Thirty years as an immigrant. Fourteen in Vancouver. Still learning, still building.

Motherland and homeland

I was born and raised in Iran. I left just after I turned twenty, and I have been building a life abroad ever since. That is almost thirty years of living as an immigrant, navigating systems, cultures, and identities that were not originally my own.

But I want to be clear about something: I have never stopped appreciating where I came from. Persian culture, its depth, its hospitality, its poetry and philosophy, shaped who I am in ways I carry every day. Iran is my motherland. Canada is my homeland. I do not choose between them. I hold both.

The path here

After leaving Iran I lived in different places, absorbing different cultures and perspectives. I eventually landed in Montreal, where I studied at Concordia University. Montreal shaped me in ways Vancouver later refined. Two very different Canadian cities, both important.

From Montreal I made my way west. Vancouver Island captured me immediately. The landscape, the pace, the relationship people have with the natural world there, it was unlike anything I had experienced. I still love it deeply. Eventually Vancouver became home, and fourteen years later, it still is. The West Coast is not just where I live. It is how I think.

A career built across industries

Before immigration consulting, I built a career across several demanding fields. I worked extensively in the IT sector, ran a telecommunications company, and spent significant time in healthcare, managing a pharmacy, working with pharmaceutical companies, and operating within healthcare distribution channels. I have worked alongside some of the largest organizations in Canada.

That breadth matters. It means I understand how businesses operate, how regulated industries think, and how to navigate complex systems, skills that translate directly into how I handle immigration files for employers and individuals alike.

Why immigration consulting

After decades of living the immigrant experience firsthand, becoming a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant with IRB designation was not a pivot. It was a convergence. Everything I had lived, studied, and worked through pointed toward this.

I understand what is at stake in an immigration file because I have been on the other side of it. I understand what officers look for because I have studied the system from the inside. And I understand what clients are carrying emotionally because I have carried it too.

How I think about connection

I have no desire to be an influencer. I am not chasing followers or building an audience for its own sake. What I care about is real human connection: with clients, with peers, with the communities I am part of.

My philosophy is simple. Help yourself first. Then your family. Then your immediate community. Do that well and the impact compounds outward naturally. You do not need a platform to make a difference. You need integrity and presence.

I love the diversity Canada offers. Persian and Canadian, Iranian and West Coaster, these are not contradictions. They are the full picture. I work every day at the intersection of all of it.

The person behind the work

I am fifty years old and I train hard almost every day. The forever athlete mindset is not a brand line. It is how I live. Discipline shows up in how I read a file, how I prepare for a hearing, and how I approach a difficult client conversation.

I am an aviation enthusiast. The clarity that flight demands translates into how I practice. I am a husband, a brother, a son. Father of one daughter, and still parenting the child within. That last part matters more than it sounds. Staying curious, staying humble, staying willing to grow, that is not optional at any age.