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Please is there anything wrong if your DS160 and appointment letter is in BLACK & WHITE??

Sannisege:
Thank you for the response. I cannot vividly remember the BP reading cos I was confused at the time when the doc said I was mildly hypertensive. I'll keep hope alive and pray for the best outcome. Thank you and God bless.

Calm down ......no shaking!!

just put your mind at rest, everything will go well.

yemblaze:
Same issue here..UNILAG M.sc verification wahalah since January. WES has sent another mail again. Meanwhile LASU was done in less than a month. Its not WES..Its the school's slow response. It is well!!

Please can I pm you?

Queencyco:
Good evening house,
Please I need your help / advice on this.

I am the PA but a few years ago, hubby gave his international passport to an agent who claimed he was going to help him secure a Canadian visa, through the Nigerian police.

According to him, the police had some slots for a conference and he wanted to fix him. Hubby did not fill any form or present any other document, except his passport.

After some time, the man returned the passport and said they didn't grant him the visa. Hubby fell out with him and used security agents to get his money back.

The issue now is, we do not know if the agent truly submitted anything in his name and was rejected. We have lost the man's contact to ask him what really happened. Is it possible that he did submit the passport without hubby's details?

When applying now, do we declare that he has been denied a visa or not? What do you suggest?

Please help!

In my own opinion just write LOE that you've been a victim of a fake agent and explain.

Please for those that has landed and being in canny land for some time....please as an engineer which province is best I land Or a province where there's Job as I dont ha e anyone in canny land...please

God bless you

Please for God's sake lets kill this issue.
Its Sunday. We are all here cos of one thing (PPR) and I pray God will grant US.

Debsify:
if they're good in evaluating MSC from UI fine you can use them, but be ready to wait for over 3 months to get your report

He he...I always have ICES in mind.
Please bro can I pm you about WES and how you did the waec stuff....or prolly a link won't be bad to guide me through. Anyone will be good

Please help oo
As I am told not to use ICES again cos of delay and co

Please I just need the link to guide me through using WES and can I use my NECO cos I dont have WAEC print out neither do I know exam no, I remembered I left the cafe after I saw D in English.

I'm evaluating MSc tho from UI

Please help

God bless you

Please what is the fate of a secondary school teacher in Canada as I may switch career ......and also the fate of engineers too? This is because I'm claiming my NYSC experience as a secondary school teacher. What is my fate in Canny land ? please

Debsify:
Abort I repeat Abort ICES, except you have the patience to wait for over 12 weeks.

Roger that!!!

Thought ICES is good for evaluating MSc UI to be precise

Please is ICES still reliable for evaluation, or we should go for WES

Ifeoma77:
It's just a suggested list, to help you remember some little things that you'd otherwise forget.
The broom is that small one for ewedu and Shea butter is probably for hair/body. It would be expensive to get original raw Shea butter in Canada.
The list can be found here;
https://www.nairaland.com/3617393/living-canada-life-canadian-immigrant/246#65870220

Oh I see, I was now wondering like broom in Canada!!
This is load ooo, its for women sha, they like load.

titiclassy:
LANDING GIST (LANDED 2 WEEKS AGO)

