 myself. I am Labdeep Singh. I am one of the barristers in Solisters, Canadian barristers in Solisters in Canada and we operate through ace luxury immigration solutions in Dubai. We have an office in Mississauga, Canada and we have also an offshoot in Pakistan Islamabad. Our sole responsibility is that we are immigration lawyers and we give immigration solutions. We primarily are into either student immigration or business immigration. Benefits of being a Canadian resident, Canadian resident or a work permit holder or a citizen, you get access to healthcare, you get access to free schooling, you get a very safe social environment. The culture is multicultural society, people are very welcoming, no problems at all. If you want to run a business, you can do it very smoothly, no red tapism, no anything in government departments. Every system is very smooth. So yes, again I reiterate the same thing, it is a welcoming country. Trends and types of Canadian immigration. Now, Canadian immigration is divided into four, five segments like student immigration, like skilled immigration, business immigration, economic migration. Now, student immigration is something when a student comes, he studies there, he secures a work permit, later on he becomes a resident. After becoming a resident, he stays there for three, he lives there for three years and five years and then he becomes a citizen. That is a student way of coming to Canada. Skilled immigration is when you're at your prime, that means you are around say 30, 31 years of age, you have had three plus years of work experience, you have had a post graduation and you have got good English communication skills, you have given, have a beautiful IELTS score, you are straight away selected as a skilled immigrant. You can do that yourself also, you need someone, some professionals help, it is, you are more than welcome. Now, business immigration is for someone who has surpassed the age of skilled immigration. He is not a skilled immigrant anymore. He is maybe 35, maybe 40, maybe 45, maybe 50, but he has got those managerial skills. He is an entrepreneur, maybe he was running a restaurant, maybe he was a professional back home, maybe he was working as a CEO in a company, maybe he was working as a manager of sales in a company. But now he doesn't qualify for skilled immigration because age is not, is on his side, maybe he is not very proficient with English. And now he wants to move because of safer lifestyle, because of a secure lifestyle, because of his kids generally. Today we will be developing more on business migration and not anything else. Canadian business ecosystem. So yes, Canadian business ecosystem, like I earlier said, it's very friendly. People know, people know that the systems are so smooth there. In fact, I was sitting with my friend Slava and we were discussing how the Canadian tax policies were so beneficial. And yes, I'll give you an example. Corporate taxes are up to an income of 500,000. You just pay around 13, 14 percent taxes, which is nothing. People in Dubai and UAE, especially, they are scared of paying a lot of taxes. So this is for their information that up to 500,000 of revenue, half a million of revenue in a corporation, they just end up paying around 15, less than 15 percent taxes. Entrepreneurial LMI, Startup Visa Program, Intracomplete Transferry in C11 Work Permit. Now, entrepreneurial LMI. Okay, we'll talk about Startup Visa Program first. Startup Visa Program, it was back then in 2013, it was a pilot program. Then it came, it got an official shape. Canada, once for a time, saw that all the companies, all the startups, big startups from everywhere in the world and all the good brains are going to the Silicon Valley. They realize the need of giving an ecosystem to the startups, whereby someone who has got a great idea or who has got a startup running in India, Pakistan, wherever, they started to invite those startups or they started to invite those people who had those ideas to come to Canada and the Canadian government would provide an ecosystem where they could work. Now, as lawyers, we understood the word Permanent Residency. We started looking into this program and this program, the criteria for this program is that either you have a startup idea or you have a startup running in some other country, which is a qualifying startup and which is able to secure support from designated entities in Canada. Now, designated entities, who are designated entities? They are the entities which are recommended by the government of Canada. They are listed and you have to secure some support which people in this area, say, a letter of support and from these entities. Now, when I say support, support is divided into three segments. Incubation, angel investment and venture capital. So, the incubation when a startup is in its initial stage, when it's just starting off, it is just launching, it probably needs an incubation from smart people who are already there in the industry. Angel investment is when the startup has already existed and there is some angel investor who's ready to invest in your startup. He commits $75,000 or more than that to invest in your startup. And for a venture capitalist to invest in your startup, you need to secure $200,000 for that or more for that. Now, a lot of people have ideas which our business establishment teams can give a shape to be able to come into this process. A lot of people