Immigration Lawyer, Mississauga

Immigration Law

In this age of globalization, immigration continues to become more and more frequent and common. Immigration is moving to a new country, intending to live and work there and make it a new home. Immigration is all about people’s stories, each unique to every individual and their reasons for immigrating, such as finding employment opportunities, educational purposes, environmental concerns, to escape persecution or violent conflicts or to reunite with family members.

Immigration and Refugee Laws of Canada

Canadian immigration and refugee laws are complex and constantly changing. The primary federal statute that governs immigration in Canada is the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. The minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is responsible for immigration policies and processes. The minister also decides whether a person can enter Canada or stay in Canada or is to be removed from Canada. The minister exercises a discretionary power to grant temporary or permanent resident status to foreign nationals on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

Under the Citizenship Act, the minister also has power over the granting of citizenship. Canada Boarder Services Agency also has powers to examine all persons who seek to enter Canada. The minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness is responsible for immigration screening and enforcements at Canadian borders. The minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness and the minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada are both responsible for administration and policies regarding Security Certificates, which are issued to remove a permanent resident or a foreign national from Canada for posing a security threat.

Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada is the largest independent tribunal that hears all matters pertaining to immigration appeals, admissibility, detention reviews, refugee protection hearings and refugee appeals.

The Courts

Judicial review of administrative decisions and orders of the Immigration and Refugee Board, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Canada Boarder Services Agency and citizenship officers and judges is done by the Federal Court of Canada. Further appeal may be made to the Federal Court of Appeal on serious questions of general importance. A final right of appeal is available to the Supreme Court of Canada only if it involves a question of public importance or a significant issue or raises an important issue of law or mixed law and fact.

Canadian Immigration Process consists of various categories and requirements. YFLaw Professional Corporation can guide you in your dream journey to visit, work, study or live in Canada. YFLaw Professional Corporation can help you sponsor your loved ones to join you in Canada.

Immigration to Canada

Canada is a wonderful country to live. Many people around the globe dream of making Canada their new home. There are many pathways available to immigrate to Canada. YFLaw Professional Corporation can help you immigrate to Canada, taking your own individual and unique family, educational, professional, and economical backgrounds into consideration.

Permanent Immigration Pathways to Canada

Permanent immigration pathways to Canada consist of general permanent resident entry, family class, economic classes and humanitarian and compassionate considerations class.

Express Entry

Express Entry is for economic class skilled workers and their families who want to live permanently in Canada and contribute to the Canadian economy.

Family Sponsorship

You can sponsor your spouse, partner, dependent children, parents, grandparents, relatives or adopted children to come to Canada.

Provincial Nominee Program

Provincial Nominee Program is for workers with the necessary skills, education, and work experience to contribute to the economy of a Canadian province or territory and to live there. There are immigration streams in place by each province and territory for students, businesspeople, skilled workers, and semi-skilled workers. Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Northwest Territories and Yukon are the provinces that have the Provincial Nominee Program. The exception to this is Nunavut and Quebec.

Quebec- Selected Skilled Workers

Quebec has a special agreement on immigration with the federal government, in which it has its own rules for choosing immigrants.

Atlantic Immigration Pilot

This is for foreign skilled workers and international graduates who want to immigrate to Atlantic Canada by finding suitable employment there.

Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot

This is for skilled foreign workers who want to work and live in participating communities. (North Bay, Sudbury, Timmins, Sault Ste. Marie, and Thunder Bay in Ontario, Brandon, and Altona/Rhineland in Manitoba, Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan, Claresholm in Alberta, Vernon, and West Kootenay (Trail, Castlegar, Rossland, Nelson) in British Columbia.

Caregivers

This is a program for caregivers who want to become permanent residents or work temporarily in Canada.

Start-up Visa Program

This program is for immigrant entrepreneurs who want to immigrate to Canada by starting a business and creating jobs.

Self-employed Persons Program

This is for those with relevant experience in cultural activities or athletics and who want to contribute to the cultural or athletic life of Canada.

