OUR BUSINESS IMMIGRATION GROUP
Whether they're looking to increase expertise through the hiring of foreign talent or through the relocation of personnel abroad, today's businesses regularly face international mobility challenges. And in order to retain crucial competitive positioning, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) knows it's vital that clients are equipped and ready to overcome these obstacles. Assisting clients at each and every step of the process – from case analysis and determination of eligibility to comprehensive immigration and visa services – the Business Immigration Group at BLG works as a single, unified team with front-line readiness and innovative response. With a deep understanding of your needs and mindful that immigration is first and foremost about people, the team at BLG is focused on achieving the best possible results for you.
As the largest Canadian full-service law firm, BLG is able to provide clients around-the-clock access to a spectrum of areas of expertise that often go hand-in-hand with immigration, such as corporate and commercial law; commercial litigation; dispute resolution; financial services; intellectual property; labour and employment and mergers and acquisitions. Regardless of the issue or the destination, the Business Immigration Group works with you, as part of your team, to attain your goals.
With a mix of local savvy and global reach, the Business Immigration Group supports our clients in projects on an international scale — without compromising the human factor. Acting as your trusted and well-connected advisor, BLG is committed to your success.
Like you, BLG believes that nothing less than excellence will do. This commitment to service has resulted in the frequent recognition of many of our legal professionals at home and abroad. Professionals in BLG's Business Immigration Group were featured in the 2010 editions of Chambers Global – The World's Leading Lawyers, Best Lawyers in Canada, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.
At BLG, it begins with service. Our passion, drive and performance are poured into everything we do.
OUR SERVICES
BLG's Business Immigration Group assists clients with a full range of services, including:
- Advising on maintaining permanent resident status and qualifying for Canadian citizenship
- Obtaining Canadian work permits (including dealing directly with Human Resources Development Canada and Quebec's C.A.Q. requirements)
- Securing temporary resident visas and study permits
- Extending visa permits
- Acquiring and maintaining Canadian permanent resident status and Permanent Resident Cards
- Obtaining Canadian citizenship and Certificates of citizenship
OUR EXPERIENCE
We have helped our clients with the following projects:
- Acted as Canadian immigration advisor for large financial institutions seeking to employ highly specialized workers from around the world
- Advised multinational consumer goods clients on immigration strategies to assist with employee transfers and secondments from other regions of the world
- Advised large entertainment companies on immigration implications of Canadian productions and assisted in obtaining necessary work permits
- Assisted international oil and gas companies to develop immigration policies and processes for international recruitment purposes to deal with oil sands demands
- Assisted major multinational corporations in establishing Canadian operations and advised on strategies to transfer experienced employees from other locations of the corporations to the new North American operations
- Assisted mining clients in meeting demands caused by shortages of skilled workers (mining engineers, geologists)
- Assisted high-tech companies with international recruitment issues as well as with moving employees across US/Canadian border where workforce is rationalized on a North American territory basis
- Assisted manufacturing clients with international transfers as well as sending technicians to client sites to deal with machinery issues