About Julie Taub

Julie Taub is a bilingual (French and English) immigration lawyer practising in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. Julie Taub has more than 10 years of experience in Canadian Immigration Law and her legal practice specializes in the field of Canadian Immigration Law. She is a licensed lawyer, a member in good standing of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the County of Carleton Law Association and is recognized by the Government of Canada (Department of Citizenship and Immigration) as an authorized representative.

She is a former Member of the Immigration and Refugee Board ("IRB") Refugee Protection Division ("RPD") (1997-2000 Toronto) which provides her with a unique and in depth understanding of the Immigration process. Ms Taub is also part time duty counsel with Ottawa Legal Aid on the immigration panel. Ms Taub is on the Advisory Board of the Centre for Immigration Policy Reform http://www.immigrationreform.ca/ and has been lobbying for immigration reform for many years.

She has appeared before Federal Court of Canada, the Immigration Appeal Division, the Immigration Division and the Refugee Protection Division, the three divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board on behalf of her clients. She also deals with work permits, spousal and family sponsorships and immigration to Canada. Julie Taub is also a member of the Legal Aid panel and duty counsel in immigration.

Julie Taub was an invited speaker at the Conference on Canada, Immigration and Multiculturalism, hosted by the U.S State Department in in Washington D.C. in January 2008. She was a moderator / participant at the Fraser Institute National Conference on Immigration in Montreal in June 2008.

She was an invited speaker at the Symposium on Canada's Immigration and Refugee System hosted by the Canadian Centre for Policy Studies in Ottawa October 30, 2010. She was the keynote speaker at a lecture on Immigration Issues and Remedies sponsored by ACT! for Canada in Montreal on November 29, 2010. She has twice appeared as a government witness before Canada's Parliamentary Standing Committee on citizenship and Immigration.

Julie Taub was part of a documentary on Marriages of Convenience aired by CBC: The Passionate Eye, November 15, 2010

She has been interviewed by CBC, CTV and has spoken on various radio talk shows in Canada. You may access some of these interviews at the following links:

CBC the Homestretch
Marital immigration fraud
W5 CTV Broken Vows
CBC The Current - interview about marriage fraud
June 28 interview about immigration marriage fraud.

Ms Taub is also a regular contributer on immigration issues to published media.

montrealgazette.com
lawtimesnews.com
cbc.ca
theglobeandmail.com
elliotlakenews.wordpress.com
aipso.webs.com/information.htm

She graduated from the University of Toronto in 1971 B.A. in Political Science, earned a B.Ed. from Queen's University (1972) and an M.Ed. from the University of Ottawa (1978). She graduated from the University of Ottawa LL.B. in 1992 from the Faculty of Law, programme français and was called to the Ontario Bar in February 1994. She is a former secondary school teacher from the Conseil Scolaire de la langue française de l'est de l'Ontario. She practised general and family Law until December 1996 when she was appointed to the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Julie Taub's Recent Federal Court Decisions

1	Calvera v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2006 FC 1463 Date: December 6, 2006
2	Bedoya v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2005 FC 1092 Date: August 10, 2005
3	Jones v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2007 FC 302 Date: March 20, 2007
4	Quintanar v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) 2004 FC 677 Date: May 7, 2004
5	Chawah v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) 2009 FC 324 Date: March 27, 2009

Other involvement

In addition to her professional activities, Ms Taub is involved with the Association of International Physicians and surgeons of Ontario, AIPSO, They are international medical doctors (IMGs) whose immigration to Canada was fast tracked at the various visa offices worldwide to accommodate the doctor shortage in Canada. Ms Taub is attempting to publicize their plight. See http://www.aipso.ca/

About Bhramba Kullur

Bhramba Kullur, student-at-law, was born in the Island of Mauritius and completed his law studies in the United Kingdom at the University of Wolverhampton and Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was called to the Bar in two jurisdictions, Bar of England and Wales at the Honorable Society of Gray's Inn in London and Bar of Mauritius at the Supreme Court of Mauritius. Bhramba completed his Jurist Doctor equivalency program at Ottawa University and is looking forward to specializing in Immigration practice and Human Rights. He is multilingual (English, French and Hindi. He served the Mauritius Police Force as a Police Officer for over a decade before switching to the legal practice. Currently, he is the President of the Canada-Mauritius Cultural Association of Ottawa (www.mauritiusottawa.org) - a non-profit organization that aims to bring "Unity in Diversity" among different communities and cultural fabrics of the Canadian society.

About Ronalee Carey

Ms Ronalee Carey graduated from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law in 1996, having won numerous academic awards and scholarships. She was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1998, having won the McCarthy Tetrault Business Law Prize. Ms. Carey worked as an associate lawyer at an Ottawa law firm before taking a parental leave. Currently Ms Carey works as a part time legal researcher who provides her legal expertise in all matters pertaining to immigration in the firm. Ms. Carey has been very active in her community, serving in volunteer positions with the Ottawa Children's Aid Society as a foster parent, the Vesta Recovery Program for Women as a board member, St. Christopher's Preschool as a legal advisor, and with the Ottawa Human Society.