Immigration

MLT offers a full range of Canadian immigration and citizenship services to help business clients understand and navigate through complex immigration laws, regulations, treaties and practices that affect the movement of people across borders. Whether your goal is to temporarily transfer a single executive, to establish a new branch office or to recruit foreign workers, MLT can help you obtain business visitor status, work permits, temporary resident visas, study permits, permanent resident status and citizenship for your prospective employees. Our immigration lawyers work closely with our labour, business and tax lawyers to provide complete re-location solutions.

Our immigration experience includes:

  • Successfully presenting spousal sponsorship appeals at the Immigration Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board.
  • Obtaining permanent residency for US entrepreneurs through the Saskatchewan Immigrant Nominee Program.
  • Convincing the Federal Court of Canada to stay a deportation order issued against a "border baby".
  • Obtaining a work permit for a French intra-company transfer for a specialized knowledge worker.
  • Successful judicial review application to the Federal Court to overturn a visa officer's refusal of a spousal sponsorship.
  • Obtaining a work permit for a US chemical engineer under the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Key Contacts

Our Team

  • Henry Chan
  • Kelli Lemon
  • Jean Torrens
  • Stephanie Yang
    • Representative Work
      • Successfully prepared a range of immigration applications for individuals and corporations (Labour Market Opinions, work permits, visitor visas, temporary resident permits, permanent residency, citizenship).
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