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Pantea Jafar, Of Counsel

IMMIGRATION COUNSEL

Pantea Jafar, Of Counsel

Ms. Pantea Jafari is Of Counsel to Ackah Business Immigration Law.  Ms. Jafari is a distinguished Canadian immigration lawyer, advocate, policy analyst, mentor, and educator. She is renowned for her unwavering commitment to justice and her impact on immigration law in Canada through cutting edge litigation. As the founder and lead counsel of Jafari Law, established in 2012, she has successfully guided hundreds of individuals and families through the complexities of the Canadian immigration system.  Ms. Jafari practices the solicitor (application) and barrister (litigation) aspects of Canadian immigration law exclusively. Her litigation practice includes the rare and distinct type of litigation known as case managed litigations, or as “group litigation” as they are commonly referred to.  Through the legal and evidentiary complexities of group litigations, she helps applicants challenge systemic issues in the administration of Canadian immigration law.  

A pivotal moment in Ms. Jafari's career was her representation of 110 Self-Employed applicants in the landmark case of Tafreshi v. MCI, 2022 FC 1089. Therein, she proved that Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) had made a “deliberate and calculated decision” to abruptly change the process and evidentiary standard for assessing their applications, thereby denying these individuals a fair opportunity to realize their Canadian dreams.  The Court ordered unprecedented remedies, including a total cost award of nearly $50,000.

Beyond her legal practice, Ms. Jafari is an engaged advocate in the reform and administration of immigration and border security laws.  She serves as the Submissions Coordinator of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Immigration Section, is a Member At Large of the Ontario Bar Association’s Immigration Executive and is a lecturer with multiple legal organizations. Her expertise is frequently sought after, leading her to speak at legal conferences, community education seminars, and to provide testimony to House and Senate Committees on those organizations’ behalf. 

It is one thing to earn a living; it is another thing to make a difference in the world.

This is our formal thank you note to Evelyn Ackah and the Ackah Law Team for all the effort they put into helping us navigate and finally resolve the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration back in the spring of 2012.

A friend referred us to Evelyn; he assured us that Evelyn would take good care of us. Our friend was confident we were in good hands and said Evelyn would do her very best to help us and she did! At the time we did not know that his referral would go far beyond finding us help. Slowly we realized that it would become our own personal story of how we received grace and were reminded of the power in paying it forward

We wrote a detailed page of our dilemma, explaining how we came to be in the position we were in (overwhelmed with the hurdle that was Canadian Immigration and the uncertainty that we faced as a young family in Calgary). Evelyn agreed to take on our file with her team. They found the time to personally call us and listened intently and understood the details of what we were dealing with. They gave us their time, an honest opinion and provided clear direction which proved to be invaluable advice. Months went by but in time, we received word from Ackah Law that the Immigration office had finally reviewed our file and a decision had been made allowing our family to finally put the immigration matter to rest. We were finally able to focus again to live our lives without fear or pending doom.

Looking back now, even the sun appeared to shine a little brighter that day. At first we didn’t know whether to bake them a cake, drive out to meet their team, find their offices and personally thank them with a mighty hug or simply cry out to the heavens in thankful relief. Instead we emailed them to express our heartfelt thank-you and we hoped that they would know deep in their hearts just how grateful we were for all of their help.

Even though we relied on emails and phone conversations to communicate with them that year, we will always remember their constant professionalism, their kindness and understanding at a time that brought us so much pain not to mention fear. As if all their hard work wasn’t enough, Evelyn then then casually mentions that all their work was done pro-bono! We were thoroughly humbled!

To this day we are still eager to share how wonderful they all are as human beings but even more than that, we continue to pay it forward in honour of them, their service to us and their continued dedication in helping others.

Eternally thankful

– The Brummunds

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