Brian has extensive experience with:

• work visas and business visitor visas

• provincial nominee program applications

• permanent resident status applications

• business immigration matters including representing individuals as well as local, national and international corporations and organizations

• Labour Market Impact Assessment applications

• immigration visas

• appeals to immigration tribunals and to federal court

Brian speaks Japanese and English and has worked in Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver. He has represented clients from more than 50 countries.

Recognition

Brian was the lead in a global immigration project about work visa requirements in 33 jurisdictions

Brian won a Federal Court Case that allowed an employer to continue hiring foreign workers: Millenium Pacific Greenhouse Partnership and the Minister of Employment and Social Development Canada June 28, 2022 Citation: 2022 FC 960; IMM Quest Volume 18, Issue 11, pages 10 - 12, November 2022

Brian has received professional recognition from Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, Legal 500 Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert and Martindale-Hubbell.

Brian has appeared as an Expert Witness on Canadian immigration law in the United States:

·       Karin M. Ericson v. Michael D. Foley  divorce trial in Eagle County Court, Colorado, September 11, 2014

Brian is a past National Executive Member of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Immigration Section and a past Chairman of the CBA British Columbia Immigration Section.

He is also a Director and President of the Nikkei Place Foundation, a fundraising Foundation for some Japanese Canadian groups in BC, and Director and Secretary of the Japanese Canadian Legacies Society, a Society set up to disburse money from the BC Government to Japanese Canadian Projects and a Director and Secretary of Nikkei Seniors Healthcare and Housing Society, a society with an assisted living centre and an independent living centre for Japanese Canadians in Burnaby, BC.