Gloria practices primarily in immigration law. She has extensive experience advising employers on business immigration requirements for a variety of temporary residence applications, work permit applications, permanent residence processes, global mobility policies, employer compliance processes in relation to foreign talent and inspections. She has experience in the preparation and filing of a variety of Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) based work permit applications including Global Talent Stream for tech positions and LMIA exempt work permit applications, including intra-company transfers (executives, senior managers and specialized knowledge workers), reciprocal work permits, significant economic benefit work permits and work permits available under various international mobility agreements including CUSMA, Colombia, Peru, Korea and the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

She also has experience advising individuals with temporary resident visas, express entry, provincial nominee programs, family class sponsorships, temporary resident permits (criminal and medical inadmissibility), permanent residence renewals, in-Canada humanitarian and compassionate permanent residence applications and preparing responses to procedural fairness letters for allegations of misrepresentation and inadmissibility.

Prior to joining Caron & Partners LLP, Gloria practiced at a large national firm for over ten years in the areas of civil litigation, employment, and business immigration.

Gloria has appeared before the Provincial Court of Alberta, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench and has made written submissions to the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of interveners. She has significant experience in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation. She brings her extensive litigation experience to an advocacy-based immigration practice and assists clients with overcoming negative immigration related decisions in Federal Court Judicial Review applications and before Immigration Tribunals such as the Immigration Division, Refugee Protection Division, and the Immigration Appeal Division.