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RandDigital:
Judging by the list Lagos was the poorest city on the list. Tickets were probably half priced due to Tinubulation. Tyla is better off.

Whites own 22% of the total landmass of South Africa, blacks own roughly 1%.
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‎Whites own 72% of Agricultural land, blacks own 4%, Indians 5%
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‎Whites own 49% of Urban lands where blacks are overrepresented, blacks own 30%.
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‎A White family typically has 25 times the household income of Black South Africans. Removing White, Indian productivity y'all are some of the least productive in Africa.
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‎How unprivileged do you have to be in your own country to look upon immigrants with envy? I know it is that Bantu Education that has stopped y'all from recognising whose wood is firmly lodged in your behind.

Mideriks04:
Hello everyone, thank you guys for all that you do here. I used to follow this thread when i was in school in 2021-2023 but life happened and couldn’t keep up.

I’m 26yrs old, have a Bsc in Sociology, i started nysc 2024 and finished in 2025 and since then i’ve been working remotely for an healthcare advisory company in Canada and for another company un USA (small companies by the way). I’m planning to write celpip exam this year and then enter the pool. I’m currently learning Cloud Computing but that’s by the way.

I’m kind of confused on which one to go for? Am I entering the pool via express entry or PNP? Would appreciate any guidance here

When your questions are improperly framed or the answers to them are quite dense, it makes it quite hard. You can apply to provinces for nomination that's an entire category. Read up.

I don't think the Canadian Experience class is for you either. I don't think you work in a trade too.

Your other option is the Federal Skilled Worker programme, they've abandoned general draws, so it must be under one of this categories.

French-Language Proficiency: Candidates with strong French skills, typically scoring CLB 7 or higher.

Healthcare and Social Services: Professionals including doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, and social workers.


STEM Occupations: Experts in science, technology, engineering, and math, such as data scientists and software engineers.Trade Occupations:

Agriculture and Agri-Food: Workers including agricultural supervisors and butchers.

Transport Occupations: Roles like truck drivers and transit operators.

Education Occupations: Professionals working within the education and teaching sectors

Goodluck!

TeeOA12:
Thank you everyone for all the amazing updates.

Please has anyone used Birdview Travels and tours for Canada PR processing? I reached out to them and I plan to use them but I just want to know if there are any negative reviews out there.

Thank you.

😮. You are going to entrust your future to the intricacies and whimsy of another person especially one whose interests are better served if you keep paying.

Immigration consultants even in Canada do not have the most pristine reputation and are highly hated, compare that to a low trust society where criminal behaviour rarely draw consequences.

Don't bother yourself, even if you do not qualify an agent would not tell you to keep you paying, then it just gets worse from there. It is your life, make time start with ChatGPT, watch YouTube videos. Try computing your anticipated CRS score there's a calculator on IRCC's website. It is not rocket science just a basic knowledge of the English Language.

osars:
Do you have the pdf of this textbook or hardcopy and can you help with it?
Do you have any french textbook you would like to give away?

"The complete french conjugation course"

I have the PDF of the Atelier, I also have physical copy. The physical copy I kind of want to keep because while I studied French I centred TCF not necessarily a deep engagement with the exam, I did my exams around 9 months ago I have forgotten half of what I've learnt.

Try oceanofpdf for books also download Le Petit Prince. In my spare time I'd probably compile a list of the PDF including atelier that I have and leave a link to the Google Drive on the TCF/TEF French page on NL.

Is the one- way courier method as safe as picking it up from their office? Why does VFS force one to pay for separate courier for dependents even seperate mobile tracking updates even though it's to the same phone.

I submitted just last week, abeg people how long am I going to be waiting for? I'm targeting the beginning of the school year.

Willie Willie Willie William PA pa pa, Daddy in the parlour watching film pa pa pa... Change your style, another style 😜

This country is a farce. He presided over a state that's not only one of the poorest in Nigeria but is now exporting terrorism and banditry to other states. He's trying to get useful idiots to rewrite history, he'd probably succeed.

