Hon. Gerry Weiner – Pace Immigration: The bureaucracy in Ottawa has come up with a new way to make life harder on Canadian travelers:

I stood in awe as survivors of the horrendous experience recounted leaving their homeland in a rusty old ship with just the shirts on their backs. Once across the Atlantic, the crew of the vessel had put the refugees into two fibreglass life boats and cut them adrift. That began an ordeal of three days and two nights of floating on the swells without food or water.

Canadian and US Immigration Lawyer Andy Semotiuk: In the course of last year’s Canadian election campaign, Justin Trudeau promised a variety of measures to improve Canada’s immigration system. They included:

gerry july photoA former Minister of Immigration and Secretary of State of Canada, Gerry Weiner has been the Director of Investor Relations for Pace Law Firm for the past ten years. He was recently asked to give a speech on the 30th anniversary of the arrival of Tamil refugees off the coast of Canada. Here are some of his remarks.

Jim Metcalfe – Pace Immigration: The US presidential election is coming up in November and there have been a lot of stories in the press like this one:

In this interview, immigration lawyer Andy Semotiuk gives his take on some immigration issues that have arisen over the past month.

I read with interest this article in Canadian Business that shows how our current roll of immigration red tape hurts high-tech start-ups:

gerry july photoHon. Gerry Weiner – Pace Immigration: Al Pace and I recently had the chance to attend a meeting with MP Julie Dzerowicz, the chair of the Liberal caucus on immigration. We commended the government on their commitment to immigration and their efforts in helping Canadians understand the value of diversity.

Jim Metcalfe – Director of Immigration: In the past four weeks we’ve been contacted by several people who have had problems obtaining visitor visas. One of the calls involved an individual who applied for the latest innovation of Canadian immigration: the electronic Travel Authority (eTA).

Jim Metcalfe – Director of Immigration: The Canadian government has announced a plan to reduce the backlog of existing sponsor applications and speed up processing times for spousal sponsorship and family sponsorship cases. They have also said that they will increase the number of sponsored persons allowed into Canada: