Good evening everyone,

Please, is there any one landing in Ontario anytime soon? Say in the next month? I need help buying something from Nigeria please.

oluayebenz:


No passport photograph is not part of the requirements

Thank you very much

ami213:
Please share your timeline first! Then the gurus here shall advise you on how to send passport VFS.

Ok...sorry jare.

We applied for a Visitors visa for my MIL on February 11th.
February 21- Request for biometrics
March 3rd - Biometrics submitted at vfs Lagos
April 8 - Request for passport

The entire journey took about 6-8weeks and there was no back and forth with IRCC (Thank God for that).

So I just want to know if she needs to add a passport photograph to the documents she is sending. I read the letter from IRCC but there was nothing like that. But I don't want VFS to reason our matter, that's why I'm asking.

Good morning all,

Please what are the required documents for passport submission (visitors visa)?

My main concern is if we are required to submit a passport photograph along with the passport and consent form.

Please help!!!

Ok will search for it. Thanks a lot

SunshineD1:


@blackbuddy and @Mrs O. had put up links for online jobs in the closed thread I believe. Maybe they or someone else can assist.
Wish you safe delivery of your Canny baby

Hello all,

Please ooo, for people in Ontario, are there remote jobs I can do for now? I am heavily pregnant and may not be able to work long hours but I need to do something. I am also considering taking a course but I still don't know which one is more lucrative.

I studied Accounting, have my ACCA, but I have about 4years experience in Banking only.

Biko, any suggestion is welcome.

https://www.nairaland.com/4933819/living-canada-life-canadian-immigrant

NubianQueen87:
Please can someone add me to the sister thread on details involved in moving to Canada?

Thank you!

Update:

PPR: Dec 11, 2019
CoPR received: Jan 22, 2020

Breath of fresh air!

Esomimi:
Congrats!!! Wish I could go there to pick up myself. DHL is a mess right now.

Congrats!!! Wish I could go there to pick up myself. DHL is a mess right now.

bekayy:
@Esomimi @Natalie27 @Bankyh1905 @Ebixxx @Kpnick

Update: COPR

PRR: 13/12/2019
Submission: 17/12/2019
Approved online. 09/01/2020

Ok thanks! I hope you are at the airport cos we have sold your bed space in Nigeria o.

bankyh1905:
Lagos.

Congrats. Is it Abuja or Lagos you submitted?

bankyh1905:
Update

Passport Submission: December 16th, 2019
COPR: January 13th, 2020

Passport Collection: January 21st, 2020

Hi Bekayy,

Please is there any update on your passport collection? Been waiting for mine too. Submitted on the 17th of December, got stamped on the 10th of January.

bekayy:
Update.

@Natalie27 @bankyh1905. I went to the VFS office, Abuja. Passport is still in Accra. I was told to wait for the text so maybe next week. Cheers.

They recently updated POF requirements. Also, no application is the same. Even CIC says so. Some people have unique concerns about their applications but do not get answers because the people that might have good suggestions just scroll past especially when questions like "I have Bsc, can i enter the pool?" come before or after it.

Kekereekun123:
there is nothing new in express entry for like 4 years now. so i don't know what new information you are looking for

You're not missing anything jare. People just don't want to learn. Someone will still come and ask "What is FSW?" and someone else will answer totally watering down the efforts of people who have taken their time to research and respond to these questions in the past.

Asetime:

If we all ignore, how do we all learn. Even if it were pinned, people will still ask and that's why page one should be directed their way. Constructive criticisms are in no way bashing, except I am missing something here?

Just imagine! I am in this boat too o. Unfortunately i can't stroll to their office so I'm praying for them to wake up in that office. Submitted passport on the 14th

Freeasabird:



So if you submitted your passport between the 10th to 15th of December 2019, your passport may be lying around the VFS Office.

Cheers!

