Presenter/s: Top industry leaders
Date: 06 June 2019
Time: 9 am - 5:15 pm Pacific
Location: Pinnacle Hotel Harbourfront Vancouver, 1133 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC
Type: In person, webinar and recording
Price: $200
CPD approved:
- ICCRC 7 hours - Approved, expired
- LSBC 7 hours - Approved, attendance to this course will provide you with 2 hours of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- For Alberta lawyers, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual Continuing Professional Development Plan as required by the Law Society of Alberta.
Immigration Potpourri Outline
Decision Making Demystified
Keynote Speaker – Dr. Vic Satzewich - Author of Points of Entry
Overview: The presentation is based on fieldwork conducted between 2010 and 2012 at 11 of Canada’s immigration offices abroad. The results were published in Points of Entry: How Canada’s Visa Officers Decide Who Gets In.
- The significance of decision making
- How it works:
- Face to face interviews
- Significance of targets
- Significance of fraud and misrepresentation
- Discretion and "digging deeper"
- Temporary resident visas and preventing "jumpers'
- Flags and indicators in spousal/partner sponsorship
- Conclusions
Panel discussion on Decision Making Demystified with:
- Dani Willets, RCIC – former inland Immigration Officer
- Tiffany Chi, RCIC – former CBSA officer
- Robyn Jones, RCIC – former Immigration Officer at CPC -Vegreville
- Joe Kenney, RCIC – Former Manager of the BC Provincial Nominee Program
- Rhonda Williams, RCIC – former overseas Visa Officer
BC PNP - Entrepreneur Immigration Update
Presented by BCPNP Director of Entrepreneur Immigration, Michael Kim
Panelists Joe Kenney RCIC and Alex Stojicevic
- Overview of BCPNP Entrepreneur Immigration
- Entrepreneur Immigration - Regional Pilot
Panel Discussion about BC PNP Business Immigration and Regional Pilot Program
With Joe Kenny RCIC and Alex Stojievic LLB
Compliance Measures in Immigration Practice
With Steven Meurrens JD
- Employer Compliance
- What compliance looks like
- Violations of compliance and penalties
- Voluntary Disclosure
- Case law
- Q & A
Getting it Right When Representing Clients: Avoiding Misrepresentation
With Peter Larlee LLB
- Your role
- Client’s role
- What not to do – New Can examples
- Consequences
- Q & A
60 Tips, Tricks and Ethics of Immigration in 60 Minutes
With Catherine Sas QC, Dr. Alex Titov RCIC, Alex Stojicevic LLB, Steven Meurrens JD, Peter Larlee LLB, and Dani Willets RCIC
Speaker/s:
Catherine Sas QC
Joe Kenney RCIC
Peter Larlee LLB
Steven Meurrens JD
Tiffany Chi RCIC
Dr. Alex Titov RCIC
Dr. Vic Satzewich PhD.
T.D. (Dani) Willets RCIC
Alex Stojicevic LLB
Robyn Jones RCIC
Rhonda Williams RCIC
DISCLAIMER
While speakers and topics are confirmed at the time of publication, sometimes things happen which are beyond the control of Imm Seminars. If that happens substitutions or cancellations to speaker/s and/or topic/s may be necessary. In those cases, Imm Seminars will advise all registrants by email as soon as possible. We will also update the Imm Seminars website. We appreciate your cooperation in these cases.
