A step-by-step guide to preparing, submitting, and managing Labour Market Impact Assessment applications.
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Andrew Carvajal
July 23, 2026 at 11:00am EST
$180
6 hours
Attend Live Online and On-Demand Recording
Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications remain one of the most technical and complex areas of Canadian immigration practice. This course offers an in-depth, practical guide to preparing, submitting, and managing LMIA applications across all major streams—including high-wage, low-wage, Quebec facilitated process, and LMIAs supporting permanent residence. Participants will learn how to determine the correct NOC and prevailing wage, choose effective recruitment platforms, and properly document recruitment efforts. The course also explores refusals to process, transition plans, ESDC communication strategies, and recent 2024 policy updates. With guidance based on internal ESDC guidelines obtained through ATIP, this session equips immigration practitioners to file accurate, compliant, and persuasive LMIA applications from start to approval.
• Who will be the client – employer vs. employee
• Work permit exemptions
• LMIA exemptions
• Permanent residence alternatives
• Timing of application
• Getting the right facts from employer and employee
• The role of the immigration lawyer/consultant in the recruitment process
• Refusals to process and 2024 changes
• Determining the right NOC
• Determining the right wage
o Quebec positions – CAQ application required
• Describing the duties and qualifications appropriately
• Posted processing times
• Determining the right stream
• Setting up the Job Bank account
• Advertising must-haves
• Advertising variations
• Quebec Facilitated Process and other advertising exemptions
• Considerations for different streams
• Consulting the client about the right platforms
• Platforms to avoid
• Platforms with high degree of success
• Targeting underrepresented group
• Periodic screenshots
• Schedule ads expiry dates
• Job Match use and printouts
• Direct Apply
• The candidate log
• The LMIA Online portal
• Statutory and policy considerations
o Job offer genuineness
Employer actively engaged in the business and financial capacity
Offer consistent with reasonable employment needs
Ability to fulfill the terms of the job offer
Employer’s past compliance
o Language of work
o LMIA main assessment factors
• Low-wage LMIAs
o The low-wage cap
• High-wage LMIAs
o The Transition Plan
• LMIAs supporting PR
• Live exercise: the online LMIA form
• Cover letter essentials
• Organizing supporting documents
• Client instructions following submission
• Preparing the clients for the Service Canada call
• Refusals
• Common mistakes made by LMIA applicants
• Recommendations following LMIA approval
• Dealing with ESDC/Service Canada and preparing clients for communications with government officers
• Changing terms of employment after LMIA approval
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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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