Family Sponsorship 2024

WHEN

Live webinar November 11, 2024 at 12:00pm EST
OR available video recording

INSTRUCTOR

Adrienne Smith

DURATION

3 hours

SUMMARY

This course will provide an in-depth discussion of the routes to sponsoring a family member to Canada, more specifically which types of family relationships are sponsorable and how to pick the preferred strategy for securing permanent residence in Canada. Topics will include the in-Canada versus overseas option, temporary visas available to family members, financial and other requirements, conjugal sponsorships, inadmissibility issues and appealing a sponsorship refusal.

COURSE OUTLINE

Who can be sponsored: eligible relationships
Temporary visas (visiting) versus Permanent Residence
Who is eligible to sponsor
Navigating the government forms
How to prove a genuine relationship
Document “must haves”
How to show intention in entering relationship
Use of humanitarian and compassionate grounds
Medical inadmissibility
Parent/Grandparent Sponsorship
Excluded Relationships
S.117(9)(d)
Steps in a sponsorship application
Work Permits/Visitor extensions
Financial requirements and other obligations
Ethics at the border
Federal Court applications
- Case law
Immigration Appeal Division appeals
Ethics in sponsorship applications
Leaving Canada
- Preparing your client to re-enter Canada
Permanent Resident cards

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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 November 11, 2025

PURCHASING OPTIONS

SINGLE COURSE

$90

Includes:

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

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YOUR INSTRUCTOR

Adrienne Smith

B.A., M.A., J.D.
Barrister and Solicitor

Adrienne has a full-service legal practice with expertise in litigation and administrative appeals. Her legal experience is concentrated in matters before Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Federal Court and the Immigration and Refugee Board.

She regularly represents clients with all types of permanent and temporary applications to Canada, including medical and criminal inadmissibility issues, sponsorship applications and appeals, refugee claims and appeals, Federal Court applications, humanitarian and compassionate applications, study and visitor visas, and detention reviews.

Adrienne has been invited as an expert to speak on medical inadmissibility before Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, which monitor’s federal immigration policies.

She is an Instructor with Ryerson’s Faculty of Law and the University of British Columbia’s Continuing Education Program. Adrienne has been invited to speak as a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law and York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies.