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Well, she did her Biometrics last Tuesday (same was updated immediately). If however i don't hear from them by next week wednesday/Thursday, then I'll go apply from the new portal

AyabaS:
This is my concern too especially as I haven’t gotten biometrics request more than 48 hours later. Can anyone who reapplied after Sept 7 and has gotten passport request confirm which medium they applied through. IRCC secure account or the IRCC portal

I applied for tourist visa for my mum (after September 17) and got Biometrics request the very next day. Now, i am seeing there is a dedicated portal for that... Would i need to start all over?

Strange because i believe i submitted my mum's using the normal secure IRCC account and i got the Biometrics letter within 24 hours. Didn't even know there's a special portal

AyabaS:
I applied for a visit visa for my mum 2 days ago via the IRCC secure account but I haven’t received a biometric request letter neither has an application number been assigned. I expected the biometrics letter within 24 hours as stated on the website. I’m just now finding out that there’s a new ircc portal for completing the application and I’m wondering if I need to re-apply. I don’t mind foregoing the previous fees paid

I submitted the Application on October 6 and by October 7, had received Biometrics request. seems fast

galala123:
For now, I plan to wait for about 2 weeks to see if there is any feedback from them (e.g. A message from them to say my old application has been withdrawn).

If I do not get any signal, then I will send a webform.

Meanwhile, since you selected "others" and typed "Covid-19", please let me know if you get any signal from them early. This will guide me on what to do next as I may then need to send a web form to correct my purpose (if you hear from them earlier than me as I submitted a week before you). Anyway, I have not found anywhere on their website where they expressly told people to enter Others/ Covid-19 which is why I decided to keep observing for now.

Thank you! submitted now. Is there any other thing i have to do (like submit a webform or something)?

Motheexplorer:
Selected “other” & then typed out “COVID-19” on the “ other” section. I think this is what bumps your application to priority.

For the 'Purpose of visit' (both on the questionnaire and on the Application form), what did you select? 'Visit Family' or 'Other'?

Motheexplorer:
Yes I applied for a visit visa & no reuniting under Canadian laws does not mean travelling to be with someone permanently. I'll explain.

Ideally, if you apply for a Canadian visit visa, your wait time should be anything between 300-400 days (I have no idea what the current wait time is saying). However, the Canadian government has given concession to a certain group of people & are saying we can expedite your visa process if you fall under certain categories. The categories are listed in the link below and documentation you are required to upload as proof too. I fall under the category of extended family member of a Canadian citizen & I was able to get my visa faster that normal because of this. They are big on family and they understand a lot of us have probably not seen our siblings/spouses/kids/parents in over a year due to covid. What they are pretty much saying is if you call under any of these categories, then we will make your visa process faster and let you in.

Here's the link:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/coronavirus-covid19/visitors/immediate-family.html

If you don't fall under any of the categories then you'll have to wait like everyone else.

Thanks for this. I tried to do this for my mum today and the purpose of travel just has 'Other', is it the same? Although on the Application Form itself, I made sure to put main purpose of visit as 'Other' and then added covid-19.

Just want to be sure I am doing the right thing

TBDL:
2 ways that come to mind that could answer or match the statement " you already told us that you qualify for a COVID-19 exemption"
a. during your visitor visa application, you must have indicated "other-COVID-19" under your purpose of travel
b. you must have also informed IRCC through the "webform link/ email" informing them of how you qualify for the non-discretionary travel criteria.

Others can also chip in. check through previously attached link for more detailed info.

p.S your surest bet on any info put out here is to match it with info you find on IRCC website.

Good morning:

I have a question and it's quite urgent...

Trying to apply for my Mum's tourist visa (applying from Inside Canada as a PR). Now, for the main 'purpose of visit', should i pick Other or Visit Family? Note that if I pick Other, the checklist of documents doesn't include Proof of relationship.

Thank you very much

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enquirydon: accord

are you saying the Torch is 17,500k?

You are going to sell/market GNLD products. RUN FOR YOUR LIFE

please, i wanna know if the Glo BIS still works on other smartphones

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About about salary for Level 9 at the Federal Ministry of Justice?

Dewze: Hi guys. I got some hint on a forum that I can browse and download unlimited on my pc, with any etisalat BIS plan, if I do it via my phone, usb, and a blackberry desktop manager.

I did try it with a N100/daily BIS plan. I did the setup (with APN etisalat blackberry Nigeria:8080). It worked very fine. Though after I had managed to watch (not download) just three youtube videos, etisalat cut me off. Now I can't browse anymore and I'm being told to recharge. I've not even spent up to an hour yet.

