When you are in need of a lawyer/notary public after regular office hours or during the weekend and holiday, I can be available to notarize and commission your documents or to answer your general inquiries. Understandably, work and family obligations may not afford the time for you to attend at a lawyer's office during office hours. Often the only time you have is the evening, during the weekend or holiday. Please review my fees schedule and if you accept the fees listed, I welcome a time to meet with you upon texting 647-209-7389 or email [email protected] for an appointment.


I endorse and encourage you to visit http://www.officeholidays.com/index.php for references to world calendars, holidays, interesting facts about the holidays and celebrations celebrated locally, provincially, nationally, and around the world.

Once you have arranged for a teaching position and signed the contract to teach in a foreign country exp. Korea, United Kingdom, United States of America, Japan, and Brazil etc., the school will send you a visa package/application wherein you must submit various personal information and the required documents for immigration visa purposes. Among the required documents for submission will be verification of educational experience and a police/criminal record check before a teaching visa can be issued to you to travel and teach. The same process is repeated if you should decide to renew or extend your teaching visa. 

The following guideline may help you simplify the process:
1. University degrees and transcripts including other relevant educational credentials will need to be taken to a lawyer/notary public for verification and notarization seal. The purpose is so that you will not have to send off the original documents.
2. Get a criminal background check or police clearance letter from the local police department. The original criminal background check letter must then be taken to a lawyer/notary public for a notarization seal. 
3. Notarization of Passport and Other Travel Documents as Certified True Copies evidencing legal status and citizenship.
4. The mentioned notarized documents will need to be taken to the respective embassy for authentication/legalization, in order words, for a consular/consulate seal.

Please contact my office via text 647-209-7289 or via email at [email protected] if you need further information or clarification of fulfilling the teaching visa requirements.

When you know that you are entitled to foreign pensions and benefits, there are international pension and benefits declarations and forms that must be submitted with the assistance of a lawyer or a notary public who can verify your identity and swear you under oaths before you can begin to collect those benefits or to be re-issued with such benefits annually upon verification from a lawyer and notary public confirming that you are alive and still living in Canada.

I hope that you will consider contacting my office to assist you with your applications and statutory declarations by housecalls or nursing home visits. I can assist in verifying your identity, notarizing your photos and other personal documents, and commissioning your statement under oaths. I am available to travel to your location providing notarization services on most days, including weekends/Saturdays/Sundays and holidays.

Many lawyers and notaries public in Toronto will only place an imprint of their embossed seals on your documents without the use of coloured notary seal stickers to save on cost. They will often say that it is not required by law and that those coloured notary seals are only for decorative purposes. While it is true that a coloured notary seal is not required by law on a document for use in Ontario, in many places outside Ontario and especially in other countries where their laws do require that a notary public seal be imprinted onto a gold or red notary public seal sticker. Knowing this, many lawyers and notaries public will charge extra fees if you needed a gold or red notary seal on your document.

The reasons that I decided on the gold notary public seal stickers include the following:

1. The gold notary public seal sticker is most used and recognized by courts, government agencies, law offices, and schools across the country and around the world.
2. The gold notary public seal sticker has many practical advantages over the red notary public seal sticker being that it is better seen through photocopying, scanning and faxing of the notarized document. A red notary public seal sticker often appears like a dark smear circle when photocopied, scanned, and faxed.
   
3. The gold notary public seal sticker also has many practical advantages over the no coloured sticker method or just the imprint of the embossed notary public seal. Without the use of a notary public seal sticker, the embossed imprint alone often will not show clearly through photocopying, scanning and faxing of the notarized document. The only way to get the embossed seal imprint to show clearly on photocopying, scanning and faxing is to run a coloured pencil over the seal imprint before running it through a photocopier, scanner or fax machine.
   

Therefore, the use of a gold notary public seal is not just for decorative purposes; it is my identity, legal authority, and the integrity to provide my clients with the best looking official document possible for submission to schools and government agencies; presentation is equally important as credentials. You will not get anything less than high quality professional looking notarized document with an official golden notary seal that will be recognized across the country and around the world.

Prior to being a lawyer, I worked at various hospitals in Ontario as a unit clerk, an administrator, a medical procedural auditor and a consultant to various projects . I was there during the SARS crisis. I was one of the persons responsible for introducing and improving triage care protocols to reduce waiting time for ambulances in the Emergency rooms across Ontario.  I maintain very good relationships with numerous medical professionals as friends and now clients. Many of my clients are doctors, dentists and nurses who have incorporated their practices. I welcome the opportunity to work and assist you with all matters related to professional examinations, independent practice registrations, notarization of degrees, reference letters, transcripts, and identifications, incorporation and all procedural and ethical issues. I am willing and able to travel to your home, private practice, nursing homes, retirement homes, and hospitals to meet and discuss your legal needs. 

For your reference, please find below important links to regulators and associations relevant to your profession:

• Medical Council of Canada MCC
• College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario CPSO
• Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario RCDSO
• National Dental Examining Board of Canada NDEB

• College of Dental Hygienists of Ontario CDHO  
• The Pharmacy Examination Board of Canada PEBC
  

• College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario CTCMPAO
  

Hospital for Sick Children
Humber River Regional Hospital
Etobicoke Genral Hospital
North York General Hospital
Mount Sinai Hospital
Princess Margaret Hospital
Queensway General Hospital
Rouge Valley - Centenery Hospital
Sick Kid's
Scarborough Hospital
St Michael's Hospital
St Joseph's Health Centre
Sunnybrook Health Services Centre
Toronto East General Hospital
Toronto General Hospital
Toronto Grace Hospital
Toronto Rehab
Toronto Western Hospital
University Health Network
University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine
Women's College Hospital

Increasingly international employers are now requiring potential employees to submit to background checks, either personal and/or criminal record check, as requirements for securing employment.

The employers may have their own security and background check department or they may provide a list of companies specializing in identity and background searches. In either case, a consent to disclose information form will be given for the employees to complete and be sworn before a notary public or a commissioner of oaths as to the truth and correctness of the information entered or for identity verification purposes. This form often permits the employers to make background searches practically in any country around the world. The consent form allows the employers to make inquiries into the potential employees' employment history, educational backgrounds, banking transactions and of course criminal record history domestically and internationally.

I have assisted numerous international companies and potential employees with the verification and background check and search procedures. You can be certain that I can help you complete the process quickly and correctly the first time.

It may be necessary at times that you may need to contact your University or College Office of Convocation requesting to have your university degree or college diploma replaced due to:

• Lost University Degree/Diploma
• Destroyed University Degree/Diploma
• Never picked up University Degree/Diploma
• Name Change on University Degree/Diploma

The process may include you needing to submit various forms plus a fee to the College Office of Convocation. One of these forms is a statutory declaration to be signed and sealed by a lawyer, notary public, or a commissioner of oaths who you need to come before him or her to be sworn that the information you provided within the application to replace your university degree/ diploma is in fact truthful and that you are the true recipient of the degree/diploma.

Applying to change your sex and gender designation on your birth certificate is a legal procedure that is actually not as complicated as you might suspect. See this link for the step-by-step procedure to Changing your SEX Designation in Ontario. You will be required to complete several very short forms and provide a small payment to complete the process. One of these forms is a Statutory Declaration for Change of Sex Designation on a Birth Certificate that you will need to get a commissioner of oaths or notary public to sign and seal.

It is recommended that you might consider getting your name change application notarized and commissioned at the same time you get your Statutory Declaration for Change of Sex Designation notarized and commissioned to save on time and fees.

If you are in need of to renew/reissue your Indian Passport while in Canada, you will need to consult with the Consulate General of India in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and the help of a lawyer and notary public.

You may need your Indian Passport renewed or reissued due to many reasons including but not limited to damaged/ lost passports, change in legal name and physical appearances, divorce, birth and marriage, and allowing the passport expiration date to lapse. For these circumstances, you will need to execute a specific Affidavit and get it sworn and sealed by a lawyer and notary public in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The prescribed forms of the Affidavits can be downloaded through the Passport India website or to contact my office directly via email at [email protected] for a sample template if none of the Affidavits/Forms relate to your particular circumstances.

Please review my website slowly and carefully for instructions regarding contact, location, and fees. Please do not make telephone inquiries. All inquiries must be done in writing via email to [email protected] or text 647-209-7389.

You have completed your legal education and training and now you want to begin the process of registering with a governing body and take the admission exams to properly be called a licensed lawyer or licensed paralegal. In Ontario, the legal governing body is the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Depending on whether you had most of your legal education and practice in Canada or in a foreign country and whether you are a Canadian citizen, a foreigner on a study permit or a permanent resident, there are different documents that you must get notarized as "certified true copy" for submission to prove your legal name and identity. At the end of the application process, you are expected to come before a notary public or commissioner of oaths and be sworn as to the accurate completion of your application.

You should note the list of identifications NOT accepted as documents evidencing your name if you are a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, being the following:

• Passports
• Baptismal Certificates
• Birth Registrations
• Indian Status Certificates
• Driver's Licence or
  
• OHIP and SIN

You MUST ATTEND AT A LAWYER/NOTARY PUBLIC OFFICE and get one of the following ACCEPTABLE documents notarized as certified true copy for your application submission as proof of legal name:

• Canadian Birth Certificate
• Canadian Citizenship Card - both sides
• Permanent Resident Card
• Canadian Certificate of Birth Abroad
• Statement of Live Birth, and/where applicable
  
• Marriage Certificate showing your maiden name where applicable plus one from the above list.
  

If you are NOT a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, you MUST ATTEND AT A LAWYER/NOTARY PUBLIC OFFICE and get the following ACCEPTABLE documents notarized as certified true copy for your application submission as proof of legal name:

• Foreign Passports
• Work or Study Permit and/or
• Temporary Resident Visa
  

Feel free to contact my office via text 647-209-7389 or email [email protected] for all your questions and inquiries into the accreditation and registration processes, and of course to notarize and commission your identification and your application. I am happy to share my experiences and knowledge with you to make the transition into the legal professional an enjoyable one. I always make extra time for students of the legal profession to pick my brain. I will give you honest answers and tips from the registration process, to the exams and how to open your own practice and keep a reputable and good standing status with the regulator.