About us
A New Era in Canadian Business Immigration
JDL Immigration is a boutique immigration advisory company, located in the financial district of Toronto. It was founded in 2025 by David Comtois, following over a decade of experience in the immigration sphere at top-tier international law firms, with a desire to redefine what modern immigration services should look and feel like.
Specializing in business and investment immigration, JDL Immigration delivers elite immigration services with a focus on efficiency, ethics and innovation. Our business is simple: identifying and implementing effective Canadian immigration solutions to meet clients’ needs. Through forward-thinking strategies, we know how to unlock pathways to residency in Canada for investors, entrepreneurs, skilled workers and more.
Immigration plays a vital role in both the economic and social landscape of Canada. The country benefits greatly from the contributions of skilled workers and entrepreneurs, fostering a diverse and culturally dynamic society and startup ecosystem. Whether you are an individual seeking guidance on efficiently relocating your business and yourself to Canada, or you are a business exploring your options in mobilizing temporarily or permanently some employees — JDL Immigration is here to help you navigate the complexities of the Canadian and the Québec immigration systems.
Founder
David Comtois
David Comtois is the Founder and Managing Director at JDL Immigration Limited in Toronto, with more than 12 years of Canadian immigration experience. He assists clients on complex Canadian temporary and permanent residence immigration matters across the private client spectrum. David works with high-net-worth individuals, entrepreneurs and third-party collaborators in the private wealth and Canadian start-up space.
Having advised and assisted on hundreds of Start-Up Visa applications since the early years of the program in 2015, and having navigated every single iteration of the program since its inception as a pilot, David has developed broad and in-depth expertise regarding SUV, becoming one of the program’s premier lawyers.
Prior to founding JDL Immigration Limited, David has worked in the Hong Kong office of an international immigration firm, where he advised clients across Asia on investment immigration solutions, providing tailored strategies for residency by investment and entrepreneurship-based programs such as the Quebec Immigrant Investor Program, the Quebec Entrepreneur Program, the Start-Up Visa Program. Thereafter, he joined the Toronto office of a leading global immigration services firm, where he helped develop the firm’s private client practice in Canada and support its Quebec-based corporate clients with their immigration needs.
More recently, David has acted as Senior Associate at the oldest immigration law firm in Canada within the Permanent Residence and Start-Up Visa practice groups, bolstering the firm’s SUV expertise and private client practice.
Bar Admissions
- Law Society of Ontario
- Barreau du Québec
Education
- Master in Life Sciences and Law (M.S.V.D.), Université de Sherbrooke
- Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Université de Sherbrooke
Memberships and Affiliations
- Investment Migration Council, Member
- Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association, Founding Member
- Canadian Bar Association, Member
- Avocats Hors Québec, Member