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The Pre-Removal Risk Assessment 2024

  • When

Live webinar
OR available video recording

  • Instructor

  • Duration

3 hours

Summary

The PRRA is among the most complex and difficult types of legal submission for an immigration practitioner. It incorporates all the legal complexity of a refugee claim, the technicalities of what constitutes admissible evidence, and the exhausting work of persuasive writing. Experienced practitioners are often loath to be retained on these cases because they involve heavy lifting and advanced legal knowledge. Inexperienced practitioners who “don’t know what they don’t know” naively submit these cases with inappropriate or substandard evidence and arguments. This seminar will cover in detail the relevant statutory references, policies and case law that you need in order to approach the application with confidence, along with a study of the administrative procedures involved. The course will provide you with tips on gathering and assessing evidence, and presenting the arguments persuasively.

Course outline

  • PRRA Application – Unpacking the Legislative Framework
  • Assessing the Merits of the Claim
    • What documents to request at the outset
    • How to conduct your intake interview
  • Building your Case
    • Key tools to maintaining a trauma-informed practice
    • Tips for compiling a compelling and credible narrative
    • Producing thorough and pointed country condition evidence
    • How to keep your submissions updated
  • Common Considerations by PRRA Officers
    • Nature of the risk (per ss.96 and/or 97)
    • Generalized or personal risk
    • Objectively identifiable risk
    • Availability of state protection
    • Internal flight alternative in COC or habitual state of residence
    • Law of general application (unless in disregard of international standards)
  • General Trending in PRRA adjudication
  • Jurisprudence Review
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CPD credits

For Lawyers and Paralegals

Law Society of Ontario

  • Substantive Hours: This program is eligible for up to 3 hours.

Law Society of British Columbia

  • Approved for 3 CPD credits.

Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

  • For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements

For Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants

College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants

  • Approved for 3 CPD hours
  • Video recording valid until October 16, 2025

Your Instructor

Deanna Okun-Nachoff

Partner, McCrea Immigration Law

Deanna is one of the most respected immigration lawyers in Canada. She joined McCrea Immigration Law in 2010 after working for many years as the executive director and staff lawyer of a non-profit serving the needs of foreign live-in caregivers. Deanna is a crack immigration litigator, winning all the cases she should and a few she probably shouldn’t.

In between solving seemingly unsolvable problems for her clients, Deanna somehow finds time to speak at various conferences and for grassroots organizations and to challenge our ongoing “cutest office dog” competition.

Deanna is your go-to expert on live-in caregivers, medical inadmissibility, human trafficking and immigration litigation before the Federal Court and the Immigration and Refugee Board.

Single course
$90

What is included

  • Attendance at the live three hour webinar.
  • Access to the course materials.
  • Ability to watch the webinar until  December 31, 2025
Enrol in this course

This course ran in October 2024 and its CPD approval has expired. The recording remains available.