In this case, we successfully challenged a Parents and Grandparents Sponsorship refusal due to previous incompetent representation, and shared practical insights on the Federal Court’s three-part test and the importance of authorized representation.
Read our very own Federal Court success story involving a Parent and Grandparent sponsorship application, where we challenged an officer’s breach of procedural fairness in Ferreria v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2026 FC 267.
This outcome represents an important affirmation of fairness, transparency, and accountability in Canada’s immigration system. Immigration officers have a duty to apply the law reasonably and to clearly communicate deficiencies to applicants.
Heron Law Offices recently helped two clients obtain settlements following their applications for leave and judicial review in the Federal Court of Canada, regarding their refused electronic applications for permanent residence (“e-APR”) via the Canadian Experience Class (“CEC-EE”) under Canada’s Express Entry system.
The table below represents a snapshot of Heron Law Offices’ historical success stories, disaggregated by Date, Country, Type of File, Facts, and Outcome. We hope this will give a sense to prospective clients of the type of work and the type of results we can achieve.
Learn how we helped our client turn over two years of silence on their CEC application into a COPR by filing a mandamus application.
Heron Law Offices is in the heart of Burnaby, steps from Patterson Station, in a secure, private office designed to ensure client privacy and confidentiality.
We have the capacity and technology to assist clients all over Canada and the world utilizing secure cloud-based solutions.
We acknowledge that our main physical and virtual offices are located on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and stolen territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Musqueam, Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Qayqayt Nations.
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Heron was proud to have been named a finalist for the following awards:
Canadian Law Awards Pro Bono Initiative of the Year (2022) finalist for Indigenous Name Reclamation Project
Clio Reisman Award (2022) finalist for Best New Law Firm among North American entrants.
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