ALL THE THANKS TO GOD

We booked LUFTHANSA flight for 14th February (yes oo..that was the VAL gift for the family). We went to Lufthansa office in VI so it was cheaper.My hubby doenst joke with his comfort , so he paid for extra leg room, especially because we are flying with a baby and a toddler. Prior to our leaving, when people ask me how i feel about the relocation..I just say hopeful! even when family and friends were super excited on my behalf, me I just dey hopeful o not anxcious, not sad, but hopeful!..hahaha. I stopped work a week and half before trip. I was given a surprise sendforth party at work which encouraged me a great deal and made me rethink leaving known for unknown..but the retink didnt last formore than a minute... In preparation for the winter I had gon to Yaba to gt some gears. was fortunate to meet a merchant that had very nice things...so i made 3 different trips to his place and ended up buying more than i planned (my luggage allowance paid for it but I am enjoying the nice wears now)
I started packing our luggages ..7 checked in luggaages (5 for clothes, shoes, books, alums,household stuff, 2 for some nija food stuff...)thank God for the list that was shared here... i forgot my broom and shea butter sha.. The digital hand scale helped but i still did strong head over packed some bags (especially hand luggaes). I had a special hand luggage dedicated for beans and poundo..it was weighing about 15kg..but when nairaland people told me not to try it...i repsected myslef , found a way to distribute te beans and poundo into checked in luggage while i tranfered shoes and boots into hand luggage. lest I forget I also had..3 hand luggages, 3 back packs, one diaper bag ( i smuggeled my entire heavy jeweries and beads into teh diaper bag..heheheh.. when only jewelry and beads were weighing 5kg (pls facefront o).
Fast forward to the d-day..parents and inlaws saw us off to teh airport, we took some pictures and said bye bye..that was around 3pm...5hours before check in commenced.
we paid 4k for the 2 bags that contained foodstuff. All of a suddden I started fidgetting, feeling guity that my bags will not pass due to over-weight. So i approached one of teh airline officials and reported myself to him that I have over-weight bags and that he should pls help me when the time comes for check-in (my hubby got so pissed at me). that was how teh guy started exploiting my fear...he took teh bags and went to weigh them, he told us we were overshooting our allowance by 22kg or so and mentioned that teh only solution was to pay for an extra 23kg which costs $300 there about...i started widing my husband to allow us beg him to collect 50k.na so the guy do shakara for us and left us. At once my husband told me in 'Yoruba' 'u better start offloading all the off-loadables. That was how I jejely put my baby in his stroller and started off-loading some stuff- removd 2 pack of beans out of 3, 2 kegs of plam oit out of 4, 2 of my heavy shoes, 1 family picture frame out of 2, 2 semolina out of 3,one one heavy butfine hand bag that my sister has been craving to collect..that was how all teh luggages came into teh 23.5-24 kg range and teh hand luggages 8kg. I packed all those extra into a GMG i bought at the airport , I begged one of the customer service ladies to keep it till a friend come to get it that evening. We were given priority check -in due because of my baby..infact having an infant travelling realy paves the way. we were given priority for all queues.
My family was a sight to behold during secuity checking and proceeding for boarding due to our plenty load, (7 cabin bags o...with babay stroller and car seat) i cant try that kind of cabin load again moving with kids. Just before boarding they announced that those with more than 1 cabin bags should come and checkin the extras..we were so happy..my husband took 3 of our 'buddens' to add to our check-in to eb collected at final destination-toronto
Our first trip was very comfortable cos of the extra leg room seats, food was just there.My kids were given toys, coloring book and crayons, snacks too. We all slept for most part of the flight.We landed at frankurt airport and here we had to trek an dtrek before we located our boarding gate. Anyways we experienced a little bit of racism by one of the Air canada officials..they called for priority boarding for anyone with infant and i and my family proceeded to the fornt but she was shocked we were blacks and said we shld hold on (for no explainable reason o)but her coleague interupted and said some words in German and ended it with 'its not fair'..so that was how we sha proceeded into ths bus that took s to the plane. Lest i forget our air Canada flight from Frankfurt to Toronto was delyed for 2 hours..all ths people jst they look us..and We were the only blacks in this flight. I just told my husband that my Nairaland people too like cheap...Ethiopian and Egypt air. Seriously...i was looking for just 1 of u guys..common!
The flight to Toronto was just there..we seat felt cramped..ot that they were bad but we had enjoyed space in teh previous flight..my baby and toddler wer emre active and demanding..but honestly..they behaved better than i had imagened..we imagened the worst..it was their first flght. Good movies We landed Pearson airport at around 3:50pm. We proceeded to immigration. they scanned our passports, minuted on our declaration card and then showed us to take the elevator downstairs to luggage claim. We got our luggages gt one of the luggage movers to move the luggages for $15 or so. We took our bags to customs, they didnt check our bags, she just asked me if we had anythng chicken..and i siad NO, God forbid (in my naija head i was like...chai i shld av smuggled some knorr chicken oo..see as this people no chekc anything..lol)
That was we left customs and proceeded to exit ..yes o EXIT...We missed out teh boarder service part o!..i totally forgot all the steps Nairaland and other Seniors had mentioned. Our famility friends were outside with their cars waiting for us..we came out of teh airport and lo and behold the cold welcomed us no be for here oooo..you cant imagen...i was almost crying for my baby in teh stroller..because the guy frowned face o.. it was colder than my freezer in lagos o..i mean it.
We drove to our airbnb in South mississauga..very lovely apartment ..our friends brougt plenty jollof rice, naija style chicken, efo riri and friends stew... 3 big bottles of jice..some snacks..We gisted a bit..then ate some jollof and we all went to sleep...Our sleep and wake up schedule was 'wakked' for teh next 4-5 days o..it seems we were always eating in the midnight (naija morning time). It was while I was gisting with a landed senior that I confirmed that we had missed a major step of COPR signing and Visa stamping..I also double checked with my Indian coleagues on whatsapp group (lol). Guess what.some people feel we wld be told to return to naija and re-enter. My slef ad my husband cld not relax well on sunday o .... Thank God Monday 18th was family holiday in Canada..so we begged our family friend to come pick us back to teh airport. it snowwed heavily tht morning but we didnot even mind..My prayers was that they shld do our landing proper for us. We located Boarder service and teh guy iniially shakara us that we will have to re-eter Canada. I almost started crying o. I started speaking all the british english i could told him nobody directed us to sign COPR..that we are not awrae of were to go next after immmigration or customs.. so that was how he directed us to anotehr of his coleague and that one now had mercy on us. Na back door (staff lobby) we take enter the COPR area o. We signed COPR, landing date was taken as that day MOnday instaed of the previous Friday. We also got our SIN. We ot back to airbnb feeling releived. made poundo with our efo riro and drank juice and slept.
Fast forward to current situation..we opened account with RBC (1 year free charges on transactions, $2000 credit card each), wrote G1and passed (hubby will get a trainer and write G next week), we got mobile phone package from Rogers (2 huawei p2 pro phones, 11 gig shared for $140). We booked appointment with settlement agencies New commer center of Peel, Access employment information session, COSTI . We attended a small church in our area and teh pastrs wife have been giving my chidren things, toys clothes, eve booster seat for my toddler (the uber drivers cld not take us witout this. Moving around with uber has been expensive but we got to do what we have to do ..its only for a while. The House hunting..chai..it has been discouraing.. the apartments have been asking for requirements (job letters, credit history) that we dont have. Even basement owners does not want to take me with babies...2 of them gave excuses of not being comfortable to put small kids in basement. We got a basement in Brampton but we no too like teh basement..we are still searching sha. Our airbnb runs out in few days and we have an option of a 3 months short rent in a furnished aprtment..its a little above our budget but i guess we will just take it .Myself and hubby are both in the IT domain so we dont want to go out of the GTA. We have started looking for jobs too..and we will keep trying out churches and networking events. Because of the children..we might have to take turns going out. However i learnt that government will bear cost of daycare for the first 12 months if I get a job or go to school. Health card will not be ready till after 3 months. That was how my baby was sick for 2 days and I had to maanage it with hot bath, robb, tynenol painkillers and prayers.. I am praying that no one gets ill again o. meanwhile the plenty winter wears have been serving us well o. even our family frinds says they are nice. We have been going to Square One mall every other day to enjoy savory meals and shop groceries in wallmart..may God help our POF..lolzz

