, my colleague Steven Meurrens uncovered via Access to Information and Privacy Request officer training guides used by Immigration, Refugee and Citizenship Canada (“IRCC”) Beijing’s
With summer season upon us. the end of the leniency period of the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) regime, and the development of Canada’s Interactive Advanced
In an earlier post last year I predicted that the Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA program) may end up being akin to “visas for the visa-exempt.”
Image 1 from Wikipedia Commons Image 2 by Russell Lee – U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17047107 Vancouver! Over the past two
I have been very busy. Still there are no excuses I realize I owe about a billion posts for my one month hiatus. This represents
The importance of employer reference letters in today’s economic immigration system cannot be understated. The current Express Entry process is largely applicant driven through self-declaration,
Beyond the well-documented issues of Vancouver’s real estate industry, I have come to realize that there is also a major ethical crisis in the immigration industry. As
Will Tao is an Award-Winning Canadian Immigration and Refugee Lawyer, Writer, and Policy Advisor based in Vancouver. Vancouver Immigration Blog is a public legal resource and social commentary.
My name is Will Tao and I am a Barrister and Solicitor practicing exclusively in the field of Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law. I work for a full-service Canadian immigration and refugee law firm called Heron Law Offices based in Burnaby, B.C.
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Acknowledges that he lives and works on the traditional, unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples – sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh), and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) nations.
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