A Win for Accountability in the Digital AgeIn a significant decision released on May 15, 2025, the Toronto Small Claims Court ruled in favor of immigration lawyer Matthew Jeffery in… Read More

Though the federal government is right in its new strategy to attract international students to Canadian learning institutions, there’s an urgent need to make fundamental changes to the study-permit evaluation… Read More

An international report released by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) declared Canada as a world leader in regards to immigration matters such as the selection of immigrants… Read More

According to Mathew Jeffery, an immigration attorney in Toronto, the Canadian legislation needs to revamp the immigration law to provide the much-needed labour for the expanding work-force. He asserts that… Read More

Canada’s plan to bring in a million immigrants over the next three years is not ambitious enough to meet the country’s need for workers, Toronto immigration lawyer Matthew Jeffery tells… Read More

Google recently announced in a report that was published by CBC that it will be partnering with their sister company Sidewalk Labs under Alphabet Inc. to create a high-tech smart city in Toronto. Read More

Google recently announced in a report that was published by CBC that it will be partnering with their sister company Sidewalk Labs under Alphabet Inc. to create a high-tech smart city in Toronto. Read More

Google recently announced in a report that was published by CBC that it will be partnering with their sister company Sidewalk Labs under Alphabet Inc. to create a high-tech smart city in Toronto. Read More

Canada has a first-come, first-served parental sponsorship program. On January 28th, 2019 at 1200HRS EST, the program went live. Within just eleven minutes, the 2019 Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada's… Read More

A new lottery process that allows individuals to apply to win a spot to bring their parents or grandparents to Canada is “fraught with problems," including some confusion over who… Read More

In 2016, Global News reported that 313 babies were born to non-Canadian mothers.  In 2012, Statistics Canada had reported 699 babies born to non-Canadian mothers. Although there are still very… Read More

OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has met its goal of shortening wait times for those hoping to sponsor their spouse from abroad. Hussen says the backlog… Read More

How would you feel if your application for a Canadian temporary resident visa was determined by an algorithm? What if an algorithm goes through your Facebook posts and Tweets to… Read More

On 20th August 2018, the Trudeau government announced that it would be increasing the number of sponsorship applications it will accept in 2019 from the current 17,000 applications to 20,000 and… Read More

Canada needs to revamp its immigration policy to provide much-needed labour for our workforce, says Toronto immigration lawyer Matthew Jeffery. Jeffery, who operates the immigration-focused Matthew Jeffery Barrister & Solicitor… Read More