Canadian Passports – Not as boring as you’ll assume!

Once I first thought of the subject of Canadian Passports, I believed it might be too boring…

…I used to be lifeless fallacious. Canadian immigration lawyer, Les Morley introduced life to a subject that the majority would really feel uninteresting at greatest. He shared some unbelievable insights that you’ll not need to miss.

On this episode of the Canadian Immigration Podcast, I spoke with Les Morley who’s an immigration lawyer training within the nice metropolis of Kingston, Ontario.  I requested Les to affix me on the Canadian Immigration Podcast after studying an incredible paper (Passports in Canada (last)) he wrote on Canadian passports for our Nationwide Immigration Legislation Convention held in Vancouver earlier this yr.

Usually folks would assume that any dialogue revolving round Canadian Passport points can be extraordinarily dry and actually unfit of a full Podcast. For those who thought this, you’ll be fallacious.

Les actually nailed this one. The interview was superior. It’s a must to learn the paper. It actually must be printed.
Les  took a while to share with me some unbelievable perception into the whole evolution of passports in Canada in addition to the state of issues at present and what the longer term holds on account of a variety of circumstances popping out of our courts that’s remodeling the whole space of passport legislation.

It was nice to get to know Les a little bit extra and be taught in regards to the incredible work he’s doing in Kingston. Anybody on the lookout for help with any immigration associated problem in that a part of our nice nation can be nicely served by giving Les a name.

Throughout my interview with Les, we talk about the next areas:

• Life as an immigration lawyer in Kingston
• Historic overview of passports in Canada
• Current passport circumstances popping out of the courts
• Proposed legislative adjustments to how passports are used and tracked

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CIP S1 E27 | Les Morley | Present Notes

Les is an immigration lawyer training in Kingston, Ontario. Since 1988, he has helped folks from greater than 100 nations immigrate to or stay in Canada. He has reunited households, guided college students and staff by way of the method of acquiring papers, and represented on a regular basis individuals who face admissibility challenges and boundaries to citizenship.

Les is part of a small group of folks that utilized for and obtained a Refugee Help Program facility in Kingston.  He’s the one immigration lawyer in his one-horse city, and so he tends to get entangled in a whole lot of the immigration-related tasks on the town. Just like Lethbridge the place I apply.

Additionally, this yr he has hosted a couple of episode of a neighborhood cable present on COGECOTV (Kingston)

referred to as DiverseCity.  Listed below are hyperlinks to a couple of the episodes, in case there may be any worth in understanding about them:

• Frontenac Refugee Assist Group

• Kingston Grandmother Connection

Query: How did you get into Immigration?

Introduce subject. Les wrote a terrific paper on Passports for our previous CBA Nationwide Convention.

Get e-mails from Federal Court docket as an inventory of hyperlinks to the selections and les began seeing a development associated to the evolving space of passport legislation.

1. Historic evolution of Passports (4:15)
2. Circumstances that got here out relating to Passports:
   1. Individuals not with the ability to have a passport
   2. Shut down and couldn’t get passport
3. New growth utilizing passports going in another country.
   1. New Invoice launched by Honourable Ralph Goodale

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