MayorOfEdmonton:
That’s not completely true.
WES will simply put the date on the transcript on their evaluation. Unless that has changed.
There’s someone a while back that had similar issues here.
After ITA, I believe he attached an DoB affidavit and LoE explaining the discrepancy. He also attached evidence of his unsuccessful attempts to have the university change his DoB.
Ìré ó

The date on his transcript would differ from the date on his passport, if this is because the University made a mistake it can be straightened out but if it is because the date of birth was tampered with after JAMB which was something that was easily done before NIN, the school will not change it neither would JAMB.

OAU my Alma Mater has DOB on its transcripts I've seen a few mates get into this quagmire.

I do not have any experience with the ECA under this circumstances but I've had people really step in it with the US one got his I-20 withdrawn, the other lost a military commission.

Even if WES evaluates it and I'm not certain of that he'd get a PFL for the discrepancy, he'd have to prove the University made a mistake, he could do that by uploading his WAEC certificate+ LoE + University correspondence but even that is up to chance. I suppose there's no harm in trying.

Emdee360:
Hi everyone,
I'm currently dealing with an issue concerning the date of birth on my academic transcript. I have contacted my university, but I was informed that correcting the date of birth could take a long time and involve a lengthy process. I'm concerned that this might affect my WES evaluation and potentially my future immigration application. I would appreciate advice from anyone who has experienced a similar situation. The date of birth on my university transcript is incorrect. My correct date of birth is 13 January 1989, which appears on my international passport, birth certificate, NIN, and other official documents. However, my university transcript contains a different date of birth. I understand that WES primarily evaluates the academic documents submitted by the institution. I am therefore unsure whether the date of birth on the transcript will appear on the final WES evaluation report or whether WES will use the correct date of birth from my identity documents. My concern is this: if I proceed with creating my Express Entry profile and enter my correct date of birth 13 January 1989 could I later upload an affidavit explaining the discrepancy between my correct date of birth and the incorrect date of birth on the transcript submitted to WES? Would submitting such an affidavit, together with my passport and birth certificate, and NIN be sufficient to explain the discrepancy and prevent any potential issues, such as a Procedural Fairness Letter (PFL) or concerns about misrepresentation? I would really appreciate advice from anyone familiar with WES evaluations and the Express Entry process. NOTE: I already have a profile information as my correct date of birth under IRCC when we applied for study.

Thank you.

If there's a discrepancy between the date of birth on your transcript and your passport, WES would simply refuse to evaluate it. They'd keep your evaluation fee too.

No affidavit or anything would suffice don't waste your time, your best bet is to correct it from your school.

I have a friend that had the same problem, but in his case he adjusted his age which was apparently a common thing pre-NIN when people maintained different date of births for different stuffs, it wasn't till he wanted to join the Officer Candidate School of the US Army that he noticed that the university transcript has DOB on it, he spent millions they just took his money nothing happened.


If you're ever going to change it, you're going to start from JAMB and it goes on and on. Best bet if you can get a Nigerian school to admit you for MSc they'd likely accept the affidavit then evaluate your highest degree.

Goodluck

Lukuluku69:
Good riddance....

The "No School Tomorrow " part is to protect kids in and around the area from what could ensue from rival gangs/cults.

It is a good proactive measure.

Safety first.

Make dem go dump that thing in one hole....

Thanks for pointing it out. I didn't think of it that way.

He was a cultist. No school tomorrow Ke. The kind of people we idolize in this country is crazy.

He's addressing a side meeting not the UNGA lol. Dude couldn't even address Chatham House. Nigeria should ditch the geriatric, corrupt basket case they "elected"

Ifetech81:
Good afternoon, please i need an advice.My Wife and 3 kid step children moved to Canada in May 2026 with Work permit and study permit respectively.We did Court Wedding 10th of January 2026.Meanwhile,she is a Registered nurse with Job offer as a Registered nurse in a hospital in Alberta Canada and she have resume work in June 2026.Am still in Nigeria.However,My wife was Nominated under Alberta Advantage immigration program Non-Express entry and Invited to apply for PR and we planned to apply for PR by December 2026.My question is,Do we still need to show Proof of Fund when submitting our PR application?, because i according to what i read in IRCC website page, there is where they stated that,if an applicant have Job offer and Work permit she or he don't need to show Proof of Fund(Settlement Fund) when applying for PR.Pls i really need more clarification about it and know if such applies to my wife suitation too, because my wife whom is a Registered nurse have Job offer and Work permit,and already working as a Registered nurse in Alberta Canada.Pls let all gurus in the house respond to me please.I will appreciate if i get good reply from every here.Thank you.

