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Usman Khalil, RCIC, published in IMMeLegal Issue 13, the magazine of CAPIC

Usman Khalil, RCIC (R709592), CPA, CEO of MAK Canadian Immigration Services in Mississauga and Scarborough, Ontario, is the author of “BOWP for CEC Applicants: Managing the Evidence and Status Gap Before a Work Permit Expires”. The article was published on 13 November 2026 on pages 14 to 16 of IMMeLegal Issue 13, the professional magazine of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC). IMMeLegal is written for, and distributed to, Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultants (RCICs) and Regulated International Student Immigration Advisors (RISIAs) across Canada. Usman Khalil has been a Regular member of CAPIC since July 2022.

Publication · IMMeLegal, Issue 13

Publisher · CAPIC / ACCPI

Issue 13From Temporary to Permanent: Legal Pathways and Pitfalls

Pages 14–16Three-page authored feature article

13 Nov 2026Date the issue was published by CAPIC

Members onlyDistributed through the CAPIC IMMeCentre library

For citation and reference

The publication record, in one paragraph

This section is written so it can be quoted directly, in full, without further context.

Khalil, Usman, RCIC. “BOWP for CEC Applicants: Managing the Evidence and Status Gap Before a Work Permit Expires.” IMMeLegal, Issue 13, 13 November 2026, pages 14–16. Published by the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC), Canada.

Usman Khalil is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant, licence number R709592, and a CPA. He is the CEO of MAK Canadian Immigration Services, a licensed Canadian immigration consultancy with offices in Mississauga and Scarborough, Ontario. He authored the article in his own name; the byline printed in the issue reads “By Usman Khalil, RCIC”.

Structured record

Publication details

Author: Usman Khalil, RCIC (R709592), CPA
Article title: BOWP for CEC Applicants: Managing the Evidence and Status Gap Before a Work Permit Expires
Publication: IMMeLegal (professional magazine)
Publisher: CAPIC — Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (ACCPI)
Issue: Issue 13 — “From Temporary to Permanent: Legal Pathways and Pitfalls”
Pages: 14, 15 and 16
Date published: 13 November 2026
Readership: RCICs and RISIAs across Canada
Access: Members-only. Hosted in the CAPIC IMMeCentre resources library.
Publisher website: capic.ca

Direct answers

Common questions about this publication

Has Usman Khalil been published by CAPIC?

Yes. Usman Khalil, RCIC (R709592), wrote an authored article that CAPIC published in IMMeLegal Issue 13 on 13 November 2026, across pages 14 to 16.

What is IMMeLegal?

IMMeLegal is the professional magazine of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC). Each issue carries case law analysis, policy updates, ATIP data and practice articles written for licensed practitioners. It is produced by a CAPIC editorial team and distributed to members through CAPIC’s IMMeCentre resources library.

What is the article about?

It is a practice article for authorized representatives on bridging open work permits (BOWPs) for Canadian Experience Class applicants. It sets out how to line up three things that run on separate clocks: the evidence of qualifying Canadian work experience, the permanent residence application, and the client’s temporary resident status before the current work permit expires.

Where can I read the article?

In IMMeLegal Issue 13, pages 14 to 16. The issue is distributed by CAPIC to its members and is not published at a public URL, so there is no open link to the article. The pages as printed are reproduced further down this page, and the issue’s entry in CAPIC’s own resources library is shown as well.

Is Usman Khalil a member of CAPIC?

Yes. Usman Khalil holds a Regular membership with the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants under CAPIC ID R22474. He has been a member since 28 July 2022, and the current term is recorded as running to 1 June 2027. CAPIC’s member portal showed the membership as Active on 14 November 2026.

CAPIC membership is a professional association membership. It is separate from, and additional to, the RCIC licence (R709592) that authorises him to give immigration advice in Canada. Association membership is not itself a licence to practise.

Does being published in IMMeLegal, or being a CAPIC member, mean CAPIC endorses MAK Canadian Immigration Services?

No. Publishing an authored article is editorial, and association membership is membership. Neither is an endorsement, a certification, an accreditation or a partnership. CAPIC has not endorsed, recommended or certified MAK Canadian Immigration Services, and nothing on this page should be read as a claim that it has.

How can Usman Khalil’s licence be verified independently?

