BRINGING YOU & YOUR BUSINESS TO CANADA

Moving or expanding your existing business into Canada can be surprisingly straightforward with the assistance of skilled business immigration lawyers. Each province has various registration procedures and associated fees for extra-provincial incorporation. Sobirovs Law Firm can assist you in registering your existing company in the province you choose. This extra-provincial incorporation will generally require an Agent for Service, who must be an individual over the age of 18 that is a resident of the applicable province, or the Agent for Service must be a corporation having its registered office in that province. If you wish for your existing foreign company to do business in more than one province, you will have to register your business separately with each province. Our team can assist you in complying with each province’s procedures to provide extra-provincial registration for your company.

Buying a business can be a complicated matter in any country, including deciding whether to buy a company’s shares or assets as well as carefully reviewing the contract with an experienced corporate lawyer before going through with the purchase. Typically, the three main ways of investing in an existing business include buying the business, buying shares in the business, or buying a franchise. You will need to determine the business’s value and how much you should pay, how to finance your new business, the tax implications of purchasing and operating your new business, and related immigration or visa issues. Further, you may face legal challenges from tenant claims, corporate ownership, leaseholds, environmental issues, or numerous other business purchase-related challenges. Importantly, when doing business in a new country such as Canada, it can be crucial to hire skilled lawyers to navigate regulatory issues as well as to assist you in making professional, industry, banking, and other contact. The experienced team at Sobirovs Law Firm can assist you with purchasing a business in Canada by helping you reduce the risks associated with buying a business as well as by helping you through any related business or corporate immigration needs.

Sobirovs Law Firm understands that it takes time and planning to recruit and relocate foreign workers to come work in your business in Canada. The corporate immigration lawyers at Sobirovs Law Firm can assist your business in hiring foreign workers while helping your international recruits navigate immigration applications and Canada’s complex immigration system. Our team can help you with various work permits programs that are available for foreign nationals who want to work in Canada.

Our team can help you meet your employment needs, such as helping you decide which immigration programs may work best for you and your potential employees, help determine whether you may be able to recruit international workers, assist you in submitting an offer of employment to supplement your employee’s permanent residence application or provincial nomination, or assist you in extending a work permit for your employee during the permanent residence process. We understand that minor oversights and omissions could delay or negatively impact immigration applications which in turn will negatively impact your business’s success.

If your business is need of filling temporary skill and labour shortages, Sobirovs Law Firm and Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TWFP) may be able to help keep your business operating smoothly.

If you intend and are able to become a self-employed professional in Canada, you may be eligible for the Self-Employed Program. This program is designed to attract self-employed professionals to Canada by potentially helping to expedite the immigration process and increase an applicant’s attractiveness for being granted temporary or permanent Canadian residency.

To be eligible for this program, self-employed individuals must generally have the relevant experience, intention, and ability to either purchase and manage a business in Canada, or to work in professional, technical, or skilled occupations in arts, culture, recreation, and sports. This program assesses applicants based on their education, experience, age, ability in French and/or English, and adaptability. If you are a self-employed professional or will be able to become one after moving to Canada, Sobirovs Law Firm may be able to assist you in navigating the Canadian immigration process.