Date: 08 May 2026
Time: 4 pm - 7 pm Mountain time
Cost: $75.00
Type: Live online and Recording
CPD approval:
- CICC - 2 CPD hours approved. Recording valid until 08 May 2027. 45 minutes of Professionalism included.
- LSBC - 3 CPD hours approved. Recording valid until 31 December 2026. Attendance to this course will provide you with 60 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- 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
Part 1: Structuring your Service Agreement & building the Alberta Advantage Immigration Program (AAIP) file from day 1:
- Design a strong Service Agreement for AAIP files.
- Scope of your duties from the EOI to NOI to Nomination to PR.
- Ethical billing structures for multi-stage programs
- Client responsibilities
- Supplementary billing guidelines.
- Withdrawal and refusal clauses.
- Establishing a strong client relationship at the outset.
- Setting expectations early regarding the process and uncertainty of invitation under the same stream.
- Ask strategic questions to ensure that eligibility assessment is made before the service agreement is signed.
- High value consultation questions that every practitioner should ask:
- Work permit expiry and type
- Long-term strategizing based on processing times.
- Employment history in Alberta and Canada
- Wage threshold and employer compliance indicators
- Employment gaps or role changes.
Part 2: Advanced eligibility assessment and building a competitive EOI:
- Identifying the correct NOC:
- Duty-based vs title-based analysis
- Aligning Canadian and foreign experience
- Assessing hybrid or evolving roles
- Preparing for officer scrutiny
- Work permit pitfalls - ineligible work permit categories under certain AAIP streams.
- Hidden program requirements.
- Risk factors beyond the obvious, and strategic timing of EOI submissions.
- Updating EOIs without triggering credibility concerns later.
Part 3: Practice tips on managing client expectations and navigating the Notification of Interest:
- Navigating the Notification of Interest.
- Analyzing AAIP processing standards.
- Managing Client Expectations and maintaining status.
- Case studies.
Q&A
CICC Essential Competency mapping
RCIC
Foundational Knowledge
1.3 Interprets Canadian immigration and refugee legislation, regulations and policies.
1.3.5 Summarizes the requirements and processes of the different provinces’ and territories’ immigration programs.
Case Management
2.1 Performs preliminary assessments of client profiles and needs to accurately determine tailored approaches for handling immigration cases
2.1.2 Gathers enough information from the person before initiating or declining or referring to another professional or service.
2.2 Engages in a process to ensure the client is fully informed and able to make a decision whether to proceed with the RCIC’s professional services and enter into a service agreement.
2.2.7 Ensures the client fully understands the contents of the service agreement and their obligations in the professional relationship.
2.4 Conducts legal research to construct a legal argument and discuss options with the client.
2.4.5 Recommends a legal strategy based on the analysis of legal research and the client’s circumstances.
Legal Research and Informatics
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.
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
Speakers:
Tiffany Osman-Chi RCIC-IRB
Harbour Rowe Immigration Advisory
Founder
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. Tiffany is the Communications Director for Imm Seminars. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.
Catharine Baier RCIC
Warwick Immigration Canada
Senior Immigration Consultant and Business Advisor
Catharine Baier received her Master's Degree in Business Administration from the University of Fredericton and is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant in good standing with the College of Citizenship and Immigration Consultants. In addition, Catharine is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Law for the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law at Queen's University and is a frequent Continuing Professional Development presenter as a subject matter expert on Canadian immigration matters.
With 30 years of paralegal experience in both the legal and business communities, Catharine's skills focus on business immigration strategies for Canadian corporations and their employees. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
