Volume 14, No. 1 - January/Janvier 2012

In this issue:

• Professional Corporations For Immigration Lawyers
• USA: Highly Skilled Workers
• Call For Submissions

Students & Immigration Law

• International Students: The Advisor's Perspective
• Studying In Canada As A Path To PR Status
• PGWP & Off-Campus Work Permits
• Students And Implied Status
• Study & The Definition Of "Dependent Child"
• Studying In The United States
• The Criminal Student
• Distance Learning
• Students In Canada: Recent Case Law
• Statistics Respecting Students In Canada
• Message From The Chair
• Message From The Editor
  
  
  
  Volume 13, No. 1 - January/Janvier 2011

In this issue:

The Hernandez option
Comment: Are Large Law Firms and Multi-Disciplinary Practices Playing with Fire?
USA: Immigration Detainees at Risk
Great Britain: Comments on the Points-Based System and Politically-Based Statistics
Technology in the Law Office
Email Batching
The Benefits of Electronic Newsletters
Risky Business: Electronic Communication with CIC
(Mis)use and (Mis)understanding of Internet Information as Evidence in Immigration and Refugee Law
Using Portable Document Format in Your Immigration Practice
Social Media for Lawyers
"Like Me": Facebook for Lawyers
Warning - The New Uses for Facebook
The Virtues of LinkedIN
Internet Marketing and Blogging for Immigration Lawyers
Credit Cards for Law Firms
Message from the Chair
Message from the Editor


Volume 12, No. 3 - May/Mai 2010 (Business Issue)

In this Issue:

• C10 - Making the Significant Benefit Work Permit Category Work
• Message From the Chair
• Message From the Editor
• What A Difference A Day Makes: A Closer Look at April 17, 2009
• Self-Employed – The Forgotten Category?
• The British Columbia Provincial Nomination Business Program: Keys To Success
• Caring for our Caregivers
• Impact of the Economic Downturn on US Employment-Based Permanent Residency Applications

Volume 12, No. 2 - January/Janvier 2010 (Medical issue)

In this Issue:

• Canadian Immigration Medical Inadmissibility: What Did Colaco Add to the Equation?
• Risk to Life and Inadequate Medical Care: Dealing with Section 97(1)(B)(IV) Exclusion
• Ban On Admission to the United States of HIV Positive Aliens Lifted
• The Interim Federal Health Program
• Double Jeopardy? The Immigration Consequences of the Criminalization of Mental Illness
• Update on the Guideline on Procedures with Respect to Vulnerable Persons Appearing Before the IRB
• Message From the Chair
• Message From the Editor
• Trauma and its Effect on Refugee Applicants’ Ability to Testify
• Mark Your Calendar: OBA Institute 2010!
   

Volume 12, No. 1 - September/Septembre 2009 (International issue)

In this Issue:

• Representing Persons With Mental Disabilities
• Message From the Chair
• Editor's Message
• Australia: Flexibility is the Key
• Germany: Business and Investor Visas
• New Zealand: An Immigration Overview
• United Kingdom: A Revolution in Immigration for Employers
• USA: Immigrant Investors (EB-5)
• Children Adopted or Born to Canadian Parents: The Impact of Bill C-37
• Deportation is Freedom: The Orwellian World of Immigration Controls (Review)
  

Volume 12, No. 1 - April/Avril 2009

In this Issue:

• Standards of Review: Has the Court Finally Got It Right?
• Message from the Chair
• Message from the Editor
• United States: Spousal Sponsorship for a Green Card
• Family-Based Immigration to the U.S.:Parents and Children
• Sponsorship and Spousal Support
• Sponsorships and Spousal Support: Practical Considerations
• We Are Different, We Are the Same: Processing Same Sex Couples Under IRPA
• Is the Sponsorship Undertaking a Voidable Contract? The Evolution of a Court Challenge
• Enforcement of Family Class Sponsorship Debts
• Now, Rent-a-Wedding Route to Canada
• Give a Day
• Representing the Abused Immigrant Woman
• Dodging Langner: Advocating the Interests of Canadian-Born Children Whose Parents Are Facing Deportation
• The Hague Convention and Immigration Law
• Immigration of Children Adopted Abroad
• Retention of Women in Private Practice
• When Family and Immigration Law Collide
• Regional Beat: Niagara-Hamilton
• Gift of Freedom: How Ottawa Welcomed the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian Refugees
• Upcoming Programs
• Section Executive 2008-2009

