Immigration lawyer in Sherbrooke
Studying at the Université de Sherbrooke, working at the CIUSSS de l’Estrie, joining your family in the Eastern Townships: every life project deserves rigorous support. At Patrice Brunet Avocats (PBA), we serve Sherbrooke and the entire Estrie region through our online services, from the very first call all the way to Canadian citizenship.
No downtown office required: your immigration lawyer in Sherbrooke meets you by videoconference and moves your file forward in a secure portal, wherever you happen to be in the Eastern Townships.
Why a lawyer
Sherbrooke is one of Quebec’s main welcoming cities: its universities draw thousands of international students, and the region has been receiving refugees for decades. In that context, a lawyer practising immigration law turns a complex immigration process into clear, predictable steps.
To immigrate to Quebec, everything starts in Arrima, the platform through which the Quebec Skilled Worker Selection Program (PSTQ) draws its candidates; our guide to immigrating to Quebec through the PSTQ breaks down every stream. At the federal level, Express Entry ranks skilled worker profiles, and the LMIA (Labour Market Impact Assessment) governs hiring by an employer.
Did an invitation to apply to the PSTQ just land in your account? The countdown to the Quebec Selection Certificate has started: every document weighs on your selection.
In Quebec, only a lawyer who is a member of the Barreau du Québec can argue your case before the courts, including the Federal Court, and professional secrecy covers everything you confide. A consultant offers neither that recourse nor that protection. When a refused application threatens a future built in the Estrie region, that difference becomes very concrete.
Sherbrooke is a true university city: the Université de Sherbrooke, Bishop’s University in Lennoxville and the Cégep de Sherbrooke welcome students from around the world every year. We prepare your study permit and your CAQ (Quebec Acceptance Certificate), then your transition to a post-graduation work permit or to permanent residence once your studies are complete.
Practice areas
Individuals, reunited families, growing employers: our immigration expertise reaches from Quebec to the rest of Canada and all the way to the United States. Here is how it works in the Eastern Townships.
Temporary immigration covers the temporary resident statuses that let you work, study or visit Canada:
An immigration application is won in the details: we build every form with you, document by document.
The road to permanent immigration often begins at the provincial level, with a CSQ from the MIFI, before the permanent residence application is filed with IRCC: PSTQ, Express Entry or family sponsorship, depending on your profile. Want to sponsor your spouse, aim for Canadian citizenship or renew your permanent resident card? We build the entire file.
Sherbrooke is also home to many asylum seekers: we represent people claiming refugee status or raising humanitarian and compassionate considerations, all the way to the Federal Court when needed.
Manufacturing, technology, health care: employers across the Estrie region are turning to foreign workers. We take charge of the entire Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) component, the work permits for your recruits and your company’s compliance. Business owners, entrepreneurs and investors also find a partner here for their immigration projects. For businesses, the first meeting is free.
45 minutes with an immigration lawyer, refunded if you are not satisfied. You leave with a personalized strategy and a concrete action plan.
PBA expertise
Since 1993, the firm Patrice Brunet Avocats has defended immigration law files from coast to coast. What Sherbrooke gains from that: the depth of a law firm recognized across Canada, without ever leaving home.
Skilled workers, families, students, business people or asylum seekers: meet our multilingual team, who support you and assign each file to the right expert. Our results speak for themselves:
A lawyer with specialized immigration experience can, for instance, support caregiver immigration to Canada, a concrete issue for the CIUSSS de l’Estrie-CHUS. We also offer a guide for physicians who want to immigrate.
Immigrating to Canada from Sherbrooke calls for no round trips to Montreal with our online services. The quality of life of the Eastern Townships stays exactly where you are; your file moves forward remotely, with complete peace of mind.
Your steps follow a simple process:
No appointment on Wellington Street or anywhere else: every step happens remotely, with pricing announced from the outset.
From Fleurimont to Rock Forest, from Lennoxville to Mont-Bellevue, from Magog to Granby and all the way to Coaticook and Lac-Mégantic: our services cover Sherbrooke and the entire Eastern Townships. Wherever you are in the Estrie region, you get the same support as in Montreal.
No waiting room between you and your file. Book online and meet a lawyer by videoconference as early as this week.
From Sherbrooke to Lac-Mégantic, distance has never stopped a solid file from succeeding.
FAQ
Yes, and it is now the norm: both IRCC and the MIFI receive applications electronically. Your immigration lawyer in Sherbrooke therefore runs the immigration process from end to end, from the videoconference to the online filing, with your documents gathered in the secure portal. To start yours, schedule your consultation.
Three doors stay open after a refused application: requesting a reconsideration, refiling a consolidated application, or challenging the decision through judicial review before the Federal Court. The deadlines to act are sometimes counted in days: speak to a lawyer as soon as you receive a visa or permanent residence refusal.
It all depends on the program and the office processing your file: a visitor visa is sometimes settled in a few weeks, while refugee status can involve years of processing times. A well-built strategy changes the picture, though, as our analysis of the Ivan Demidov case illustrates.
