No seminars planned in near future
16.01.2013
Permanent residents - Rights, obligations, loss of status, appeals
24.04.2013
Lost family dependents
14.08.2013
Is your client criminally inadmissible?
11.12.2013
Adoptions
11.12.2013
Goodbye, 2013...the year of changes
19.03.2014
CEC - history, theory and application
02.04.2014
Workshop: Temporary residents
02.04.2014
Workshop: Officio and Loss of status
02.04.2014
IMEDA Mentorship series: Make-up of immigration practice
30.04.2014
IMEDA Mentorship series: Technology in immigration practice
15.07.2014
Crafting excellent immigration submissions
13.08.2014
Loss of status - permanent and temporary
16.06.2015
The power and danger of H&C applications
13.08.2015
Not so simple sponsorship
14.10.2015
Teaching moments: The best and the worst
09.12.2015
Goodbye, 2015...another year gone
30.06.2016
The rocky path to permanent residence
22.03.2017
The temporary aspects of permanent residence
20.04.2017
Residency appeals at the IAD
07.12.2017
Goodbye, 2017... Did we get it right?
06.03.2018
The pitfalls of international students' immigration path
16.08.2018
How does it all tie together...
25.10.2018
The pitfalls of international students' immigration path 2
15.11.2018
How does it all tie together? Legislative hierarchy
07.12.2018
Goodbye, 2018 plus bonus seminar on parental sponsorship
16.05.2019
Crafting effective immigration submissions
13.06.2019
Lonely Canadian
07.11.2019
Responsible business growth - when clients don't want to pay
05.12.2019
Goodbye, 2019... We made it!
Chantal Desloges is an experienced immigration lawyer from Toronto, Ontario. She is one of only 13 lawyers certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a Specialist in both Immigration law and Refugee law. Her successful practice emcompasses every possible area of Canadian immigration.
Education
York University ( Glendon College) (1991-1994)
Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B. (1997)
Ms. Desloges graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1999. She articled with Green and Spiegel in 1997/98 and was admitted as an Associate Lawyer in 1999. She was admitted to partnership at Green and Spiegel in 2005.
Ms. Desloges was a co-Professor of Immigration Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000/2001. She served as a Curriculum Co-ordinator and Lecturer for the Seneca College Immigration Practitioner Certificate Programme from 1999-2010.
In 2002, Ms. Desloges founded an immigration and refugee law free advice clinic at Warden Woods Community Centre in Scarborough, Ontario. The clinic operated until 2006 and was designed to perform a community service by assisting low-income people in Scarborough to get free summary advice from experienced lawyers, and to get suitable referrals to Legal Aid or to the private Bar.
In 2005, Ms. Desloges assisted in the creation of a non-profit charity dedicated to the establishment of a new reception house for refugees and new immigrants in Toronto and served on the first Board of the new organization.
Ms. Desloges is currently a member of the French language committee for the Toronto Police and an advisor to the Coalition for Undocumented Workers.
In July of 2010, Ms. Desloges resigned partnership in Green & Spiegel in order to launch her own immigration law firm.
Memberships/Affiliations:
• Co-Professor of Immigration Law at Osgoode Hall Law School (2000/2001)
• Curriculum Co-ordinator and Lecturer for the Seneca College Immigration Practitioner Certificate Programme
• Member, French language consultative committee for the Toronto Police• Advisor, Coalition for Undocumented Workers
• Speaker, Canadian Bar Association Immigration Section
• Founder, immigration and refugee law free advice clinic at Warden Woods Community Centre in Scarborough, Ontario (operated from 2002-2006)
• Assisted in the creation of a non-profit charity dedicated to the establishment of a new reception house for refugees and new immigrants in Toronto and served on the first Board of the new organization in 2005
• Interviewed by CBC, CTV News, Canada AM, OMNI news, 100 Huntley Street, the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail and the Ottawa Citizen
• Lecturer and trainer at community centres, women's shelters and churches