Volume 11, No. 2 - February/Février 2008

In this Issue:

• Employer Compliance, Dual Representation and Conflicts of Interest in Immigration Law
• Pandamonium in Britain
• Who's Your Daddy?
• Citizenship for International Adoptees
• Transmission of American Citizenship
• Inconsistency in Citizenship Residency
• Whither Residency?
• Editorial: What does "Citizenship" Mean?
• Limits to Citizenship Rights: Voting
• Limits to Citizenship Rights: Mobility
• Loss of Citizenship
• Lost Canadians
• Regional Beat
• US Watch
• Message from the Chair
• Editor's Message
• Current Citizenship Issues
• Meeting with The Honourable Michael Chan
• Reviews
• Case Note
• OBA Young Lawyers' Division
• Section Executive 2007-2008

Volume 11, No. 1 - November/Novembre 2007 

In this Issue:

• Message from the Chair
• Editor’s Message
• The Kingston Immigration Holding Centre
• Day Parole for Convicted Foreign Nationals
• Habeas Corpus and Immigration Detention
• Hold On: Reflections on Indefinite Immigration Detention
• Immigration Detention and the Charter Right to Counsel
• Immigration Bond Forfeiture
• The Toronto Bail Program
• Detention and the Designated Representative
• Regional Beat:
       Hamilton/Niagara Peninsula
       London and Western Ontario
• US Watch: Detention South of the Border
• Confessions of an Innocent Man: Torture and Survival in a Saudi Prison
  Federal Court Report
• Upcoming Programs
• Newsletters Now Electronic: Message from the Chair of Sections
• National Pro Bono Mentorship Program / Le programme national de mentorat pro bono
• Section Executive 2007-2008

Volume 10, No. 2 - June/Juin 2007 

In this Issue:

• "Canada First": Are Current Foreign Worker Policies Helping or Hindering?
• Message from the Chair
• Editor's Message
• Labour Market Applications - National Processing Update
• Recent Judicial Developments Related to Foreign Workers:
  - Port of Entry
  - OBA - CBSA Enforcement
  - The Ontario PNP: "Wherefore Art Thou?"
• Privacy at Risk: Can Your Laptop be Searched at the Border?
• Book Review
• US Watch
• Section Executive 2006-2007
   

Volume 10, No. 1 - November/Novembre 2006 

In this Issue:

• Criminality & IRPA
• 9 Recent Federal Court Cases that You Should Know
• Message from the Chair
• Editor's Message
• Employment of Foreign Nationals - Proceed with Caution
• US Watch
• Executive Living at the OBA
• Section Executive 2006-2007
   

Volume 9, No. 2 - June/Juin 2006 

In this Issue:

• Border Presentation Practice Points
• Message from the Chair
• Editor's Message
• The Residency Obligation under IRPA: Four Years Later
• Happy Birthday Immigration Section
• Immigration Law Programming in Ontario and Outside the GTA
• Section Executive 2005-2006
   

Volume 9, No. 1 - February/Février 2006 

In this Issue:

• Beware of Misrepresentations in Canadian Immigration Law!
• Message from the Chair
• Editor's Message
• Ontario Bill 14 Update: Paralegal Regulations
• Case Management Update
• Change in Government; Change in Policy?
• Section Executive 2005-2006
   

Volume 8, No. 2 - February/Février 2005 

In this Issue:

• De Guzman Revisited
• The Safe Third Country Agreement Re-visited
• Immigration News Briefs - At Home and Abroad
   

Volume 8, No. 1 - November/Novembre 2004

In this Issue:

• Interview with the Honourable Judy Sgro
• The Barreau du Quebéc's Position on Immigration Consultants
• An Editor Writes...
• Frounze v. Canada: Case Comment
• Penalties for Failing to Obtain a Work Permit
   

