Immigration for Postdoctoral Fellows

As of Friday, June 7, this session is full. Those registering at this time will be placed on the waitlist.

The immigration process can be complicated. This information session, followed by a question-and-answer period, is designed to provide attendees with general information about some of the pathways to Canadian Permanent Residency and citizenship. This session will discuss:

• Economic Classes for Skilled Workers (Federal Skilled Worker Class, Federal Skilled Trades Class, Canadian Experience Class)
• The Express Entry Processing System
• The BC Provincial Nominee Program
• Family Class
• Humanitarian & Compassionate
• Business Classes, including Entrepreneurs and Start-ups
• Inadmissibilities

By the end of this info session, participants should have a clear idea about the next steps needed to obtain Canadian Permanent Residency and/or citizenship.

As part of the registration form, registrants will be able to submit questions in advance that will be circulated to the facilitator. We will endeavor to answer as many questions as possible during the session, but may not be able to provide responses if questions are very situation-specific.

FACILITATOR

Marina Sedai

Marina Sedai is a Past National Chair for the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section (2018-2019) and has been practicing exclusively immigration and citizenship law since 2005. 

Marina is the principal and owner of Sedai Immigration Law Corporation, a boutique immigration firm in Surrey, British Columbia.  Her practice focuses on businesses, families, and individual clients with a variety of needs:  temporary residence (students, workers, visitors) and permanent residence (economic and family classes primarily), employer compliance, citizenship, and overcoming criminal inadmissibility.

Marina’s frequently writes and speaks for continuing legal education programs for the public and legal community, including the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section (national and provincial), the Canadian Immigration Lawyers Association, and the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC.  From 2012-2014, she was an instructor at the University of British Columbia Certificate in Immigration:  Laws, Policies, and Procedures teaching classes for economic immigration, inadmissibilities, and citizenship.

Registration

As of Friday, June 7, this session is full. Those registering at this time will be placed on the waitlist.

Registration in this session is required and is now open.Those successfully registered will receive a registration confirmation within one week of the session date.

NO-SHOW PENALTY: If you register and do not attend or cancel after 3pm on the day before the event, it may affect your eligibility to join future events. To avoid this no-show penalty, please cancel by at least 3pm the day before the event by e-mailing postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca.

Accessibility

If you have a disability or medical condition that may affect your full participation in the event, please email postdoctoral.fellows@ubc.ca in advance of the event.

This session will be held online via Zoom.

PDFO EVENT COMMUNITY AGREEMENT

The PDFO has created a community agreement for our events in order to foster an inclusive, welcoming, and respectful environment in which all event attendees feel safe and supported.

By participating in a PDFO event, we commit ourselves to:

• Treating one another with kindness, courtesy and respect in all interactions;
• Engaging in gracious, active listening and valuing others’ opinions;
• Not dominating discussions so that others can share during the session;
• Ensuring that any potentially confidential or sensitive information shared as part of the session is not shared outside of the session;
• Actively participating in the session; and
• In online sessions, when possible and if comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.
• If comfortable sharing audio and/or video to create a greater sense of community and participation.