Isabelle Dongier

With over 20 years of experience in Immigration Law, Isabelle Dongier specializes in corporate immigration, helping companies obtain temporary work permits and permanent residency visas for executives, professionals and specialized employees. Her practice focuses on confirmation exemptions under the NAFTA and Canadian legislation, allowing fast-track approval procedures for employees transferred from overseas, certain professionals or other experts and strategic employees. She also counsels clients on various other aspects of international mobility such as entries for frequent business visitors, temporary resident visas, work permit exemptions, labour market opinions, bulk work permit applications, medical or criminal inadmissibility, spousal work permits, custom issues, permanent residence and Canadian citizenship.

Before joining Fasken Martineau in 1995, Ms. Dongier represented entrepreneurs and investors from Southern Asia and the Middle East, wishing to settle in Canada. She later participated in setting up the Québec Government's Bureau de révision en immigration, the first administrative tribunal with a mandate to review certain decisions of the Québec Immigration Department. This involvement further developed her expertise in immigration matters as well as in administrative and constitutional law, and increased her knowledge of the procedures and inner workings of the federal and Québec immigration departments.

Isabelle Dongier is the leader of the firm's Corporate Immigration National Practice Group. Since its inception in 1999, Isabelle Dongier has been listed as a leading Immigration lawyer in the LEXPERT / American Lawyer Media, Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada.

News

• Six Fasken Martineau lawyers ranked under Canada’s Employment Lawyers Directory
• Lexpert/American Lawyer’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada features numerous Fasken Martineau lawyers

Publications

• Canadian Immigration and Refugee Protection Act imposes greater obligations on employers
• New passport requirements for entry into the United States
  Important Reminder - Permanent Resident Cards

Presentations

• Quick training - 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
• CBA National Citizenship and Immigration Law Conference

Membership/Affiliations

• Member, Québec Bar
• Member, Bar of Montréal
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Canada Border Services Advisory Committee (since 2005)
• Member, Immigration and Citizenship Law Advisory Committee of the Québec Bar (since October 2004)
• Chair, Canadian Bar Association, Immigration Law Section, Québec Division (1996-1998 and 2002-2004) and Member of its Executive Committee (1996-2006)
• Member, Canadian Bar Association, National Executive Committee, Immigration Law Section (1996 to 2000 and 2001 to 2005)
• Member, Cultural Communities Advisory Committee of the Québec Bar (1999-2004)
• Member, Executive Committee of the Québec Association of Immigration Lawyers (1996-1998)
• Regular speaker on Immigration law and continuing education for the Québec Bar, the Canadian Bar Association and private seminars