The Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, the Honourable Denis Coderre, recently appointed Charles W. Pley to a special Ministerial Advisory Committee on the Regulation of Immigration Consultants, culminating in a report to the Minister hailed as the blueprint for regulating non-lawyer immigration consultants (Government Press Release: http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/press/03/0316%2Dpre.html). Mr. Pley continues to be actively involved in this issue.

Mr. Pley is frequently sought by the media to comment on immigration matters, has published a number of Articles on immigration issues, has been invited to provide training sessions for Immigration Officers and has consulted with government officials in Canada on immigration policy. He is on a blue-chip Immigration Certificate Program advisory panel to Seneca College in Toronto, and has lectured on Canadian Immigration Practice and Procedure at the College.

Charles W. Pley is currently Chair of the College of Immigration Practitioners of Canada and is the immediate past-President of the Organization of Professional Immigration Consultants (1997-1998), which represents some 200 immigration practitioners in Canada. He is also a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association Citizenship and Immigration Section, Ontario Bar Association, the International Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (New York and Canada Chapters).

Mr. Pley is supported by a high-caliber team of service-oriented Canadian and US immigration paralegals at offices in Greater Toronto and in New York. Florence Ong, Operations Manager and Corporate Immigration Paralegal, and Jackie Yip, Case Processing Manager and Immigration Paralegal, have had prior government sector immigration experience and have additional specialized training and extensive experience in immigration law and practice.