 hi guys welcome back to my youtube channel so after a very long time i'm making a vlog i know i was almost a year for a month i had gone to india to travel and for some business related work as well so basically now i'm back and had a very good family time there now i am in canada it's nine degree outside it's quite pleasant here and i am in complete quarantine for 14 days by the way the federal government's keeping a check and that's very good about the whole system because we do need to control the situation as we are again in lockdown now today i'm going to discuss about immigration law as a subject of practice area and how i got into this area and how i love it and practice this particular area of law and i have somehow tried to restrict myself in this practice area just because the simple reason that this area itself demands a lot of expertise and how do you develop expertise is only when you dedicate yourself to one particular field so basically in canada what i've often seen is that lawyers do try to restrict themselves to one practice area not everybody wants to do everything just because of the simple reason that if you try and put your hands in everything you basically spoil everything so you need to expertise yourself in a particular field and be knowledgeable in that related area of law and in that you don't stress really about yourself so today i'm going to discuss why immigration law is a full-fledged subject in us as well as in canada what are the you know what are the kind of again the different fields that branch out from this particular area of law then what how lucrative and how a good area of law this is as a lawyer if you want to see your returns and your pay is how much you can get paid and all of that and plus as a independent legal practitioner what are the areas that i particularly expertise in and what is my area of you know special area of practice so firstly i'm going to discuss what immigration law is basically immigration is a field in which it is of growing importance just because of the fact that a lot many people are not canadians whereas they are in canada so this is for non-canadians people who are immigrants who want to come to canada through different wire routes people who are in canada and want to make their status permanent want to go through the process of permanent residency want to go through the process of getting a canadian passport which you know is quite powerful as a passport itself so basically all the related issues related to this particular prominent field and the nexus between immigration law and other fields of law is what immigration field is all about you will be surprised to know that there are lawyers who specialize in areas of immigration law as well so supposedly you might know a lawyer who specializes in asylum and refugee cases because as canada is a part of unhrc and it's very very cooperative that way that truedo government and every other government is in support of refugees and asylum seekers in canada people who fear persecution in their own country flee to canada and come through different ways and how they can apply the refugee case what is the whole process of going through that so basically some people even particularly some lawyers expertise in that non-profit or for-profit government organizations in the immigration field related to refugee in asylum case then there are some lawyers who go into the litigation part of it like for example they deal with appeals with judicial review applications with basically anything in which you have been refused a kind of a visa or kind of permanent residency or there is some kind of discrepancy in your this thing then you can take it to the supreme court of canada till the federal court of canada so basically there's some lawyer specialized in that particular area of law now this is all part of immigration law then secondly thirdly i have also seen lawyers who specialize in another area of law which is much form-based like the temporary resident visas and then student applications then you can say like worker work permits lma applications and then there is the fourth category which is also business migration which is investment immigration entrepreneur immigration people who have money outside canada and want to invest and get their permanent residency get their canadian passports then there are big corporates as well who want to intra company transfer their employees so basically all these are feeds of immigration law itself so you can't imagine the kind of diverse that the immigration law has specifically immigration law in canada is related to one act which is immigration refugee protection act and the rules therein so every time there are any developments or anything the immigration council lawyers they get together and they are in discussion with the government back and forth with certain because keeping their clients interest in mind so it is itself a very dedicated area of law so you have a lot of scope in canada and specifically in us as well when you talk about non-canadians or non-us citizens now the ircc which is the immigration refugee council body of canada and who looks after all the immigration related issues and immigration related applications through which all different embassies wherever you apply across the world for canadian visas they take care of it the ircc authorizes two kind of people to represent you in their particular forms or in their particular in your particular case so for example one is the rcic which are immigration agents and you might have heard of this term before rcic is an immigration course which people usually do and give the licensing exam and get an rcic number so either they can represent you at the level and then there are lawyers like law lawyers like us who are regulated by the law societies then and have a particular license number from any law society so basically immigration is federal so even if you are an Ontario based lawyer you can still send somebody to Vancouver right depending on the stream so it does not need to be province based it's a federal law then ircc will get to recognize these two people and if you are getting represented by any one of them then you have to give your their number in the forms now the only thing sorry now the only thing that you have to take care of is that the rcic can actually represent you to a certain stage they can maybe represent you to basically in you can say till the first date now if your refusal is there or if anything is there then you have to go to a lawyer and the rcic is also going to the lawyer because then the court is involved you have to go for judicial review you have to go for appeal you have to go for any kind of prominent step that you have to take regarding your case and believe you me every day if you open the federal court of Canada website every day there is a case against the immigration and the immigration citizenship bodies like the other party so there is there are multiple cases because people are rejected sometimes immigration officers make mistakes and people are rejected on the basis of small small errors which only lawyers maybe are able to rectify and take it take the matter to the appeal or the federal court review stage now I have particularly seen that in refugee or asylum cases or in you can say in any case where there is a rejection of visa and there are guidelines authorized to it then the immigration officers are going to immigration officers are basically the admin part so IRCC is basically an administrative body the government has given them the authority that is why the administrative law in Canada is very strong and immigration law is one of the part of administrative law so if you study in your NCA's or in your law exams or anywhere the administrative