SHOULD YOU HIRE SOMEONE FOR IMMIGRATION ADVICE?

The answer to that question depends on many factors. The most important factors to consider is which application are you planning to submit to IRCC. How important is it for you to be approved? How much time can you afford to lose if the whole application is returned to you because something was missing? What will be the savings if you submitted your own application?

Do you need a Mechanic to put on your winter tires? Do you need a Mechanic to change your oil? Do you need a Mechanic to replace your brake shoes? Do you need a Mechanic to put in a new transmission? How much will you save by repairing your car yourself?

A 64-year-old farmer who had never travelled outside his country had applied for a Canadian visitor visa to visit his brother in Canada. He got refused because the Visa Post Officer saw no evidence that he would return to his country of nationality. When he retained Counsel and they could explain that he had hired someone just for two weeks to take care of his animals and those dates requested were the only time he could spend in Canada they approved his application.

A young foreign student from London, ON submitted a narrative of how her relationship with her husband progressed. She was telling a story of how they met at a party, that he drove her home and several weeks later they met by accident in a library. That after that second meeting they started dating. Because she could be more descriptive using her first language she used a language APP to write her narrative. The narrative when the APP translated it started by saying they were just friends but when they met at the library a few weeks later they were INTIMATE in the library! Due to this mistake her sponsorship was refused, and she had to appeal to the IAD at a great cost.

Live-In-Caregiver on a valid temporary work permit was hired to take care of three children. One day after the kids had been sent off to school her employer took her to his place of business. While standing in the warehouse CBSA came storming in and accused her of working for her employers’ company because they found a time card that had her first name on it. Due to no fault of her own she had to retain Counsel to represent her at an admissibility hearing at the Immigration Division that cost her $$$.

Four times a Canadian daughter tried to sponsor her widower father by herself in the Parent and Grandparent lottery with no success. She felt that it was common sense that her father who had no one back in the old country should be allowed to be reunified with her and his grandchildren in Canada. She finally decided to retain Immigration Counsel to put forward a stronger H&C argument based on the Immigration Act and the Immigration Regulations to get her Dad approved.