Cannyland will favour you and your family

Please one question, you said they shared list of what to bring?
Broom and shear butter? please these are for what and please if you can share the link of where the list was listed I will be happy.

God bless you

vibrant99:
There are some pages that doesn't exist for "Female"

Most are just for Male .

Most are not there for female .

Oh wow I see

Thanks for the info
God bless

Please I filled DS 160 for my mom B2 visa and I never came across travel history.....

Please am I getting something wrong or this is normal

Ifeoma77:
If the money is in her account, she should walk into any branch of her bank and request to do a transfer. The transfer form for most banks has the little part you tear off and serves as a receipt. Some banks give you a receipt that looks like the type you get when you make a POS payment.

If it's a cash deposit, she should give you the deposit teller

Wow this info is very useful
Thanks and God bless you..

Hope you're packing your bags sha!!!

mia21:
Hi congratulations, pls can u name all the documents you presented to claim point from your NYSC. Thank you

Please bro please a quick question about the gift deed....

Gift deed is from my mom and we are not using the same bank account and she doesn't have online banking....you know how our mothers can be.

Please how will I get receipt for that POF transferred into my account if it is cash deposit...OR should I just submit her ID and bank statement only??

Please I just need to be clear on this biko

Thanks and God bless you

Akpasomething:
1.) I just submitted reference letter from my school in CIC format, and NYSC bank statements.

2.) For the gift deed, a notarized gift deed, funds transfer receipt, treasury bill certificate as I used the cash to buy treasury bills. I added bank reference letter too

Cc: Mia21

Thanks guys

Thanks for the info

God bless you

Topsmamen:
1. Reference letter from NYSC employer, bank statement to show your monthly salary paid during your NYSC period. If you were paid in cash in the first month, write a letter of explanation to indicate this.

2. Notarized gift deed, your bank statement and reference letter, the bank statement of the person gifting the deed to you, any form of ID or document to show proof of relationship between you and the person. If family, you can use affidavits/birth certificates/birth attestation. The bio-data page of their passport could also come in handy.

Thanks for the info bro....

The gift deed is from my mom, can I use her driving license to support the document as she has no e-passport

Thanks and God bless you

Akpasomething:
Long Post Alert!!!

I want to give God all the glory for his goodness and mercies.

Decision to migrate: 29th July, 2018. I have always known about express entry but I was never keen on it until 29th July, 2018. I got into an argument with a friend turned brother (Rijo) about it. He feels I'm not taking this opportunity now that I have the chance. As Luck will have it, I visited my big bro on the day and he inquired on why we were shouting over the phone. My brother encouraged me to give it a shot. And that was all the push I needed.

ECA Registered with WES on the same 29th July, applied for Unilag transcript on the same 29th July, 2018. ECA came back on October, 21st.

IELTS Registered with BC on 30th July, 2018. Sat for the exam on 8th September, 2018. Scores came back as LRWS: 8.5, 8.5, 7, 7.5. I couldn't sleep that night.

Medicals Had my medicals on 24th September, 2018 at IOM Lagos.

PCC Inspector Moshood to the rescue. He sent it through courier.


ITA ITA finally came on the 29th of October, 2018. I was ready. Had all my documentations ready. I claimed points with my 1 year NYSC. POF was gift deed from my brother.

AOR Submitted my application on the 31st of October. But the AOR letter was dated 1st of November.

Then the wait started.

MEP came on the 29th November, gave my biometrics on the 30th.

Got married and informed CIC on the 3rd of January. I got ADR on the 7th. I submitted the ADR on 10th January. I need to point out here that my ADR was labelled Application Transferred. I paid little attention to that label until I raised CSE to submit updated POF.

The reply to the CSE confirmed that my application is in ACCRA!!!! I was shocked, Mad, Crazy, angry, surprised, devastated. Accra had a reputation. But my wife kept reassuring me that our case will be different. And that became our prayer point.

On the 6th of February, I got a. Notification that there's a message in my CIC account. I logged in to see an interview invite. I was invited to Accra for interview with my wife on the 19th February.

We started preparing with the help of the amazing people in my Accra WhatsApp group and November AOR group.

The interview went well, we spent less than 20 minutes in the interview. The interviewer ended the interview saying she'll send a request for wifey to do Biometrics.

The request came on the 20th. Wifey did the biometrics on the 20th. Then silence. I got worried. What if the interview didn't go well. What if there's something wrong?

On the 28th of February, 2019. The last day of the gracious month of February. I got a notification of a message in my account.. I got scared again.. PPR comes through email. What notification are they sending me in my CIC Account. Only to log in and see the PPR letter as a message in my CIC account.

My life just paused. I started feeling warm and cold at the same time. It was pure joy. Undisputed happiness.

I want to thank everyone especially @newmum, Dumprep, every member of the November AOR group, AVO group and the Interview Group. You guys are the Bomb.

To the people at different stages of the process, Keep faith, Trust the process and more importantly, Trust God.

Congratulations bro

Please quick question bro
1. What are the documents you submitted to claim NYSC work experience?
2. Documents you submitted for gift deed as POF?

Thanks and Cannyland will favour you by Gods grace

fatima04:
It all depends on the potential point you are likely to claim regards to age, education and English. You obviously have zero from work experience.

To get a successful assessment as a Civil engineer you don't need work experience. You can use your project during MSC and BSC as career episodes and any other project done during your IT which totals 3 episodes required.

Right now for Australia PR it's best to target 20point in English to stand a good chance.

So first step calculate your potential point and start getting ready for the English test.

N.B:- you can also claim points from state nominating your profession.

Wow
Thanks for this information.... I've been reading about the assessing body and your info helps concerning the 3 episodes and hopefully I can get through.
I did assessment and with 20points from IELTS general test I will be arriving at a total point of 65.

