Immigration Lawyer in North York

Your neighbourhood immigration lawyer in North York

North York is home to established Russian-speaking, Persian, Korean, Filipino and Jewish communities, and to a large population of internationally trained professionals working across the Yonge corridor and the North York City Centre. It is also where our office is based — at 120 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 1100 — which makes Inna Kogan a genuinely local choice for North York residents who want a licensed lawyer close to home.

Inna is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and a public notary with more than twenty years of practice and over a thousand successful cases. For North York’s professional class, the day-to-day work is Express Entry and permanent residence; when something goes wrong, it is judicial review and Mandamus at the Federal Court. She handles both personally, in English, Ukrainian, Russian, Hebrew and Farsi.

Express Entry and permanent residence for professionals

Express Entry is the main route to permanent residence for the skilled professionals who fill North York’s offices, hospitals and tech firms — and small choices move a Comprehensive Ranking System (CRS) score by dozens of points. We optimize your profile before you enter the pool, order credential assessments and language results in the right sequence, position you for category-based and provincial draws, and manage the full PR application after your invitation.

• CRS score assessment and optimization
• Federal Skilled Worker, Canadian Experience Class and Trades
• Category-based draws (healthcare, STEM, trades, French)
• Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) for extra points
• Post-ITA permanent residence application management
• Citizenship once you meet the residency requirement

Russian, Ukrainian and Farsi-speaking representation

North York has one of the largest Russian-speaking populations in the GTA, along with thriving Ukrainian and Persian communities. Immigration decisions often turn on nuance — the exact wording of a study or work plan, the honest framing of a difficult history — and being able to work with a lawyer in your own language protects that nuance. Inna and her team advise North York clients directly in Russian, Ukrainian and Farsi, without a middle-person translating your legal strategy back and forth.

Refusals and delays: the Federal Court advantage

When an application is refused or has been stuck for months, North York professionals often assume they simply have to re-apply and wait again. They rarely do. Through judicial review, Inna Kogan has refusals declared unlawful and returned for a fresh decision; through Mandamus, she compels IRCC to decide files that have blown past normal processing times. This court-level work — the firm’s defining strength — is only available through a licensed lawyer.

Citizenship and protecting your status in North York

For North York’s many settled permanent residents, the next milestone is Canadian citizenship — and it is where small errors cause big delays. Citizenship turns on a precise physical-presence calculation (generally 1,095 days in the five years before applying), met tax obligations, and a clean record. Frequent international travel, common among North York’s globally connected professionals, makes the day-count easy to get wrong, and an honest miscalculation can trigger a residency questionnaire that adds many months to a file.

We prepare citizenship applications that are complete and defensible before they are filed, respond to residency questionnaires with thorough, well-organized evidence, and challenge citizenship refusals or unreasonable delays at the Federal Court. We also handle the status issues that arise along the way — permanent resident card renewals, residency-obligation problems for those who have spent long periods abroad, and appeals when a residency obligation is found not to be met. The aim is to protect the status you have worked years to build, all the way through to a Canadian passport.

North York’s professionals are also, often, the ones sponsoring family to join them once they are settled — a spouse, children, or parents and grandparents. We fold that into the same long-term plan, so that becoming a citizen and reuniting your family are handled by one lawyer who knows your whole file. Whether your next step is a citizenship application, an urgent PR-card renewal before travel, or bringing a loved one to Toronto, you get advice grounded in more than twenty years of practice and delivered in the language you are most comfortable in.

Book a consultation near Yonge & Eglinton

Because the office is in North York, you can meet in person by appointment or, more conveniently, by Zoom. Start with the form on this page; you will receive a questionnaire and a meeting invitation, and leave with a clear, honest assessment of your options. With a 5.0 Google rating from 144 reviews and recognition as a Top 10 Immigration Law Firm in Canada, North York residents get senior counsel a short walk — or a single video call — away.