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nelsont1:
Have you gotten any past questions on IT yet? I need it too.

Not yet. Still looking.

Please anyone with past questions on Information Technology, kindly share to ddonsly@yahoo.com. Many thanks.

Austinpee4:
1. You may be shooting yourself in the foot if you choose to hide or provide unnecessary information or documents.
In this case, briefly summarize the reasons for your previous refusal in a letter of explanation, add few RELEVANT documents to support and present your facts in a simple manner. You don't have to be defensive, they will still find out all the information they need.

2.Their question is straight forward enough and it a YES or NO answer needed. In the box provided, state in a sentence or two reasons for the refusal. Your letter of explanation and their further enquiry will still give them more details they may need.

3.You don't have to speak ill of an agency that is certified and authorized by their government to carry out immigration services for their country. It makes no difference. Decisions have been made, good or bad.
Your part is to be sincere in your statements, lodgements and facts that will be provided.

The mere fact that you are sincere and state what had happened in your previous immigration history will point a great deal to your credibility. Individual countries have their various reasons for refusing visas or entry to their country. As long as your previous history is entirely not damaging and have not rendered you inadmissible on any grounds, you still stand a chance with any other country you are applying to.

All you should do is explain sincerely what happened and let them use their discretion to make their decison.

Best regards.

Thank you very much for your quick response. Do you by chance know how much information is shared between the UK and Canada about a particular individual? If only I can know, it would help know exactly what to present and avoid mentioning irrelevant things in my statement.

Dear Nairalanders,

Good morning. New member here. I have what I'd like to think is a unique case hence my need for urgent advise and input from Nairalanders.

I currently have two offers of an MBA and MSc from VIU and Carleton respectively both of which I think I can comfortably tie to my Computer Science degree/work experience, but that is not the issue. I think I'll be going for the Carleton option.

I did my 1st degree in the UK, got PSW and worked for a couple of years before attempting to switch back to a student visa for a business-related course and then I had some issues. My application was rejected, I reapplied well within time and it took them about a year to finally reach a decision on my application. They again refused my application on the grounds that the CAS was no longer valid, which of course was no fault of mine given that it took them so long to look at my application. Now that oversight/mix-up on their side meant that the home office now considered me an overstayer. I used lawyers to try to clear up the mess and get them to give my case a proper and fair consideration because as far as I and the lawyers were concerned, I did everything right but then the Home Office had made a decision that was highly detrimental to me. Their new grounds now became that I was an overstayer and liable to be removed. On one occasion, they invited me for an interview and detained me in an attempt to remove me. They said I had no right of appeal in country, that I had to go back home to continue my appeal and case against them.

Luckily the lawyers went to court and the court granted me bail. After that encounter, I felt there wasn't any point fighting any further, so I decided to leave voluntarily. That was in October 2015. I have been in Naija ever since, completed my NYSC last November, done a couple of courses and started working full time since Jan this year.

Now I've been putting together my documentation for Canada Student Visa application but have been struggling on how to represent this particular issue.

1) Is it necessary to explicitly declare this in my application? I have almost all the documents (there are loads of them) showing my transaction with the UK Home Office, the courts, my lawyers etc.. The documents are plenty oo.. wouldn't that complicate my whole application?

2) Answering the aspect of the form where I have to declare all my visa refusals, do I have to state all the number of times the UK Home Office said 'NO' to my application and re-applications?

3) What is the best way to handle this aspect of my travel history. I am thinking that speaking ill of the UK Home Office and my experience with them will probably do me no good. I'm confused as to how to really handle this

NB: Up until this whole issue started, I never had any issues with them, I had been in and out of UK several times and also UAE. But since I returned, I never bothered to travel as I have just been focused on putting myself back together again.

I would really appreciate all your input and comments.

Sorry if there are any errors or omissions. Was trying to quickly get this off. I'm still at work.. Thank you very much.