Practice
Jeffrey S. Lowe is a Business and Immigration lawyer, and has practised
law in Vancouver, BC, Canada, since 1983. He was educated at the University of
British Columbia (UBC), and has both a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree.
Jeffrey is the Principal of Lowe & Company, a Canada Business and Immigration Law
firm that has acted for clients from over 65 countries.
Jeffrey is the Team
Leader for Lowe & Company's Business Immigrant Team, which has brought
many Business Immigrants to Canada from Asia, North America, and the Middle
East. He also heads up Lowe & Company's Global HR Team , which assists Canadian and Multinational companies to bring in foreign workers and executive transferees to Canada.
Professional Courses and Papers
Jeffrey has taught courses on Canada's Immigration Law to lawyers, Canada immigration
officials, and Immigration consultants, both in Canada and abroad, since
1990. These have included:
- Nov 2018: "Business Immigration outside of MTV": Conference Board of Canada, Ottawa
- Sept 2018: "Investing into a Business: What immigrants and their Advisors need to know": IMEDA, Vancouver BC
- Sept 2017: "Advising the Business Immigrant": Ashton College, Vancouver, BC
- April 2017: "The World is Flat: Missionaries, Migrants and Mobility": CCCC National Conference, Edmonton
- Dec 2016: "Entrepreneur & Investor Immigration Summit": Conference Board of Canada, Toronto
- Sept 2016: "Owner Operator LMIA Work Permits": CAPIC, Vancouver, BC
- June 2016: "Business immigration under the BC PNP": IMEDA, Vancouver BC
- April 2016: CBA National Immigration Conference, Vancouver BC
- "Advising the Business Immigrant"
- "Owner Operator LMIA and Express Entry: The new Business Class?"
- Oct 2015: "Immigration and Foreign Home Ownership": Urban Development Institute, Vancouver, BC
- Sept 2015: "The new BC Entrepreneur PNP Program": IMEDA, Vancouver BC
- Oct 2014: "Business Immigration: Past, Present and Future": CLEBC, Vancouver, BC
- May 2014: "The Business of Immigration Law": CBA National Immigration Conference, Calgary, AB
- March 2014: "Immigration Policy and the Real Estate market": Urban Land Institute of BC, Vancouver, BC
- March 2014: "Business Immigration for High Net Worth clients post Investor Immigrant Cancellation": Beijing
- Sept 2012: "Business Immigration and Buying a Business": Asia Pacific EXPO, Burnaby, BC
- Overview of Canadian Investor Immigrant Program: Washington State Bar
Association: 1990
- Canada Business Immigration Law: B.C. Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 1994
- Canada Business Immigration from the People's Republic of China: BC Continuing
Legal Education Seminar, 1994
- Canada Business Immigration for non-Immigration Lawyers: BC Continuing Legal
Education Seminar, 1998
- Canada Investor Immigration Update: Immigration Lawyers Subsection, Canadian Bar
Association, 1998
- Proposed Immigration Regulations Change Provisions For Foreign Religious
and Charitable Workers: Canadian Council of Christian Charities, April 2002
Abbreviations Used for Organizations Above
CAPIC: Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants
CBA: Canadian Bar Association: National Association of about 37,000 lawyers across Canada
CLEBC: Continuing Legal Education Society of BC: Organization which provides ongoing legal education for lawyers
IMEDA: Immigration Education Alliance, provider of Continuing Education for Immigration Consultants
Immigration Articles Published or Media Interviews
- Business Immigration Options: Creative Work Permit strategies: CBA, April 2016
- Investing in Canada for Fun and Profit! Practical Tips for Business Immigrants & their Lawyers: CBA April 2016
- "Update on Canada’s Immigration Laws for Religious Workers" CCCC, August 2015
- "Visa Issues affecting Temporary Religious Workers in Canada" CCCC, May 2015
- "Business Immigration Options to BC": Business Immigration Seminars with Canadian MP: March 2014 Beijing
- "Cancellation of the Immigrant Program": Channel News Asia interview, February 2014
- BC Premier Christy Clark’s Trade Mission to Asia: Delegate, November 2013
- "Changes to Canada’s Immigration Regulations": Fairchild TV Interview, "Expert Hour", September 2012
Immigration Services at Lowe & Company - 2004-2019
Client Newsletter Excerpts
In 2006 Jeffrey helps launch CanadaTradeJobs.com a web site designed to assist employers in Canada to recruit foreign skilled workers to work in Canada particularly in places like BC and Alberta where the economic boom is being fueled by the resource extraction (oil and mining) industries and the phenomenal growth in construction of residential and commercial properties. in June 2006 Mr. Lowe was a featured speaker at the Vancouver Board of Trade on the topic of Recruiting of foreign skilled workers for Canada's companies facing staff shortages.
In 2004 Lowe and Company's offices moved from Suite 502 to Suite 900 at 777 West Broadway in Vancouver - and - expanded its legal and related services to "... not only handle [Canada] immigration issues, but to help clients establish their businesses, resolve disputes, and handle their estates."
Three of Jeffrey's legal staff and associated legal consultants "... became licensed members of the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants." This is significant under the Canadian Governments regulations about who can be a paid representative for an immigrant applicant to Canada.
In 2019 the team of Lowe and Company includes:
- 3 lawyers: Jeffrey Lowe, B.Comm, LL.B.; Robert C. Y. Leong, LL.B. and Stan Leo, JD
- and 3 Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC): Vivien Lee, RCIC; Rita Cheng, RCIC and Akiko Fujita, RCIC
Lowe and Company has served clients from over 65 countries over the past 20 years. It's team of professionals are fluent in English, Chinese Mandarin and Cantonese and Japanese.
Contact information
Jeffrey S. Lowe
barrister & solicitor, B.Comm., LLB
Lowe and Company #900 - 777 West Broadway, Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4J7
Canada
phone: (604) 875-9338
e-mail: info@canadavisalaw.com
web-site: CanadaVisaLaw.com
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