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British Columbia PNP (BC PNP) 2024

Live webinar
OR available available video recording

Marina Sedai

3 hours

Summary

This course will provide insight into and practical guidance on the BC Provincial Nominee Program and its streams.  It will include statistics, practical guidance, professionalism, ethics, and what to do when things go wrong. Mini-fact patterns will be used to exercise attendees’ newfound knowledge.

Course outline

  • Background
    • History
    • Structure
    • Provincial government structure and leadership
    • Provincial and federal government relationship
  • Employer Requirements
  • Process
  • Skilled Worker Stream
  • Health Authority Stream
  • Entry Level and Semi-Skilled Stream
  • International Graduate Stream
  • International Post-Graduate Stream
  • Post-Nomination Considerations
  • Entrepreneurial Streams
  • Program Future

CPD credits

For Lawyers and Paralegals

Law Society of Ontario

Law Society of British Columbia

Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

For Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants

College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants

Your Instructor

Marina Sedai

Senior Lawyer/Principal, Sedai Immigration Law Corporation

Marina Sedai is a Past National Chair for the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section (2018-2019) and has been practicing exclusively immigration and citizenship law since 2005. Marina is the principal and owner of Sedai Immigration Law Corporation, a boutique immigration firm in Surrey, British Columbia. Her practice focuses on businesses, families, and individual clients with a variety of needs: temporary residence (students, workers, visitors) and permanent residence (economic and family classes primarily), employer compliance, citizenship, and overcoming criminal inadmissibility. Marina’s frequently writes and speaks for continuing legal education programs for the public and legal community, including the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section (national and provincial), the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association, the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC and from 2012-2014, she was an instructor at the University of British Columbia Certificate in Immigration: Laws, Policies, and Procedures teaching classes for economic immigration, inadmissibilities, and citizenship. She is pleased to now also present for Legal Professionals Education Network.

Single course
$90

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This course has an updated version!

This course ran in July 2024. Its CPD approval has expired, and a current version is available.