Five AI-Decision Making Questions We Need Answers To From IRCC
In this short post, I will canvass five relatively urgent questions we need the collective answers to as we represent clients who are now being addressed by artificial-intelligence built decision-making systems. For clarity and to adopt IRCC’s status quo, I will not consider Chinook to be one of those systems, BUT it is clear Chinook […]
How Much More Likely is an SDS Study Permit to Get Approved Than a Non-SDS Study Permit? – A Stats Look
One of the common questions we get asked by applicants (and indeed rumours fly around constantly on) is whether it makes sense to pursue IRCC’s Student Direct Stream or just go the regular route. I recently obtained data from an IRCC requests that helps contextualize this question a bit. I decided (for interest of trying […]
[Legal Rant] Addressing “Gaming the System” Concerns – Indian Study Permit Applicants and the SDS Example
Perhaps this post is inevitable. The reach of s.91 IRPA might be difficult to both control or manage from here inside Canada. Other than bulk refusing the applicants of certain unauthorized practitioners/agents that are found (and it appears only in egregious cases), it is highly unlikely we will see any enforcement. We will try and cut […]
Ocran v. Thavaratnam and Hoku: How a Chinook Decision is Bootstrapped in Judicial Review and Strategies to Counter
I am writing this post after noticing a troubling trend and pattern. Unfortunately, counsel who are unprepared for how the Department of Justice and IRCC work in tandem on these cases (and to be honest, some Judges have also fallen into the trap of this strategy) can lead to JRs being dismissed at leave. Here’s […]
The High Refusal Rate for C42 Spousal Applicants at the Abu Dhabi VO: A Closer Look
I recently received some very interesting data from IRCC for a conference I am presenting at in October. While I will be assembling a team to break down this data (with the help of a trained data scientist), I wanted to write a short piece following a long blog hiatus on probably the data statistic […]
Coach Will: New Vocabulary Words Tomorrow’s Immigration Practitioners Will Need To Know
As a resource, and to buy time as I am writing more substantive blogs, I wanted to share a #CoachWill blog on new vocabulary, terminology that tomorrow’s immigration practitioners will need to know, learn, advise their clients on, and spend time with. I am still very much learning these terms and their impact, but it […]
Why the Need for Permissive Conditions Adds Unnecessary Burden for Canadian International Students
Context of the Problem – Unclear Instructions In March 2022, IRCC amended the study permit instructions for Study Permits: Working on Campus to add clarity to ability to work without a work permit while as a student. Unfortunately, because of the nature of the oversimplification of how R.186(f) IRPR is presented in the instructions and as […]
