Get to Know your Executive - Khrystyna Yankovska, Member-At-Large

  • April 29, 2019

In our continuing efforts to introduce you to your OBA Executive, we wish to introduce you to Khrystyna Yankovska, Member-At-Large. Read on to learn more about Khrystyna’s practice, her experiences, and her motivations for serving on the OBA Citizenship and Immigration Section Executive.

TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT YOURSELF.

I am, like most of my clients, an immigrant to Canada. I came to this country when I was 10 years old as a result of the decision of my parents who were young professionals and pursued better opportunities for us. I did not speak English, but with the help of ESL classes and lots of cartoons on TV, I learned quickly and was a very successful student graduating from university with distinction. I always had great aptitude for logical reasoning, synthesizing problems, discussing societal issues and passionately defending my arguments, so I was naturally drawn to the study of law. For my law school admission paper, I said I wanted to practice immigration law to help families like mine through the immigration process, improving their lives and the lives of their descendants forever. Little did I know that four years later, I would get an opportunity to article with an immigration law firm. I became an immigration lawyer when I was called to the Ontario bar in 2016 and I have been helping clients immigrate ever since.