Biographical Summary

Background: 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 Canada's
largest law firm at that time, Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt, and has worked at
Barristers Chambers in London, England and at the UK High Court of Justice.
In addition, 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 & Associates.
Ms. Bart is in her twentieth (20) year of practice exclusively in the area of
citizenship and immigration law.

Areas of Practice: All aspects of citizenship and immigration law.

Professional Experience: Ms. Bart is an internationally renowned corporate
immigration lawyer who represents multinational corporations, diplomatic
offices 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. In 2009 she was nominated
by Deloitte LLP for the RBC Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year
Award. She is listed in The International Who's Who of Corporate Immigration
Lawyers* as a "pre-eminent" immigration lawyer with "outstanding legal
ability" and "one of the world's leading practitioners in this field".

Publications: Ms. Bart is the author of three (3) immigration law books
(published by Carswell, a division of Thompson-Reuters) used by lawyers
throughout the world. She is the Editor-in-Chief and an author of the Canada/
U.S. Relocation Manual: Immigration, Customs, Employment and Taxation
Law, a 2000 page legal treatise updated quarterly. She has also written
two Canadian Immigration Practice Guide Texts, entitled Work Permits,
and Permanent Residence. In addition to her books, Ms. Bart has written
extensively for conferences, publications, magazines and newspapers.

Professional Activities: Ms. Bart has presented before the World Trade
Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, on the General Agreement on Trade
Services (GATS) and Migration issues. She has held various positions as an
elected executive officer of the National Canadian Bar Association Immigration
and the Ontario Bar Association.

Ms. Bart is Vice-Chair of the Employment and Immigration Committee of
the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA). In 2010, Ms. Bart chaired the UIA
Nationality and Immigration Working Group Conference 2010. She is also
chair of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Global Migration
Committee for the Rome District Chapter and Co-Chair of the Global Migration
Action Group American Immigration Lawyers Association Global Migration
Forum. She is also serving as Chair of the CLE Institute of the Ontario Bar
Association (OBA) on Immigration Issues.

She has served as Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Immigration Section
CBSA Port of Entry Subcommittee and Chair of the Ontario Bar Association
Institute of Continuing Legal Education Immigration Conference (2009
and 2011). Ms. Bart is a Law Society of Upper Canada Immigration Expert
and Senior Immigration Law Mentor. She is a member of the following
organizations: International Bar Association (since 1998), Canadian Bar
Association (since 1992), Law Society of Upper Canada (since 1991), American
Immigration Lawyers Association (since 1996) and Toronto Consular Corps
(since 1997).
Ms. Bart is a retired diplomat occupying the position of
Honorary Consul of Ecuador, Ex officio. She is affiliated as Canadian Counsel
with top tier prestigious legal organizations such as the International Network
of Boutique Law Firms (INBLF) (since 2002) and the American Business
Immigration Lawyers Alliance (since 2008), inter alia. She is the E-Managing
LawNews Editor for the Immigration and Nationality Commission of the Union
International Des Avocats, a world leading International Bar Association.

Ms. Bart has spoken, chaired and written on immigration legal issues at
the International Bar Association, the International Center for Trade and
Sustainable Development, 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, the Center
for International Law Studies, Insight, the Canadian Institute and the OBA
Institute. She has appeared extensively in the media including on television,
on the radio and in print.

Ms Bart is a director on the Board of Directors of the INBLF and is the Co-Chair
of the INBLF Board of Directors' Practice Group Committee.

Charity and Community Service: In addition to her professional
involvements, Ms. Bart serves on various not-for-profit corporation boards.
She has been Vice-President of Friends of Ecuador Not-For-Profit Ontario
Corporation, which is responsible for shipping hospital supplies, medical
technology, ambulances, etc. to Ecuador, and the Children's Emergency Fund
of Canada. She is on the Advisory Board of LIFE, a legal charity that works
with World Vision and The Stephen Lewis Foundation. She supports a school
and an orphanage in Ecuador, in addition to aiding refugee children in Canada.

*Considered the Official Research Partner of the International Bar

Association. Nominees have been selected based upon comprehensive, independent

survey work with both general counsel and private practice lawyers worldwide. It
is impossible to purchase membership. Only specialists who have met independent
international research criteria are listed.

Canada/US Relocation Manual:
Immigration, Customs, Employment and Taxation

Editors-In-Chief: Jacqueline R. Bart and Austin Fragomen, Jr.

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