have their startups. We can obviously help them to come and see, come and secure that investment from an angel investor, the designated investor. And or the venture capitalist. So once you are able to do that, you are able to secure the letter of support. These are a few steps that are involved in the process. As easy it sounds, it is not that easy. But so once you are able to secure that support, we are able to file your permanent residency. We are able to file your work permits. You can become an essential worker in a startup. You can become non-essential. If you are non-essential, you can probably come on a permanent residency direct straight away. If you are an essential, you can certainly secure a work permit to come to Canada and work in furtherance of that startup that you were a part of. So yes, this is a direct route to permanent residency. People who are in their 40s, 50s, who are looking to do something spectacular in Canada, we are there to help. Our business establishment teams are there to help you. And we will be able to get you through this route. It is one of the direct routes to permanent residency. Yes, now I come to entrepreneurial LMI. Entrepreneurial LMI, we have named this entrepreneurial LMI. Earlier it was called owner operator LMI. Entrepreneurial LMI is for people who are able to start or purchase a business in Canada. Either they incorporate a new business or they purchase a new business, purchase or be a part of any running business in Canada. What happens is, now you are coming to invest or you are incorporating a business. You have got good managerial skills. You have got amazing experience, four, five-year experience, eight-year experience, 10-year experience, 15-year experience. Now, you want to come and you want to secure. You have invested in Canada or you have incorporated a business in Canada and now you are wanting to move yourself. This is not that easy. Earlier it was easy when owner operator program was there. Now, the business has to hire you in there in Canada. You are a foreigner. You have to go through the labor market drill. It is called the LMI drill, Labor Market Impact Assessment. You have to prove it to the government of Canada that fine, it is your business or you are a part of that business. You have to prove that your coming into Canada will not negatively or in fact not negatively impact the labor market of Canada. Proving is not that easy. You have to have a big rationale for that, behind that. You have to prove it to the ESDAC officer, the government of Canada that there were candidates, there were a lot of candidates, but I was the most suitable one for the same opportunity. That is why it allowed me to come to Canada. It is a very beautiful program because every one of you who has surpassed the age of 35, 40 has got good managerial skills. What we are trying to bring to Canada is your managerial skills. You can come on a post of a CEO, CFO. You can come as a junior manager. You can come on a knock B, now they are called tier systems. I'll explain to you later on. So you can come on any level of management that you think you are suited for. Now, how we help you? We can help you in incorporating as lawyers. We can help you incorporate a business. We can help you buy a business. We can help you buy a franchisee. We can get into due diligence because we are lawyers again. We are there, our offices are there. We can help you with financial due diligence also. And if you want to partner with someone, you are most welcome to do that. If you want to incorporate your own business based on your managerial skills, we are more than happy to do that also. Our ultimate agenda is to bring you to Canada, either on a work permit or on permanent residency. How that happens? Now, Canadian system, as we all know, works on point system. This entrepreneurial LMI, once you are able to secure the job through entrepreneurial LMI, you basically get 50 or 200 points. If you are coming on a NOCW, you are able to secure 200 points. If you are coming on a NOCO, that is a mid-level manager job, you are able to secure 50 points. And if you are coming on a NOCA and NOCB job, you are still able to secure 50 points. Now, what happens is, when you have a shortfall of points because your age is not with your side, you have less education or what, these things, this job offer helps you through your own business or through your partnership or through your investment, helps you secure those points that might be the deficit. So, this route can lead to direct permanent residency if your name comes in that express entry draw or if you are not able to secure, initially you are not able to secure permanent residency, you come on a work permit, work in Canada for one year in that same enterprise that sponsored you basically to work in that. And after a year, you may qualify for a PNP or a Canadian experience class. So, there are ways around it. Yes, but your entry to Canada is primarily secured. Intercom pre-transfery program. Now, if we go back to our entrepreneurial LMI, I told you that you have to give a big rational to the government of Canada that, you know, we have checked the labor market locally, no one as good as Mr. XYZ deserved this job, we are trying to bring him. Now, intercom pre-transfery is that when you don't have to go to the labor market, you don't have to prove it to the government of Canada that, you know, you want to be here, you