Naseem Malik is counsel in the firm's Labour & Employment Group in Toronto. He is certified as a Specialist by the Law Society of Upper Canada in the areas of Citizenship & Immigration Law and Immigration. His practice focuses on business immigration law.

Previously, Mr. Malik was employed by the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. He worked as an Immigration Examining Officer at Pearson International Airport. Mr. Malik assists his clients, which range from large multinational corporations, financial institutions, industrial and high-tech companies to musicians and entertainment groups, in order to facilitate their entry into Canada for business-related purposes.

He assists clients with a wide range of business immigration matters, including:

· Temporary Resident Visas for persons who require such visas prior to entering Canada;

· Work Permit applications pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS) and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act;

· Service Canada positive labour market opinion applications;

· Permanent Residence applications;

· Citizenship applications;

· Study Permit applications;

· extension applications for work permits, study permits and visitor records;

· obtaining permission for the spouse of a temporary foreign worker to obtain a work permit permitting them to work in Canada;

· Temporary Resident Permits/Rehabilitation applications relating to criminal inadmissibility;

· analyzing Criminal Code provisions and foreign statutes to assess whether a person is inadmissible to Canada based on prior criminal convictions; and

· analyzing and dealing with medical inadmissibility issues.

In addition to his legal skills, Mr. Malik also provides practical advice relating to logistical issues that arise when foreign nationals travel to Canada for business purposes.

He has spoken at the McCarthy Tétrault Labour and Employment Law Client Conference in Toronto on the topic of business immigration in 2002, 2003, and from 2005 to 2011. In May 2003, Mr. Malik spoke at the Canadian Bar Association's Annual Conference in Montréal on immigration-related issues. Mr. Malik has had immigration-related articles published in 2004 and 2005 in Law Times and 2004, 2005, 2007 Lawyers Weekly. He was a featured contributor to a 2008 corporate immigration article in Canadian Lawyer magazine. In 2012, he was a panelist at the Employing Foreign Workers Conference sponsored by The Canadian Institute. He has been quoted extensively in a 2010 Law Times article on business immigration and was the author of an immigration related article in the OBA's 2012 edition of their Citizenship and Immigration Section's newsletter.

He contributed to a cross-border manual on immigration and customs issues for Carswell in 2003. In 2005, he participated as seminar leader at a one-day intensive course on business immigration at the Law Society of Upper Canada. Mr. Malik participated in the 2008 "Mastering Immigration Applications for Foreign Workers" conference held by the Canadian Institute and was a featured speaker at the 2009 and 2010 Ontario Bar Association's Institute CLE. From 2005-2007, Mr. Malik was a member of the OBA Immigration and Citizenship subsections' Executive, and has been recognized by Lexpert since 2003 as having a significant practice in the field of business immigration. He is recognized as one of the world's leading practitioners in the field of Corporate Immigration by Who's Who Legal: Canada 2012.

He received his BA (Psychology) in 1991 from the University of Saskatchewan and his LLB from the University of Saskatchewan Law School. Mr. Malik was called to the Ontario bar in 1996.

He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Citizenship and Immigration section of the Canadian Bar Association.