Nov 11, 2020
Alexander Toope
On Saturday, November 7th, Joe Biden secured victory in the U.S. Presidential election, defeating the incumbent Donald Trump and the Republican pa...
Nov 3, 2020
Tim Golden
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on operations and service standards at US consulates and embassies in Canada and around the wor...
Oct 7, 2020
Jonathan Green
To limit the spread of COVID-19, governments around the world have implemented new measures to control travel and immigration between borders. Can...
Oct 5, 2020
Alexander Toope
THE SAFE THIRD COUNTRY AGREEMENT - BACKGROUND
The Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (“STCA”), part of the U.S.-Canada Sma...
Oct 2, 2020
Kelly Goldthorpe
The US presidential election is about a month away but many Americans are already thinking about an exit plan in case the election results do not ...
Sep 23, 2020
Genevieve Giesbrecht
On August 14, 2020, Canada’s Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Honourable Marco E. L. Mendicino announced a new pathway for ...
Aug 5, 2020
Peter Salerno
Travel Restrictions
Since the emergence of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in March 2020, the Government of Canada has released a series of m...
Jul 22, 2020
Lovers who are looking for creative, digital ways to settle down in or bring their significant others to Canada should be warned: Not all is fair ...
Jul 13, 2020
If distance makes the heart grow fonder, the unyielding gulf imposed by COVID-19-related travel restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border is c...
Jul 8, 2020
Like everything else in the world, COVID-19 has impacted immigration in unprecedented ways. With unemployment rates skyrocketing in the past few m...
Jun 10, 2020
Canada’s ongoing efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19 includes requiring every traveler entering Canada, regardless of nationality or where...
Jun 10, 2020
As COVID-19 continues to reshape the Canadian immigration landscape, many questions arise for international students such as…. what is the i...
May 16, 2020
Amid all of the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 and Canadian immigration, the Government of Canada has announced a new Agri-Food Pilot program tha...
Apr 1, 2020
Michael Hughes and Valerie Kleinman
As the unprecedented circumstances surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19 continue to evolve, the Government of Canada has released a series o...
Mar 26, 2020
Ravi Jain and Michael Hughes
In the wake of the spread of COVID-19, immigration lawyers have been confronted with an abundance of new directives from the Government of Canada. ...
Mar 23, 2020
Valerie Kleinman
As we continue to venture into unchartered waters surrounding COVID 19, the Canadian Government has implemented measures to help contain the virus...
Feb 14, 2020
Whether you are moving across the city, across the country or around the world, nothing says true love more than packing up your life and mo...
Feb 5, 2020
Here are 5 frequently asked questions we, at Green and Spiegel, get about the residency obligation:
1. What is my residency obligation as a...
Feb 4, 2020
As the third case of Coronavirus has just been confirmed in Canada, there have been drastic measures taken by public safety officials regard...
Jan 30, 2020
Kelly Goldthorpe
The 2019-nCoV is a new coronavirus that was first identified in Wuhan, China. The source of the virus is unknown but symptoms of those who h...