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Overview
Permanent residence, sponsorship, work and study permits, citizenship and appeals.
Immigration decisions are made by officers reading a file, often quickly, against a checklist you never see. Refusals are rarely about eligibility — they are about a file that did not answer the question the officer was asking. We build applications that anticipate that reading, and we deal with refusals when they happen.
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When to call
Any of these apply?
If one of these is true, the conversation is worth having now rather than after the next step is taken.
- An application has been refused
- You received a procedural fairness letter
- Your status expires soon, or has already expired
- You have a past refusal, criminal record or medical issue
- An employer wants to hire you and needs an LMIA
- You are sponsoring a spouse or parent
What we handle
The work, specifically.
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Permanent residence
Express Entry, provincial nomination streams, and the documentation that makes a profile defensible.
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Family sponsorship
Spousal, common-law, parent and grandparent sponsorship, including relationship evidence that officers accept.
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Work permits
Employer-specific and open permits, LMIA-based applications, and permit extensions and restorations.
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Study permits
Applications, extensions, and the transition from student to worker to permanent resident.
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Citizenship
Applications, residency calculations and responding to requests for further evidence.
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Refusals and appeals
Reconsideration requests, appeals to the Immigration Appeal Division and judicial review where warranted.
Who we act for
The people on this file.
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Individuals and families
Permanent residence, sponsorship, permits, citizenship — including files with a complicated history.
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Employers
Work permit and LMIA-supported hiring, and keeping existing employees in status.
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Students and graduates
Study permits, extensions, and the transition from post-graduation work to permanent residence.
How it runs
From first call to closed file.
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Assess eligibility honestly
Which streams you actually qualify for, which you nearly qualify for, and which are being marketed to you but will not work.
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Build the record
The documents, the explanations, and the evidence that answers the question the officer is going to ask — not just the question the form asks.
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File and monitor
Submission, tracking, and prompt response to any request for further information or procedural fairness letter.
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Respond to the decision
Approval and next steps, or — where refused — the officer's notes, and a considered choice between appeal, judicial review, reconsideration and refiling.
Fees
What this costs
Immigration work is quoted as a fixed professional fee per application type, separate from government fees, so you know the total before you commit. Appeals and judicial review are quoted in stages, because how far a matter goes depends on the response we get. We will tell you when an application is strong enough that you do not need us.
Get a written estimateQuestions
Answered plainly.
Usually not. Depending on the stream there may be an appeal right, a judicial review, a reconsideration request, or simply a stronger fresh application. The first step is getting the officer's notes so we know what actually went wrong.
Processing times move constantly and depend on whether the application is inland or outland. What we control is completeness — incomplete applications get returned or sit in queue, and that delay is avoidable.
Not always. Straightforward profiles with clean documents often go through without help. It is worth counsel when there is complexity: past refusals, medical or criminal inadmissibility, gaps in status, complicated work history, or a misrepresentation concern.
It is a legal bar to entering or remaining in Canada — commonly on medical, criminal or misrepresentation grounds. Several types can be overcome with an authorisation or a rehabilitation application, but they need to be addressed directly rather than hoped past.
It is the officer telling you they are minded to refuse, and giving you a short window to respond to a specific concern — often misrepresentation, relationship genuineness or eligibility. It is the most important letter you will receive in the process, and the response window is unforgiving. Do not answer it casually.
Regulated consultants can represent you and many are competent. The difference matters most where there is a refusal to overturn, an inadmissibility to address, or a judicial review — court work in the Federal Court requires a lawyer.
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Wills, powers of attorney, probate and the administration of an estate.
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Speak with a lawyer
Tell us what happened.
We will tell you where you stand.
A short conversation costs nothing and usually saves a great deal. You will get a straight answer about whether you have a matter, what it is likely to involve, and what it will cost.