Loujin Khalil
Loujin Khalil is a Canadian regulated immigration consultant holding the RCIC-IRB designation (licence R522176), authorized to represent clients before the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) across all four of its divisions.[1][2] His practice areas include refugee claims, refugee appeals, immigration appeals, admissibility proceedings, detention reviews, Pre-Removal Risk Assessment (PRRA), Express Entry, and business immigration.[3] In December 2025, he was quoted by CityNews Montreal as an expert commentator on the increase in asylum applications at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing in Quebec.[4]
Education
Khalil holds a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering from Damascus University (2006) and a Professional Qualifying Master degree in Industrial Systems Safety and Environment Management from the same institution (2008).[5]
After moving to Canada, he enrolled in a Master of Mechanical Engineering program at Concordia University in Montreal in 2012.[5] He also completed a CATIA computer-aided design certification at Cégep de Saint-Laurent.[5]
Khalil completed an Attestation d'études collégiales (AEC) in Immigration Consulting at LaSalle College in Montreal in 2016, with coursework in refugee law, business immigration, skilled workers and family class, and immigration recourses.[5]
He is trilingual in English, French, and Arabic. He achieved C1 level in three components and B2 in one component on the TEF Canada in 2018.[5]
Career
Prior career
Before entering immigration consulting, Khalil worked as a Production Supervisor at Nestlé Syria in Damascus beginning in 2008.[5] In Canada, he held a production supervisor role in the food manufacturing industry.[5]
Immigration consulting
Khalil is licensed by the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants under the College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Act (S.C. 2019, c. 29, s. 292).[6] The RCIC-IRB designation authorizes representation before all four divisions of the IRB: the Refugee Protection Division (RPD), Refugee Appeal Division (RAD), Immigration Division (ID), and Immigration Appeal Division (IAD).[2]
Refugee Protection Division
Khalil has represented clients in refugee claims before the RPD involving nationals of multiple countries including Libya, Sudan, Lebanon, India, Chad, Jordan, Egypt, and Iran. The claims have involved grounds including political opinion, gender-based persecution, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.[5] His practice includes proceedings in both English and French.[5]
Refugee Appeal Division
Khalil has represented appellants before the RAD. His appellate work includes a case in which the RAD set aside an RPD decision after identifying an error in the lower tribunal's credibility assessment, citing Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) v Vavilov.[5] Another RAD case involved cross-border legal analysis of Lawful Permanent Resident status and the application of Article 1E of the Refugee Convention, drawing upon Canadian, American, and international legal sources.[5]
Immigration Division
Khalil has represented clients in admissibility proceedings under section 34 of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. One case involved an Algerian national and required analysis spanning Canadian immigration law, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act, Algerian constitutional law, and international law.[5]
Immigration Appeal Division
Khalil's professional portfolio includes materials from IAD new member training programs, covering reasons writing, hearing conduct, and a criminality module curriculum addressing criminal inadmissibility grounds, sponsorship appeals, and removal order appeals.[5]
Other practice areas
Khalil's practice also encompasses detention reviews,[5] danger to the public assessments under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Regulations,[5] Pre-Removal Risk Assessment applications,[5] humanitarian and compassionate applications under section 25 of IRPA,[5] Express Entry, and business immigration including the Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program Entrepreneur Stream.[3]
Media
In December 2025, Khalil was interviewed by CityNews Montreal for a segment on the significant increase in asylum applications at the Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle border crossing in Quebec. He attributed the increase to heightened ICE raids in the United States.[4]
International refugee protection framework
Khalil's professional materials document familiarity with UNHCR mandate refugee status determination procedural standards, Convention refugee analysis under the 1951 Convention, and the role of the 1967 Protocol in expanding the Convention's scope beyond its original temporal and geographic limitations.[5]
References
- ↑ "RCIC Public Register — Licensee Profile". College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "List of RCIC-IRB Licensees" (PDF). College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Loujin Khalil — Immigration Consultant". Immiwork. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Madoc-Jones, Gareth (19 December 2025). "Major increase in asylum seekers at Quebec border crossing". CityNews Montreal. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 5.15 5.16 5.17 Khalil, Loujin (2023). "Verification of Learning R522176". College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants.
- ↑ "College of Immigration and Citizenship Consultants Act". Government of Canada. Retrieved 14 February 2026.
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