About Blanshay Law LLP

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Blanshay Law LLP is a small immigration law firm on Gerrard Street East in downtown Toronto. Robert Israel Blanshay founded the practice in August 1998 as a solo shop, building it into a firm that now handles permanent residence, temporary residence, refugee, citizenship and inadmissibility matters. Blanshay is a graduate of McGill University and the Robson Hall Faculty of Law, was called to the Ontario bar in 1992, and became a Law Society of Ontario Certified Specialist in Immigration, Citizenship and Refugee Law in 2006.

The firm's litigation work runs before the Federal Court of Canada and every division of the Immigration and Refugee Board, including admissibility matters involving criminal, medical and misrepresentation allegations. Blanshay Law is a 2026 Lexpert ranked Canadian immigration law firm, and Blanshay is individually listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for immigration law as "Consistently Recommended." The firm also has decades of work within the 2SLGBTQI+ community, including asylum claims and same sex spousal sponsorship applications.

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  • The firm has represented same sex spousal sponsorship applicants and asylum claimants from the 2SLGBTQI+ community for more than 30 years.

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English, Hindi, Punjabi, Russian, Urdu

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228 Gerrard Street East, Toronto, ON, Canada, M5A 2E8 · 416-413-4955

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