12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Love Across Borders: How Digital Immigration Decisions Are Reshaping Fairness for Families

Canadian immigration now relies on digital and automated decision-making in ways that directly affect how families reunite. When algorithms influence sponsorship decisions or online platforms replace in-person adjudication, your role as counsel becomes even more critical. Knowing how these systems operate — and where they fall short — gives you the power to protect due process and advocate with precision.

Gain the insight you need to recognize when technology, rather than a fully informed officer, is driving an outcome. Build strategies that reinforce fairness, challenge opacity, and strengthen your submissions in an age where digital tools increasingly mediate life-altering decisions.

Enhance your ability to:

• Detect when automated or digital tools may be shaping an immigration decision and evaluate the fairness risks for your client.
• Spot early signals of bias, inconsistency, or procedural shortcuts hidden within online decision workflows.
• Frame submissions that use Canadian administrative and Charter principles to hold digital systems accountable to fairness and transparency standards.
• Guide clients in preparing stronger evidence and documentation suited to digital review environments.
• Pursue remedies with confidence when unexplained or technologically driven outcomes undermine due process for families.

Speakers

Chantal Desloges, Desloges Law Group Professional Corporation (Toronto, ON) 
Zeynab Ziaie Moayyed, Visa Law Group PC (Toronto, ON) 
Will Tao, Heron Law Offices (Burnaby, BC)
Catherine A. Sas, K.C., Sas & Ing Immigration Law Centre (Vancouver, BC) 

Moderator:

Sara Epsinal Henao, Grace Allen Immigration Law (Halifax, NS)