I looked it up for you and confirmed on Reddit, The general rule is that proof of settlement funds is waived for applicants currently authorised to work in Canada and hold a valid job offer.

When at the final stage of filling the express entry, pops up and it asks her to upload proof of funds. A Letter of Explanation attached to a few pay stubs should generally suffice.

I think more knowledgeable people would still provide answers if I'm wrong.

kslay28:
Hi, sent you a DM


Thanks

Bros no vex o, in the interest of clarity, openness, accountability and maintaining anonymity on a public forum in a low trust society, I ask that you ask your questions in the open so that others might benefit and more experienced people might be able to respond.

I don't have any special insight, everything I know comes from GPT, reading this thread from Part 4, friends, family and Reddit.

SatanIsAllah:
When has the US ever fought a long war against either one of Cuba or Venezuela and why did America go to war with Afghanistan? Was the war against Afghanistan provoked or unprovoked?

How is the war in Afghanistan provoked? Of all the perpetrators of 9/11 not one of them has Afghan nationality. Of the 19 hijackers 15 were Egyptian, all of them are American client states.

Nevermind that the Mujahideen that became Taliban are themselves clients of the Americans during the Soviet-Afghan war. Dude pick up a book!

Thank you for your response. As per different versions, circumstances do change. An employed can become unemployed or self employed. No circumstance is permanent. Hence, no primary version is permanent

Please, when is the best time to start one's application? after one year ? or when exactly ?? can you link me up to an expert


I appreciate your response

I think your wife is in the best position to get a licensed immigration attorney, I do not know any sadly. Goodluck

zainjok567:
Hello guys

My wife and son are in Canada. They migrated via PR in mid Feb 2026. i was included as a non accompanying dependent. My excuse was due to work. She is doing a minimum wage job at the moment. I want to start my PR application as a sponsored dependent by mid august, next month.

My questions are

Is the timing good enough? from mid feb to mid-august

will i be asked to provide bank statement to prof my claimed work experience?

can i also send enough money to her to boost her financial standing, since she will be my sponsor ?


Please, who has done this or know someone who has done this. or have the experience in this ?

You better calm down as you've been told across several threads where you've posted different versions of this question.

Trying to sponsor a non-accompanying spouse within a few months of landing carries a severe risk of application refusal or a 5 year ban for misrepresentation.

You run the risk of getting your wife and son's PR stripped and revoked if the VO concludes that your non-accompanying status was a tactic to artificially boost CRS scores.

She literally just got there, she doesn't have the financial stability and you must provide exhaustive proof on why you did not move initially since you're self employed things like active client commitments, ongoing contracts, caring for an ill, dependent member of the family or active property listings.

It will be hard to overcome the skepticism if you do this within a few months even worse you run the risk of actually negatively affecting your family.

Strap in bro asking different versions of the question won't change facts, use this time to strengthen your bond with your family and start getting the gargantuan amount of paperwork and proof necessary for your application. Your wife needs to have filled taxes and not be on welfare.

kunleham:
So why are you still alive?

You should absolutely get your brain checked out by a highly credentialed professional.

1soul:
I wanted to discuss Gift deed POF with you as I am working on my documentations for submission.

I needed a little personal guide

The 6 month money trail isn't absolute, if you get a giant infusion of money, as long as you can provide proof no problem.

Say you sold a car, you're going to need a bill of sale, car title and transfer of ownership, payment slip clearly labelled and the overwhelming evidence is if you have the new title the new person got as evidence of an irrevocable sale. The same thing applies to land and other properties.