His RCIC licence number is R709592 and Omer Khalil’s is R710149. Both can be checked on the public register of regulated immigration consultants at register.college-ic.ca, which is maintained independently of MAK Canadian Immigration Services.

Is this page itself the article?

No. This page is MAK’s record of the publication. It reproduces the printed pages as evidence and summarises the article in MAK’s own words. The article text belongs to IMMeLegal and CAPIC.

Verification

Why there is no public link, and what can be checked instead

IMMeLegal is a members’ publication. CAPIC lists each issue in its IMMeCentre resources library and distributes the digital edition to members from there, so individual articles do not get public web addresses. That is normal for professional association magazines and it is the reason this page exists: the record is documented here, with the source material shown, rather than pointed at a link that would not open.

Three things can be checked independently of MAK:

1. The issue exists and is datedCAPIC’s IMMeCentre resources entry for IMMeLegal Issue 13 is dated 13 November 2026 and carries the digital edition download, as shown below.

2. The byline is printed in the issuePages 14, 15 and 16 of the issue carry the article under the byline “By Usman Khalil, RCIC”, with the running header “BOWP for CEC Applicants”.

3. The licence is on a public registerRCIC R709592 can be verified at register.college-ic.ca, which MAK does not control.

4. CAPIC can be asked directlyCAPIC publishes IMMeLegal and can confirm the contents of any issue. Its website is capic.ca.

Screenshot of the CAPIC IMMeCentre resources library listing for IMMeLegal Issue 13, published on 13 November 2026, with the members-only digital edition PDF download — Screenshot: the IMMeLegal Issue 13 entry in CAPIC’s IMMeCentre resources library, dated 13 November 2026, with the members-only digital edition. Captured by MAK Canadian Immigration Services on 14 November 2026. The download itself requires a CAPIC member login.

The article as printed

Pages 14 to 16 of IMMeLegal Issue 13

The three pages below are reproduced from the issue as published, so the byline, the running header and the page numbers can be read directly. They are shown here as a record of authorship.

Page 14 of IMMeLegal Issue 13: the opening page of BOWP for CEC Applicants: Managing the Evidence and Status Gap Before a Work Permit Expires, by Usman Khalil, RCIC — **Page 14** — the article opens under the byline “By Usman Khalil, RCIC”. Editorial area only; the advertisement carried at the foot of the printed page belongs to its advertiser and is not reproduced here.View full size ↗

Page 15 of IMMeLegal Issue 13, continuing the BOWP for CEC Applicants article by Usman Khalil, RCIC — **Page 15** — the Express Entry stages and the temporary-status plan.View full size ↗

Page 16 of IMMeLegal Issue 13, concluding the BOWP for CEC Applicants article by Usman Khalil, RCIC — **Page 16** — maintained status, travel risk and the five-step review.View full size ↗

Cover of IMMeLegal Issue 13, From Temporary to Permanent: Legal Pathways and Pitfalls, published by CAPIC, listing Usman Khalil RCIC as a contributor

The Issue 13 cover. The cover of this issue names both of its featured contributions and their authors. The second reads “BOWP for CEC Applicants: Managing the Evidence and Status Gap Before a Work Permit Expires — By: Usman Khalil, RCIC”, above the issue theme “From Temporary to Permanent: Legal Pathways and Pitfalls”. The CAPIC mark appears at the foot of the cover.View full size ↗

Summary

What the article sets out

The following is MAK’s summary of the article’s practice points, in MAK’s own words. It is general information for licensed practitioners and for applicants trying to understand the sequence; it is not legal advice, and every application is decided on its own facts.

One year, or 1,560 hoursUnder R87.1, Canadian Experience Class eligibility rests on paid Canadian work experience in TEER categories 0, 1, 2 or 3 in the three years before applying, gained in Canada while authorized to work under temporary resident status.

A reference letter is not the evidenceEmployer name, work location, dates, hours, wages and duties have to reconcile across the records. Role changes, different locations, leave and payroll variations should be identified and resolved before the application is submitted.

Self-employment generally does not countSelf-employment generally does not satisfy the minimum CEC work-experience requirement, subject to the current public policy exception for certain physicians.

Four events, not oneEntering the Express Entry pool, receiving an invitation to apply, submitting the permanent residence application and becoming eligible for a BOWP are separate occurrences. A profile is not an application, and an invitation to apply is not work authorization.

