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Dayo96:
Good day to us All.
Below is my timeline.

First time applicant.
Crandall University. 20-month program.
GCKey portal.
I applied for Study Permit for myself (Principal Applicant), Open Work Permit for my spouse, Visitor Visa for my 3-year old kid, and Study Permit for my kid who would turn 5 in November 2022.

Upfront Medical for all family members (IOM, Ikeja Lagos): 19 July 2022
The following additional tests were conducted because spouse has a history of TB.
• Sputum Production for Principal Applicant
• Chest X-Ray for the older kids (because she was presumed to have had contact with my spouse while she was treating TB.
• Sputum Production for Spouse
• Additional X-ray for Spouse.
• Medical Examination on Spouse by a TB Specialist recommended by IOM (we paid a consultation fee).

Application Date: 6 October 2022.
Biometric: 14 October 2022.
Medical Report updated for the 3-year old kid on 4 November 2022.
Medical Report updated for Principal Applicant, Spouse and the older kid: 18 November 2022.
BVL and PPR for all 4 Applicants: 18 November 2022.

DOCUMENTS UPLOADED (other than IMM forms)
For the various sections where we are required to upload documents on the IRCC portal (e.g. LOA, Marriage License), I started with an Introduction, followed by Table of Contents.
The Table of Contents have hyperlinks to the respective documents attached. I also included hyperlinks to take the VO from the attached documents back to the Table of Contents.

Please note, some of the documents I attached are unnecessary e.g. COVID-19 vaccination card.

LETTER OF ACCEPTANCE
• Letter of Acceptance.
• IELTS result.
• Academic and Professional certificates.
• Academic Transcript.
• WES evaluation report.
• NYSC certificate.
• Evidence of Previous investments which had been liquidated (Education Plan for me and the kids, Shares that have been sold, Monthly Savings Plan with an Insurance Company, Investments with some Investment Firms). I stated that the proceeds were invested in other ventures and form a bedrock of funds being used for my studies in Canada.

PASSPORT
• Bio-data page of International Passport
• Affidavit (in lieu of birth certificate)
• Drivers' license.
• NIN slip.
• Updated CV (Nigerian style).
• Staff ID Card.
• Letter of Introduction from my employer.
• Study leave approval from my employer.
• Introduction letter from my local Church.
• Letter of Ordination from my Church.

MARRIAGE LICENSE/CERTIFICATE
• Marriage Certificates (Church and Court).
• Name change publication for spouse.
• Birth certificates for the kids.
• Over 50 pictures (during courtship, during wedding, during the christening of our kids, pictures with spouse at a volunteering event, family photographs). I cropped the pictures and put an average of 3 pictures on each page. Also, I sequenced the pictures such that they tell our family story from inception.

CLIENT INFORMATION
Here, I included a background that the property owned by my spouse would be included under her application for OWP. Then, included a Table of contents and attached the following documents, which could not be added in other sections due to file size constraint.
• Land Documents (Receipts, Sales Contract, Deed of Assignment, Survey, Advert showing an increase in the price of the land)
• Documents for 2 cars.
• Mum's International passport. (I showed her visa page and some travel stamps, since me I no get travel history).
• Affidavit/Birth certificates for some of my siblings.
• CSCS Statements for Stock/shares inherited from my late dad who died over 20 years ago. (The shares are still in my dad’s name. I explained that my family intends to obtain a Letter of Administration and these shares will be captured therein).
• My picture with my CEO and an EXCO member at an official outing.
• Training Certificates.

PROOF OF MEANS OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT
• SOP (9 pages). I tried to reduce it but my story long.
• Documents relating to the Payment of 50% initial deposit ($17,900 CAD).
• Documents relating to my current employment (employment letter, confirmation, promotion and 4 months’ Pay slips).
• Evidence of Available/Dedicated Fund:

I provided Explanatory Notes on 3 bank accounts.
1. My salary account (where I deposited our naira POF)
2. My USD account (where we deposited our dollar POF)
3. My spouse’s salary account (Here, I just stated that this is her salary account).

Under each of the account, I explained salient points such as lump sums that I wanted to VO to be aware of and included relevant support documents e.g. bonus letter from my employer.
For my naira account and my wife’s salary account, I provided bank statements for exactly 4 months but for the USD account, I provided statement for 1 year because it was just a 2-page document and I wanted to convince the VO that the account was legit even though I had only a few transactions on it.

Asides these, I included an addendum account which belongs to my spouse.
We created and liquidated several Fixed Deposit investments in that account and sizable part of our POF came from this addendum account.
Asides the bank Reference letter, I also included the account statement because I felt it would better convince the VO. The account had a rather unusually high transaction volume in 4 months and a balance of just N500k.
I carefully explained the meaning of some terminologies used on the account statement too e.g. FD booking.

