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CBSA Enforcement: Process, Strategy and Client Representation
Thursday, November 12, 2026
13:00 EST
Presenter: Joshua Slayen
Approved for 3 CPD hours
Register here
Your client has received a call-in notice from CBSA. Their passport has been requested. An inadmissibility report may be coming. A removal order already exists. Or removal has suddenly been scheduled.
What happens next — and what can you actually do for the client?
CBSA enforcement files move through identifiable stages, and the remedies available to the client can change dramatically from one stage to the next. This seminar follows the enforcement process from initial CBSA contact through investigation, inadmissibility proceedings, detention and removal, with a practical focus on what representatives can do at each stage.
Topics include:
- How clients come to CBSA's attention and what CBSA involvement may mean
- Understanding call-in notices, reporting requirements and requests for documents
- Determining the real purpose and scope of a CBSA interview
- Preparing the client — and the representative — for an enforcement interview
- The s. 44 inadmissibility process and opportunities to respond
- Minister's Delegate review and referrals to the Immigration Division
- Admissibility hearings: disclosure, evidence, admissions and challenging the allegation
- Departure, exclusion and deportation orders — and why the distinction matters
- When a removal order becomes enforceable and what may delay or prevent enforcement
- Arrest, detention and detention reviews
- Building a workable alternative-to-detention plan
- Immediate file triage: what the representative needs to establish before deciding what to do
- Options before and after an inadmissibility finding
- Appeals, judicial review, stays of removal, PRRA and administrative deferral
- The role of H&C applications and other immigration remedies during enforcement
- When orderly departure may be the strategy that best protects the client's longer-term immigration position
- Practical case studies involving an out-of-status worker, criminal inadmissibility and a client facing scheduled removal
- Critical deadlines, evidence and recognizing when litigation counsel should become involved
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