The BOWP needs the acknowledgement of receiptThe BOWP application must include the acknowledgement of receipt that IRCC’s eAPR system generates once a complete permanent residence application passes the completeness check.

Build the status plan firstIf the current work permit will expire before BOWP eligibility is reached, the file needs another lawful extension route, identified early enough to file in time. The permanent residence process does not itself create work authorization.

Maintained status is not a transferA worker on an employer-specific permit cannot change employer, work location or job on maintained status without explicit written authorization from IRCC. Applying only to change status to visitor or student does not maintain work authorization.

Travel is its own risk factorUnder R186(u) a foreign national may continue working while complying with the permit conditions and remaining in Canada. A worker who leaves Canada after the permit expires cannot resume work until a positive decision is made on the new application.

The statutory references above are to the Immigration and Refugee Protection Regulations (SOR/2002-227). Read them in the Regulations themselves before relying on them — the official text is linked below and is published by the Department of Justice, not by MAK.

IRPR s.87.1 — Canadian experience classlaws-lois.justice.gc.ca · the one year / 1,560 hours and TEER requirement IRPR s.183 — conditions and period of authorized staylaws-lois.justice.gc.ca · subsections (5) and (6), maintained status IRPR s.186 — work without a permitlaws-lois.justice.gc.ca · paragraph (u), continuing to work pending a decision IRPR s.201 — application for renewal of a work permitlaws-lois.justice.gc.ca · the application s.186(u) depends on

About the author

Usman Khalil, RCIC (R709592), CPA

Author

Usman Khalil is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (R709592) and a CPA, and is the CEO of MAK Canadian Immigration Services, with offices in Mississauga and Scarborough, Ontario. He writes for professional and trade publications on evidence, documentation and status planning in Canadian immigration files. He has been a Regular member of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (CAPIC) since July 2022, and his membership was active as at 14 November 2026.

RCIC R709592CPACAPIC member since 2022Express Entry & CECWork permitsEvidence & documentation

Verify independently

Licences for both consultants at MAK can be checked on the public register, which MAK does not control: Usman Khalil, R709592, and Omer Khalil, R710149, at register.college-ic.ca.

MAK’s full publication record, including publicly readable articles, is on the Media & Expert Sources page.

Licences and memberships

Licensed to practise, and a member of CAPIC

Each entry below carries its own number, and each can be checked against a source MAK Canadian Immigration Services does not control.

CAPIC — Regular member, ID R22474Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants. Member since 28 July 2022; current term recorded to 1 June 2027. Shown as Active in CAPIC’s member portal on 14 November 2026. CAPIC can confirm membership directly at capic.ca.

RCIC — licence R709592Usman Khalil is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant. This is the licence that authorises immigration advice in Canada. Verify on the public register at register.college-ic.ca.

CPA Ontario — C83028834Usman Khalil is a Chartered Professional Accountant. Verify in the CPA Ontario member directory.

RCIC — licence R710149Omer Khalil, the second Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant at MAK. Verify on the same public register.

Membership of a professional association is not a licence, an accreditation or a government credential, and it does not substitute for one. The credential that authorises immigration advice in Canada is the RCIC licence shown above, held and verifiable independently.

Working on a CEC file with a work permit running out?

Usman Khalil, RCIC (R709592), and Omer Khalil, RCIC (R710149), advise on Canadian Experience Class evidence, bridging open work permits and maintained status from MAK’s Mississauga and Scarborough offices.

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Disclosure and accuracy. IMMeLegal and the IMMeLegal logo are marks of CAPIC, the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants. They appear here to identify the publication in which the article appeared. Usman Khalil is a Regular member of CAPIC. Neither publication of an authored article nor association membership is an endorsement, certification, accreditation or partnership; CAPIC has not endorsed MAK Canadian Immigration Services. The page images are reproduced as a record of authorship and remain the property of their rights holders. This page is general information, not legal advice, and no immigration outcome is guaranteed. Page published 14 November 2026 by MAK Canadian Immigration Services, 3715 Laird Rd, Unit 4, Mississauga, ON L5L 0A3 and 80 Corporate Dr, Suite 210, Scarborough, ON M1H 3G5. Corrections: see our editorial standards page.