Team

Mr. Charles W. Pley serves as the Global Legal Counsel for Immigrant Investor Group Inc.’s International Investment Immigration Programs. Charles W. Pley is also the Founder and principal Attorney of the Law Firm Immigration Solutions Law Group. He has over 25 year’s experience in immigration law, both inside government and in private practice. He is an award-winning immigration professional and certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in Immigration and Citizenship Law. He received his Juris Doctor degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada and studied at The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands. He is a former Canadian diplomat and overseas visa officer, and is dual-licensed as a lawyer in Ontario, Canada (1985) and in New York, U.S.A. (1992). He is also licensed by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Foreign Legal Consultant (U.S. law). Mr. Pley has had diplomatic postings as a Visa Officer at the Canadian Consulate General in Detroit, the Canadian High Commission in Singapore, the Canadian Embassy in Germany and at National Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada as Legal Advisor in the Consular and Immigration Affairs Branch. He has also lived and worked in Taiwan and Vancouver and since 1994 has been in private practice focused on Canadian, U.S. and international immigration solutions for high net worth individuals, professionals, SMEs and multinational companies. Mr. Pley is recognized in particular as a leading practitioner with respect to business immigration, both to Canada and the USA. He was appointed as a panel immigration lawyer to a major international financial institution involved in investor-related immigration, and has published numerous articles and has made presentations to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Upper Canada Continuing Legal Education seminars on business immigration topics.

Sophie Zhang serves as an Executive Partner of China for Immigrant Investor Group Inc. Sophie Zhang is the president of HAO Immigration Consultation and Solution Inc. She has over 30 years of international project experience in North America, Europe and Asia in the following business fields: Petrochemical Industry, Environmental Engineering, Health and Safety, Finance and Investment, Real-Estate, Immigration, etc. In the last 16 years, she worked as a specialist in Business Immigration Programs for HSBC Trust Canada for 8 years, Auray Capital Canada for 6 years, and then founded her company HAO Immigration Consultation and Solution Inc. She has helped over 500 individuals and families move to Canada & USA through various investor immigration programs such as; Start-Up Visa, Provincial Nominee Programs, Federal and Quebec Skilled Workers, Self-Employed, Canadian Experience Class and Quebec Experience Class, etc. Sophie received her MBA degree from Université de Poitiers in France, Master of Science from Université de Montreal in Canada, and Bachelor of Engineering from Soochow University in China. She is Fluent in French, English & Chinese. After obtaining the Certificate of Immigration Laws, Policies and Procedures from University of British Colombia, Sophie completed the immigration consultant licenses issued by the Federal government and the Quebec government.