Bruce Ferreira-Wells
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant
RCIC – ICCRC
Bruce is the President, Director and Senior Counsellor of Ferreira-Wells Immigration Services Inc., and graduated from the University of Toronto. He worked for both the Ontario and Canadian Governments for a total of 18 years, most recently as a Canadian Immigration Officer, Immigration Counsellor, and Citizenship Officer. He left The Canadian Government in 1995 and established his immigration consulting practice which continues to grow and provide immigration guidance and assistance to thousands of clients worldwide.
He has been a Member of the Organization of Professional Immigration Consultants (OPIC) since 1996 and was elected to its Board of Directors in 2002, where he served on the Membership and Inland Committees, and represented OPIC at a recent CICIP meeting in Ottawa. He still actively serves the immigration consulting community. He has travelled widely to meet new clients and to present Immigration seminars in numerous cities from Moscow to Mexico City and volunteers monthly to assist people, pro bono, with immigration problems at a community centre in Toronto. In April 2004, he was among the first hundred registrants listed with the former regulatory body Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, CSIC, and is now a member of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council ICCRC.
Bruce is also Director of TSCC #1475, Director of Ferreira Holdings Ltd., and past Director of Toronto Chinese Community Services Association and Toronto Chinese Endowment Fund.
On a personal level, Bruce was elected to the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto in 1995, where he spends his rare leisure time with the Canadian arts community.
David LeBlanc
Managing Director
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant
RCIC – ICCRC
David is a High Honours Graduate of Seneca College's Immigration Practitioner Program, and a Member of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants. In April 2004, he was among the first hundred registrants listed with the former regulatory body Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants, CSIC, and is now a member of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council ICCRC. He prepares all of our final submissions, works closely with work permit, refugee and H&C clients, and responds to all challenges from Canada Immigration. A former banker and National Credit and Customer Service Manager for several Fortune 500 corporations, David is the firm's Managing Director, and oversees our daily business operations. He recently taught classes at Seneca in the Professional Practice Management module, and is part of a steering committee that launched a listserv for the Immigration Consulting profession.
David is an avid portrait, travel and urban scene photographer, and has been a volunteer counsellor with Distress Centres and Survivor Support. He was the past president of The Hemingway, an equity co-op for ten years, and oversaw its conversion to condominium. David was born in Montreal on Bastille Day, and one day he hopes to find himself in Paris on his birthday so he can see their national holiday fireworks and pretend they are for him.
Claudia Tolea
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant
RCIC – ICCRC
Claudia Tolea is our Assistant Immigration Consultant. She has a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the Craiova University in Romania, and an Assistant Immigration Practitioner Certificate from CITA. Claudia has over eight years of immigration experience with extensive work in status extensions, Humanitarian & Compassionate cases, Refugee claims, work and study permits, visitor visas, Pre-Removal Risk Assessments, Canadian citizenship and Permanent Resident Card, Live-in Caregiver, HRSDC applications, Sponsorships, Skilled worker and self-employed applications. Claudia began her career in immigration back home, working with a Canadian immigration lawyer. Her goal was to help people immigrate to Canada so they could enjoy a better life. This gave her the idea of doing the same for herself. She immigrated to Canada thinking that she might not be able to continue in the same field, and was happy to discover there was still a need for her services. Soon after arriving in Canada, she started working with a Certified Canadian Immigration Consultant for two years before joining our team. Claudia enjoys being able to make people happy by helping them reunite with their beloved ones, listening to their tales of hardship, giving them advice and in the end, being an integral part in their journey to Canada. If she wasn’t already in the immigration field, Claudia would have loved to do community work as a way of making a meaningful contribution in a purposeful life. Claudia believes she is very fortunate to have a large wonderful family back home, and a great and supportive husband in Canada.
Gustavo 'Gus' Quiroga
Immigration Assistant Consultant
Gus’ great passion is travel, and has found a way to combine his love of travel with his gift of being of service to others – he is a flight attendant for the largest airline in Canada,. His fluency in Spanish and English, and his keen interest in helping others, is a welcome asset in being able to better serve and welcome our clients.
