- Instructor
Chantal Desloges
- Date
December 2, 2025 at 12:00pm EST
- Price
- Duration
- Format
Attend Live and On-Demand Recording
SUMMARY
A refused sponsorship application can be devastating for families, but there are multiple legal avenues to challenge the decision or reapply. This in-depth course provides immigration professionals with a detailed guide on handling sponsorship refusals, including appeal options, judicial review, and strategies for strengthening a reapplication. We will cover procedural requirements, legal precedents, and practical case management strategies to ensure a comprehensive understanding of post-refusal options.
- 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 family class sponsorships
- Analyzing refusal letters: understanding officer reasoning and key decision points.
- Preventative strategies: How to structure strong sponsorship applications from the outset.
- Understanding procedural fairness and reconsideration requests.
- Reviewing the Global Case Management System (GCMS) notes.
- How to determine the best next steps
- The Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) Process
- Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) at the IAD
- Full hearings at the IAD
- Judicial Review at the Federal Court
- Reapplying After a Sponsorship Refusal
- Advanced Case Strategies & Complex Refusals
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
Learn from experts in their field by purchasing this course
- Discounted course rates
- Fulfill your yearly CPD requirements in one purchase
- Expand your knowledge
INSTRUCTOR
Chantal Desloges is certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a Specialist in both Citizenship/Immigration law and Refugee law. Her practice encompasses every possible area of Canadian citizenship, immigration and refugee law, such as business class applications, skilled workers, family sponsorships, work and study permits, refugee cases, citizenship applications, plus Appeals and Judicial Reviews of refused cases. She was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1999 and is the founding and senior partner of Desloges Law Group.
Chantal taught Immigration Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000/2001. She also taught in the Immigration Practitioner Certificate Programme at Seneca College from 1999 – 2010 and the Immigration Consultant Diploma at Herzing College from 2015 – 2018. She currently teaches a number of continuing professional development programs for LPEN, IMEDA and the Ontario Bar Association, among others.
In November, 2016, Chantal and her good friend Cathryn Sawicki published the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law: A Practitioner’s Handbook. Chantal has been called upon 15 times by Parliamentary and Senate Committees to appear as an expert witness on immigration and refugee issues.
In 2012, Chantal was awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, followed by the Canadian Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Pro Bono award. In 2013, Chantal was appointed by the Minister of Justice to serve on the Federal Court Rules Committee, and was reappointed for a further term in 2016. In 2014, Chantal was also elected to the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association, Immigration Section, where she served until 2018.
Chantal is a regular immigration commentator on CTV Power Play, and has been interviewed by both national and local television stations such as CBC, CTV National News, W5, Canada AM, Global News and CP24. She has also been interviewed and quoted in national and local newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, National Post and the Ottawa Citizen.