want to compete with the local market. It is an LMI exempted program. It is part of the international mobility program. It is also called C-12 work permit. Now, what happens is it is good for multinationals who are willing to establish their operations in Canada. Now, you have all got corporations there, most of you, or you're working for corporations that might be wanting to establish their operations in Canada. So what happens is we help you incorporating that business. Now, the government of Canada wants a commitment for you that you will actively come and manage the business. If you are able to prove with a rational that you are coming there for a serious work, you have enough capital to expand your operations, you have a qualifying relationship with that enterprise, the parent company, the parent company which is willing to have a branch office and affiliate a subsidiary in Canada, the company has been into a legitimate business and the company has been in existence for more than three years. That's a qualifying relationship. If you prove it to, and if you also prove the rational that you are coming there for serious work, you have enough capital to expand your operations, your nature of work is something that people, that Canada would require, you would hire a lot of people, you would probably benefit the Canadian economy by employment, by revenues, everything. So you can move without the LMI, without even giving the rational to the government of Canada that there is someone probably a substitute for you. Yesterday I gave an example of Nestle, for example. Nestle Switzerland wants to establish a plant in Canada. Now, it doesn't always mean that Nestle would all the time go to the labour market of locally in Canada and find a technician, find a senior management guy, or find a CEO, find a CFO in Canada. Nestle would simply open an office, a subsidiary there and would seek permission to send its officials to Canada without the labour market impact. Without, it bypasses that system. The best part about this is most of the times even IELTS is not required. In our history, in maybe hundreds of applications, only one person was required to do IELTS because of his education. He didn't have education support documents. He was senior secondary. So the visa officer, he said, I want IELTS score. So only one case out of hundreds of cases that we've done where IELTS score was asked. What it leads to is you get a work permit which is renewable for seven years, up to seven years, provided each year when you go for an extension you prove your intention that you've been working further as of the company that you came for, work in furtherance of the job that you came for, profits and no profits, they are not detrimental because even the CRA or even the organizations they know that initially you have a lot of capital investment. So first year or second year usually are losses also. They don't want to see that. All they want to see is that you were actively managing the business that you came for. How is it good for business owners in Dubai? Well, business owners are working through their corporations. They are already international companies or I would say maybe fall in the category of multinationals. Now the business owner has employees. He has a good network of employees. He wants to move himself. This can be the program for them. This can be the people, this can be the program for entrepreneurs who can move vis-a-vis this program. C11 work permit is a work permit for self-employed or people who have exceptional skill who are willing to prove it to, again, Government of Canada that we are coming to give you social, economical, cultural benefit to any place where they want to establish a business. Obviously the threshold of this application, this is also by the way an LMI exam program. You don't have to go through the labor market. You just have to give a good rational that you are a serious worker. You have some exceptional skill. You have been an entrepreneur. You have been a very successful person in your field. Whatever you are doing, C11 is for those people. Remember one thing. Now, proving it to the government that you're coming to do serious business either requires a lot of funds, either requires to prove the intention, or you're serving an underserved country, underserved city or province, or you are showing that you generate a lot of jobs, or you're exceptionally skilled, like a musician, maybe he's recognized, he's gotten a Bharat Ratna or something. He falls into that category because he's self-employed and he's exceptionally skilled. We are doing these applications every day and we are very successful in doing all this. The requirements here, whatever has spoken is there. How we can help you. Now there are two aspects where our law firm, our immigration firm can help you. The legal aspect. As lawyers, we are members of CELA. We are the Canadian Immigration Law Association. We are constantly reading, updating ourselves about the industry, the growth of industry, the immigration process, because the laws are changing. They are ever evolving. Like now the LMI system is transferring into tier system, training, education, experience, responsibilities. So based on that system, so we are constantly upgrading ourselves. The business aspect. We know how the financial industry is developing, how the culture of the industry is developing. We have so many business plans in