For employers
Audits, inspections, and compliance reviews for employers with foreign workers. The penalties for getting it wrong are real. The fix is a clean program.
Employers of foreign workers can be inspected for up to six years after each hire. Wages, duties, and working conditions must match what was promised in the LMIA or the offer of employment. Violations bring fines, public listing, and bans from hiring foreign workers. We keep your program clean, and defend it when questions come.
What we cover
How we work
Talk to one of our licensed lawyer's to tell us your background and needs. We then provide expert advice and suggested next steps, including a flat fee for further assistance.
You'll work closely with our team on our secure, AI-powered software to prepare and finalize your application as quickly as possible.
An Ontario licensed immigration lawyer always does a final review (sometimes twice), and files on your behalf.
Flat fees. Personal responses within 24 business hours. No surprises.
What to know
ESDC inspects LMIA employers and IRCC inspects LMIA exempt ones. Inspections can be random, triggered by tips, or based on past issues, and they can reach back six years. Most employers meet their first inspector unprepared.
Whether wages, duties, hours, and working conditions match the LMIA or offer of employment, whether you kept the records, and whether the workplace is free of abuse. Small drifts, like a raise that changed the wage from what was filed, count as violations if unexplained.
Administrative penalties run from warnings to $100,000 per violation, capped at $1 million per year, plus public naming and bans from the programs. The regime is points based, and cooperation and voluntary disclosure reduce the score.
Not every discrepancy is a violation. Some can be justified under the regulations, and errors corrected with compensation to the worker are treated far more leniently. How you frame the record decides which bucket you land in.
Offer letters that match filings, wage reviews on a calendar, records kept for six years, and one internal owner for the process. We set this up once and audit it periodically, which costs a fraction of one violation.
Why us
A compliance review costs a fraction of one violation. We audit your files the way an inspector would, before an inspector does.
When ESDC or IRCC comes asking, the quality and speed of your response decides the outcome. We handle both.
Self correcting a mistake properly can avoid penalties entirely. Timing and framing matter, and we manage both.
LMIAs, permits, and compliance handled by one team that sees the full picture of your foreign workforce.
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Meet our Managing Partner
Founding Partner
Josh is a Toronto-based lawyer who has been practicing immigration law for more than 9 years. More specifically, he's helped thousands of individuals and companies navigate Canadian immigration - from work permits to permanent residence, study permits, citizenship, LMIAs and more. Josh always puts his clients first, and believes quick and thoughtful communication is most important to making the process as smooth and stress-free as possible.
Called to the Ontario Bar. Member of the Law Society of Ontario, and the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association.
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Tell us about your foreign workforce and any notices you have received. Within one business day, an Ontario licensed immigration lawyer will scope the review and quote a flat fee.