Agri-Food Pilot

This is a pathway for permanent residence for experienced, non-seasonal workers in specific industries and occupations in the Canadian agri-food sector.

Healthcare Workers Permanent Resident Pathway

This is an application process for refugee claimants to apply for permanent residence if they have worked a minimum number of hours in Canada’s health-care sector during the Covid-19 pandemic and meet all other eligibility criteria.

Applying for Canadian Citizenship

To apply for Canadian Citizenship, an application must be forwarded to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. Thereafter, applicants would have to write a citizenship test and, in some instances, have a citizenship interview. An applicant must fulfill certain requirements to be eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship.

Refugees and Asylum

Canada’s refugee system has two parts:

• the Refugee and Humanitarian Resettlement Program for those who seek protection from outside Canada and
• the In-Canada Asylum Program for those who make refugee protection claims from within Canada

A refugee needs to be identified as such for resettlement by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and private sponsors to apply for resettlement in Canada. Private sponsor groups, known as Sponsorship Agreement Holders, sign sponsorship agreements with the Canadian government to help settle refugees. The Blended Visa Office-Referred Program (BVOR) organize refugees identified by the UNHCR with private sponsors.

In-Canada Asylum Program

This program provides protection to people in Canada who demonstrate a well-founded fear of persecution or face a risk of torture, or cruel or unusual punishment in their home countries. People with convictions of serious criminal offences or whose previous refugee claims had been denied by Canada, are not eligible to apply under this program.

Temporary Immigration Pathways to Canada

Temporary immigration pathways consist of temporary entry visas and temporary resident visas for students and workers.

Temporary Resident Visas

Temporary Resident Visas allow you to visit, study or work in Canada. According to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, applications for Temporary Resident Visas should be submitted under any one of the following categories:

• Visitors
• Students
• Workers

Electronic Travel Authorizations

Citizens from visa- exempt countries can apply for an electronic travel authorization, e TA, online with some exceptions.

Temporary Resident Visas can be applied under four categories:

• Single-entry visa
• Multiple-entry visa
• Transit visa
• Parent and grandparent super visa

Extension of Temporary Resident Visa or Status Change

A foreign national visiting Canada must submit a fresh application if he/she would like to work or study in Canada. If a foreign national would like to extend his/her stay in Canada, an application request must be filed for a visitor record online.

Letter of Invitation

Letters of invitations are submitted in support of applications to help convince the immigration officer about the applicant’s additional financial support from friends and family.

Parent and Grandparent Super Visa

Parent and Grandparent Super Visa enables families to reunite and stay in Canada for two years without having to renew the temporary visa and re-enter Canada multiple times in a ten-year period.

Temporary Resident Permits

A foreign national who does not meet the requirements needed for a Temporary Resident Visa can apply to the minister for a Temporary Resident Permit to show circumstances that justify his/her entering Canada on a Temporary Resident Visa.

Work Permits

A foreign national wishing to work in Canada must apply for a work permit before entering Canada or upon entry to Canada or after entering Canada. The prospective employer must complete the necessary steps for the foreign national to be eligible for the work permit such as obtaining a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) or the International Mobility Program (IMP).

Study Permits and Student Direct Stream

Foreign nationals who want to study in Canada must apply for a study permit. Study Permits allow foreign nationals to study in designated learning institutions in Canada. The Study Permit is usually valid for the length of the study period. The Student Direct Stream enables to get Study Permits faster.

Post-Graduation Work Permit



Graduates of certain designated learning institutions are eligible to apply for a Post-Graduate Work Permit that enables them to work in Canada after graduating.

YFLaw Professional Corporation is here to help you realize your Canadian Dream. We can help you immigrate if you want to make Canada your new home. We can help students if you wish to study in a Canadian university or learning institution which are among the best in the world. We can help workers explore an exciting new world of opportunities rewarding your skills and experience. We can help families reunite with your loved ones. We can help refugees build and thrive in Canada, one of the safest and peaceful countries in the world. YFLaw Professional Corporation is here to help you in your immigration journey to Canada.