Practice

Jeffrey S. Lowe is a Business and Immigration lawyer, and has practised law in Vancouver, BC, Canada, since 1983.  He was educated at the University of British Columbia, and has both a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree.

Jeffrey is the Principal of Lowe & Company, a Canada Business and Immigration Law firm that has acted for clients from over 50 countries. 

Jeffrey is the Team Leader for Lowe & Company's Business Immigrant Team, which has brought many Business Immigrants to Canada from Asia, North America, and the Middle East.  He also heads up Lowe & Company's Global HR Team , which assists Canadian and Multinational companies to bring in foreign workers and executive transferees to Canada.

Professional Courses and Papers

Jeffrey has taught courses on Canada's Immigration Law to lawyers, Canada immigration officials, and Immigration consultants, both in Canada and abroad, since 1990.  These have included:

• Overview of Canadian Investor Immigrant Program:  Washington State Bar Association: 1990
• Canada Business Immigration Law:  B.C. Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 1994
• Canada Business Immigration from the People's Republic of China:  BC Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 1994
• Canada Business Immigration for non-Immigration Lawyers:  BC Continuing Legal Education Seminar, 1998
• Canada Investor Immigration Update:  Immigration Lawyers Subsection, Canadian Bar Association, 1998
• Proposed Immigration Regulations Change Provisions For Foreign Religious and Charitable Workers:  Canadian Council of Christian Charities, April 2002

Directorships and Community Activities

Jeffrey is a director of several Christian organizations, including the Christian Info Society, publisher of the B.C. Christian News and CanadianChristianity.com; Asian Outreach International (Canada) & ChristianAction.info.  He is the Canadian immigration advisor to many churches and Christian organizations, in Canada and internationally.

Jeffrey was the the founding President of Lawyers-BC.com, a legal website which has offered free legal information and information about BC lawyers since 1999..

See Lowe & Company's new website (started in 2003) www.CanadaVisalaw.com.

Immigration Services at Lowe & Company - 2004-2006 Client Newsletter Excerpts

In 2006 Jeffrey helps launch CanadaTradeJobs.com a website designed to assist employers in Canada to recruit foreign skilled workers to work in Canada particularly in places like BC and Alberta where the economic boom is being fueled by the resource extraction (oil and mining) industries and the phenomenal growth in construction of residential and commercial properties.  in June 2006 Mr. Lowe was a featured speaker at the Vancouver Board of Trade on the topic of Recruiting of foreign skilled workers for Canada's companies facing staff shortages.

• see also Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants / Société canadienne de consultants en immigration
• How the Canadian Government regulates who can be paid to represent immigrant applicants for Canada in www.canadalegal.info.
• Citizenship and Immigration Canada website - regulations about paid representatives
• see www.cic.gc.ca immigration regulations about unpaid representative