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In Sayekan v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2025 FC 97, the Court reiterated that a cover letter can create a presumption that a document was submitted.

In Brar v. Canada (Citizenship and Immigration), 2025 FC 130, Justice Norris reiterated that the right to have counsel present at an interview has been recognized as an element of procedural fairness.  While visa officers have the discretion to exclude counsel from an interview, that discretion must be exercised consistently with the duty of fairness and in light of the particular facts of the case. In order to demonstrate that there was a breach of procedural fairness, it must be demonstrated what would have been different had counsel been permitted to attend.

Christopher Worswick is a Professor of Economics at Carleton University. We discuss the economics of Canada’s plan to reduce its population, and specifically that 1,000,000 – 2,000,000 foreign students and workers will leave Canada from 2025-2027. Topics include impacts on GDP per capita, unemployment, housing and more.

  Lisa Brunner is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia (UBC) Centre for Migration Studies. We discuss the current situation international students are facing, the gaslighting over whether they were told that being a student would likely lead them to permanent residency, how post-graduate work permit holders in British Columbia are taking leaves of absence to study French, international students claiming asylum, and more.

  On this episode, Steve and Deanna discuss the effect of cross-border travel on the validity of a visitor record. The question is: do they become invalidated by travel outside Canada? The topic was raised by Tamara Mosher Kuczer in episode 140, in which she reported an uptick in visitor record extension refusals due to prior invalidation of the original visitor record. After that episode several listeners asked us to expand on the topic. The scenario, and what is occuring, is this. A family enters Canada, with the parents receiving three-year work permits and the children granted three-year visitor records. After one year, the family travels abroad for a month. Upon their return, the Canada Border Services Agency stamps the children’s passports but does not issue new visitor records or indicate an extended stay. Before the parents’ work permits and the children’s visitor records expire, the family applies to extend their status. IRCC approves the parents’ work permit extensions but informs the family that the children’s visitor records were automatically canceled when they left Canada. IRCC explains that upon re-entry, the children were only granted a six-month stay because CBSA did not issue new visitor records or mark an extended … Read More

According to internal data, it takes IRCC officers around 19-28 minutes to process a study permit application, and 16-26 minutes for an SDS application. Here are the stats for work permit applications at CPC-E. Here are some stats for asylum claims.

Tamara Mosher Kuczer is the Founder & Principal Lawyer of Lighthouse Immigration Law Professional Corporation. She can be found on Twitter @ttrrmk.

  Deanna and Steve discuss some practice tips and resolutions for 2025, including going back to a world of online applications with the end of flagpoling, focusing on practice areas that one likes, using artifical intelligence, client interactions and getting out of one’s shell and embracing the broader community.

The following is an IMMRep Q&A about whether Mexican children whose parent are eligible for eTAs need TRVs if they are not independently eligible for eTAs.

  Ryan Rosenberg is a Partner at Larlee Rosenberg, and the creator of the website Trumpugees. We discuss options and factors to consider for Americans wanting to move to Canada.