Episode 084 of the Canadian Immigration Podcast

What this episode is about?

In the midst of COVID 19 pandemic we, Canadian Immigration Lawyers often ask ourselves – what is going on with immigration and how Canada can adapt to the new normal with existing and new potential immigration programs? In light of the ongoing and severe economic crisis Canada really could use some investment and even consider rolling out a new immigration program to get back on track with the recovery from consequences of the pandemic. This would allow our country to bring in new awesome people, give a boost to our economy, create new jobs across Canada.

As a chair of the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section I have had a great opportunity to discuss immigration with number of organizations, including the Conference Board of Canada, which has been proposing some alternatives to the investor program. So, in this episode I bring on Phil Cohen to discuss what can we do as a country to help encourage more investment in Canada. During this episode we look into investor programs existing in other countries, in particular EB-5 program that exists in United States. This, then leads us to a discussion of how a program, similar to EB-5 would be of benefit to Canada.

EB-5 is an American immigration program that allows both, Americans and foreign nationals to set up companies that can raise money from immigrant investors. In return, investors can qualify for a Green Card (alternative to Canadian Permanent Residence) so long that the business achieves certain requirements, such as:

• The investor has to invest a minimum amount of $900,000 or $1,800,000 USD
• The business must create a minimum of 10 jobs for each investor the business takes on

This program allows to attract significant amount of investments to small and large businesses.  In times of economic uncertainty the program like EB-5, without a doubt, benefits not only the business seeking investment, but also has a great positive impact on economy and the public. Moreover, the cost of the capital typically ends up being much lower when businesses seeks for investments through EB-5 program.

Tune in to learn more details about American EB-5 program and potential benefit Canada would enjoy if we implement similar program in our country.

About today’s guest of the Canadian Immigration Podcast

Phil Cohen is the founder and president of Strategic Element as well as the Editor-in-Chief of The EB-5 Definitive Guide (see: www.starteb5.com for more information). Phil has a long history of developing businesses, business concepts and products, dating back to 1993. With a career that began in the manufacturing sector, and grew to include new developments in technology and a variety of start-ups, Phil has progressively built up experience in the area of new business development with a focus on transforming ideas in to viable business models.

Phil has worked with large public companies as well as small and mid-sized start-ups and businesses.

Beyond the development of business concepts, models and plans, Phil has taken a hands-on role in the launch of several businesses and business initiatives. In so doing he has faced firsthand the realities and challenges faced by new businesses. This firsthand experience has provided him with the insight and real-life exposure necessary to develop businesses and business plans that work.

About the host of the Canadian Immigration Podcast

Mark Holthe is a Canadian Immigration Lawyer based in Lethbridge, Alberta. He has started his legal career with a large national law firm in Calgary where he initiated the business immigration practice at the firm. Since those early days, he has had the opportunity to work in a wide variety of law firm configurations before finally realizing that the best place for him was within the confines of an immigration boutique firm of his own making.

As a Canadian immigration lawyer, Mark has particular experience in assisting clients with all aspects of Canadian immigration law. He assists large national and multinational companies in navigating the complex world of Canadian immigration and provides strategic immigration advice to international and domestic companies seeking to recruit and retain foreign skilled and semi-skilled personnel.

Mark also assists temporary foreign workers with their transition to permanent resident status in Canada and over the past few years, he has taken great satisfaction in helping individuals and families with their various immigration related needs. Mark finds no greater satisfaction than helping to facilitate the reunification of families.

While attending law school, Mark worked as an Immigration officer for Citizenship and Immigration Canada on the Alberta/Montana border. While completing his final year of law school, he worked as a pro bono student to the Canada Border Services Agency Hearings Officers representing the minister before the Immigration Appeal Division in Calgary, Alberta. As a result of his prior experience as an immigration officer, Mark has been able to enhance the services he offers to his cross-border and overseas clients. Since that time, he has continued to work hard fostering positive relationships with the various immigration related government departments and has focused a significant portion of his practice on cross-border matters.

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This episode sponsored by Canadian Immigration Institute, a platform designed to help people navigate Canadian immigration on their own. On this platform, I offer Do-It-Yourself (DIY) video courses guiding you through the process of submitting your immigration application without a need to hire a lawyer. These video courses not only allow people to better understand Canadian immigration but also earn me sufficient revenue to continue pushing out great free content on Canadian immigration.

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For the past 15 years, I have routinely requested that my business immigration clients provide business plans to support the various business class applications I seek on their behalf in Canada. I never gave a thought to recommending the services of a business plan writing company….that is until I learned how great an impact they can have on the approval of a business immigration application.

In this episode, I was joined by Marianella Manzur, Vice President at Joorney Business Plans who shared some great insight and opened my eyes to how outsourcing this essential component of a business immigration application can make all the difference in its success or failure.

Normally, I don’t invite 3rd party vendors to join me on my Podcast. I tend to invite other practitioners to talk about the nuts and bolts of various Canadian immigration applications. However, as I have been doing more and more business immigration application as the Canadian economy continues to rebound, the need for solid business plans has become increasingly important.

Traditionally, I have left the development of these business plans to my clients. However, I have come to realize that not all business plans are created equal. In fact, a company can put together a fantastic business plan that is extremely persuasive for securing much needed financing, but completely useless for the purposes of securing a business visa.

As a business immigration lawyer, it is essential that I am doing everything in my ability to give my client the best chance of success. As I have become increasingly aware of the significant impact a well written business plan can have on the success or failure of my client’s application, I would be borderline negligent not to introduce my clients to the possibility of outsourcing the business plan development to professionals.

Over the years I have danced around companies like Joorney Business Plans. However, it was not until recently that I truly discovered the broad scope of services they can offer to my clients… and that the costs of these services are entirely reasonable in the context of business immigration applications. In fact, they offer so much more than drafting a simple business plan.

Joorney Business Plans

Joorney is one of the leading Business Plan writing companies in the industry. They specialize in providing custom business plan writing services and market analysis. Since 2012, they have completed over 2,500 projects with expertise in 120+ industries, and they can handle communications in many different languages. They have successfully established 500 B2B partners throughout the USA and continue to grow in Canada.

With their breadth of experience across many different industries, Joorney is ideally situated to support our client’s in a variety of different areas including: consulting projects, strategic plans, investor approaches, market analysis and much more. The team at Joorney is flexible enough to adapts to the unique needs of our clients while provided extremely responsive service at competitive rates.

Joorney’s main focus is business plans for immigration. They specialize in business plans for Provincial Nominee Programs, Intra-company Transfers, Self Employed, and LMIAs. They hand all aspects of business plan development. They also provide market research for clients wanting to enter the Canadian market.

Joorney is offering a 10% discount to everyone who let’s them know they heard about them right here on the Canadian Immigration Podcast

After listening to what Marianella Manzur had to say about her company today, I can honestly say that they will become one of my go to companies for the development of business plans…..

…..tune in to this episode of the Canadian Immigration Podcast and you will understand why outsourcing the development of business plans to experts within the immigration field may be the best decision your client ever made.

In this episode we covered the following topics:

1. Introduction of Joorney – Marianella Manzur and Joorney Business Plans
2. Main Focus of Joorney:
   • Business Plans
   • Market Research
   • Feasibility Analysis
   • Financial Models
   • Idea Selection Process
3. Client Process Flow
4. Competitive Advantage

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Additional Resources:

• How to Contact Joorney Business Plans:
  • Phone: 18448298639
  • Website: www.joorney.ca
  • Marianella’s E-mail: marianella@joorney.ca
• Joorney Pricing Information: Pricing Canada Oct 2018

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