Moderator: Rhonda Williams RCIC
Date: 17 October 2025
Time: noon - 5:30 pm Mountain time
Location:
Calgary Public Library
800 3 Street SE, Calgary AB T2G 2E7
CPD approval:
- LSBC - 5 CPD hours approved, recording valid until 31 December 2025. Attendance to this course will provide you with 60 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- Includes 60 minutes of professionalism.
Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Nova Scotia
For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements.
Outline
11:30am - noon - In person registration
noon to 1:30pm
High-Level - Submission Letter Writing
Time: 1.5 hours
Format: Guided workshop + peer review
Learning Objective: Learn to structure persuasive, clear, and concise submission letters that strengthen applications and withstand officer scrutiny.
Content Breakdown:
- Core Principles (15 min)
- The “golden triangle”: Facts → Law → Application.
- IRPR/IRPA references to support arguments.
- Avoiding emotional or irrelevant content.
- Structure & Style (25 min)
- Executive summary vs. detailed narrative.
- Headings and flow for readability.
- Linking facts to evidence in the exhibits.
- Examples & Dissection (20 min)
- Review anonymized strong and weak letters.
- Discuss why one persuades and the other fails.
- Writing Sprint (20 min)
- Participants draft an outline for a case (scenario provided).
- Peer Review & Feedback (10 min)
- Reviewing a submission letter as a group and suggest changes from the audience - interactive session.
Health break - 15 minutes
1:45 pm - 3:45 pm
LMIA-Exempt Application “Starter Pack”
Time: 2 hours
Format: Interactive training + template walk-through
Learning Objective: Provide a ready-to-use framework for preparing LMIA-exempt work permit applications, reducing rework and refusals.
Content Breakdown:
- Overview of LMIA-Exempt Categories (20 min)
- C10 (significant benefit), C20 (reciprocal employment), C61-63 (intra-company transferees), international agreements R205(a).
- Key documentation differences from LMIA-based applications.
- Core Components of the Starter Pack (35 min)
- Document checklists (employer vs. employee).
- Offer of Employment portal requirements.
- Supporting evidence for exemption codes.
- Common refusal reasons and how to pre-empt them.
- Hands-On Template Session (30 min)
- Walk through a sample LMIA-exempt application package.
- Highlight where to insert customized evidence.
- Mini-Workshop: “You’re the Case Officer” (20 min)
- Audience reviews a mock LMIA-exempt file and decide if they would approve or refuse — explain rationale.
- Wrap-Up Q&A (15 min)
Health break - 15 minutes
4 pm - 5:30 pm
Consulting with an employer for LMIAs
Time: 90 minutes
Format: Interactive training + template walk-through
Learning Objective: Provide a ready-to-use framework for preparing LMIA-exempt work permit applications, reducing rework and refusals.
Content Breakdown:
- Introduction & Purpose (20 mins)
- You’ve been contacted by a company this wishes to do an LMIA now what?
- Tiffany and MAG to share their pre-assessment form
- Fees for this initial meeting / company assessment
- Assistance with Creation of the Job Bank Account
- Company Deep Dive (60 min)
- Did you check to make sure they are LMIA exempt
- What should you consider
- How long does the company need to be established
- How to read the Schedule 100 and 125
- Refusal to Process List
- Best Practices & Tools (15 min)
- Q&A (10 min)
CICC Essential Competency mapping
RCIC
Foundational Knowledge
1.3 Interprets Canadian immigration and refugee legislation, regulations and policies.
1.3.4 Accurately applies immigration, refugee and citizenship legislation, regulation and policies to various cases.
Legal Research and Informatics
Competency
3.2 Determines and locates reliable information and applicable law or policies that address the objective of research.
3.2.1 Identifies reliable research tools to obtain primary and secondary sources of law and other information that is relevant to the issue and the client case.
Professionalism
6.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice
6.1.2 Stays current and complies with legislations, regulation, professional standards, policies and guidelines.
6.1.8 Keeps current with evolving technology and emerging trends in immigration.
6.5 Recognizes and maintains professional boundaries in practice.
Communication, Counselling and Advocacy
8.2 Uses effective counselling skills when interacting with the client.
8.2.4 Dynamically assesses and sorts through the information for importance and relevancy to the issues
Moderator:
Rhonda Williams RCIC
Speakers:
Tiffany Osman-Chi RCIC-IRB
Manprit Aujla-Grewal RCIC-IRB