REPRESENTATIVE WORK

Canadian Citizenship & Immigration Law

Robbie Sheffman advises clients on the following Canadian Citizenship and Immigration matters (click on Legal Services for additional detail):

Permanent Residence Applications

• Family Class Sponsorships
• Canada Experience Class
• Provincial Nominees
• Federal Skilled Worker Class
• Business Class (Investors, Entrepreneurs and Self-Employed)
• Live-In Caregivers
• Humanitarian and Compassionate cases
• Advice on issues which can make a Permanent Residence application more complicated, such as medical and criminality issues, and issues which relate to eligibility to sponsor family members.

Applications and Issues for People Who Are Already Canadian Permanent Residents

• Permanent Resident Card applications (also known as the PR Card and Maple Leaf Card)
• Residency obligations and maintaining Canadian permanent residence status
• Applications for Travel Documents for permanent residents outside of Canada who need proof of their status so they can return to Canada
• Applications to amend a Record of Landing or Confirmation of Permanent Residence form
• Searches for Permanent Residence status records

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Temporary Residence Applications and Matters

• All aspects of working in Canada for both foreign workers and their Canadian employers
• Labour Market Opinions (“LMOs”) from Service Canada.
• Situations when both a Work Permit and an LMO are required
• LMO-exempt Work Permit situations (such as NAFTA and other international agreements, Post-graduate Work Permits, Work Permits for Provincial Nominees, and intra-company transferees)
• Work Permit exempt situations
• Studying in Canada (Study Permits and situations when a Study Permit is not required)
• Visiting Canada (such as tourists, business visitors, seasonal residents, long term visits by parents and grandparents, and visa applications for foreign nationals from countries whose citizens require Temporary Resident Visas to visit Canada)
• Extensions of Temporary Residence status (extensions of Visitor status, Work Permits and Study Permits)
• Temporary Residence Permits

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Other Canadian Immigration Issues and Applications

• “Rehabilitation” applications for people who are inadmissible to Canada because of past criminal activity
• Appeals
• Judicial review court applications
• Access to Information requests

Citizenship Applications and Issues

• Eligibility for Canadian citizenship, and applications for Canadian citizenship
• Canadian citizenship status and applications for proof of Canadian citizenship
• April, 2009 changes to Canadian citizenship law
• Canadian citizenship issues for people born outside Canada to a Canadian parent
• Canadian citizenship issues for adopted people
• Loss, resumption or renunciation of Canadian citizenship
• Searches for Canadian citizenship records

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Customs

Advice on the importation of goods to Canada.

Business Law

In his Business Law practice Robbie advises and represents private and institutional clients on a wide variety of corporate and commercial matters including:

• Business organization, including corporations, partnerships and limited partnerships
• Shareholder agreements
• Contracts
• Procurement and major service delivery agreements for government
• Land use including land co-ops
• Bankruptcy and insolvency matters

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