place. We see your profile, we check your profile and based on that profile, we make, we develop a business that can suit you and sponsor you to come to Canada. Then obviously government regulations. We are obviously in touch with all the government regulations. Precautions to be taken. As you all are sitting here, you know why lawyers are needed, why lawyers or why consultants are needed because yes, we know the subject. Immigration is a law. Immigration is a big law. In fact, we have so many books written on it. Immigration is not a small subject. It is a diverse subject. If your case is go left, if your cases get refused, lawyers or consultants are always there to help you. Lawyers are always there to go to the highest level of court, even to go to the Supreme Court for reviews, for appeals, anything. We can handle your case from pin to plain. We can do everything in house. These are the success stories. You can always visit our booth and see our success stories. Yes, we're done. That is quick. Any questions? Sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can hear you. We have Indian customers, but I do not have a business experience. So, we work in a company that is a senior employee. So, when we're thinking of starting a business in Canada, as you mentioned, one of the programs for a linear wanted program. Yes. So, when we go as a new business person, there will be a point in starting a new business in Canada, how government is going to decide? Not as a new company, but as a new business person. See, government has its own debates or tax cuts and everything for new business owners. That is for sure. But I can't go much into it, but I'll tell you. Now, you said you are a manager in a company. You don't have any business experience. But what do you have? You have managerial skills. That is what is required in a business. Now, when we incorporate a business, understand one point. The corporation is different from a shareholder or, for example, you are a shareholder in that corporation that we established for you in Canada. You are still a different entity, legal entity. The corporation is a different legal entity. Now, what we have to prove to the government that this person, what is your name? I'm sorry. Good Simran. Now, Good Simran is coming to secure a position in that company that we incorporated. And he's bringing certain managerial skills which no one can take from you. And he's coming to do some serious work and we should sponsor this chap to run the business, to run the show there. You can come as a junior manager. You can come at the stage of mid-level manager, depends upon your experience. You can come also, you can also come as a CEO also. Depends upon your age and your experience also. Yes. That's a trick. That's the trick. Now, I am a director in a company in India. I'm sorry. I'm a shareholder in a company in India. But to be appointed as an officer in the same company, I need an appointment letter. I need my salary. I need to be appointed as an officer, maybe as a director, maybe as a PRO, maybe as a marketing officer. That's an appointment. A shareholder is still a different legal entity from a corporation. So a corporation, like, okay, I'll explain it later. Yeah. Any other questions, please? Sir, you have a question. Please. Absolutely, sir. Absolutely. In fact, what is a branch? Branch is something that a parent company can start, right? Otherwise, there is no branch. You can't call a single branch a branch. It is always a parent company that is opening a branch in Canada. Obviously, if you have a company, we can help you open a branch and the branch can sponsor you to work in Canada without even going through the LMI process. Depends upon your credentials and depends upon your parent company's structure here. It's a structure we think is all right to open a branch office and if the capital threshold is also met, if you are able to transfer some funds and show that you are serious in doing that business, obviously, we can transfer you as an ICT employee there. Yes. No, no, no. Like I told you, the parent company has to be in existence at least for three years. It can be different in cases of mergers and acquisitions. Like, a new company can probably take over an old company. That rational can be proven. But if you talk about the parent company, in general, it needs to be three years in existence and the relationship of the employee or the officer or the owner with that company should be at least one year. And all this should be documented. I mean, you should be drawing some money. You should be, it should be shown in the bank statements also that you are somewhere related to that parent company, yeah? Okay. If it was opening a parent company here and then the branch simultaneously, it becomes very difficult. I mean, then everyone would be in Canada, not here. Anything, sir. Anything. Anything. Anything is possible. Anything. What we are trying to incorporate is your manageral skills, your background. We are trying to bring that to Canada. Nothing else. Yeah. Amazing. Yes, we would certainly show that. Yeah, we are not here to hide anything. We are here to show everything and prove a rational that we are coming there to do some serious business. Yeah. I think then it suffices everything. If you have any questions, please meet our team. Please meet our team members and or visit our office. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.