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Please we would appreciate any information on passport drop off for visa stamping. We sent one of our mentee to drop off her passport at the VFS office in Abuja, she was told at VFS office to schedule appointment online. The earliest date she got was June 1. She is supposed to drop off the passport within 30 days (June 1 is outside the 30days). Can she use courier to send the passport? If so, which courier service. Any information will be appreciated.

Please we would appreciate any information on passport drop off for visa stamping. We sent one of our mentee to drop off her passport at the VFS office in Abuja, she was told at VFS office to schedule appointment online. The earliest date she got was June 1. She is supposed to drop off the passport within 30 days (June 1 is outside the 30days). Can she use courier to send the passport? If so, which courier service. Any information will be appreciated.

DejiiiiB:
Please all gurus in the house help me out

I just got an update from IRCC that stated below

LOA: Please provide an updated Letter of Acceptance with an updated start and
completion date.

Funds, proof: Provide updated proof of financial support, including detailed bank statements.

This must be received at this office by: 2022/12/19


I was suppose to resumption in March, but I already submited the March 2022 LOA with my application, but later I opted for their online class that start in May 2022 due to the visa delay and the school sent me a new updated LOA for May 2022 online class which I sent through webform to IRCC around April

SO now they are asking for an updated LOA

I want to know is it this same LOA for the May 2022 I will need to send again or do I need to contact school for another one.

I need your advice guys������

Contact your school and request for proof of enrollment letter. Send it to IRCC with a note informing them that you commenced the study online while awaiting a decision on your study visa application.

CAD2019:
Hi everyone, please this is URGENT... My kid sister arrived Canada on a student visa yesterday and the immigration officer requested to see all her documents including her tuition receipt. Unfortunately she doesn't have any as it was only her application fees that was paid. As a result of that the immigration officer didn't issue her study permit but told her to come back today..

is it compulsory to pay the full tuition before landing Canada ?

As a proof she can pay the tuition fees if my mum writes a letter of authorization and my sister login to my mum's(sponsor's) bank statement and show them the balance which is about $40000 will it be ok?

Any advice/suggestion is welcome.TIA

If she stated in her study permit application that she's made the tuition payment then she needs to show it. If she did not state that in the application, then she need to go back with a her or her sponsor's bank statement showing the availability of the fund to pay tuition. Alternatively, she could delay going back to the Immigration post, pay the tuition, obtain proof of payment and then take it to the Immigration post.

If you fail to provide updated information about the death of the person who's inviting you, you'll be withholding information material to your application. The consequences would be severe even if it was discovered after you visa is issued. Pls do send a webform to update the information.

Divinefavrite:
Good day House. I have been reading through the pages of this thread and I must commend all the men and women of goodwill who diligently go out of their way to help others here in various ways. Thank you.

I have a situation and I am here to seek advice.

My husband and I applied for visitor visa via the new portal on June 10 with a letter of invitation from my husband's uncle and a letter of introduction from my work place. We did our biometrics on June 20 and have not received any other correspondence.

The situation is that my husband's uncle just passed on this Tuesday and we are at a loss for what to do and how it could affect our visa decision considering that we were to stay at his place during our visit.

I am wondering if I should raise a web form to report this new situation or just wait and see what happens next.

Please I need advice. Thank you.

The House of Commons report of its study on IRCC is out. Happy to share that the Committee substantially accepted our recommendations to address the discriminatory treatment of study visa applications from Nigeria:

1. Removing IELTS requirement for study permit application from Nigerian

2. Expanding the Student Direct Stream (SDS) program to include Nigeria or harmonizing the financial requirement under the Nigerian Student Express with the requirement under the SDS

3. Automatic 3rd party auditing of visa offices with high visa refusal rates etc.

You can read the report here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/441/CIMM/Reports/RP11800727/cimmrp08/cimmrp08-e.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3QCnOaCGGYB5zjMSjPiODGphJWYRvNIRyBhLf-9zWtQQ6uqcB2ONf2e50

Here's the link to the new #IRCC webform portal. Much better than the old one.

