Moderator: Rhonda Williams RCIC
Date: Postponed
Time: noon - 5:30 pm Mountain time
Location:
Calgary Public Library
800 3 Street SE, Calgary AB T2G 2E7
CPD approval:
- CICC - 5 CPD hours approved. Recording of online webinar to be valid until 17 October 2026. Including Including 60 minutes of professionalism.
- 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
Legal research and Informatics
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
Rhonda is a former Canadian Visa Officer who served in several overseas missions. She is an RCIC with a practice in the Greater Vancouver area. She is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law in the Faculty of Law at Queen's University. She has a Master's degree in International Affairs from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University and a Bachelor's degree in Theatre Arts from Queen's University. She is the Executive Director of ImmSeminars.
Speakers:
Tiffany Osman-Chi RCIC-IRB
Tiffany started her immigration career as a student Border Services Officer with the Canada Border Services Agency. She is a registered member of the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants (CICC). Tiffany holds a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of British Columbia, and is currently an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law at Queen's University. She specializes in economic classes, family class, provincial nominee programs and has presented numerous seminars and served on numerous panel discussions within the industry.
Manprit Aujla-Grewal RCIC-IRB
Manprit Aujla-Grewal graduated from the University of Alberta in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts. She went on to pursue her Immigration Consultant Certificate from Humber College and graduated with Honours in 2010. She possesses over six years of work experience, from 2005-2011, working in various immigration departments. This work experience consists of employment as a Team Leader with the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP), a Program Officer with the Ontario Provincial Nominee Program (OINP), and a Service Delivery Agent with Immigration, Refugees, Citizenship Canada (IRCC). Manprit founded Canadian Immigration Connections in 2011 and has been consulting for over a decade.
In 2017, she acted as an International Student Advisor with the University of Alberta International Office. In 2020, Manprit appeared before the Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration to provide input on pressing immigration issues (including COVID-19). Manprit has also recently taught in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law at Queen’s University.