• Letter of Introduction from my Pension Fund Administrator.
• Investment Certificate and account statement from an investment company for an existing investment (the letter clearly states that my wife and I have an unrestricted access to the funds).
• Deed of Partition and evidence of rental income on the property inherited from my late date


I included several hyperlinks on my SOP, my wife’s SOP and the cover letters for the kids. For instance, where I mentioned key words such as “Institute of Chartered Accountants”, Pension Reforms Act, 2014 etc., I ensured that they were modified to be hyperlinks, which would take the VO to the respective websites. I did this so it is easy for the VO for confirm the various terminologies/claims/entities independently.

My spouse and I have no travel history. Therefore, I stated in my SOP that we have been saving consciously towards my studies overseas, so we denied ourselves several luxuries such as travelling on vacations.

Just to mention, asides the funds that were available in bank and investment accounts, I stated that I would be saving specific amount towards my masters program from my subsequent salaries and 13th month allowance.
And that in the period, my family will depend on my wife’s salary and the balance from my own salary (I had previously established the fact that my wife and I save and invest together. Moreover, all my salary and allowances go straight into her account based on my bank statement history).

Congratulations, willing to share all amount + POF together?

hi all, another quick question pls.

will it make more sense to start processing my transcript via WES while still waiting/searching to get admission just to avoid the unnecessary wait?

johnstan:
All Canadian universities/colleges are on IRCC. There you can verify the school and confirm if it's a DLI before you apply to them.

Here's the link.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/study-permit/prepare/designated-learning-institutions-list.html

thanks a lot.

Hi all, pls is there a place to confirm the authenticity of a school one is trying to apply to?

e.g. royalroads university.

Hi all, can anyone please help to recommend schools to study HRM courses (Masters/PGD) with 3+ years of experience in this field as without having to write any exam before getting admission?

Good evening all, I look forward to also joining this ship of testifiers come next year.

My wife is about to start applying to schools and we will definitely be going together.

When it comes to POF, will it be possible to use my account statement or will I need to send the money to hers since we don't have a joint account?

I will really appreciate getting to know things to watch out for as well as things to avoid.

hi.

donshady:
NOT reliable enough. Try stanbic and First Bank and thank me later.

pls, what do you mean by UBA is not reliable

it is well with my country

it is well

I refuse to be tired of this country.

the funny thing people are not seeing is, this person actually registered yesterday, while this same person posted a picture...making us believe he/she needs help....well, i still feel this is actually based on lies...while the person behind this is just trying to paint the female pic on this account bad...

my 2 cent

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So, the guy has finally been caught...thanks to you all.

Danielomisco:
How much did you pay the police to track it for you?

we are actually yet to inform the police, although this happened weeks ago...but was just surprised that the guy still uploaded pictures on her timeline...

Although, there is no point of remotely accessing the phone for now...since the IMEI can't be gotten...should in case there is another way, it will be well appreciated.

An incident happened a few weeks ago, when my mum was actually robbed on Machete point, these were actually young guys around Ile-Epo area (Iyana-Ipaja) and, they collected her phone with her purse (with money) from her.

Checking her facebook timeline today, to our utmost surprise, we saw the pictures below on her profile.

I did like to get any info on how to go about this, please....cos, presently, I really don't know why my mum is scared of us reporting to the police as well, cos the state of police in this nation self is quite alarming.

Thanks.

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This is really a nice concept and i will so much love to support this with my own little donation as well (anonymously).

We can really bring out that change we want in this nation, if we all can start in our own little way.

More power to your elbow @OP, sent you a DM already.

Thanks for this initiative.

Fraih:
Op, the earlier you move out of that relationship, the better.

If you both can't define what you want, then you should continue to deceive yourselves.

you knocked me there...thanks for that by the way

firstking01:
Pheeew, my brother, i didn't bother to read the thread at the sight of the title cos i know it must be one of those relationships were a guy will rant about his gf not being loyal...guys of this century no dey hear word...misef don tire.

smiles...you can still help a bro out

thanks to you all, and i sincerely do appreciate all of your response to this.

I am really trying all my possible best in getting her out of me but my fear is always the reaction on the path to get us apart....cos, most time when we have a discussion which leads to us trying to settle things out in the discussion of our relationship, she sometimes get sicks and always worried to the point of getting admitted sometimes to the hospital

trust me, she is not faking it.... and i am not always the one to pay the bills dou

..but, sincerely speaking, i can't really manage us being friends and i am not a type that does friend with benefit stuffs... HELL NO!!!

i respect females and will always treat them just as i like my own daughter to be treated...but, i can't just maintain us being friends and won't want this her getting worried stuff to get me knocked.

Although, i have started to decrease the level of communication between two of us dou, probably this affection can die down a little...i don't know if that's the right thing to do..i just do not wanna get hurt nor disappointed (in regretting my actions).

once again, i sincerely do appreciate all of our contributions.

Hello, good evening to us all in here.