It's good you asked! Run as fast as you can to Abuja or Lagos to get it done. It is very compulsory for express entry o

kennedychinedu:
Congrats. May your road continue to be smooth Amen.
Please i saw you said Biometrics passed and biometrics done.
My question: Just got BIL, is there any need to go for BIL and if yes where is their office.
Someone told me the BIL is just them telling you that they have received all your documents.
Please i am confused as they said only 30days

Request to speak with your account officer.There is an approval he/she needs to get from the legal department of the bank to issue you a reference letter in a format that is different from the Bank's standard.

Venom104:
Access bank is refusing to issue a Bank reference letter on my savings account. Please how do I go around this? Any ideas? Thanks

Good day all,

Please I have a question. I recently got my application for Permanent Residence approved and I intend to land in Canada in February. My due date is in the first week of April and i won't have insurance cover then. Please does anyone know of any midwifery service I can access before delivery? All the ones I have contacted are full.

Really? This is good news. Thanks a lot

Blackbuddy:


Congratulations on your golden email and also wishing you strenght and much blessings towards your safe and successful child birth. You will actually get free pre and post natal support for your childbirth through the Association of Ontario Midwives who do not require you to have a health card to be able to access health care in Ontario. They are fully funded by government and will provide you care and support from when you register and are placed in their system.

Just reach out to them through their contact details and start planning towards your happy day, https://www.ontariomidwives.ca/

Wishing you and your family all the best ahead

Thanks for the advice. We are looking at that option now.

jjohndoe83:

Check with Alberta. Healthcare starts from day 1 I hear. You only have to be resident there for 180 days thereafter.

Good morning all,

Got my golden email yesterday and I am excited to be here. Please I really need advice. We sent our passports out yesterday and we are expecting it between end of December and second week of January because of the holidays and I have to give a month's notice at the office for resignation. The problem now is, we plan to land in Ontario in the first week of February, I am pregnant and due for delivery in April. I was told Ontario health card takes effect after 3 months.

Please how do I manage this? Certainly we don't have the funds to pay for medical bills when the baby arrives.

Please help!!!!!!

Hahahahhaaha, I stay in PH sha, so I think u r right. We are used to driving bumper to bumper here and Ikwerre men don't waste land o

bekayy:
A huge congratulations to your family. Chai you must be used to living in an overpopulated space. Abuja life is nice. We are beginning to complain that the city is getting crowded sef.

Somebody say PeeeePeeeeRrrrrr
From a not so silent reader!

Timeline
AOR - July 5
MEP/BIL - July 31
Long silence
RPRF request - Nov 23
GU - Dec 7
PPR - Dec 11 dated Dec 10

Oya take gist!

It all started in March 2018. Hubby and I just got married and we were thinking "what next?". I have a sibling in Canada and my mom is the Queen of Canada visit and they both felt moving to Canada was the only way to go. So the verbal planning began. We prayed, sought Divine direction for several months until we finally decided to give it a push in 2019.
Anyways, I took my first IELTS on the 9th of February, result came and it was heartbreaking - LSRW 8.5,7.5,8.5,6.5. We applied for remark for Speaking and writing sharply even though money was doing us "the more u look the less u see". We also registered for another test, not wanting to put all our agbalumo in one basket. Took the test on the 23rd of March and a week before the results were released, I got a mail that the EOR for the first test was ready. So we opted to pick both results the same day. So IELTS went like this:
EOR: LSRW 8.5,8,8.5,7
New test: LSRW 8.5,7.5,8.5,7
Both tests were with BC
Me I was angry we wasted money on the new test. Was even wishing I could gift someone my result but God dey.

