Immigration practitioners are warning companies and employees to avoid immigration-related scams. Types of scams reported recently include:

· Scammers targeting people based on foreign-sounding names or based on information gathered about companies hiring many H-1Bs or filing many Labor Condition Applications (LCAs). The scammers can get a lot of information from various websites, labor condition...

Affidavit of Support under Section 213A of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is required for most family-based and some employment-based immigrants to show that they have adequate means of financial support and are not likely to become public charge. Immigrants who are deemed likely to become public charges may gain admission to the...

Canada is a bilingual country. All English speaking provinces (outside of Québec) must also provide some services, by law, in French. English Canada is thus looking to increase its French-Speaking population, and in order to attract French-speaking foreign nationals ("Francophones"), it has announced some very interesting immigration laws.

The Francophone Significant Benefit Program is now...

A new addition to the TFWP is the International Mobility Program (IMP). This program allows foreign nationals to be LMIA-exempt. The IMP's primary objective is to advance Canada's broad economic and cultural national interest. As a result, this program is not based on filling particular jobs or meeting employer demands. Rather, this program encompasses...

The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) governs the hiring of foreign workers to work in Canada temporarily. Plainly stated, the objective of the TFWP is to ensure the recruitment of foreign workers as a last resort, when no Canadians are available to do the job. In order for a Canadian employer to hire a...

The Canadian Law Group is pleased to announce that it continues to successfully transfer high-level IT workers from foreign countries like Israel, to Canada. This is indeed a success, considering the recent changes to intra-company transfer law.

This past summer, the Immigration branch of the Government of Canada, ("CIC") published a new guide for CIC...

Asylum is a protection granted to foreign nationals already in the United States or at the border who meet the international definition of a "refugee." A refugee is defined as a person who has been persecuted or has a well-founded fear of being persecuted "on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular...

A foreign national who has been victim of criminal activity may qualify for U Nonimmigrant Status. The U nonimmigrant status (U visa) is set aside for victims of certain crimes who have suffered substantial mental or physical abuse and are willing to assist law enforcement and government officials in the investigation or prosecution of...