or the delegation part then you have to keep in mind that you have the first organization you're going to study about is the IRCC because they are one of the very independent bodies in Canada just like the CRA the Revenue Agency and the immigration body so I do tend to tell my clients as well and tend to tell everybody I know that because I do immigration law and I tend to tell them that your first step has to be very careful so basically if you're supposing in your refugee case or in your any other case your first step or the basis of claim goes wrong then your whole testimony till the end will not corroborate with that first particular stage so you have to have to be very sure of what you are going through this whole process and big corporates big business immigrants they do need to be very careful with all the frauds that are going on so this is one of the industry in which a lot of fraud now I've recently gone to India and I've heard few cases and they were like very shocking for me because I was surprised that people are putting all their savings just to go to Canada just to come and step here just to you know get any kind of visa and still people in in back home some people some foul place going on and they are just taking everybody's money so easily and trying to exploit people now there are fraud and all these related issues related to this field so we have to be very very careful as a lawyer I always promote transparency and I think anybody any of you who interest this area of law should know that the basic thing that you have to keep with the client is basically the transparent and the candid relationship not every client can come under every stream there are certain kind of skilled people who can come under the skill stream or the highly skilled or maybe some some province can call you on a demand skill some province can nominate you on the basis of other but not every client would fit into a particular stream so you have to strategize how will you get that client permanent residency how you're going to settle it till the citizenship how you're going to take care of the whole process and what are you going to do so that you remain in the ambit of law and still try to get the best possible solution for your client now I have often come across even some lawyers telling us that immigration is not itself of you know area of law but that is so wrong that's like the thought process in our own countries but it's not here here it is a full-fledged and a detailed work and in fact it is one of the upcoming areas of law because Canada is a very immigrant friendly country and across the world even from Middle East I have clients I have clients from India I have clients from Pakistan I have clients from all across you can think of and I know that this area of diversified practice really needs more lawyers more people who can actually go deep research about it strategize for a client and get to a particular solution and be very candid and transparent with the client so if you want something and you can't get that person through a particular stream you have to tell them you have to maybe maneuver the law in the in the way like we do it in other fields like in civil like in criminal like in any other field similarly remaining with the IRPA act compliant with the act and going through the guidelines going through the rules regularly keeping in touch with the ESTC officers regularly you know participating in all the summits knowing what's happening with the immigration department knowing when the what kind of policies internally they are following knowing what kind of information that they have access to going through that all their research books like in any other law in fact you can also go through the Lexis nexus subscription of immigration law and they have beautiful beautiful articles coming every day updating the lawyers about everything that's the beauty of this particular field of law now I really understand it as the money money part is very important and I do understand because we have done a lot of struggle come here all the way all of us appreciate that money is an important part of this factor and we need the ROI basically so I can also suggest to you that this is a lucrative field of law you will not regret in this particular field of law if you actually try tend to specialize if you do it like any other person or any other thing then there are a lot many people who are doing it but you have to stand out like in some particular thing you you need to you have to do it differently if you can't do that then what is the point that somebody is going to hire you for the services right somebody might as well hire a firm like green and speakle somebody might but your connection with your own people the way you are dealing with all the things and your knowledge is like your experience by the way your knowledge is so all the things that you only understand when you get into this field of law so I really say that this is a lucrative field of law its return is good everything is good it's a full fledged in fact area of law in which I have told you in the past also key or multiple branch out or do you tend to specialize and the best part is I personally feel that like I was traveling to India I could take care of my work why because I can carry this work anywhere I can take it across borders I maybe I need to meet you know after this covert thing gets over I need to do some seminars in Europe I need to do some seminars in Dubai and I will be attending those seminars why just because of the simple reason that this is all online I can take it there until unless it's a court hearing that judicial review application or anything then also these days it was online so that's why I could take it but now otherwise this area this area of practice is remote working as well so which is quite for me person like me I really like that so for me it was quite an experience and I think this area of law has a complete recognition as a lawyer you need to expertise in fact the law societies are going to give you expert certificates after a few years of immigration practice and they do recognize the law pro here the lawyer's insurance so in all in all you can completely imagine that like any other stream of law that we've been doing in the past this area of law also has a lot of scope so today I just wanted to discuss this particular topic and it was on my mind because British side of the people had asked me about it so when I was going through the messages and I do have to reply to a lot of them I know and I will but Shabai was going through this whole question so I thought that yes I should discuss this topic because nobody tells you about it actually key immigration law is actually a law law and you have to expertise in that and you have to really study hard there are landmark cases in that particular area of law you can go through read through the baker case the valval of judgment you sorry admin care against the entire ministry of immigration and citizenship department here so basically all these you have to understand and that is why I collected this information for you today now if you have any other question where you can serve please put in the comment section and if you want to get in touch with me the details are in the description box related to your any kind of immigration matter which or otherwise if you're listening to me as a future lawyer or a law vlog then you should know that I will be vlogging more in the recent times about laws and anything that you in particular that you want me to know besides the nca besides the law society because you can suffer my body videos when I take you if there's anything that is of your interest please let me know do subscribe to my channel like and share thank you bye