For the gift deed, it is getting abused this days so it needs a bit of delicacy to get the documentation right.

It simply means someone is giving you a gift (money) can be for your travelling, this money is given from a legal source, not a loan, no expectations of payment in cash or kind, free of any obligations on your part.

A gift deed works best if the giver is an immediate family member (parents, siblings) every other things trigger doubts and that eventual PFL.

The proof you'd need is..

1. The gift deed itself, you can find templates on Scribd it would state the gift is free of conditions, the relationship between both parties and the source of the gift, get it notarised by a lawyer, typically both parties would need to be present.

2. The evidence of the gift ( cheque, deposit slip, cashier's chèque, bank transfer)

3. Evidence of the relationship between you and the giver.

4. I've seen people on Reddit get PFL for the bank statement of the giver so while you may not initially include be ready to present it.

I used it too, no ADR or nothing thus far, fingers crossed. I'd be happy to answer any further questions here

People would rather die than subject themselves to the numerous indignities of the Nigerian state.

psrsx:
Hello, please, I am 35 years old. I have a master's degree in Biochemistry from a Nigerian university. I just recently graduated from a Nigerian Nursing school with a Registered Nurse (RN) certificate. How do I go about traveling to Canada as a Registered nurse. @Walden and my Ogas/ Madams. Thank you

This place doesn't substitute for research or personal responsibility, when you ask a question that indicates you have done absolutely no work on your own, you invite responses from agents that only need your money.

A few things jump at me though, your age is advanced after age 30 you start dropping points, you don't seem to have nursing experience. Read up about the Express entry process and the Provincial Nominee Programme. When you've read up, watch a few You tube videos. Calculate your CRS scores, plug in realistic scores for your English language test, compare this against the historical cut-off scores for the health-care category draws, come back with more targeted questions. Goodluck

IAmRuby:
For someone with law background, how can you qualify for either health draw or education draw? Because there's no such thing as ITA for lawyers. I've been trying to learn French to enable me take the TCF exam but it isn't been easy. So I'm trying to explore other options if any.

If I get a job in a nursery school, after 12months, will it be enough??
Or if I'm able to prove that I've worked in a hospital for a period of 12months, will it be enough?

Look let me give you the "non-agent, non-chat gpt, no need for follow-up or pay me later version"

The IRCC doesn't do general draws again, so you need to get drawn under the subcategories. Your Legal education qualifies for the senior managers stream but you are lacking Canadian experience, your qualification is secondary to the duties you perform for an NOC.

You have several options if you have a year to spare, you could get a job as a *Secondary School Teacher* *Elementary and Kindergarten Teacher* * Early Childhood Educator* *Teachers assistant* and *Special Education Teacher* . If you take this job get paid in your account, pay your taxes, take tons of pictures with your students and document your experience to the fullest extent possible.

For the health draw, you'd need a job as a nurse aide , hospital orderly or personal support worker. Again there's need for that documentation. All proofs and documentation requirements apply

If i were you I'd say learn French, if you're willing to devote a lot of time to it, you could get it done in a year or thereabouts, the French draws are more regular than the education and even the healthcare draws plus you get an extra 50 points for being bilingual.

While pursuing all this you could pursue provincial nomination, it is a very very long shot but you got time. Go on line, read more. Don't give your hard-earned money to anyone. Goodluck.

1soul:
There was no court marriage between my ex and I.

I remarried and my new wife is part of my application.

I want to still try if I can get their medicals but my 60 days is already running.

My ex is seriously frustrating my effort.

Even in cases of traditional marriage, a customary court still has jurisdiction and a magistrate can still compel her to appear.

If everything fails, you can file a legal complaint, add evidence of your correspondence, swear an affidavit you've tried to reach your wife to make your children available to no avail, upload this in lieu of their medical report along with a letter of explanation.

This isn't as rare as you think, it is a real tragedy when a marriage break down and the children have to navigate the landmines. Goodluck man...

1soul:
Hello guys,

Please I need advice.

