017: Spousal Sponsorships - Essential tips for successful applications with Ravi Jain

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CIP S1 E17: Interview with Ravi Jain – Show Notes

Pleasure of having Ravi Jain – join me on the Podcast today. 

Welcome Ravi 

Introduction: 

Ravi is an immigration lawyer practicing in Toronto, Canada with the law firm of Green and Spiegel LLP (Partner) He is among the small percentage of immigration lawyers who are certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as Specialists in Citizenship and Immigration Law.  He has addressed the Canadian Senate as an expert witness on immigration law and appeared before the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights.  On November 27, 2012 Ravi was presented the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by Command of Her Majesty The Queen in commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of Her Majesty’s Accession to the Throne and in recognition of Ravi’s significant contributions to Canada.  Ravi practices all aspects of Canadian Immigration law:  PR – spousals sponsorships , H&Cs PNPs, Express Entry TR – WP, SP, TRVs, PRRAs, TRPs Extensive litigation practice: Immigration appeal work covers all three divisions of the IRB and Federal Court work Successfully argued many cases, including: Spousal Sponsorship – which is the topic we are going to delve into today. In addition to the traditional law work he does, he: Has been a guest lecturer at Seneca College and Has lectured on US consular processing for the new York Chapter of AILA. Speaks regularly at our national Conference including the past conference in 2016 in Vancouver where he was on the Advanced Family Class Panel which covered Spousal Sponsorships 

Tell us how you got into immigration?

Let’s jump to our topic today, which is Spousal Sponsorship. 

Someone sponsoring their true love from abroad.

IRCC wants it to appear so simple that anyone could do it. However, when things go wrong within the application process they go really wrong. 

And when things go really wrong, the best place to have addressed those wrongs is at the very beginning of the application process before you even file.

But people don’t realize all of the pit falls and it is for that reason that I wanted to Bring Ravi on to share some insight with our listeners to hopefully enlighten them a little more so that they can better prepare themselves to filing one of the most important immigration applications someone could file to IRCC. 

Strategies for inland v. outland filing Bad faith marriages (the two tests) Spousal open work permits Appeal process Processing times Levels planning