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Nairaland / General / Re: Newest Member: Give Me Some Luv! by kachikapor(m): 10:52pm On Jul 24, 2023 |
I also just went through of the opening pages of this thread...wowzers!! I really was a bully to Acid and Creamish oh!! I blame Douzy sha... |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by kachikapor(m): 3:01pm On Dec 30, 2020 |
snowlordng: Thanks for your response Snowlordng. I have done the needful online and paid all the fees. Since September this year and yet no response. Now i’m thinking we need see someone face to face to help us fasttrack it. Do you think your uncle who works there could help? i would appreciate his contact information. Thanks |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by kachikapor(m): 3:15am On Dec 28, 2020 |
QueenJoeffrey: Hi QueenJoeffrey. Yes, you can except something's changed, that's exactly what we did. We landed in Toronto took a train(ViaRail) from the Union Station. Flights were grounded that day due to the weather and after hanging around the airport for a couple of hours we decided it was better to go by rail. It also happened to be a much cheaper option. |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by kachikapor(m): 3:11am On Dec 28, 2020 |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by kachikapor(m): 3:01am On Dec 28, 2020 |
Compliments of the season to everyone. Its been a while since i posted here... I trust everyone is enjoying the holidays. I have a question and i'm hoping someone here can help. My sister is planning to join us here in Quebec via express entry. However, we have been unable to get her school, National Open University (NOUN) to send her transcript to WES. All efforts to contact the school has proved abortive as we keep getting passed to someone else who passes us to someone else(you know the drill, Naija, what else is new?). Right now, i'm wondering if there is any other way to go about this. We have paid all the fees but we just can't seem to reach anyone to know what is going on. Is there anyone who did a BSc. with NOUN who was able to skip through these hurdles? I would appreciate any information you send my way. Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all. |
Education / Re: National Open University Transcript by kachikapor(m): 5:25pm On Nov 07, 2020 |
lanzee1451:Hi, please i sent you an email. would like to know if you finally resolved it and how. |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by kachikapor(m): 1:56am On Feb 04, 2019 |
Hey Guys, So my wife is thinking of switching careers here. She used to work in Customer Service in a bank back in Nigeria, but is now considering a career move to Human Resources Management. I guess i am just looking for feelers from other HR professionals here if this is a logical move and if yes, would a Diploma in HR or a Graduate Certificate course be the next best move? Thank you for your response. |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 12:55pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
Hi Everyone, how are you all doing. Quick Question please, for the ladies(and gents)... about food stuff, does anyone here send for stuff from back home, stockfish and the like? i know we have stores that sell of of those things here but i'm not sure that's the way to go. So please if anyone has any info on how they bring foodstuff in (that doesn't cost an arm and a leg)....help a sister out! We'r almost out of the ones we came here with Thanks |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 12:43pm On Sep 20, 2018 |
@ mzjennypher. that's exactly what we did when we arrived. We stayed in an Airbnb for a month and a half. We had the whole place to ourselves and it helped us get to know the environment better before making an informed decision on where to rent. It might not be for everyone though but we did it . Hope this helps. 4 Likes |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 12:32pm On Jun 26, 2018 |
[quote author=A555 post=68524548] Hey Boss, I just wanted to say thanks for taking the time to reply in this very detailed manner. I appreciate it. Regards The details of the program look exactly the same as an RBC mortgage adviser explained to me, so I expect it should also be available via any bank you already bank with. Maybe if you have specific questions, I might have answers from my discussion with the mortgage adviser. Otherwise, here is some generic information from the details I picked up on: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 2:59am On Jun 16, 2018 |
Hey Guys, Is there anyone currently using this program to buy their home? or any other program for that matter...I need your input here. Seniors who have bought/are buying their homes in Canada, please share your experiences and opinions here. Thanks smslive2: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 4:12am On May 26, 2018 |
oh btw...took some pictures today. Enjoy 10 Likes
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Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 3:47am On May 26, 2018 |
Hi Guys, I have a rather peculiar question. I shared here about a month ago about how I was able to continue working in the "Canadian branch" of the company i was working with in Nigeria. The issue is that now, we don't have an immediate need for the POF now lying unused in our accounts. Does any of the landed seniors know of a good/safe investment where we keep the money. Interest rates on savings accounts here are not worth it, so if there's anyone out there who can point us in the right direction or give us any suggestions, i'd be much obliged.I already set up a meeting with my banker but who knows what these bankers(no disrespect intended) will tell someone. We just want to weigh all the options and make the best decision for our family. Hopefully, this question will help others who are in a similar boat N.B; i know say this na money matter (and therefore a touchy subject) biko, make nobody bite me. Person wey dey ask question no dey loss. Have a lovely weekend y'all...over to you 14 Likes |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 8:38am On May 06, 2018 |