WES
In January we started our ECA with WES and we initially thought it would be a breeze... hmmm. We calculated our CRS score over and over again and it stood at 469. Then my village people working with WES came o. On the 29th of April, Hubby's status was updated that he was to pay a balance of $28...how? Since January Hmmmmm, the way the man called them on phone ehnnnn, me I was just begging on their behalf (the trick is to speak with their supervisor, worked like magic). Anyways, they agreed it was their mistake and promised to sort it out in two working days.
The WES was beginning to look one kain, so one day, I decided to recalculate our score without hubby's ECA and we stood at 459. Omo! we boned his WES o, I'm sure their mind was paining them that we were not bothered again. We had already planned to be in the pool before the May 15 draw, but WES was not out, so I was really sad! As God would have it, there was no FSW draw that day (make nobody stone me shoe o!) and I knew God had a plan. Two days later, WES sent my report and an hour later, my profile was sitting pretty in the pool (talk about speed). May 29th came and cut-off was 470 (chisos!). My chest was doing me somehow� Luckily, hubby and I already planned a vacation from 31st, so I set my mind on that instead. On the 31st of May, WES updated Hubby's profile and we were to get his ECA on the 20th of June which would take our score to 469. His report finally came on the 24th of June and we immediately updated our profile. So, we looked forward to the June 26th draw. ITA landed on the 26th of June with draw score at 462.

Medicals
We booked our medicals with Q-life family clinic even before we entered the pool. We were already in Lagos for our vacation so we booked a hotel close to the clinic and appeared at their gate the night before and wrote our names first...hehe. The next morning, we strolled there at 7:30am. At 8am, the process started and we were out before 10:30am. Those pple are organized sha...

Police Report
Inspector Moshood to the rescue!!! We got to Alagbon after a one hour drive (Lagos is a country on its own). I was already anticipating a lot of bureaucracy but the process was really seamless and Inspector Moshood was really nice and courteous. We were out in less than an hour. PCC cost us 8k.

POF
POF was something else. All funds were in Treasury bills supported with a combination of Sales agreement for one of our cars, sales receipt from hubby's business, bank statements, reference letter, payslips, letter of non-indebtedness and a breakdown of the source of funds. Plenty documents...I know.

AOR
After triple checking our application, we finally submitted and paid at 4am on the 5th of July. Got AOR in less than 3mins. Na so tension start o...lol. infact hubby came up with "We forgot to add your payslip" that night...haaaa, something I remembered that we scanned and uploaded. I told him to calm down o, lemme not be sweating inside river.

MEP/BIL
31st July. Was sleeping jejely when hubby woke me up at 9:21am and I groggily got up to look at what he was showing me. He was just shouting "medicals passed", "so you don't have syphillis"...lols, we play too much btw. Anyways it took me like 2mins to 'wake up' and register. Then I joined the excitement and we began searching for flights and excuse to give at the office. We finally settled for Aug 7th flight, decided to do it at Abuja before Lagos vfs office will use my PPR to shine. Flight to Abuja was smooth, the Biometrics process was seamless, we were in and out in 30mins. Profile was updated in less than an hour. Meanwhile, just on the side, Abuja pple biko, why does your village look like a big empty ranch. Everywhere is empty with plenty plenty wide roads. Anyways flight back to Port Harcourt was scary, I have never sang as many Christian songs as I did that day o..chai. finally got home at past 10pm and we were dead tired.

The wait
After Biometrics, we discovered we were pregnant with our first baby, so we were a bit distracted but then again we needed PPR to come fast cos dis pikin gats land for Canada o. The wait was something else, hubby could not restock his farm, we could not buy major items at home cos we didn't want the hassle of having to sell later...issues. Fast forward to the morning of November 23rd, my ever vigilant husband discovered an ADR for RPRF waiting for us. See Baba calling me when I was doing my "early morning business", I taught it was a joke o. Checked my mail, saw ADR and was drinking spiritual fanta as if it was PPR. We wanted to wait and pay the following Monday o, but excitement did not allow us. We were able to get a friend to pay for us using his Sterling Bank card because of exchange rate wahala. We paid at N267/1CAD that day. After that day, I became so vigilant. I would wake up at 4am to check my mail and profile...chai. 7th December, we received a Ghost update. ADR changed to 'Not applicable' and we were excited as usual.

