Ms. Veena Gupta is an Immigration Lawyer at Nanda Lawyers since 2018 with two decades of focused experience working on immigration matters. Ms. Gupta has been a licensed Immigration Practitioner in Canada since 2004. In her experience, Ms. Gupta has assisted a broad range of clients, both individuals and corporates, and she is passionate about pursuing the rights of her clients and is constantly working towards championing their cause through her work.
Ms. Gupta was called to the Bar in India, and in Canada in the Provinces of Manitoba and in Ontario. Ms. Gupta is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, Canadian Bar Association, and the Ontario Bar Association.
Ms. Gupta is a trained Mediator of Disputes and has received both her Basic & Advanced training Certificates in ADR (Alternate Disputes Resolution) from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.
Ms. Gupta has successfully litigated several matters before the Federal Courts and the IRB and has several reported judgements to her credit. Ms. Gupta’s Litigation experience includes advocating cases such as:
- Judicial Review Applications before the Federal Courts
- Stay of Removal Motions before the Federal Courts
- Mandamus Applications before the Federal Courts
- IAD Appeals (Residency Obligation, Spousal Sponsorship and Removal order Appeals) before the IRB
- Refugee Claims & RAD Appeals
- Detention Review & Admissibility Hearings
- Cessation proceedings before the IRB.
Ms. Gupta also assists individuals with processing:
- Express Entry Program – PR Applications
- The Ontario – Provincial Nominee Program applications
- Family class – Spousal, Common-law & Conjugal Partner Sponsorships,
- Parental – Grand Parent Sponsorships,
- Group 5 Sponsorships – privately assisted program
- Humanitarian and Compassionate Grounds Applications
- Super visas, Visitor Visas,
- Study/work visas applications with prior refusals,
- TRP, PRTD, ARC and PRRA Applications
- PFL Responses for Criminal, Medical or Misrepresentation related inadmissibility.
For Corporates and their employee assistance with processing:
- LMIA – Applications on behalf of corporates under the PR/Work permit stream
- LMIA – Applications under High wage – Low wage stream
- LMIA under the GTS (Global Talent stream)
- Intra- Company Transfer LMIA exempt work permits.
- Business Immigration including the Ontario PNP entrepreneur Stream.
Ms. Gupta has served as a Mentor to new immigrants through the Peel Mentoring Program and is an active participant in her community. Ms. Gupta is an accomplished trained performer of the Indian cultural art form Bharatnatyam classical dance, and she is a direct disciple of the famous Pakkiri Samy Pillai. She is conversant in multiple regional Indian languages.
Educational Qualifications:
- LLM – Master of Laws – University of Toronto – Faculty of Law
- NCA Accreditation University of Toronto – Faculty of Law
- NCA Certificate of qualification from the Federation of the Law Societies of Canada.
- Basic and Advanced ADR Certificates – University of Windsor, Faculty of Law, Canada.
- LLB- Bachelor of Laws – Dr. Ambedkar Government Law College (University of Madras) India.
- B.A.- Bachelor of Arts – History – Stella Maris College (University of Madras) India.
Recent Judgements:
- Rawat v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 FC 476
- Brar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2022 FC 1522
- Soch v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2020 CanLII 116768 (CA IRB)
- Shibu v. Canada (Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness), 2023 FC 148 (CanLII)
- X (Re), 2021 CanLII 141277 (CA IRB)
- Tran v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2023 CanLII 44258 (CA IRB)
