Business Immigration

The global scale of business today often requires hiring foreign talent or relocating people abroad. Understanding Canada’s immigration laws and regulation is critical to your business. The evolving labour laws, programs and legislation creates significant challenges for our clients.

With increasing regulation and the implementation of different cross-border agreements, businesses need legal expertise with a deep understanding of local immigration requirements and a global reach to support you on an international level.

Our knowledgeable legal team works to assist you in navigating the issues encountered throughout the immigration sector. Whether your challenge involves temporary foreign worker applications, permanent resident programs, extending work permits or international treaties, we have the experience and expertise to successfully guide you through any obstacle encountered, both nationally and internationally.

We serve global organizations of all sizes operating in Canada across multiple industries with:

Prepare Labour Market Impact Assessments for Temporary Foreign Worker Program applications
Obtain short-term work permit exemptions for high-skilled workers
Prepare USMCA, CETA and other professional applications under Free Trade Agreements
Prepare Intra-company Transferee applications
Québec’s C.A.Q. application requirements and Canadian permanent residence applications including Provincial Nominee Programs
Federal Skilled Worker
Obtain short-term work permit exemptions for high-skilled workers
Canadian Experience Class
Spousal sponsorship

We can also help you get work authorization in Canada for your employees and:

Obtain and extend visas, work permits, study permits (including CAQ in Québec), entry clearances, temporary residency, permanent residency and citizenship for foreign employees
Address criminal inadmissibility and Temporary Resident Permit applications
Manage temporary entry into Canada of business visitors

CASE STUDY

Media giant relocates head office to Canada

Multinational media company keeps the C-suite happy with a hands-on, white-glove relocation project.

Assisted multiple U.S. and international film and television studios and high-profile entertainers in respect of their business immigration matters, including the acquisition of key foreign talent, audits and inspections under the International Mobility Program and overcoming criminal inadmissibility.
Assisted one of the world’s largest quick service restaurant companies in respect of its business immigration matters, including the establishment of a new global headquarters in Canada and the immigration consequences flowing from a significant corporate reorganization.
Helped one of the world’s leading information technology companies on the establishment of a new company to grow its global artificial intelligence business to engage with high-tech talent in Canada.
Assisted with the design and implementation of a new Labour Market Impact Assessment exemption category to facilitate the entry of key foreign talent essential to the industry on an expedited basis.
Advised Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, in respect of the immigration consequences of the sale of its majority stake to Blackstone Group LP.

Assisted multiple U.S. and international film and television studios and high-profile entertainers in respect of their business immigration matters, including the acquisition of key foreign talent, audits and inspections under the International Mobility Program and overcoming criminal inadmissibility.
Assisted one of the world’s largest quick service restaurant companies in respect of its business immigration matters, including the establishment of a new global headquarters in Canada and the immigration consequences flowing from a significant corporate reorganization.
Helped one of the world’s leading information technology companies on the establishment of a new company to grow its global artificial intelligence business to engage with high-tech talent in Canada.
Assisted with the design and implementation of a new Labour Market Impact Assessment exemption category to facilitate the entry of key foreign talent essential to the industry on an expedited basis.
Advised Refinitiv, formerly the Financial and Risk business of Thomson Reuters, in respect of the immigration consequences of the sale of its majority stake to Blackstone Group LP.

Testimonials

Chambers

“The group has represented a host of prominent US film and TV studios and entertainers, as well as the likes of SICIM, JTI-Macdonald and Imperial Tobacco. Its highlights contain some eye-catching mandates, such as that for Thomson Reuters involving the relocation of [its] C-suite to Toronto. Meanwhile, its work in business immigration appears to focus on issues relating to the hiring of senior foreign nationals, implying that BLG specialises in high-level business-executive matters.”