The Team of Lawyers at New Era Immigration

Helping Corporations & Professionals Obtain U.S. Visas & Canadian Work Permits

Anna M. Di Stasio, c.j.c.
Founder and Managing Lawyer

For more than 15 years Anna M. Di Stasio, c.j.c. has helped hundreds of corporate clients and professionals grow their businesses in Canada and the U.S. by guiding them through complex immigration processes to obtain work permits, visas, and permanent residence. READ MORE...

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Sarah Benkalha, LL.B.
Associate Lawyer

Ms. Sarah Benkalha is an Associate Lawyer at New Era Immigration, where she assists businesses and professionals with their workers' mobility and immigration needs specifically Canadian and Quebec work permits, visas, and residency.
 
Prior to joining New Era Immigration in Montreal, Ms. Benkalha practiced in the field of immigration in Toronto, where she was also providing legal immigration services to corporate clients with a focus on Quebec immigration and Canadian matters. She also brings relevant knowledge and legal skills cultivated during previous experiences throughout her career in Family and Civil Law.
 
Ms. Benkalha not only focuses on advising New Era Immigration corporate clients but on devising strategic solutions that best suit their long term needs especially options related to complex work permit applications, Canadian and QC labour market impact assessment applications, and American work visas.
 
Ms. Benkalha studied law in Paris and in Montreal and she fluently speaks English as well as French and is proficient in Spanish. She has also recently started learning Korean.
 
Education:

• University of Montreal, Law certificate, 2014  
• Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Bachelor of Law in International and European Law; DULA (Diplôme Universitaire de Langue Appliquée – International law and Common Law), 2011  
• Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, Diplôme d’Etudes Générales (DEUG) in Law, 2010

 
Bar Admissions:

• Quebec Bar

Association Memberships:

• Member,  AQAADI
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Young Bar Association of Montreal (YBAM)
• Member, Information Technology Committee, YBAM
• Member, Pro Bono Legal Services Committee, YBAM
• Member, Professional and International Development Committee, YBAM

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URGENT IMMIGRATION MATTER?*

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CANADIAN & U.S. IMMIGRATION SERVICES

At New Era Immigration our team of lawyers can assist professionals and corporations with Canadian immigration-related mobility matters as well as U.S. non-immigrant and immigrant visa applications:

CANADIAN IMMIGRATION CATEGORIES INCLUDING QUEBEC

• Permanent residency and citizenship applications for professionals and foreign workers
• Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA)
• Intra-company transferee permits (non-NAFTA)
• Express Entry Program
• Federal Skilled Worker Program
• Federal Skilled Trades Program
• Canadian Experience Class
• Provincial Nominees Programs
• LMIA-exempt work permits
• Emergency repair personnel work permits
• Reciprocal exchange work permits
• Start-up visas
• Immigrant investor venture capital pilot program
• NAFTA business visitors
• NAFTA professionals
• NAFTA intra-company transferees
• NAFTA traders
• NAFTA investors
• Temporary resident visas (TRV) for business visitors
• Temporary resident permits (TRP)
• Criminal rehabilitation applications
• Québec simplified LMIA
• The "demande d'étude d'impact sur le marché du travail (EIMT)"
• Québec skilled worker program
• Québec experience program (PEQ)
• Québec investor program
• Québec entrepreneur program
• Québec self-employed worker program

U.S. IMMIGRATION CLASSIFICATIONS

• B-1 & B-2 visas for temporary business visitors and leisure
• E-1 visa for treaty traders
• E-2 treaty investor visa
• H-1B visa for specialty occupation
• L-1A visa for intracompany transferees
• L-1B visa for specialized knowledge transferees
• O-1 visa for extraordinary ability applicants
• P-1A visa for athletes
• P-1B visa for members of entertainment groups
• TN visa for eligible Canadian and Mexican professionals under NAFTA
  
• Green Card or permanent residency
• Naturalization