Colin Singer is widely recognized as one of the foremost immigration attorneys in Canada. A licensed attorney since 1988 and authorized by the Government of Canada to represent your interests, we provide unparalleled counsel and expertise to foreign nationals intending to relocate to Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom on a temporary or permanent basis.
Our Canada based immigration law offices staffed with licensed and experienced professionals offers a wide range of services to an established corporate and individual clientele with particular emphasis on those relating to Canadian Citizenship and Immigration law and employment placement. Qualifications for permanent residence, employment/work visas, student visas, visa condition removals, the acquisition of temporary residence permits and the acquisition of Canadian citizenship are all areas in which the firm specialises.
We take great pride in our advocacy related accomplishments before Canadian Citizenship and Immigration boards and tribunals and before all courts of the Canadian judicial system. We possess the knowledge and expertise to identify solutions that will ideally meet our client’s objectives.
We regularly provide insight and commentary to Canada’s national media and US based media, Canadian citizenship and immigration personnel and foreign representatives both in Canada and abroad when immigration policy is reviewed or modified by the Federal and Provincial Governments.
The firm acts as legal counsel on immigration matters, to a number of Canadian based institutions and a myriad of domestic and international corporate businesses. This aspect of our practice affords us an in-depth understanding of Canada's business and labour market landscape and adds to our ability to counsel clients who intend to relocate to Canada.
In the employment field, Mr. Singer is the Managing Partner of Global Recruiters of Montreal ( www.grnmontreal.com) a professional permanent executive search firm forming part of the Global Recruiters Network, one of the fastest growing companies of its kind in North America. He is a licensed Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) with the Quebéc Order of Certified Human Resources and Industrial Relations Counsellors, the only recognised group in the field of human resources in Québec, and he possesses a thorough understanding of the personnel and human resource industry across Canada.
The focus of our activities extends beyond legal matters. We endeavour to offer assistance on both personal and professional levels. Our extensive experience with immigrants to Canada, and our familiarity with the adjustment and adaptation that living in Canada requires allow us to provide our clients with services that are tailored to their individual needs and characteristics. Emphasis is placed on enabling new residents to integrate into Canadian society as quickly and as easily as possible. Personal and commercial banking arrangements, vocational training, and providing substantive assistance in employment and education opportunities and business acquisitions and are some of the additional services we frequently provide.
Colin R. Singer completed an undergraduate law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1986 and was admitted to the Barreau du Québec in 1988. Prior thereto he obtained a Bachelor's degree in 1982 from McGill University, majoring in industrial relations. In addition to being a founding director of the CANADIAN CITIZENSHIP & IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER (CCIRC) INC., Mr. Singer is an Associate Editor of "Immigration Law Reporter" the pre-eminent immigration law publication in Canada. Mr. Singer has previously served as an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Quebec and National Immigration Law Sections and is currently a member of the Canadian Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Mr. Singer has twice appeared before Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. He is a frequent presenter at National conferences sponsored by government and non-government organizations on matters affecting Canada’s immigration and human resources industries. He is recognized by Lexpert.ca as a repeatedly recommended authority on Canadian immigration matters ( www.lexpert.ca).
Colin R. Singer was Canada's first immigration attorney to establish a well-known identity on the internet, providing since 1994, ongoing guidance and opinions to readers. His law practice through www.immigration.ca is one of the most recognized in the Canadian immigration industry on the Internet and since its inception in 1995 is consistently rated the most popular non-government Canadian immigration site by Google and by Alexa Internet, a subsidiary of Amazon.com.
The firm has permanent offices in Montreal and collaborates with an extensive network of domestic and international law offices.
