Marina Sedai's guest appearances

Marina Sedai

Canadian Immigration Podcast

Borderlines

Mario Bellissimo

Steven Meurrens

Peter Edelmann

John McCallum

Raj Sharma

Chantal Desloges

Hart Kaminker

Lorne Sossin

David Eby

Tom Davidoff

Hilary Evans

Jason Cummings

Christy Jones

Mark Holthe

Janet Thompson-Price

OwlTail

Marina Sedai is an immigration lawyer and the past National Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section, a role that she served in from 2018 – 2019, and is also a past provincial char of the CBABC Immigration Law Section.  She can be found on Twitter @MarinaSedai. We discuss various myths about Canadian immigration law, including:* Refugees get more financial help than pensioners. &amp; Foreign nationals immigrate and then bring their whole extended family over. *If including your spouse or common-law partner on your permanent resident application is inconvenient or unhelpful to your immigration process then you can exclude them and later sponsor them.* Volunteering isn't work.* If my kid is born in Canada then my H&amp;C application is guaranteed to succeed.

Marina Sedai is an immigration lawyer and the past National Chair of the Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section, a role that she served in from 2018 – 2019, and is also a past provincial char of the CBABC Immigration Law Section. She can be found on Twitter @MarinaSedai. We discuss various myths about Canadian immigration law, including: * Refugees get more financial help than pensioners. &amp; Foreign nationals immigrate and then bring their whole extended family over. *If including your spouse or common-law partner on your permanent resident application is inconvenient or unhelpful to your immigration process then you can exclude them and later sponsor them. * Volunteering isn't work. * If my kid is born in Canada then my H&amp;C application is guaranteed to succeed.

#58 - Myths About Canadian Immigration Law, with Marina Sedai

CanadianImmigrationPodcast.com Season 1 Episode 20: Podcast Show Notes – Marina Sedai- Express Entry  Marina Sedai  has practiced immigration and citizenship law for the last 11 years. She holds a bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Political Science/International Relations and Psychology from Simon Fraser University. Marina is the founder of Sedai Law Offices, and has been a frequent public speaker and taught immigration law, policy, and procedure at the UBC immigration practitioner’s program  from 2010-2014.  In this episode of the Canadian immigration podcast we discussed the Express Entry Portal and the technical glitches. If you are an individual or representative the tips and tricks that Marina talks about, will help in using the portal without complication and frustration.  Some of the specific areas covered include:  Whether or not the CRS points are going to drop. The linking and de-linking of individuals and representatives. How to update your profile and application.  Why the portal is now asking for a date specific time frame when leaving other countries. Why do items or full applications disappear from the portal?   In order to help you jump to the areas of most interest to you, I have included below some timestamps for some of the significant topic covered in this episode. 4:24  - Who is Marina Sedai? 14:50 - Will the CRS points drop?  18:20 – Linking and de-linking of individuals and representatives 30:21 – How to update your profile and application after you have submitted it. 37:00 – Processing time for FBI results 39:00 – Disappearing entries and information from the portal. 41:30 – Change of Circumstance  Divorce Change of address Change of number  42:45 – Reasons why attachments are rejected from the system 47:00 - How to locate Marina Sedai –msedai@immigrationcitizenshiplaw.com

<a href="http://CanadianImmigrationPodcast.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CanadianImmigrationPodcast.com</a> Season 1 Episode 20: Podcast Show Notes – Marina Sedai- Express Entry  Marina Sedai  has practiced immigration and citizenship law for the last 11 years. She holds a bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Political Science/International Relations and Psychology from Simon Fraser University. Marina is the founder of Sedai Law Offices, and has been a frequent public speaker and taught immigration law, policy, and procedure at the UBC immigration practitioner’s program  from 2010-2014.  In this episode of the Canadian immigration podcast we discussed the Express Entry Portal and the technical glitches. If you are an individual or representative the tips and tricks that Marina talks about, will help in using the portal without complication and frustration.  Some of the specific areas covered include: <ul> <li>Whether or not the CRS points are going to drop.</li> <li>The linking and de-linking of individuals and representatives.</li> <li>How to update your profile and application. </li> <li>Why the portal is now asking for a date specific time frame when leaving other countries.</li> <li>Why do items or full applications disappear from the portal? </li> </ul> In order to help you jump to the areas of most interest to you, I have included below some timestamps for some of the significant topic covered in this episode. 4:24  - Who is Marina Sedai? 14:50 - Will the CRS points drop?  18:20 – Linking and de-linking of individuals and representatives 30:21 – How to update your profile and application after you have submitted it. 37:00 – Processing time for FBI results 39:00 – Disappearing entries and information from the portal. 41:30 – Change of Circumstance <ul> <li>Divorce</li> <li>Change of address</li> <li>Change of number</li> </ul> 42:45 – Reasons why attachments are rejected from the system 47:00 - How to locate Marina Sedai –<a href="mailto:%20msedai@immigrationcitizenshiplaw.com" rel="noopener">msedai@immigrationcitizenshiplaw.com</a>

020: Express Entry - Navigating the Nasty Online Portal with Marina Sedai