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🧵Individuals seeking asylum in Canada are currently encountering significant administrative challenges, with a backlog causing claimants to wait nearly four years for their cases to be heard.
🧵 @LandingsLaw 's Warda Shazadi Meighen spoke to the @globeandmail regarding the urgent need for a solution to the backlog in light of the rapidly shifting political landscape. Read more at : theglobeandmail.com/politics…
Have passion for administration, immigration and refugee law? @LandingsLaw is hiring! We're looking for a Legal Assistant to join our growing team. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis. To learn more and how to apply: landingslaw.com/wp-content/u…
🧵@LandingsLaw 's Partner @JackieSwaisland recently spoke at Osgoode Professional Development’s National Symposium on Sexual Assault Cases in the Criminal Court. Along with co-panelists Alexi N. Wood and Samantha Dineno...
🧵Due to the ongoing conflict between Iran and Lebanon, applicants are facing immigration challenges in evacuating the country and reuniting with their families in Canada. Read more about Mr. Kairouz’s efforts to bring his wife and minor daughter from Lebanon, as well as...
🧵Landings' Warda Shazadi Meighen's insight on the current temporary immigration program and its limited scope: theglobeandmail.com/politics…
With the US election today, @mattlundy33 and colleagues at the @globeandmail take stock of what is at stake for the Canadian economy. Insights from @LandingsLaw 's Warda Shazadi Meighen on how the election may impact Canadian immigration. Read more at: theglobeandmail.com/business…
🧵@LandingsLaw is pleased to be recognized on the Globe and Mail’s list of “Canada’s Best Law Firms” for 2025. We are proud to be one of only five immigration law firms in the country that have received this distinction! Almost 25,000 lawyers, along with in-house lawyers and...
🧵legal executives working in legal departments across Canada, were invited to take part in the survey. More than 10,000 recommendations across 31 fields. Self-recommendations were not permitted.
🧵This continued recognition is a testament to our peers, clients and the dedication of every member of the Landings team in serving our client's interests. theglobeandmail.com/business…
🧵Quebec Premier François Legault has urged the federal government to relocate asylum seekers away from Quebec and establish “waiting zones” like those at French airports and train stations. Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller (@MarcMillerVM) described the approach...
🧵as “inhumane”. @LandingsLaw Warda Shazadi Meighen spoke to CBC about the implications for the proposal : cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/…
🧵The Federal Court's pilot for judicial reviews of study permits has now opened! Chief Justice Paul Crampton has called this program a "win-win". Warda Shazadi Meighen, who was involved with the development of this pilot, discusses the significant resource savings for students,
🧵the Department of Justice, and the Court. With the backlog in the Federal Court growing over four-fold since 2019, this initiative aims to deliver decisions to student applicants within just 5 months. Read more here: thestar.com/news/canada/fede….
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Almsrawi believes she will be tortured & killed if she returns to Syria, but since Canada rescinded her refugee status she's not admissible to any other country.
She has been told she must leave the airport by Oct. 2. thestar.com/news/this-syrian…
🚨 Top Story🚨The @LandingsLaw team has been working tirelessly to stop the imminent deportation of a transgender woman to Syria on Wednesday, October 2nd, 2024, where she faces torture and persecution due to her 2SLGBTQI+ identity.
Read more about the revocation of Arwa (Nicole) Almsrawi's refugee status while in transit to Canada, and her 7 month long confinement in the Istanbul airport:thestar.com/news/this-syrian…