chymzo: I can happily tell you that you do not need to contact your school again. All you have to do is sign back onto WES, and request for a report upgrade. Please ensure its a Course-by-Course evaluation. The full cost (including getting a copy and sending one to CPA) will be about CAD163 (all inclusive). 1 Like 2 Shares |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 3:30am On May 03, 2018 |
Well said Mazuide... My wife and i landed in Montreal and while i found a job before landing, most of the jobs my wife has been applying to asks for fully bilingual applicants. Most of the people we meet here are trilingual and the like and you get to see first hand how this has exposed them to the rest of the world. We've finally decided she'll take the full time french courses being offered free of charge by the govt( they actually give you an allowance for taking the course full time) while i try to take part time courses. What little french we learned in high school has been long forgotten, wish i'd paid more attention .So i'd say, if you or your children have the opportunity to learn a new language, please take it.Especially being in this new environment...the opportunities are endless. maziude: 5 Likes 1 Share |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 3:13am On May 03, 2018 |
as in ehn... this peaceengine has no chill at all. I have to give it to theCongo2 for being so cool about everything. Was actually expecting a sh*tstorm! Asinkwa: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 9:42pm On Apr 29, 2018 |
vascey: Thanks for your response. I have reached out to WES, and it will only cost CAD100 to request for a course-by-course evaluation from them. That for me is way better than going back to my school. Firstly, I have landed already. Secondly, it took me about 3 months to get the first transcript sent to WES for Express Entry. I no get that kind patience again. I will just go ahead and contact ACCA for the letter of good standing and WES for the Course-by-course evaluation sent directly to CPA. |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 4:13pm On Apr 29, 2018 |
honey86: My question is one kind abeg, make una no vex. So I am currently an FCCA and I've done the online course on overview of Canadian tax and law. Looking through the requirements for membership to CPA Ontario, it says "bachelors degree from a recognized university". I have an HND (albeit WES assessed) I just want to know if there's anyone that has been in my shoes and has received the designation. I have spoken to CPA Ontario (about transcripts), and they have no problem with WES sending that across. I am only asking for me to get reassured. Thanks in advance. |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 9:24pm On Apr 18, 2018 |
Hi AZeD1. We actually got the COPR in Sept and purchased flight tickets in Nov. The job opportunity didnt crystalize till Feb. We had initially planned to land in Toronto seeing as that is where most of the Finance opportunities are. Thank God for that post o...'twould have been a different story. AZeD1: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 5:40pm On Apr 18, 2018 |
vascey: Thanks Vascey. The company i work with is a global business. I just leveraged on my relationships with the bosses i work with regionally and God was there using them to connect me with the Canadian Vice President and the HR people there who informed me of a role similar to what i was doing in Nigeria. We started exchanging emails back and forth since Dec 2017. In February i had a couple of interviews with them via Skype and the rest as they say is history. Truth is, my wife is very active "silent" reader here on Nairaland and she read a post someone put up here about an Indian family who was struggling in Canada after giving up their cushy jobs in Hewlett Packard and the bank where his wife worked and he was working as a security man in Canada while his wife was working as a nanny or something.One of the things he mentioned he regretted in that post was the fact that he never leveraged on the HP brand before quitting his job. I too was headed in the same direction until I came home from work one night and my wife showed me that post. That was when we began thinking about reaching out to my company in Canada to see if there was room for an internal transfer of sorts...na so i take reach here o. 62 Likes 8 Shares |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 5:25pm On Apr 18, 2018 |
Blackbuddy: Thanks a lot boss. Your stories played a big part in helping us prepare for this move. |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 5:04pm On Apr 18, 2018 |
Very very Long Post Alert!!! Hi Guys, This is our landing story... its a little bizarre so please bear with me. We left Nigeria on 14th April. Our flight was for 1:40 Saturday afternoon, we went with 4 big boxes and two hand luggage. The check-in bags were all overweight so there was a brief period of craziness where my mother and my wife and her sisters had to open up the bags and jettison all the extra crap they had packed all in the name of "load". I tagged all the bags and we proceeded to passport control and immigration. I only parted with 1k by way of "roger"(thank God). I was ready for them and thought we would be forced to part with more but maybe they were in a good mood that day...Fast forward to the flight proper...uninteresting. We flew Ethiopian Airlines and I must say that the food was funny. Always rice rice rice at a point we got tired of eating rice and started eating the fried snail we had arranged from home. The plan was to finish it before we landed before customs would seize it. We got to Addis Ababa and went to connect to our next flight to Dublin. Halfway into the flight, the pilot comes on the PA and announces that we'll be turning back to Addis. There was a technical issue with the plane and the guys in Dublin did not have the equipment for maintenance. You could hear the passengers protesting but not for too long, I mean, who wan die? The way I saw it...better to turn around than for us to crash. simple. Little did i know that would be the least of my worries. We got back to addis ababa at about 3am and had to wait for another plane to arrive from Tel Aviv. The plane finally came at about 5:15 am and we started the second missionary journey. We arrived Dublin without any other issue and waited for about an hour while the plane refueled. Took off again to Toronto