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Andrew Carvajal
July 29, 2026 at 11:00am EST
$150
5 hours
Attend Live Online and On-Demand Recording
This comprehensive workshop gives immigration practitioners the practical knowledge and confidence to prepare, review, and submit successful Express Entry applications for permanent residence in Canada. The course covers every step of the process—from screening candidates and maximizing CRS scores to completing the electronic Application for Permanent Residence (eAPR) and avoiding costly errors. Participants will learn how to prepare persuasive employment confirmation letters, organize supporting documentation, and interpret IRCC program delivery instructions and ministerial updates. The instructor also reviews category-based draws, recent CRS trends, and the interaction between Express Entry and Provincial Nominee Programs (PNPs). Designed as a hands-on session, this course equips practitioners to manage Express Entry files efficiently and strategically under the evolving 2025–2026 immigration framework.
• Course objectives
• The initial client assessment
o Screening good candidates for skilled worker programs
o When to consider provincial nominee options
• Canadian Experience Class basics and advanced issues
• Federal Skilled Worker basics and advanced issues
• Federal Skilled Trades basics and advanced issues
• Express Entry in the legislation and Ministerial instructions
• Program Delivery Instructions
• Express Entry basics
• Who can enter Express Entry
• Application process
• Language tests
• Educational Credential Assessments
• Changes to the CRS score calculation
• Changes to ITAs and category-based draws
• Loss of arranged employment points
• ITA trends
• Lessons from Express Entry and maximizing CRS scores
• Education, language skills and work experience
• Foreign work experience
• More than 1 year of Canadian work experience
• Education
• Modifications after an Invitation to Apply
• Work history
• Travel history
• Personal history
o Answers to statutory questions
• Names changes and variations
• Biometrics
• Submitting in representative portal vs. client portal
• The perfect employment confirmation letter
o Choosing the right NOC
o Elements of the letter
• Additional supporting evidence
• Uncooperative employers or companies that have shut down
• Arranged employment
o Offer of employment
o Letter of employment
• Digital photograph
• Passport
• Police clearances
o IRCC policies regarding validity of police clearances
• Upfront medical exam
• Education
o Educational Credential Assessment
• Proof of means of financial support
• Marriage certificates
• Birth certificates
• Evidence of name changes
• Use of Representative Form
• Language tests
• Translations
• What is crucial and what is not
o Spouse
o Minor children
• Adult children
• Non-accompanying dependants
• Purpose of the cover letter
• Elements of the cover letter
• Additional documents not contained elsewhere in the application
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Managing Partner
Carvajal Law
Andrew is a Toronto immigration lawyer and the Managing Lawyer of Carvajal Law. He received a Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2011.
Andrew’s immigration practice focuses on all types of business immigration, including the relocation of foreign workers through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program and the International Mobility Program. This involves the representation of employers and employees on all types of Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications and Canadian work permit applications. He also assists professionals and entrepreneurs around the world with permanent residence applications under federal and provincial economic programs.
Having been involved in the international student industry for over 10 years, Andrew also assists clients with study permits and visitor visas. He is the CEO of the education consulting firm mobility.study.
For over 10 years, Andrew has taught at the university and college levels, as well as professional development courses to immigration lawyers, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants and paralegals. He is the Curriculum Developer for LPEN and an instructor of multiple online courses and workshops dealing with labour mobility programs, permanent residence and study permits. He is also a frequent contributor to several publications dealing with immigration law and has been invited to speak about immigration changes on local and national news segments, as well as to testify before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration.
Prior to practising law, Andrew was a sociology professor at McGill University and a university researcher in projects dealing with criminal justice, equality laws, family transformation and social research methods. He is also the host of the biweekly wine and immigration podcast “Vivir Afuera”.
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