PPR
On Tuesday morning, we were expecting the mail. I woke up like 4 times to check my mail and I was disappointed not knowing that God was just laughing at impatient me. That morning I was not even encouraged to go to work. I needed that mail to breathe. This morning at about 1:30am, I woke up to use the restroom, one mind said check ur mail, but I didn't want to be disappointed, so I went back to sleep. Minutes later, hubby woke me and I saw the smile on his face. He showed me my screen and there it was! The great Golden Mail! apparently sitting in my inbox even when I woke up. God gave me an early Christmas gift and I am extremely grateful.

Moral lesson
Biko, there is no moral lesson o. Just be patient if not na high BP get u. Also, this is a total DIY process. Just research and ask questions.

Thank you all for your support. We got a lot of answers from Nairaland

Print your statement of account, apply for a letter of non-indebtedness as well and explain with LOE

Shesbiodun:
Hello everyone. Pls help

So I want to use gift deed for my POF but the bank is saying their reference letter won’t state my current balance, non-indebtedness and it’s availability for immediate use because it’s only a savings account and not an investment account.
How do I go about this since this is part of the requirement for IRCC?

Hmmmmm, I am not a guru o, but this does not look right o. You need to be in the pool, get ITA and submit documents, get AOR, and then after about 25-40 days u get a letter to go for Biometrics. But ur agent sounds like if you send these documents now, u will get it. Please find out the kind of application this is. Cos this doesn't look like express entry. There is no mention of IELTS result in her list either. Scam if u ask me.

Mstick:
Hi Dear good evening,
Pls find below the list of Documents that we need for the Canada exclusive package.
Passport bio data page
Birth certificate for kids/adults
Marriage certificate if married
Curriculum vitae
Education Highest qualifications
Passport photographs
Past travel stamps and visas if you have one.

We are still gathering secondary documents from Canada and we intend to begin application process Please kindly email this documents to lad@yahoo.com and pls biometrics is in abuja for those applying outside Lagos. We intend to see how possible it will be to get a date for biometrics and all this depends on both you the applicants ability to provide all documents and the fast delivery of the documents coming from Canada.
After we receive the documents we shall send the forms to get your accurate details.

Regards


This is the requirements I was sent by the agent.

Simulate ur score, evaluate your credentials, write IELTS. Try and read page 1. I'm sure the
abbreviations will confuse u, luckily there is a link there for their full meanings.

Mstick:
I've been reading, am just so overwhelmed right now. Do I start from getting my IELTS? So confused.

Please send it immediately!!! The agents are even on this thread getting info. This is a 100% DIY process.

Mstick:
Hello good morning all, I goofed. I just sent 1.3 million to an agent yesterday to start processing a visa for a family of four.

Please someone needs to help me. After I paid I came to this thread and I couldn't sleep, she says I should send my account for a refund.

Cc mumoftwins2017
Justwise, ladymarshall

Wrong information. Only sales to individuals and small corporates under the Open Market Operation (OMO) have been stopped. Please visit your bank for more info.

CanadianBae:
For your information....

CSE - Case Specific Enquiry a.k.a Webform

glitchyyy:
Hello All,

My question may sound funny but please oblige me . I am post AOR .
I need to raise a CSE but i don't know how from my profile and can't even find the meaning of the acronym.
Is it the same thing as the IRCC webform?
Please help

Walk in will do. And yes, u can come back same day

beges:
Hello Fam.Do I need to book appointment for BIL for Abuja or a walk in will Do?Also, can I fly in get it done and out same day?

Looks like they read ur post o

epottemi:
CIC which way? Let's stabilize the trend of this CRS cut off point with a Surprise Monday draw now #musings

Good morning all,

Please does anyone know if the Biometrics machine in Lagos is working now? Supposed to be there next week and I'm about to book my flight. Please help!!!!!!