My ex wife has refused me access to my two daughters to have them do medicals so that I can be able to sponsor them anytime in the future. I want to add them to my application as non accompanying but her refusal to cooperae is giving me sleepless nights.

Not declaring them can amount to misrepresentation.

My 60 days is already reading and my current wife is really tensed for fesrnof this affecting oit application.

Please what do I do in this instance?

Has anyone encountered this before?

Yes. I'm sensing that the marriage has irretrievably broken down, your next step depends on the resolution of the marriage.

On your decree Nisi, did the court grant your wife sole custody of your kids? if they did you have no legal recourse. if your ex-wife only has primary custody then you're entitled to your private, unsupervised time with your kids.

You must get a lawyer, get the lawyer to rush through a fundamental right enforcement suit, it'd cost you a pretty penny this being Nigeria and all, you can get a judge to rule on it. They are your kids, you're not taking them away from their primary caregiver you simply want to secure their future.

The simpler way is to try the elders in your family, if all of this fails retain every record of your attempt to contact your wife and her intransigence, all backed up with a LoE. You should be fine.

Denying your kids a future because you detest the other parent would never not be wild to me. Goodluck.

MimithankGod:
Thank you for your response🙏🏼

Just to clarify this, I'm not just claiming this business to pad my CRS score. I actually ran it. If it's about proving that, I have plenty of documents: CAC registration, tax documents, bank statements showing customer transactions, an official business account, delivery receipts, supplier receipts, and I'm also hoping to get reference letters from clients, shipping/logistics company, and suppliers.
The one thing I'm genuinely trying to figure out is whether I can claim this as full-time work experience while I was still studying that's really my main question.

Thanks for clarifying, it is theoretically possible to do this but in practice it is usually unwieldy and should be backed by a LoE.

If you're not on Reddit join the r/canadaexpressentry and r/Canada immigration. Claiming to study full-time while working full-time attracts a high degree of scrutiny and the attendant ADR&PFL but if all your documents are in order not only payments to your bank accounts but payments to yourself, audits, taxes and all. Congratulations you've kept a perfect book perhaps more than 90% of Nigeria small business owners in which case there's absolutely nothing stopping you.

On a totally unrelated note, they verify this tax documents extensively and if you pay back taxes not on time but paid as some sort of remediation, you should absolutely make sure your paper trail is intact and again a LoE. Goodluck

MimithankGod:
Hi everyone Good morning
Please I have a question.
Is it possible to use my own registered business to claim work experience for Express Entry? I was actively running my business online while I was still in university, and I have about one year of post-graduation work experience. I’m trying to increase my CRS score, so I was wondering if I can use my business experience to claim an additional two years of work experience.
I spoke to an travel agency, and they told me that self employed work experience cannot be used. I’m a bit confused because I’ve seen different opinions online.

You intend to claim full-time work experience while you were enrolled in the University probably full-time simply by having a "registered business"? that'd be fun to watch, Goodluck with that.


If you like take the ChatGPT answer from the agent with vested interests below he's just trying to make a buck or 150,000 as the case may be, you'd only have yourself to blame. The evidentiary record required for NOC 60020 (Retail and Wholesale Trade Managers) requires Third party letters, invoices, audits, business address,bank activity showing consistent deposits and finally *Corporate Tax Records* . Even if it is for highly skilled services like freelance software engineer, data analyst you need your portfolio, website, GitHub , completed projects and exhaustive taxed financial proof

When you get hit with the eventual PFL for this histrionics all in the name of trying to max out CRS scores, it tends to elicit regret.

You can claim whatever to claim whatever to gain points but remember you eventually have to provide exhaustive proof. They are highly skeptical of Nigerian documents, the starting point is to consider them fake. Use your tongue to count your teeth

https://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/country-information/rir/Pages/index.aspx?doc=457580

walenden:
ICES evaluates the Nigerian Diploma in Nursing as equivalent to a three-year Canadian advanced diploma. For Express Entry, IRCC allows applicants to select the "Bachelor's degree (three or more year program)" education category for this ECA, which awards the same CRS points as that category.

Thanks for clarifying. Point taken.