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/contacts/web-form.asp?v2

Here's the link to the new #IRCC webform portal. Much better than the old one.

https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/contacts/web-form.asp?v2

ASI-Canada's Submission to the Canadian House of Commons' Committee on Citizenship and Immigration on the IELTS English language proficiency requirement for Canadian study visa applicants from Nigeria, and the use of artificial intelligence by IRCC in visa processing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2EuTtOuUfo

Today on Thisday

Watch ASI-Canada's President, Dr. Gideon Christian's submission at the Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration's hearing on the high Canadian study visa refusal rates for foreign students from Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=909-0v-Kj2k

Why Canadian Consular Officers Deny Nigerians Studying Visa

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/02/19/why-canadian-consular-officers-deny-nigerians-studying-visa-by-ircc/

You want to know the REAL reason why many Canadian study visa applications from Nigeria (about 88%) are refused by IRCC? Listen to this Canadian immigration podcast. It's revealing:

https://soundcloud.com/borderlinespodcast/67-is-ircc-systemically-biased-against-people-from-africa-with-gideon-christian?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

BEWARE: Don't fall for any fraudulent immigration consultant. Before you hire any, check the database of registered Canadian immigration consultants on the link below, if you don't find their names there, and they are not lawyers or paralegals in Canada, then you may become a victim of fraud:
https://college-ic.ca/protecting-the-public/find-an-immigration-consultant

Exhibits

A group of Nigerian professors and graduate students in Canada writes the Canadian Immigration Minister Sean Fraser over biased and discriminatory treatment of study visa applicants from Nigeria & declining study visa approval rates for Nigerian applicants.

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teedarling:
Hello Guys,

Please am about applying for Tourist visa and also start the process of Express Entry.
Can I proceed with both application at the same time ?

I heard from a source that Creating an Express Entry profile may lead to tourist visa denial.
@Oluayebenz @Megastu
Please help.
Thanks

It's not a good idea to create an EE profile when applying for a TRV. It will hurt your TRV. If you're in doubt read the case in the link below:
https://canlii.ca/t/hxkbh

mariam055:
Good morning all, I got my LOA just last month. An agent based in Canada requested I pay flat legal fee of $4000 cdn. Then government and biometric fees of $335 Cdn. A total of $4335 Cdn, to help me with my visa processing and any legal services required. Is dis worth it. Knowing fully well that am just trying to gather money for sch fees, accomodation, and my 3 yrs old son kindergarten fee in Ontario.. I also don't want my application to get rejected, cos I might just loose interest in the whole process. Any advice.

That amount is unreasonable and high. A Canadian immigration lawyer would charge half of that amount for a study visa application.

wd2454418:
You better don't fall victim. Shine ur eyes very well....

Thank you. It was only an offer to assist. He is NOT obligated to accept it.
https://twitter.com/AfriScholars1?s=09

ritzzybaron:
Ha! If you change the course, then they will have to start the entire evaluation again. If you change School, you will submit a fresh application.... So what was the point of the whole JR. Na wah o

You should discuss this with the lawyer who handled your JR. The fact that the JR was settled out of court is not a guarantee that the application will be approved on reconsideration. So you should discuss any change your making with your lawyer.

Shokoloko:
Good morning, please I need help.

I have a student coming in for studies at the University of Calgary. At the moment his hosts who promised to take him in for the first week while he makes arrangements for accommodation is no longer responding to calls and messages.

Can I please have someone to pick him up at the the airport this Sunday and possible get accommodation for just a week. i would be happy to pay

Thank you

Can you send your contact phone number to asi.scholars@gmail.com. We can help provide him with INFORMATION on accomodation.

patocypher:
I received this email from IRCC, I just found that the agent that submitted my application didn’t pay for my visa and biometric fee, even after I was asked to make the payment on 10th of June, I still called and she said she has made the payment, I received this email from IRCC, I’m so short of words, don’t even know what too reply, anyone with this knowledge should please help me, I’m ready too pay

Before responding, contact your agent to get details as to why the payment was reversed. This is a very serious issue. The procedural fairness letter that you posted here (though not legible), is the first step in a process that may result in 5yrs ban from entry into Canada if you fail to properly address the issue. The issue here is not your willingness to pay the money now but rather why the payment was reversed resulting in debit to The Crown.

[quote author=patocypher post=104962173][/quote]

The Canadian govt, working with the Ontario govt. is considering imposing a temporary restriction on arrival of international students in Ontario. If you’re an international student heading to a school in Ontario, you may need to hurry your arrival date before this plan crystalize.

honeycandy:
Hi guys,

I am about to start my application. I am already in the Express Entry pool. I want to ask the experienced ones in the house if I should withdraw my EE profile before applying for study visa? I know they say dual intent is not a reason to deny one study visa but what will you guys advise based on your experience.