Volume 7, No. 3 - May/Mai 2004 

In this Issue:

• The Hilewitz Conundrum
• An Editor Writes...
• Ontario's Business Immigration Section: Helping Your Clients
• Immigration and HIV/AIDS - Issues of Medical Testing, Exclusion and Discrimination
   

Volume 7, No. 2 - February/Février 2004

In this Issue:

• PRRA Officer Decides American Failed Refugee Claimant Faces Cruel and Unusual Punishment in the United States
• An Editor Writes...
• The Residency Obligation: Overcoming a Breach
• Minutes from the HRDC Sub-Committee Meeting on December 11, 2003
• Minutes from Port of Entry Sub-Committee Meeting on October 22, 2003
• The Government of Canada's Foreign Worker Program
• Niagara Work Permit Pilot
• Ottawa News
• Questions of Inadmissibility
• Marshall Drukarsh and Barbara Caruso Receive "Head of the Public Service Awards"
• Quality Standards Established for Lawyers on Refugee Certificate Panel
   

Volume 7, No. 1 - November/Novembre 2003 

In this Issue:

• Tax Considerations for Foreign Personnel Transferred to Canada
• Message from the Chair: Good News?
• An Editor Writes...
• The IAD-ADR Buzz
• US VISIT - The Future is Here
• OHIP Questions and Answers
• Skilled Worker Interviews: The Quebec Perspective
• OBA Citizenship and Immigration Section Sub-Committees
   

Volume 6, No. 3 - May/Mai 2003

In this Issue:

• Report of the Advisory Committee on Regulating Immigration Consultants
• An Editor Writes...
• The Gang of Seven and Dragan
• Reflections on the Baker Case
• HRDC Questions and Answers
• H&C Sub-Committee Report
• Marshall Drukarsh Reports...
   

Volume 6, No. 2 - February /février 2003

In this Issue:

• CBA Makes Submission on Immigration Consulting Industry
• An Editor Writes...
• Questions and Answers from HRDC
• Update on Operations at the Case Processing Centre - Vegreville
• Hawthorne v. Canada (MCI)
• H&C Sub-Committee Report
• Port of Entry Sub-Committee
• Access to Information
• E-Refugee.ca's Newsletter
• Reflections of a Senior Immigration Attorney
   

Volume 6, No. 1 - November 2002

In this Issue:

• Advisory Committee on the Immigration Consulting Industry
• An Editor Writes...
• H & C Sub-Committee
• Beware Section 64
• IRB Liaison
• Perfected Applications: An Imperfect Attempt
• OBA Port of Entry Sub-Committee
• Changes to the Arranged Employment Application
   

Volume 5, No. 2 - March 1997

In this Issue:

• Humanitarian and Compassionate Applications
• Undertaking of Assistance
• Non-Resident Applications
• Temporary and Permanent Entry as a Skilled Worker
• Immigration and Refugee Board
• Legislative Review Committee
• National Section Constitution
• Medicals
• Fees
• Update on Citizenship
• Jurisprudence 

• Standards of Review: Has the Court Finally Got It Right?
• Message from the Chair
• Message from the Editor
• United States: Spousal Sponsorship for a Green Card
• Family-Based Immigration to the U.S.: Parents and Children
• Sponsorship and Spousal Support
• Sponsorships and Spousal Support: Practical Considerations
• We Are Different, We Are the Same: Processing Same Sex Couples under IRPA
• Is the Sponsorship Undertaking a Voidable Contract? The Evolution of a Court Challenge
• Enforcement of Family Class Sponsorship Debts
• Now, Rent-a-Wedding Route to Canada
• Give a Day
• Representing the Abused Immigrant Woman
• Dodging Langer: Advocating the Interests of Canadian-Born Children Whose Parents Are Facing Deportation
• The Hague Convention and Immigration Law
• Immigration of Children Adopted Abroad
• Retention of Women in Private Practice
• When Family and Immigration Law Collide
• Regional Beat: Niagara-Hamilton
• Gift of Freedom: How Ottawa Welcomed the Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian Refugees by Brian Buckley
• Upcoming Programs
• Section Executive 2008-2009
• In this Issue: