Aleksandar Stojicevic

Practice Areas

corporate immigration, foreign workers, economic class permanent residence applications, Family class permanent residence applications, immigration hearings and appeals , organized crime allegations, residency obligation appeals, refugee policy, refugee hearings, Citizenship applications-all types, citizenship revocation.

Career

Alex Stojicevic is the co-founder a of MKS Immigration Lawyers, which opened its doors in November 2002. He has been the managing partner ever since of the firm that now includes eight lawyers and 17 staff. Recognized as one of the top immigration lawyers in Canada, Alex was chair of the National Immigration section of the Canadian Bar Association in 2007/2008 , and a member of the executive of the CBA's National Immigration section from 2004-2009. He won the CBA National Immigration Section's Award of Excellence in 2023. He also served on the CBA's National Sections Sub-Committee between 2019-2021, including as its Chair. Alex also taught Citizenship and Immigration Law at UBC Law School starting in 2011 as an Adjunct Professor and as a guest lecturer in 2015/2016. Most recently, Alex has been an officer of the International Bar Association's Immigration and Nationality committee.

Professional Memberships

Canadian Bar Association

International Bar Association

Languages Spoken

Serbian, Croatian

Experience

With some 30 years of experience in Canadian immigration law, Alex is known for Innovative solutions to Canadian immigration and citizenship issues In both litigation and application processing. He has a varied practice involving clients in many industry sectors including but not limited to restaurant\hospitality, high-tech, food processing, agriculture, veterinary care, mining, and film. This practice involves a broad range of economic class applications, as well as humanitarian stream applications across the entire spectrum of Canadian immigration work. His appearing before three Divisions of the IRB as well as Federal Court.

Work Highlights

Work highlights include:

* Acting as lead Counsel for HD Mining , in the ground breaking Construction and Specialized Workers’ Union, Local 1611 v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2013 FC 512 (CanLII), [2014] 4 FCR 549.

*Acting in multiple leading Federal court cases including Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Vujicic, 2018 FC 116 (CanLII),

Canada (Citizenship and Immigration) v. Thiara, 2014 FC 220 (CanLII), Sidhu v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2019 FCA 169 (CanLII), [2019] 4 FCR 508

Awards

Education

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Canada