Jacqueline Bart's Story
Jacqueline R. Bart, Esq., B.A., LL.B., J.D., C.S.; Barrister & Solicitor, is a Certified Immigration Specialist by the Law Society of Upper Canada. She obtained her undergraduate and law degrees in Canada and her Juris Doctor in the United States. She commenced her legal career at Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, Canada's largest law firm at that time, and has worked at Barristers Chambers in London, England and at the U.K. High Court of Justice since then. As well, Ms. Bart interned and worked at the United Nations in the area of International Human Rights and Immigration Law.

In December 1994, Ms. Bart founded the citizenship and immigration law firm Bart and Associates.

Ms. Bart is in her eighteenth (18) year of practice exclusively in the area of citizenship and immigration law.

Areas of Practice
All Aspects of Citizenship and Immigration Law, exclusively.

Professional Experience
Ms. Bart is an internationally renowned corporate immigration lawyer who represents multinational corporations and businesses relocating to Canada. She also represents a number of law firms and/or their clients in relation to corporate relocation. Her knowledge of Canadian immigration law ranges from family and humanitarian issues to executive transfers and investor immigration.

Publications
Ms. Bart is the author of three immigration law books used by lawyers in Canada. She is the Editor-in-Chief and an author of "The Canadian/U.S. Relocation Manual: Immigration, Employment, Customs and Taxation Law, which is a quarterly updated relocation treatise involving both Canadian and U.S. law. She has also written two Canadian Immigration Practice Guide Texts, entitled "Work Permits," and "Permanent Residence". In addition to her books, Ms. Bart as written extensively, both academically and for presentation, papers and articles, for conferences, publications, magazines and newspapers.

Professional Activities
Ms. Bart has presented before the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Switzerland, on GATS and Migration issues. She is the E-LawNews Managing Editor for the Immigration and Nationality Law Working Group of the Union International Des Avocats (UIA). She has held various positions as an elected executive officer of the National Canadian Bar Association Immigration and the Ontario Bar Association.

She is a Law Society of Upper Canada Immigration expert and mentor and the Past-Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Immigration Section CBSA Port of Entry Subcommittee. She is actively involved on committees in the following organizations: International Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association, Law Society of Upper Canada, American Immigration Lawyers Association (Canadian Chapter CLE), Toronto Consular Corps, Honorary Consul of Ecuador, Ex officio, Member and Canadian Immigration Lawyer, International Network of Boutique Law Firms (INBLF), Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL), inter alia.

Ms. Bart has spoken, chaired and written on immigration legal issues, at the International Bar Association, the International Center for Trade and Sustainable Development and the Swiss National Centre for Competence in Research, the Canadian Bar Association, the Centre D'Etudes en Administration Internationale, the Law Society of Upper Canada, Center for International Law Studies, Insight, The Canadian Institute, the OBA Institute. She is featured in Who's Who of Professionals and has appeared on Radio internationally and on Canadian Public Television on numerous occasions. Ms. Bart was recently nominated for the prestigious Canadian Woman Entrepreneur Award by Deloitte LLP.

Charity and Community Service
In addition to her professional involvements, Ms. Bart has served on various not-for-profit corporation boards including Vice-President of Friends of Ecuador Not-For-Profit Ontario Corporation (2003-2009), the Christian Children's Fund of Canada (2001-2006) which are responsible for food, shelter, medical assistance, shipping hospital supplies, and assisting with medical technology. Through the Children's Emergency Fund of Canada she supports an orphanage in Ecuador, in addition to aiding refugee children in Canada. Ms. Bart is also affiliated with an Ontario lawyer's charity "LIFE" which works in conjunction with World Vision to assist children in Africa.