Immigration law is a core practice area, where our firm assists individuals and families with visa applications, permanent residency, citizenship, and work permits. We provide personalized legal support to help clients navigate Canada’s immigration system efficiently.
At Pokharel Law, I am proud to lead a diverse team of lawyers with specialized language expertise, ensuring that we can effectively serve clients from a wide range of linguistic backgrounds. Our team includes professionals fluent in Hindi, Bangladeshi, Punjabi, Sri Lankan Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Sinhalese, Yoruba, and Edo. This extensive language capability allows us to provide personalized legal support and build strong connections with our clients.
At Pokharel Law, we will work with you to explore and discuss your alternatives for traveling, studying or working in Canada.
Each year more than 400,000 people successfully become Permanent residents. The system of gaining permanent residency is complicated. It is also in a state of rapid transition due to a number of international policy measures and regulatory changes.
There are specific deadlines and compulsory conditions for the completion of appeals toward negative actions.
If you've been a permanent resident for long enough, you will be eligible to apply for Canadian citizenship. We will assist you with your application for citizenship and lead you through the process. If you feel you may be a Canadian citizen if one of your guardians or grandparents was a citizen at the time you were born, we can help you decide if you had obtained citizenship by birth.
Our firm is comprised of experienced lawyers with a deep understanding of the law. We are committed to providing exceptional legal representation to individuals and corporations.
We pride ourselves on maintaining regular communication with our clients, ensuring we understand your specific needs and guide you through every step of the legal process.
Our firm adheres to the highest ethical standards, ensuring all our actions are transparent and straightforward.
Our clients are at the forefront of everything we do. Every business decision and case management strategy is guided by your interests, ensuring your goals are always our top priority.
We can’t tell you exactly how long it will take to process your application. Each application is different and takes a different amount of time to process. We can give you an estimate, based on your application type.
No. Marrying a Canadian citizen doesn’t give you citizenship. If you want to become a Canadian citizen, you must follow the same steps as everyone else. There isn’t a special process for spouses of Canadian citizens.
Anyone who plans to visit Canada must apply from outside of Canada before they travel. What your friend or family member needs depends on:
The type of travel document they will travel with;
The country that issued their travel document;
Their nationality; and how they will travel to Canada.
Yes. Your employer may need to apply for a new Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA), which is a document from Employment and Social Development Canada that says the employer is allowed to hire you. If you are exempt from the LMIA process, your employer will need to pay the employer compliance fee and submit a new offer of employment. You can then apply for a work permit.
Depending on the circumstances, offences committed, nature of the offence in certain cases you can apply for a rehabilitation or authorization to come to Canada.