Wei William (Will) Tao|陶维
@TheWillTruth
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Girl Dad x2. #CDNIMM Lawyer + Researcher. Founder @HeronLFMC + AIMICI. LLM student @AllardLaw examining high-impact🇨🇦ADMs. Newish🏏fan. Tweets≠legal advice.
Unceded MSTQ, Burnaby, Canada
Joined December 2010
Quoted in the Indepedent (UK) in a piece by travel/tech journalist Jonathan Margolis speaking about the challenges his family and others have had securing timely Canadian eTAs. The days of 7 minute eTAs are largely gone. For those behind paywall I commented:. “The system has.
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RT @SahilBloom: Major cheat code for life: Tolerance for boredom. Success isn't flashy. It's built through long periods of extremely discip….
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This is too true.
“Greatness does not come out of intelligence, it comes from character. Character is not formed out of smart people: it is formed out of people who have suffered.”. — Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang
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Too early to celebrate. See my LinkedIn posts for why. This is all part of a GCMS phase out, which will make challenging visa refusals that much harder.
IRCC will now include the officer’s decision notes with refusal letters for most temporary residence applications. Federal Court jurisprudence has consistently held that these notes form part of the decision itself. Until now, applicants often had to either commence Federal
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Back to the thesis…. one last revision round. This one the most important. cc: @d_said91 - in case you were wondering the tunes this time.
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2025-07-08 Indigenous Name Reclamation Project
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RT @TTRRMK: IRCC has updated the minimum settlement funds required for Express Entry (FSW or FSTP) effective July 28, 2025 - note that some….
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RT @HeronLFMC: Our office helped a family secure permanent residence under the Home Support Worker Class through a successful response to a….
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Apparently we sold out the 150 capacity room. Dusting off the cobwebs for this one. Been awhile since a pathway to PR presentation!. #cdnimm.
We are happy to share that our lawyers, @TheWillTruth and Karina Juma, have been invited to speak at an upcoming immigration info session at Options Community Services!. This in-person session is designed to support international students and work permit holders navigating the
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RT @HeronLFMC: We are happy to share that our lawyers, @TheWillTruth and Karina Juma, have been invited to speak at an upcoming immigration….
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RT @smeurrens: IRCC has apparently changed its mind. Fields of study that were removed from PGWP eligibility on June 25, 205, will remain e….
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RT @Loon_Rebel5: 10 years in the Bay changed my life. Thank you, Dub Nation. @PlayersTribune
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I have so much to be grateful and appreciative for over the past 10 years. This place, it’s truly changed my life forever.
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RT @HeronLFMC: Please join us in welcoming Yussif Silva to the Heron Law team!. Yussif is a Canadian immigration and refugee lawyer with gl….
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RT @nkeung: Prospective international students at Harvard will need to apply for a Canadian study permit no later than mid-July. But the ti….
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Harvard, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy announce contingency plan to let returning international students to take courses in Toronto.
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RT @nkeung: Between May and December 2023, researchers found 1,163 posts containing explicitly hateful keywords toward South Asians. During….
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A new report by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue finds a huge increase in racist posts in 2024, notably in the lead-up to the federal election.
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RT @robertdiab: Tucked into the new Strong Borders Act (Bill C-2) tabled this week are major new police search powers — possibly the most c….
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RT @HeronLFMC: With the Stronger Borders Act (Bill C-2) announced earlier today, our latest blog explores its impact on Canadian immigratio….
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At a time when borders are becoming more restrictive and immigration is constantly under attack, these amendments feed into the narrative that immigrants and refugees are problems.
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