Immigration

Immigration Services:

• Canadian Citizenship Applications
• Family Class Sponsorship
• Permanent Resident Card Renewal
• Skilled Worker Immigration
• Student/Visitor/Worker -Temporary Resident Permits
• Canadian Experience Class (for international students and foreign workers in Canada)
• Provincial Nominee Program
  • Alberta
  • Manitoba
  • Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Prince Edward Island
  • Yukon
  • British Columbia
  • New Brunswick
  • Novascotia
  • Saskatchewan
• Investor/Entrepreneur/Self Employed – Business Applications
• Live-in Caregiver Application
• Humanitarian and Compassionate Application
• Immigrating to Quebec
• Refugee Claims
• Immigration Appeals
• Removal Order Hearings

Canadian Citizenship Applications:

We can help you apply to become a Canadian Citizen. Regardless of your age, in order to apply you must have resided in Canada for

• 1,460 days during the six years right before the date you sign your application
• 183 days during each of four calendar years that are fully or partially within the six years right before the date you apply

Skilled Workers and Professionals: This is for individuals who can immigrate to Canada based on their education or work experience.

Skilled Worker Immigration

Skilled Workers are those who will become permanent residents because they will be able to become economically established in Canada.

To be accepted as a Skilled Worker, applicants must:

Earn enough points in the six selection factors to meet the pass mark (67)

• Education
• Official Languages
• Experience
• Age
• Arranged Employment In Canada
• Adaptability

Humanitarian and Compassionate Applications: This application is usually for people living in Canada without legal status but who have established themselves in Canada. Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, individuals who are inadmissible or do not meet the requirements of the Act may apply for permanent residence from within Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds.

Canadian Experience Class

To qualify for the CEC through Express Entry, you must have:

• At least 12 months of skilled work experience in Canada, in the last three years (before you apply). The work was:
  • full-time OR
  • an equal amount in part-time
• gained your work experience in Canada with the proper authorization
• meet the required language levels needed for your job for each language ability
  • writing
  • reading
  • listening
  • speaking
• planned to live outside the province of Quebec

Note: The province of Quebec does not use Express Entry. They select their own skilled workers. See Quebec-selected skilled workers to find out more.

Visitor Visa : Visitors wishing to come to Canada for a temporary purpose, generally to visit family or for tourism.

Work Permit : For individuals who are planning to work in Canada or who have a job offer in Canada.

Study Permit : For individuals who intend to study in Canada.

A live-in caregiver is an individual who is qualified to provide care for children, the elderly, or persons with disabilities independently in a private household. This service is for both foreign nationals and Canadian citizens who would like to employ a live-in caregiver.

For individuals who have fled their home country because of fear of persecution based on race, religion, political opinion, nationality, or membership in a particular social group, such as women or people of a particular sexual orientation.

An individual who is in need of protection is someone who is in danger of torture, risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment, or a risk to their life. Canada offers refugee protection to people in Canada who fear persecution and who are unwilling or unable to return to their home country.

Canada offers protection to those who are:

• Convention refugees living outside their home country or the country they normally live in. They are not able to return because of a well-founded fear of persecution based on:
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Political opinion
  • Nationality, or
  • Membership in a social group, such as women or people of a particular sexual orientation.
• Persons in need of protection who are living in Canada and cannot return to their home country safely. This is because if they return, they would be subject to a:
  • Danger of torture
  • Risk to their life, or
  • Risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment.

Your refugee claim may not be eligible to be referred to the IRB if you:

• Have been recognized as a Convention refugee by another country that you can return to.
• Have already been granted protected person status in Canada.
• Arrived via the Canada-United States border.
• Are not admissible to Canada on security grounds, or because of criminal activity or human rights violations.
• Made a previous refugee claim that was not found eligible.
• Made a previous refugee claim that was rejected by the IRB.
• Abandoned or withdrew a previous refugee claim.

Immigration Appeals and Removal Order Hearings

We understand that Immigration Appeals and Removal Order Hearings are a stressful and complicated process which can be overwhelming. We at the Law Office of Fay Hassaan have the skilled lawyers and Immigration consultants who will assist you in your Appeals/Removal Orders in order to insure your interests and rights are being met to the best of their abilities, as we are committed to provide you with the utmost legal and professional service.

For individuals who are parents or grandparents of Canadian citizens or permanent residents. This visa is valid for up to 10 years and will let you visit your family in Canada for up to two years without renewing your status.

For individuals who would like to sponsor their spouses, common law partners, or dependent children.

Family Class Sponsorship:

Your relatives can live, study and work in Canada if they become permanent residents of Canada. You can sponsor certain relatives to come to Canada if you’re at least 18 years old and a:

• Canadian citizen or
• person registered in Canada as an Indian under the Canadian Indian Act or
• permanent resident of Canada

Relatives who can be sponsored under the Family Class Sponsorship:

• Spouse, Common-law/same-sex partner, Conjugal partner
• •Their dependent children under age twenty-two (22)
• Their dependent children age twenty-two (22) and over (if they are full-time (15 hours per week or more) students, mentally or physically disabled and dependent on their parents)
• Adopted children or to be adopted
• Parents
• Grandparents