So next is the assessment.....I would want to contact you during that assessment especially the form filling so as to do it right if you wouldn't mind tho.

Thanks and God bless you

Please is there any Engineer with zero work experience that has applied and gotten grant ??

This is my case ooo
I just finished MSc Civil eng UI with zero work experience.
I have read and read but I still think I need someone that passed through this hurdle.

Please I need someone to guide me through this journey

Please is there any Engineer with zero work experience that has applied and gotten grant ??

This is my case ooo
I just finished MSc Civil eng UI with zero work experience.

Please I need someone to guide me through this journey

stepo707:
depends on what occupation you nominating and how high your point is.you need 65points to be able to have a chance.its the basic requirement.That mean you need to do well in your english exam

Yeah bro, thanks for your info. I've read everything on it. As per my qualification MSC civil engineer, Engineers Australia will be assessing it. For a secondary school teacher (ANZSCO 241411), AITSL will be assessing it.

But what I dont get it is that...I dont have work experience as a civil engineer yet and just a year as a teacher during NYSC and the requirement from each body demands work experience. But that of AITSL for teacher demands a teaching practise and stuff during undergraduate.
I'm just confused. its like this thing favours people that has more than 3years experience in their qualification.

Maybe I'm wrong, or as anyone used NYSC experience to claim work experience??

stepo707:
M.Sc UI means 15points

Wow

I'm using NYSC work experience as a secondary school teacher, although zero points would be claimed... hope my chances are high.

Please which body will evaluate my MSc

stepo707:
use the link below...its the starting point

https://www.nairaland.com/3053069/general-guide-australian-permanent-resident

I read everything about the link you put up....but I'm confused here so as to claim 10 points...

"An award or qualification recognised by the assessing authority in the assessment of the skilled occupation
10 points"

Please does this mean outside Australia...
I have MSc at University of Ibadan in Civil Eng
Does it mean I can claim the point ? And if so which body will assess my education credentials??


Please help!!!!!

seyewest:
I think you've been denied U.S Visa before and most time, the V.O that refused your previous application will direct you to another V.O (for fair hearing) I've you traveled out of Africa before?
I wish you applied with your husband and use the children as "ties" or you applied with the kids and leave your husband behind.

Bro, you still dont get the gist. its the wife interfering when the husband is talking. I think the wife might have said something that makes the VO refuse them. Maybe not.

Ceemat:
lol they said I should fill and scan it before sending.... The form is in PDF but what you see here is the screenshot... Even though it is in PDF I cannot still fill it directly from my phone. I need more advice before I supply my info cus scam is everywhere.

Bro wake up...this is scam. Happened to my friend and thereafter you will be told to pay for hotel reservation at Cameroon.

Maybe I'm wrong but wake up still

atseyi:
I know right, everyone is busy now ... this platform was a great tool for me 2012... everyone here was very helpful.. i wish Nigeria itself runs like this :-) would have been nice ... From I won the Lottery ..to ..how am I going to do this and that ...to .. Welcome to America ... to .. got my Green Card.. LOL, to.... wait 5 years ... to Naturalization (Blue Passport)... Its been a Journey...All thanks to everyone here.

Wow congrats tho, late than never..lol

Yes o I can relate very well....I'm presently going thru what you passed thru then tho, and this forum has really helped me immensely.

its the Canada Express Entry thread tho, and I've been getting enough information that would help me scale through the hurdle. It will end in praise by Gods grace and the rest will be history just like this thread here and your story....

I can't wait to leave naija...

Tiwanna:
How time flies. Where are all the people that started this page back then.

I can see you're a vessel of honour on this thread then... its just life.
God bless you
All the best

Jennypharb1:
Of course they will check. Guy, you know this means if you still claim you are married, you can never ever get married in the future they'll put a ban on you forever.
You'll be a bachelor, living all alone in cold cold Winnipeg, cos that's where they'll send ya. Growing purple goatee, no wife, no friends, no family...

Stop eet nah

Jennypharb1:
Of course they will check. Guy, you know this means if you still claim you are married, you can never ever get married in the future they'll put a ban on you forever.
You'll be a bachelor, living all alone in cold cold Winnipeg, cos that's where they'll send ya. Growing purple goatee, no wife, no friends, no family...

Stop eet nah