Posts by Michael Niren

We are often asked how long someone who is a permanent resident of Canada should wait before they renew their PR card, or permanent resident card. If you are a permanent resident and your permanent resident card is going to expire soon, you need to act fast and renew it. There is no limit on […]

One year Temporary Resident Permit granted at Peace Bridge In case you haven’t retrieved your voice mail, I was successful in getting the full 1 year TRP! And I am now catching up with some work in the Marriott Niagara Falls Gateway. I’ll head back to the States in a couple of hours. The entire […]

The United States government has announced that it will begin accepting 2014 H1B work visa applications beginning on April 1st, 2013. The H1B work visa is a specialty occupation for working in the United States. Applicants typically need a very high level of skill and education to qualify for this visa. There are only 65,000 […]

According to TMZ, singer Rihanna’s group of 10 tour buses was stopped at the US-Canada border between Michigan and Windsor while border officials used drug-sniffing dogs to search the buses.  One of the passengers on the buses was found to be in possession of marijuana, after which he was cited with a civil penalty. Marijuana […]

A former executive for Canadian company RIM (now known as BlackBerry), has allegedly been deported from Canada after being fired from his high-level position within the company for an outburst on an airplane. In 2011, George Campbell and vice president Paul Wilson were on a place from Toronto to Beijing and ended up having to be restrained on […]

An EB-5 is a Green card path for individual investor into a US business an amount of $500,000 to $1,000,000 or more. $500,000 is the minimum investment for a Targeted Employment Area, otherwise, the minimum investment is $1,000,000. The basic premise behind an EB-5 is that the investment funds would be made into a business […]

This is a very good question and is asked a lot. The answer may seem somewhat strait forward. After all you would think that if you  intend to work in the USA then you would need a work permit. But like everything with immigration, it isn’t that simple. There are certain exceptions that you should know about  where […]

Have  you been Denied Entry to US? You may need a US Waiver If you are Canadian and have been denied entry to the US, you know how stressful that can be. In most cases, people are denied entry to the US because they have some sort of criminal record such as drug possession, assault […]

You are immigration lawyers based in Toronto Canada. We are from LA, California. How can you help us if you are located so far away? ______________________________ This is a common question we get often. The simple answer is that it doesn’t really matter where you are from, you can be located anywhere in the world […]

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Hi Laura! Got through to the US very smoothly. Just did exactly as you said and it was fine. Thank you so very much I can not thank you guys enough for all that you do. You guys brought a family together at such an important time. I’m going to enjoy every moment 🙂 and also […]

Following the United States’ budget operations is not normally something that Canadians pay attention to, but the formal order for sequestration will be affecting the lives of both Americans and Canadians quite deeply. Sequestration is an across-the-board government spending cut, where many government agencies will have to cut about $85 billion from their budgets from […]

The government has released immigration statistics for 2012, saying that “Canada continued the highest sustained level of immigration in Canadian history” for the seventh year in a row. According to the statistics, 248,751 immigrants came to Canada in 2011, while that number jumped to 257,515 for 2012. For comparison, Canada’s annual target of about 250,000 […]

A group of United States senators have unveiled a plan to grant United States green cards to foreign students who complete postgraduate degrees in either engineering, math or science at an American University. The bill is expected to be a huge bonus for Indian students, who are obtaining student visas in record numbers in those […]

Citizenship and Immigration Canada has announced that for the first time ever, Canada saw the number of international students studying on student visas pass the 100,000 mark in 2012. In fact, in 2012 there were 104,777 international students in Canada, which is more than 6 per cent higher than the number of international students in […]