without incident. Went to arrivals where we were stamped in. Then proceeded to the immigration queue. Didn’t spend too long on that queue either (about 15 mins) a lady officer attended to us. She was both friendly and helpful. She welcomed us to Canada and asked if we had commited any crimes and if we had been denied visa to any other country…the usual. Then we went to pick up our bags at the carousel. I waited and waited for one of my bags but when it became apparent that it wasn’t coming we lodged a complaint at the counter, they told me I would get my bag in 24-48hours…I’m still waiting for it. All the foodstuff and my wife’s things arrived. Only my own bag no show. E pain me. Thank God my wife thought to put some of my things in her own bag while she was packing or I would still be wearing my travelling clothes. Anyways, we proceeded to customs. While on that queue, I started checking what they were asking other people for. It seemed there wasn’t any rhyme or rhythm to their search/questions. One angry looking female officer unceremoniously binned some items brought in by one man…another man just asked questions about peoples dogs and what not. My wife started praying that we shouldn’t be attended to by that woman. Me sef I prayed. You need to see the huge bin. The man didn’t even complain he just smiled and walked away. It came to our turn and we were attended to by a young female officer who welcomed us again to Canada, she noted how tired we looked and just asked us how much cash we had with us, took the paper issued by the lost baggage people and waved us on our way. The main airport terminal was very busy. people were stranded because of the weather .we raced between terminal 1 and 3 trying to see if we could get a flight out to Montreal that night. No such luck.We had to sleep at the airport that night. The cold ehn…hmmm,I cannot talk about that one. there are just no words. Air Canada had grounded their flights so the lady at the counter advised us to go by train. She was also very helpful and told us many people had already taken that option. So we booked our train seats for the following morning. From UPE to Union Station in Toronto and then via ViaRail to Ottawa and then Montreal. No be small journey but we got to see the area so all na adventure. We finally arrived at the airbnb here at about 5pm yesterday paid the taxi man about 50dollars from downtown Montreal to Laval where the airbnb is. The airbnb is actually smaller than it appears in pictures. I no know say oyibo dey play wayo sef but it is still worth the price and extremely clean. We have the entire place to ourselves(it’s a 2bedder @ $770,then again, its Laval).Our host is very helpful and responds to all our enquiries as We visited Service Canada today and got SIN and opened my bank account today. My wife was doing “alaroro” so she refused to open at RBC with me. She said she had read on nairaland about the freebies and what not offered by TD Bank so we crossed over to TD bank which is right across the street and the was so difference was so clear she changed her mind and decided to open with RBC instead. I mean they gave me a 2000 dollar credit limit at the spot at RBC but TD said we’d have to apply and the process would go through approval and the man kept on mentioning that approval was on a case by case basis so he couldn’t tell us for sure if we qualified for credit or not. At this time, we don log out. We were just looking for a polite way to escape back to RBC. Anyways, next up is a visit to my office in Pointe Claire as I never sabi road,make I no loss. My wife has also begun her job search. The bilingualism issue is a bit of a downer but we’r determined to remain positive and to learn more of the language and culture.. I’ve tried to be as detailed as possible cos I know a whole lotta people are coming behind us. If there are other questions you need answered, I’ll try my best to do so…All for the movement 70 Likes 10 Shares |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 4:11pm On Apr 09, 2018 |
interesting.... so he allowed the milk but not the milo. did he state why? Dammie2017: 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 10:53pm On Apr 08, 2018 |
thanks. so i've read. just needed the reassurance. maternal: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 10:48pm On Apr 08, 2018 |
hi, Thanks for sharing. You stated that you wrote down meat and fiah. Did they really allow you to bring in meat? thanks eddycross: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 9:39pm On Apr 08, 2018 |
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Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 8:01pm On Apr 07, 2018 |
Yes, i'm also interested in this particualr conversation. I'm moving to Montreal with my husband soon and from research, the city seems more affordable than Toronto. The only drawback is the language policy.I would appreciate if those in Quebec and especially Montreal can shed more light to this topic. Thank you Iyamefa: 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 7:14pm On Apr 07, 2018 |
Hi. My husband sent to this particular email and the other one several times. Not one sinle response. Lucky for us... he knows a friend who works there and he was told he would have to pay 35k before he would get the letter. We have paid and have been informed we will get the letter on tuesday. 4712A6: 1 Like 1 Share |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 7:22pm On Mar 13, 2018 |
thanks. GlitteringStar: 1 Like |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 4:58pm On Mar 13, 2018 |
hi Guys, Please anyone with this info should kindly assist me please. Would appreciate it immensely. Thanks kachikapor: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 6:46pm On Mar 12, 2018 |
Hi Ballerz, Please i require your help also with this FRSC letter. If there is anything you can you, i would appreciate it immensely. My departure date is sometime next month . Thanks Ballerz: |
Travel / Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant by kachikapor(m): 6:23pm On Mar 12, 2018 |
Please guys i need help with the FRSC letter. I know there was someone who helped others back then. I would really appreciate the help.Its urgent please. Thanks |
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