Posts by Michael Niren

A five-year project beginning next year will see Canadian visa applicants fingerprinted and photographed as a part of their application. The state-of-the-art biometric system will continue to be implemented through to 2013. The project is a joint venture between Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canada Border Services Agency […]

US football player deported from Canada A former Canadian Football League quarterback originally from Texas has been deported from Canada after assault charges have been stayed against him. Cody Ledbetter, formerly of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Edmonton Eskimos, was charged with assault earlier this year when he violated his probation […]

L-1 Visa Application approved thanks to Niren and Associates We selected Niren & Associates after careful research on our part and interviewing several lawyers at various law firms in the Greater Toronto area. We felt that we had a difficult case because of a past denial of admission to the U.S. and picked Mr. Fadi […]

Tamil migrants who were on the MV Sun Sea, the ship that recently docked in British Columbia, have been released from detention after spending one month behind bars. A federal judge had initially reserved his decision on whether they should be released until Friday, September 17th. On Friday, the judge ordered the Tamils, all women, […]

Canadian Immigrant Investor Program Closures As discussed before, the Federal Immigrant Investor Program is currently suspended pending regulatory changes. This means CIC is not accepting any new Investor Immigration Applications for processing at this time. However, the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program is still open for business! Below are the general criteria for applicants who wish […]

New information about US Waivers Every month, at our office we have meetings among the staff about the various ares of Canada and US Immigration and Visas we handle every day. We discuss the latest developments in the law, new procedures, share experiences etc. This helps all of us keep up to date with the […]

Drinking and dialing can land you in a lot of trouble in your personal life, but drinking and e-mailing can be worse if it ends up being sent to the wrong people. A single e-mail has now landed a British teenager with an alleged  lifetime ban from visiting or entering the United States. The White […]

Canadian Refugee status for Israelis An Israeli who said his conscience wouldn’t allow him to join the Israeli Army and that he feared terror attacks had his refugee claim denied by Federal Court of Canada this week. Yuriy Goltsberg, 35, was born in the Ukraine but has Israeli citizenship. He and his wife and daughter […]

Humanitarian Parole allows Canadian entry to the US Dear Sir, I wish to express my deepest thanks for the tremendous work that your firm has performed in providing a means for my son Don to gain entry to the U.S. on a Parole Status. The work of Katherine Yang has been outstanding and to my […]

Beware of Canadian Immigration consultants abroad Last week Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney visited India in order to discuss how the country’s police force can deal with immigration consultants who guarantee their clients a life in Canada through fraudulent means. As Kenney left, he said that officials in the Indian government had promised […]

More doctors immigrating to Canada from the United States It’s long been the assumption that Canadian doctors are jumping ship and heading to other countries like the United States to live and work. However, new statistics show quite the opposite as American physicians have begun moving to Canada to work instead. Some reasons are surprising: […]

Happy Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah).  We have enjoyed serving the Jewish community for  its Canadian and US Visa needs over the year and look forward more successes in the new year. May it be a successful and sweet one! From all of us at Niren and Associates.

We are very flattered to have received the 2010 “Top Choice” Award for the Top Immigration Law firm in the GTA for 2010. Thank you to all our clients who have voted for us. Over the year we have tried our best to get results for all their US and Canadian immigration and Visa cases. […]

Immigration to Canada will help solve Canada’s labour shortage problems The Conference Board of Canada, an independent, non-profit research organization, recently released a paper that analyzes Canada’s population demographics, anticipated growth and the labour shortage the country will face once the baby boomers become set to retire around 2020. “While other options for growing the […]

I want to congratulate Fadi for being selected as the AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) Canada Chapter Media Liaison for this coming year. This means that any local or Canada -wide newsworthy event having do to with US Immigration Law will be communicated by Fadi on behalf of AILA to the media. Conversely, when the […]