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Jatin Shory is a Partner at Shory Law LLP and a nationally recognized immigration lawyer focusing on complex litigation, appeals, and refugee protection matters. His practice centers on representing individuals and families facing refusals, removals, and inadmissibility issues, regularly appearing before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada and the Federal Court on matters involving refugee claims, sponsorship appeals, and procedural fairness.
He serves as 2025/2026 Chair of the Canadian Bar Association's National Immigration Section, where he contributes to national policy dialogue and legislative reform affecting Canada's immigration and refugee protection system. He is also an adjunct instructor in Queen's University's Graduate Diploma in Citizenship and Immigration Law, helping train the next generation of immigration practitioners.
He is a member of the Board of South Asian Bar Association Calgary and the Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth, and he collaborates with lawyers, students, and community organizations on pro bono legal initiatives designed to improve access to immigration legal support for vulnerable populations.
Chapters
0:00 Stay or send your family home
0:30 Intro
1:19 Do more Express Entry categories fix the system?
4:48 How immigration policy turned reactive after 2024
10:48 When public data became anti-immigration fuel
12:39 The deal Canada sold
16:31 Does a Canadian identity even exist
22:39 What it means to be Canadian
24:10 Why settlement is not integration
33:31 Stuck in Express Entry?
36:52 His Dad's Canadian immigration journey
41:22 Outro
Some takeaways
On paper, the Express Entry rewards merit. But listening to Jatin sort his clients, the thing deciding their odds isn't the points, it's how much time they have left on their permit. Two people can do the same work, pay the same taxes, build the same case, and the one with more months left on a permit gets told to stay while the other gets told to leave. When the time on a document matters more than the effort behind it, I'm not sure the system is still rewarding the thing it claims to.
We tend to treat leaving Canada as the failure and staying as the win. But Jatin thinks that getting out with your savings beats staying and being slowly bled by a fake job offer. That's a hard thing to hear, because it cuts against everything newcomers are told about persistence, but persistence aimed at a door that's already shut just makes you easier to take advantage of. I should also acknowledge that this is easier said than done.
Where you live now shapes your best shot at staying in Canada. The clearest routes to PR right now appear to be through rural communities and specific provincial draws, not the big federal pool. Jatin thinks provinces understand their own labour needs better and are able to plan past one election cycle. And looking at all that's happened in recent weeks, it would mean your odds depend partly on which province needs you.
Links
Where to find Jatin:
Jatin Shory; LinkedIn
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