Product Overview
Presenter/s: Joshua Slayen JD and Miguel Martins Pereirinha
Date: 14 January 2027
Time: 1 pm - 4 pm Pacific
Location: webinar
Type: webinar and recording
Price: $90
CPD approval:
- LSBC 3 CPD hours approved. Video recording will expire on 31 December 2027.Attendance to this course will provide you with 45 minutes of ethics and professional responsibility component for your BC Law Society reporting.
- Law Societies of Alberta, Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Barrister's Society of Nova Scotia
- For members of these Law Societies, consider including this course as a CPD learning activity in your mandatory annual requirements.
Outline:
- What is an immigration emergency?
- The difference between a client emergency and a professional liability issue.
- What to do in the first hour.
- Assessing immediate risk and timelines.
- Emergency stays of removal.
- Urgent temporary resident and status issues.
- Responding to procedural fairness concerns under tight deadlines.
- Managing client expectations during a crisis.
- Documentation and risk management considerations.
- Practical case studies and lessons learned.
- Clients that are imminently being removed from Canada
College of Citizenship and Immigration - Essential Competency mapping
Professionalism
6.1 Demonstrates and maintains competence in practice.
6.1.2 Stays current and complies with legislation, regulation, professional standards, policies and guidelines.
Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Evidence-Based Practice
9.3 Adopts evidence-based practices in the provision of services.
Speaker/s:
Joshua Slayen is the Founder and Managing Partner of Slayen Immigration Law, a Canadian immigration law firm that provides emergency immigration law services across Canada. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law program at Queen's University and serves as Vice President of Aliro Immigration. Joshua regularly advises on complex immigration matters, including removals, inadmissibility, refusals, litigation, and urgent immigration cases.
Website: JoshuaSlayen.com
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