- Instructor
Lisa Middlemiss
- Date
May 13, 2025 at 12:00pm EST
- Price
- Duration
- Format
Attend Live and On-Demand Recording
SUMMARY
Becoming a permanent resident in Canada is a transformative moment, bringing new rights and obligations for the new permanent resident. However, contrary to the name, “permanent resident status” is not always permanent. This course will examine the maintenance of permanent resident status including the PR residency obligation and the pitfalls of serious criminality for permanent residents. We will do a deep dive into PR residency calculations, looking at relevant fact patterns for the 5-year residency period. We will consider the limited exceptions to the physical residency requirement and unpack humanitarian and compassionate considerations to retention. Finally, we will discuss appeals of negative residency determinations, including procedures and strategies. We will conclude with practical fact patterns touching on maintenance and loss of permanent resident status.
- Attendance at the live webinar
- Access to the course materials
- Ability to watch the webinar until December 31, 2026
- Certificate of Completion
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- Overview of what it means to be a Permanent Resident
- Residency Assessments
- The Residency Obligation
- Exceptions to physical presence in Canada
- Strategies for the maintenance of permanent resident status
- Voluntary renunciation of PR status
- Adverse residency determinations and admissibility hearings
- Submitting an appeal to the IAD to contest negative residency determinations
- Fact Patterns
CPD CREDITS
Substantive Hours: This program is eligible for up to 3 hours.
Approved for 3 CPD credits.
For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements
Approved for 3 CPD Hours
Video recording valid until May 13, 2026
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INSTRUCTOR
Lisa Middlemiss is the principal lawyer at Middlemiss Immigration Law which she founded in September 2024. Previously, Lisa worked at Gomberg Dalfen, a boutique immigration law firm in Old Montreal for 11 years, first as Associate and then as a Law Partner. She initially joined the firm as a student in 2010 and subsequently articled at the firm. Called to the Quebec Bar (Barreau du Québec) in August 2013, Lisa has been practising exclusively in Canadian immigration and citizenship law ever since.
Lisa completed civil law and common law degrees in 2012 at McGill University’s Integrated Law Program in Montreal. She was awarded her bachelor of arts in polit- ical science in 2008 from Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia and completed a related university exchange in 2006 at l’Institut d’Études Politiques in Lille, France.
Throughout her practice in immigration and citizenship law, Lisa has been involved with the Canadian Bar Association (CBA). She initially served as vice-president and then president of the Quebec Branch of the CBA’s Immigration Law Section. Subsequently, Lisa was elected as a table officer of the CBA’s National Immigration Law Section’s executive, holding the lock-step positions of secretary/communications officer, vice-chair, chair, and immediate past chair.
Lisa has co-authored with Amandeep Hayer the Emond publication Maintaining Permanent Residence and Acquring Citizenship.
Before attending law school, Lisa worked for the International Policy and Agreements Division of Human Resources and Social Development Canada in Ottawa, which gave her an appreciation for the civil service.