I just would like to know if the N100/daily is realy unlimited or is it just the N1000/monthly and above tht is unlimited. was it because I used it on my pc rather than on my phone or I did not get the setting right?

Pls any one with a knowledge of how these things work shld help with some bit of insight. Thanks a lot.

sir, can you post the APN settings properly? Thank you

How come Techno are available ONLY in West African markets? Why are they scared to take their phones to Europe? Because they know we are cheapskates who will blow the top over sub-standard, yet fancy-looking products/

And try to search 'Techno Phones' in google. You will ONLY get results from Nigerian sites.

Mr Aboki: Who do you think gets a case to the supreme court?!

The DPP is the prosecutor.. And if the prosecution decides to drop all charges against a person, who then takes it to the supreme court?! So let me teach you what would most likely happen;

1. The AG of Rivers State would drop all charges against Chidi lloyd on some legal technicallity.

2. The Police would not be able to do anything.

3. Ihunwo would bring civil charges against lloyd and sue for punitive and compensatory damages..


#Case closed.

If the AG of Rivers drops charges against LLoyd, it is called a Nolle Prosequi. This is just a discharge and NOT AN ACQUITTAL. it means LLoyd can still be tried for that same offence.

See the case of Clark vs State

0mOnnakoda 25: Police cannot prosecute. That is the role of the State or Federal attorney general depending on the jurisdiction covering the alleged offence. In this case murder or attempted murder is within the ambit of the state just like in the Mustapha case and that was why the FG could not grant amnesty much as they would have liked to.It has already been established that the AG has the power/discretion NOT to prosecute which is likely to happen in this highly political case.Perhaps the police can find a "federal" offfence and get the Federal attorney general to prosecute. That will likely be seen as political and we shall see how successful that will be.Usually that would be things like treason,terrorism etc. The Police cannot force the hand of the AG as they are attempting here.I wonder whether it has ever happened before that the Police engage a private lawyer to prosecute without the authority of the DPP or AG. Their job is to arrest,investigate and hand the file over to the DPP

OSAHON VS STATE. the police can prosecute

Afam4eva: This is not about Sunshine stars or the Nigerian league. This is about the Oboagbona and the heights he has attained in a very short time. How can someone who plays first team football for Nigeria be invited for trials. This guy won the nations cup and also featured at the confederation cup. That was enough for any coach to assess his abilities. It's either he's good enough or he's not. Don't insult him biko.

All the Home Based Burkina Faso players that won the AFCON 2 years ago should be playing in Barcelona, Madrid and so on then

Oboabona is not even superb. If we are talking about Omeruo now, i may express a contrary view, but Oboabona? Wenger himself deserves to be lashed for calling him up for trials in the first place

bjjbam: Why would Arsena Wenger offer an established international a trial? He did thesame thing with Zlatan and he turned him down. [b]The likes of Squllaci, Djourou etc are they better than Oboabona? W[/b]enger should go Bleep himself...

They have been sold. and Oboabona is substandard

Forza p: Ikpeba is so dumb!! i go wit adepoju on dis,after is performance @ d afcon nd even holdin down drogba(wich arsenal defender can hold him?)& played well against d lyks of cavani,suarez yet arsenal wants him on trial WTF is dat?na so arsenal gud reach?if dey want 2 test him why nt sign him nd loan him sumwhere else?God punish trials!

In other words, he is better than all our defenders abi?

atulu

Wilson Palacios was a regular with the Honduran National team before he was called up for a trial with Arsenal. Wenger was impressed but yet not impressed enough.he then called up Steve Bruce who was coach of Birmingham to sign the boy up. The boy had a good season with them and from then played a pivotal role for Tottenham Hotspurs and now, he is an integral member of the Stoke City team.
Till today, he say he owes his success in England to Arsene Wenger who called him up for trials, saw his talent and offered him to other clubs.

Oboabona is just an arrogant, ego-bloated, deluded, hopelessly over-rated player.

he would regret this one day

Bola Tinubu's son, AHMED just concluded his orientation at the Oyo Orientation camp with the Batch B corp members. All through his stay in the camp, he slept in the State Co-ordinator's room, was exempted from almost all the activities and also was also allowed to bring his Benz G-WAGON to the camp.

