Canadian Immigration Law · Canada
Your account of what happened is evidence. We prepare it that way.
Hamayun Immigration Firm builds applications the way they are actually decided: against the statutory criteria, on a documented record, and in your own words. Our practice is concentrated in Refugee Law, Family Reunification, Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds, and Procedural Fairness.
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Start by identifying the right instrument
Most applications fail for a structural reason: the wrong stream, a missed limitation period, or evidence assembled for a test the decision-maker was never applying. This tool points you to the provision that governs your situation and the deadline attached to it.
Pathway screening
Step 1 of 2Six areas, one method
We work across the streams that matter most to families in every province and territory of Canada. Each carries a different test, a different decision-maker, and a different evidentiary burden.
Refugee protection and asylum
In-land refugee claims, Basis of Claim narratives, country condition evidence, refugee sponsorship, and pre-removal risk assessment.
Read the guide → IRPR ss. 116–125 · IRPA s. 25(1)Permanent residence
Family class sponsorship, protected person permanent residency, humanitarian and compassionate grounds, Express Entry, and provincial nomination.
Read the guide → IRPR ss. 179–222Temporary residence
Visitor visas and Super Visas, study permits, LMIA-based and exempt work permits, the Start-up Visa, extensions and restoration.
Read the guide → IRPA ss. 63, 72, 110Appeals and enforcement
Refusal responses, procedural fairness letters, immigration interviews, appeals before the IAD and RAD, removal, and detention.
Read the guide → IRPA ss. 33–42Inadmissibility
Findings based on criminality, misrepresentation, health, or non-compliance, and the routes back: rehabilitation, temporary resident permits, and authorisations to return.
Read the guide → Citizenship Act s. 5Citizenship and notarization
Grant applications, physical presence calculation and proof, prohibitions, proof of citizenship, and commissioning and notarization of documents.
Read the guide →The record is the argument
An officer or a member reads a file, not a person. Everything that will be weighed has to be inside the record, in a form that can be checked. Our method is built around that constraint.
Stage one
Establish the test before gathering anything
We identify the exact provision that governs your matter and the elements a decision-maker must find. Evidence is then collected against those elements, not collected first and sorted later.
Stage two
Take the account in your own words
Narratives are drafted in the first person and read back to you until they are accurate. A statement you cannot recognise as your own will not survive questioning, and it should not.
Stage three
Corroborate, date, and cross-reference
Each material assertion is tied to a document, a country condition source, or a sworn declaration, and indexed so the decision-maker can find it without searching.
Stage four
Test the file against the likely objection
Before filing we read the file as a refusing officer would, identify the weakest inference available on the record, and answer it in the submission rather than waiting for a procedural fairness letter.
- Title
- Canadian Immigration Counsel
- Licence
- R532647
- Since
- 2019
- Appears
- IRB · IRCC · CBSA
Sofia Hamayun
A practice built around refugee law and family reunification
Sofia Hamayun is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants, holding the RCIC-IRB designation that permits representation before the Immigration and Refugee Board.
She holds an Honours Bachelor's degree in Human Rights and Equity Studies with a certificate in Refugee and Migration Studies from York University, and an Honours postgraduate diploma in Immigration from Humber College. Since being licensed in 2019 she has represented clients before the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Canada Border Services Agency, and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
Her method is deliberate on one point: submissions are drafted in the first person, from the client's own account, and returned to the client until they are right. A narrative written over someone rather than with them tends not to hold up under questioning.
A Basis of Claim narrative is the only place in the process where you speak at length without being interrupted. If it is written in someone else's register, the difference is audible the moment you are questioned about it.
Sofia Hamayun · on why we draft in the first personThe conditions your application is filed into
Admission targets set the volume of decisions, and volume shapes both processing times and the margin for error. These are the published federal planning figures for the current cycle.
380,000
Permanent resident admissions targeted for each of 2026, 2027, and 2028
IRCC Levels Plan 2026–2028
385,000
New temporary resident arrivals targeted in 2026, falling to 370,000 thereafter
IRCC Levels Plan 2026–2028
64%
Share of permanent resident admissions allocated to the economic class by 2027
IRCC Departmental Plan 2026–27
91,500
Provincial Nominee Program admissions targeted in 2026, up from 55,000
IRCC Levels Plan 2026–2028
Bring the document, and the date on it.
If you have received a decision, a letter, or a notice, the date you received it usually starts a limitation period. Bring it to your consultation. If you have not received anything yet, bring the question you cannot get a straight answer to.
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