Posts by Michael Niren

Business Visas for Canada for Environmental Company Anderson Environmental decided to expand into Canada and had little knowledge of what it would take to bring workers into the country from the USA. We enlisted the help of Niren and Associates to navigate what is for us complicated foreign laws and regulations. Niren and Associates were […]

Spousal Sponsorship horror stories heard by immigration minister Over Halloween weekend, Canadian Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Jason Kenney hosted a meeting in Montreal to discuss preventing “marriages of convenience” for immigration reasons in Canada. The meeting was the third such meeting on immigration held by the Minister, who has been meeting with various […]

TN Visa application approved thanks to Niren and Associates immigration law firm Hello Fadi/Laura This morning (Monday) I went to the Peace Bridge to process my TN Visa application. It was a long process, as we had anticpated, which took them 2.5 hours to interview/process. It was a successful application however, as I got the status […]

The new Canadian electronic passport will be valid for 10 years but according to the Canadian government, Canadians are unaware of what the new passports will include and what they won’t include. Last week, the government provided some more information on the new e-passports to clear things up. Passport Canada recently released the results of […]

Spousal Sponsorship repercussions CBC reported last week that a Canadian man who was married to a Ukrainian woman for a short time now wants her deported. He still pays spousal support for the woman, who he met through a dating website. He applied for a visitor’s visa (temporary resident visa) on her behalf, and married […]

Permanent Residence Card Renewal Approved Hi Katherine, I wanted you to know that I am grateful to you and your assistant Johanna for the guidance and help in renewing my permanent resident card  status. First of all, I really appreciated the guidance you gave me for my travel document application, and instructing me on which […]

US Business Visa Secured thanks to Niren and Associates immigration law firm I’d like to take the chance to thank Niren & Associates for the excellent work in securing my US Business Visa Pass for a recent & critical trip to Las Vegas for an important Trade Show function that I needed to attend. Their […]

As widely reported Actor Randy Quaid (“Cousin Eddie” in the Chevy Chase Vacation movies) has applied for refugee status in Canada along with his wife, Evi. While the Quaids were on the run, reality show star Dog the Bounty Hunter made a public plea for the Quaids to turn themselves in, otherwise, “the Chapman family […]

We continue to expand our immigration services throughout Canada and the US. We now have a presence in Orlando Florida. Like in Toronto, we offer the same US and Canada Immigration and Visa services. Call us directly. Stay tuned for more news of our immigration and visa service expansion plans.

This week is Citizenship Week in Canada, and once every year during Citizenship Week the Canada Citizenship Award is given out in a citizenship ceremony. The award was formerly called the Citation for Citizenship. The award is given out to recognize the contribution of those who help newcomers while promoting the rights and responsibilities that […]

Or do they? A big, perhaps, one of the biggest concerns immigration clients express is the level of accessibility they will have to their lawyers. After all people are playing thousands of dollars for legal services that will have a major impact on their lives i.e., moving to a new country temporarily or permanently.  Sadly, […]

Last weekend, German Chancellor Angela Merkel made comments at a party youth convention saying, “This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and are happy about each other, this approach has failed, utterly failed,” she said in response to a lack of jobs in Germany. In Germany, the Chancellor is the head […]

Permanent Resident Application approved thanks to Niren and Associates Our immigration case was filled with challenges from the very beginning. We were facing immigration issues in our current country of residence, which carried several unpredictable issues and which could affect our Canadian FSW application. We also had health issues which could have put our application […]

The assistant to a journalist allegedly killed during Mexico’s drug violence had been denied refugee status. The man was the assistant to Amado Ramírez Dillane, who was prominent among Mexican journalists and covered the drug cartel violence and the activities of government officials, leaving him with a number of enemies. He was killed in April […]

We are pleased to announce the opening of our new immigration law practice in Calgary, Alberta where we will provide Canadian and US immigration and visa services to our clients out west.  For many years we have provided legal representation to individuals, families and companies in Calgary and other western cities and continue to do […]