Kwame Osei

Kwame arrived in Toronto in 1999 with two suitcases and a conditional acceptance letter from York University. The next decade took him through a study permit, a post-graduation work permit, permanent residence and, in 2008, a citizenship ceremony in a Scarborough banquet hall he still points out from the Gardiner Expressway. He read law at Osgoode Hall and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2010.

He founded Osei Fortin in 2012 with Camille Fortin on a simple premise: the person across the desk should never feel like a file number. Kwame leads the firm’s Express Entry and skilled-migration practice and acts in complex inadmissibility matters — misrepresentation allegations, procedural-fairness letters and criminal inadmissibility — where he combines meticulous record-building with a calm, plain-English manner clients mention in nearly every review.

Kwame appears regularly before the Federal Court on judicial review of refused applications, and is a member of the Canadian Bar Association’s Immigration Law Section. He mentors internationally trained lawyers through the NCA process and speaks at settlement-sector workshops across the GTA.

“I have sat on both sides of this desk. That changes how you practise.”