Canadian Immigration Alliance

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Nancy Elliott, B.A., LL.B, Barrister & Solicitor, Immigration Lawyer – Elliott Law Firm

Nancy Elliott graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Chinese Studies in 1989. She earned her Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University in Ontario in 1992. She studied Mandarin at the Beijing Foreign Languages Normal College in 1986 and at the Taiwan National University in 1987. She was provided a grant to research Chinese law in Beijing, Chongqing and Kunming.

Nancy Elliott was called to the Ontario Bar in 1995 and established her own firm specializing in immigration law in 1996.

Fluent in English, Mandarin, Spanish and French, she has handled hundreds of applications for permanent residence in all categories and has successfully represented clients at every type of immigration hearing, including admissibility hearings, appeals at the Immigration Appeal Division and at numerous applications to the Federal Court of Canada.

In 1996 and 1999, Nancy Elliott was very honoured to receive the Certificate for Volunteer Recognition from the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration for Canada.

Nancy Elliott writes a weekly column on immigration law in the Chinese daily newspaper “Ming Pao Daily News”, where she answers all types of questions relating to applications for permanent residence, temporary residence, processing issues and immigration policies.

Well-known in several immigrant communities in the Greater Toronto Area, Nancy Myles Elliott is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario Bar Association’s Immigration Section, the Markham Board of Trade and several China-Canada organizations, and conducts seminars for community groups and business people on various aspects of immigration law. She is often interviewed by Chinese media with respect to immigration and business matters.

Mary Keyork, LL.B., LL.M., Barrister and Solicitor, Immigration Lawyer – Mary Keyork Professional Corporation

Mary Keyork earned a degree in Civil Law from the University of Montreal in 2005 and a Masters in Transnational Law and Common Law from the University of Sherbrooke in 2006.

Mary Keyork was called to the Ontario Bar in 2009 and has practised immigration law since. After managing a mid-size immigration law firm in Toronto for almost 2 years, Mary Keyork established her own firm specializing in immigration law in 2011.

Mary Keyork has handled hundreds of immigration applications in all categories and has appeared before all three Divisions of the Immigration and Refugee Board as well as at the Federal Court of Canada, successfully representing clients in complex immigration applications and hearings. Mary Keyork served as a Member-at-Large of the Citizenship and Immigration Section of the Ontario Bar Association for the 2010-2011 term.

Mary Keyork has a diverse background of related international experiences, including internships at the Armenian Parliament for the United States Agency of International Development (USAID) in Yerevan, Armenia through Birthright Armenia in 2006 and at the International Labor Organization (ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland in 2007.

Mary Keyork also served a three year term as a Board Member of the Kasa de Kamu, where she assisted in the creation of a non-profit charity dedicated to helping young women in Peru. Mary Keyork is currently a Board Member of Hay Doun, a charity whose mission is to provide emergency support, settlement and referral services to newcomers in Canada.

Mary Keyork is currently a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Ontario Bar Association and the AQAADI.

Mary Keyork is fluent in English, French and Armenian (Eastern and Western) and has conversational abilities in Spanish.