Thanks

<https://twitter.com/ProfXtian_ASI/status/1386907964498272262?s=20>;

Rootiab:
Please be careful.
Admin @Oliadeo7 just tried to scam me of 1.5m.
I know there are people trying to get help here. But take everything slowly. Don't be eager and get duped. He gave me rate of 340 to 1 cad and I fell for it. Not knowing that this guys is a scam. He paid the fees. Waiting for me to send the money to a Nigerian account that is not in his name and passport id doesn't have the same name nor does he has the same name on number. I told someone in Canada to call the number he gave me and he didn't pick and later called him to a private number. +12363614295. Thats his number. He said he graduated from ubc. He has pr. All na lie. Please be careful. This are the pictures given to me. Please be careful out there.

Can you provide clear details of what really happened. You said "He paid the fees", but wants you to pay the Naira into the Nigerian account that is not in his name. Has the fees he paid on your behalf in Canada been reversed, or do you have problem with paying money into an account in Nigerian that is not in his name?

Over 80% of Canada study permit applications from Nigeria are refused. That is more than 8 out of every 10 applications. So, pls when applying, put your best foot forward, and keep your expectation mild. Best Wishes.

Uzomachukwu:
Who is insulting and disparaging who? That ain't my MO, man. Meanwhile, why use the inclusive "we" subject in your opening sentence here? Who are the "we" that are much aware of this incident you just mentioned? I am certain that am not included in your "we," as I do not know of the case you're citing, and will be glad if you could locate that applicant's post here on Nairaland and quote it for all of us to read again.

Moreover, even as you're mentioning it here for the first time now, you do not really know what went down in that application, nor do you know what the said immigration lawyer included or left out in their explanation to IRCC (unless you were the lawyer in question), just as you did not say at what point in time they had contacted IRCC (as soon as the mistake was discovered, less than three weeks after the application was submitted, or just very close to the finalizing of the application, in which case the procedural fairness letter must already have been underway before their webform clocked even a week and ready to be acknowledged by IRCC).

At the same time, do not think you have full information about the nature and depth of the error or number of errors the applicant you cited committed in their application. But as to the error of the nature being talked about here yesterday, I can definitely say that a very convincing explanation letter and a new IMM 1294e form sent through a webform earlier in time will be enough to take care of the problem. Yet, the outcome will partly depend too on how many other obvious "lies" the applicant told in their application (once = perhaps a mistake; twice = surely intentional).

Used “we” because the handle belongs to a Canadian NGO (not an individual). We do have experts in this field including pro bono Canadian immigration lawyers who provide free immigration information to prospective Canadian students from Nigeria. We have dealt with multiple cases similar to the case of the individual making the inquiry here.

Now that you know who “we” are, the point “we” are trying to make is that it is insulting to refer to other’s view as garbage (as @RELAN2446 did) just because it differs from your lay view. This is a public forum, people should be able to contribute to issues here without people like you disparaging their views. The fact that the information we provided differs from your does not make yours right and ours “misleading”. If you want to know more about the case "we" referred to pls watch our Webinar video on the link below and hear from the very immigration lawyer that handled the case. You may want to jump to the 51.10 minutes of the video. <
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqUT5qR-VaM>.

RELAN2446:
As in, i just dey laugh as e dey dish the garbage out with confidence. God will help those who need help o. Everybody na immigration officer for here.

Mr. @Uzomachukwu and Mr. @RELAN2446, we are very much aware of a very recent case where an applicant made this mistake, and their lawyer immediately contacted the Nairobi Visa Office to correct the mistake. They still sent a procedural fairness letter to the applicant and banned the applicant. It took an application to Federal Court in Canada to have the ban reversed. The cost was over $3k. There has been increasing attempt by the VO to use this mistake to ban applicants. So, you can go ahead with your insults and disparaging remarks. Nobody is obligated to take any suggestion here. But please learn to treat other views with some measure of respect.

Mobi22:
There ought to be another way.

Yes. The other way is to wait for a s.40 procedural fairness letter from IRCC, followed by a 5yrs ban.