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.

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