Reminds me of George Orwell's Animal Farm "ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN THE OTHERS"

Ty207: @lanre_front thanks for your super story .......25k cash no swap!!!

ahahahaha. no mind am. poor people always have tales to tell

President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday had a closed-doors meeting with five Northern Peoples Democratic Party governors in a step towards resolving the crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

The meeting, which was held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, had in attendance governors Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Babangida Aliyu (Niger), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Ibrahim Geidam (Yobe) and Kashim Shettima (Borno).

The relationship between Nyako, Aliyu and Kwankwaso and the Presidency on one hand, and the PDP on the other hand, became strained when the governors supported the re-emergence of Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State as the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum against Governor Jonah Jang of Plateau State.

The northern governors have also been taking sides with Amaechi against the Presidency in the political crisis rocking Rivers.

Apart from paying Amaechi a solidarity visit in Port Harcourt, the state capital, they also met with former President Olusegun Obasanjo in Abeokuta on July 20 to discuss issues believed to include the crisis in Rivers State and the PDP. Jonathan also had a separate meeting with former president Obasanjo in Abeokuta same day.

On Monday, the governors also met with former Heads of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida and Gen. Abdusalami Abubakar on the same issues in Minna, Niger State capital.

SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the Saturday meeting of the governors and Jonathan was one of the outcomes of the consultations they had with the former leaders.

A presidency source said the governors would have met with the President alongside Abdusalami when the former military head of state visited Jonathan on Wednesday evening.

He said the meeting was however postponed because the initial time clashed with the expected arrival time of the President’s wife, Patience, who lost her foster mother, Mrs. Christy Oba.

It was not clear whether the formal military leader attended the Saturday meeting.

Although the agenda of the meeting which was held inside the official residence of the President was not made public, the source said it was a continuation of the governors consultation and intervention in the Rivers crisis.

Our correspondent further learnt that the five governors had earlier met at an undisclosed location within Abuja before moving to the Presidential Villa for the meeting that started at about noon and lasted about two hours.

At the meeting, which was the initiative of the President, it was learnt that the governors expressed their misgivings over the Rivers crisis and advised the President not to take sides.

The source who pleaded anonymity, said the governors also told the President that it was wrong for him to back the Jonah Jang-led faction of the NGF, instead of supporting the choice of the majority of the governors.

Besides, SUNDAY PUNCH learnt that the governors also blamed the party’s National Chairman, Bamanga Tukur, for the crises and demanded that he should be sacked.

“The President was told to support the chairman of the NGF, who is from his zone and who was elected by the majority of the governors.

“They also told him that he should realise that he came to office through election and not through endorsement, which Jang is claiming to have before the NGF election.

“They told the President pointedly that there was no way he could wash his hands off what is happening in both the NGF and Rivers State and that he must act as a leader.

“They said if he could do these three things, the tension in the country would be reduced drastically,” the source said.

The President was said to have denied his involvement in both the NGF and Rivers State crises and promised to find a solution to the challenges the party is facing.

Although there were rumours making the rounds that Amaechi also attended the meeting, the President’s spokesman, Dr. Reuben Abati, who confirmed the meeting of the Northern governors with the President, said the Rivers governor did not attend the meeting.

“There was no such meeting (between Amaechi and the President). I can confirm to you that he met with some governors but Amaechi was not one of them,” the presidential spokesman said.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-in-truce-meeting-with-five-governors/

FALSE NEWS. Reuben Abati has said that the President met with 5 Governors, AMaechi exclusive

Boy2boy: Those weren't really nigerians views. Most of them are paid to post here.[s] Gej led govt is really tryin hard to hijack d midia.[/s]

Arrant nonsense. who has been trying to hijack the media, The Presidency or the Opposition? Many of you just type rubbish courtesy of free Etisalat MB

SirVee: The difference is that Nyesom Wike is 'fighting' Amaechi, and the ogas at the top are fighting Amaechi (evidences abound)! Do you now get it?

You cannot aprobate and reprobate. Amaechi is saying the President has no right to stand between him and his ambition and willy-nilly, he is saying Wike has no right to harbour his ambition. Does it make sense?

Sloan: Mumu, supo, retardeen president! What happened to the agreement you signed in 2010? Treacherous betrayer!

ode, why are you pained?

I have said it many times and i will keep saying it, Amaechi might be eloquent or whatever but he IS NOT SMART. he needs to go watch the movie'GODFATHER' and master the mannerisms of Don Vito Corleone or Don Micheal Corleone. real men dont threaten, talk unnecessarily or blab. even GEJ has NOT UTTERED a word.
on a last note, as at last night, Amaechi's 'BACKERS'were meeting behind closed doors with the President. once they agree terms with the President, Amaechi becomes an Orphan.