Conduct your own due diligence!
Discovered an INCOMPETENT Immigration Lawyer yesterday! I was called by a Law Society of Ontario Paralegal to consult with a woman not satisfied with her Immigration Lawyer who she had retained to submit an In-Land Spousal Sponsoship application. The LSO Paralegal said she had been told that the applicants husband from Barbados had been refused a Visitor Visa today. The Paralegal was confused and claimed several things did not seem right to her so I agreed to meet everyone on Google Meets.
FYI - A temporary resident visa (TRV) is a sticker in your passport that allows you to get on a plane and seek entry to Canada if you are from a visa required country. - A visitor record (TRP) is a piece of paper that is given to applicants granting extensions of their visitor status for special lengths of stay.
I asked, “Why would an In-Land Spousal Sponsorship applicant be applying for a TRV that would allow him to go and come from Canada while he had submitted an application for landing from within Canada”?
The paralegal stated she had the refusal letter so I asked her to send me what documentation she had about the case and I headed home to arrange the video chat. Paralegals in Ontario are not authourized by their own Law Society to submit immigration applications and this paralegal knew a friend of this sponsor. I’m always willing to help another colleague.
This couple got married on March 30th 2019. I had been told that this couple sponsorship application had been submitted twice starting in March 2020. Why did it take a year to submit the spousal application? Why submit twice? When I opened the first document I saw it was nothing but a refusal to extend the husbands visitor status.
WHY WOULD IRCC REFUSE AN EXTENSION OF AN APPLICANTS VISITOR STATUS IF THEY HAD AN APPLICATION FOR LANDING IN PROCESS?
I was informed that the first application did not include the applicants son so the lawyer resubmitted and included the applicants son in the second application. This seemed very illogical.
Then I opened a second document that was a letter on the lawyers letterhead. It started with this sentence;
“My client, (XXXXXX XXXXXX) is applying for a restoration of his visitor visa”. WHAT, no wonder the client thought they were refused for a visitor visa! How could an immigration Lawyer not know the difference.
I read on “We had initially submitted our sponsorship application in March 2020 (Application number: XXXXXX but it was returned in December for more information. We recently re-submitted the application on March 2, 2021.”
WHY WAS THE WHOLE APPLICATION RETURED?
WHY DID IT TAKE THREE MONTHS TO RESUBMIT?
WHY WAS HIS DEPENDENT SON NOT INCLUDED IN THE FIRST APPLICATION?
The letter goes on to state that the Lawyer had applied for a “visa extension” of the husband in September 2020….however, we received a negative decision on April 19, 2021”.
SEVEN WEEKS LATER THE HUSBAND GETS REFUSED A VISITOR EXTENSION!
Had IRCC pre-screened the knew application before April 19th, 2021?
Was the application properly completed by the Lawyer?
Is this second application going to be returned by IRCC?
I thought I had been shocked enough by this Immigration Lawyer not knowing the difference between a visitor visa or a visitor extension then i read this,
“Mr. XXXXX son, Keshaw was residing in Canada for a period of time, but will now be returning to Barbados. If the sponsorship application is accepted, he will return back to Canada”.
Why was this immigration lawyer telling the parents to send their dependent child out of Canada since he was already enrolled and attending school? If an applicant who has applied for landing from within Canada leaves Canada that application no longer exists!
I looked at this Lawyers website and under services she has two sentences about Immigration Law, one sentence about Real Estate Law, two sentences about Family Law, and ten words about Wills & Power or Attorney!
WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES! I HOPE I CAN FIX ALL OF THESE MISTAKES.
Make sure you, yourself conduct your own due dilligence before retaoning anyone.
Roy Kellogg
cvimmigration.com
