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
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
EXPLORE OUR PASSES
- Expand your knowledge
- Fulfill your yearly CPD requirements in one purchase
- Discounted course rates
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
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.