olaoluwa13:
Hello House , please how much is the latest Canada student visa fee rt now .

WiZiggy:
Hi Gigdraft,
exactly one month to school resumption today! My heart is beginning to do me somehow, I have placed an order for my GCMS notes today, I have sent mails and webforms, one of the mails says file is under active review, June 6th applicant, what further steps can I take to expedite the process, next intake is Sept 2023,so deferral is not an option for me, it's gon be a long wait that will eat me up! Kindly suggest what further steps I can take as I've ran out of time and options. Thanks a lot.

timagbo:
Please, someone help me out

I submitted my C of O of two lot of land without the receipts of acquisition.
Would this be a problem for my application??

gaeul:
Please House, how did you guys resize very large documents and still had good quality...To achieve 4mb nau war

Kpoksie01:
Thanks all for the information and explanations and detailed answers to requests and questions on the thread. Also, kodos to those who have been successful in getting their ppr and study permits.
Please I need someone to please advice me on the next line of action I can take...I applied for for a Canadian study visa using an agent. We (I &my wife) did our biometrics mid June 2022 but we haven't heard anything since then. What can I do now, I am wondering if we should go ahead and do upfront medicals now because resumption at the university is Sept 2022. I am just confused right now.
Kindly advise please.

Ebite2000:
Thank you. Do you think there is a need to send further email/webforms at this time since I'm resuming in two weeks?

AkeemTy:
hello folks, I did my upfront medicals today and would like to upload the e-medicals sheet. But i am confused as to the Visa office responsible for processing applications from Nigeria. On the webform, I am seeing that Lagos, Nigeria is part of the visa processing centre and also other African cities. How do I know which to direct my enquiries to since I am an applicant from Nigeria?

feedback will be appreciated.

2pretty4u:


Price is still 46500, it's UK 's price that is 57,000

lilangel20:
I recently paid for IOM 46500. When did they increase the price?

Kanoute:
Hello ..
Please I am applying for the Canadian student visa and I have been trying to gather some of my documents...
Please I am finding an issue in doing my medicals upfront..
Please are they designated hospitals where I can do my medicals?

Ebite2000:
Thank you so much. I submitted the requested documents on the 27th of last month via my account and not through webform as it was clearly stated. As at last week, it signalled it has been received. But in still waiting for a reply.

Geerlings:
Please for those that have already used New portal to submit, except from space of additional documents is there any space next for upload such has home tie documents or are we going to combine both SOP and home ties document in single space of additional documents am confused

Quiver:


Thank you sir for this. I noticed Nairobi sent me a message on letter of deferred admission and a scanned copy of my new international passport but later recalled the email. Do you think I should still send them irregardless.

Also how does one order GCMS note?

Starangel123:
Congratulations on your visa. Please I need some tips as I have an interview this month. I was previously denied in Feb, 2022.

Ebite2000:
Gurus, I have a quick one. IRCC requested additional documents which I have submitted, what does this mean? My status is still saying ''your application is in progress ''

Walspring:


Some benevolent guys on this thread set up or contributed the funds used to registered people here for discounted offer GRE and TOEFL till date

To God be the glory, it’s nice and we are happy to hear this testimony because these guys vision and mission are not in vain.

Walspring is still here as if is not here.

kponkedenge:
Quick question for those doing Masters in the US:

For those that don't have sponsors.... How do you raise funds over there to pay your fees?

Does all F1 visas carry a work permit? If yes, is the pay enough to cover your tuition and other expenses?

Kindly reply.

Gigdraft:

No, it is not too early to start. You mentioned that you do not have much financially, and that is the more reason you need to begin mapping out your way now. Moreover, don’t even let finance stop you. People who are in the worst financial situation are in Canada presently, hoping a young man such as you won’t give up.

Let me share an experience with you, My Friend. About 7 years ago, I met a young man on this great forum. He just finished serving after attaining a first-class degree from ABU. This guy did not even have the money for an International Passport. I was moved to assist him with the International Passport fee when I found out he is an orphan. When he got the passport, it was dawn on me that it would be useless if he does not write GRE to apply for scholarships. He was a bright man and passionate at that. Come to think of it, I was sure he would pass the test. Thus, I eventually supported him with the GRE fee. I could recall vividly, it was Walspring that did that registration (Walspring was famous in the Travel Section 7 years ago – can’t tell if he is still on Niaraland).

To cut the long story short, this young graduate passed the GRE, got a scholarship, and today, he is in the US. He did not have money for a traveling agent. He did everything himself as I would advise you to do the same. A man with no money for a passport found himself in the United States of America! How ironic?

Now, My Friend, first complete your Bachelor’s degree and try to build your CGPA to first class. Then, apply to schools for admission. Once that phase is concluded, you will find your way.

Have the most beautiful night, My Friend.

okay4sure:


Please can you put more light on the process!!!!
Thanx

Gigdraft:
HOW TO SUBMIT FORM A

With the scarcity and unstable rate of foreign currency in Nigeria presently, the most suitable option for a student might be Form A. At the moment, 1 USD is above N700, which is outrageous. Hence, I will be taking you on the easy process of accessing foreign exchange at the Central Bank of Nigeria or interbank rate.

Note: the guideline below is a key to submitting your Form A form electronically – in the comfort of your home. How easy is that?

How do I obtain foreign exchange at the interbank rate? Don't worry, it is simple, and I will take you through it.

Step 1
Visit www.tradesystem.gov.ng

Step 2
Click on GO TO PORTAL

Step 3
Select Individual (as a student)

Step 4
Enter your 11-digit Bank Verification Number (BVN) and click continue

Step 5
Your BVN-registered email address will welcome a mail that contains a one-time password (OTP). Enter this password and click CONTINUE

Step 6
Create a password, verify your email and activate your account.

Step 7
Go to Form A and click on CREATE. Note: under Shortcut to Common Transaction Purposes, you should select Education Fee and Education Services, for Type of Services.

Step 8
Fill out other sections of the form, which are illustrative. Attach documents such as your passport data page, letter of acceptance, school invoice, etc.

Step 9
Submit the form and await your debit notification and payment confirmation from your proposed tertiary institution.

P.S. This might take weeks or even months.

I hope I have been able to straighten and clarify your haze.

I can’t wait to read about your beautiful POE experience.

Silas12345:
Please help me my application is now 13 months and I never get a decision, just eligibility review I'm tired already and don't even know what to do.

Gigdraft:

WHAT TO DO WHEN YOUR VISA IS UNDUELY DELAYED

I have noticed multiple complaints on this platform about the inordinate processing period for study permit applications. I empathize and could relate with the anxiousness, agita, distress, and uneasiness that are behind these complaints.

Therefore, to bring relief and enlightenment, I have decided to offer insight on the right decision to take when your application is delayed. I love to say little but in my little, you will find a walloping fragment of sense. Hence, I will keep this write-up to the shortest length.

What do you do when you experience an undue visa delay?

1. Raise a Customer Service Enquiry (CSE) Via the IRCC Webform Medium
The webform is the most efficient and quickest channel of reaching the Canada Immigration Department to process your application. This medium was specially designed to make application tracking easier. Thus, it is the mama that you run to when your application exceeds the current processing duration.

PLEASE CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO RAISE A CUSTOMER SERVICE ENQUIRY:
https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/case-cas-eng.aspx?mission=Nairobi&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

The process is simple and illustrative.

2. Send an Email to the Department Processing Your Application
Before you do this, ensure you have waited for 5 working days. If there is no response, then please go ahead and send them an email. As far as Nigerian applicants are concerned, most applications are processed at the Nairobi Office, so here is an email address that you should employ: nrobi-immigration@international.gc.ca

3. Contact a Member of Parliament (MP)
Once you have completed Step 1 and Step 2 and yet there is no change in your application, then you should create a friendship with patience for an additional 2 weeks. If after that, there is still no update of any kind, then you can write a Member of Parliament (MP) within the jurisdiction of your proposed institution. The office of the MP has unrestrained access to the Home Office, Home Secretary, and Immigration Minister. Such an office is equipped enough to raise an inquiry on your case, and you know what that could do to your application.

I must caution you to be as polite as possible while doing this. Your issue is with the IRCC and not the MP

4. Hire an Immigration Lawyer
Note: before you resort to this option, you must have ordered your GCMS note to ascertain what is causing the delay. If the GCMS note does not help, then instruct your lawyer to submit a Formal Request Letter on your behalf. Trust me, this has always worked. But, if it doesn’t you have the last option.

5. Request an Order of Mandamus from a Federal High Court
This is an option I can only recommend to people whose applications have lasted for more than a year. When you obtain a writ of mandamus, the IRCC officials would have no choice but to prioritize the decision on your application. So far so good, I have not seen any mandamus that wasn’t honored within 60 days. But, as I earlier stated, make it your last resort.

I have spared precious time to compose this for your enlightenment, and I hope it helps someone out there.

Lastly, I will leave you all with Habakuk 2:3

"For the vision is yet for an appointed time; But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, It will not tarry."

Quote me when you have your PPR because it shall surely come!

Creeknigga:

Weldone sir.
Please I know it might be too early to start but I feel like staring now will do me a lot of good.
OK, I'm suppose to graduate this year save for the ASUU strike and immediately after graduation I plan moving to Canada for my masters so I'll really appreciate if you it any other person with knowledge on how to go about it will guide me through.
Though I don't much finance, I'm just banking on my grades (currently on 4.31/50) and my zeal to make the journey.
I have been reading and going through the Canada visa site since yesterday but the stories are much. I just need a summary of what I need to make this movement by next year.
Thanks.

jj17cv:
Good morning house

Pls how much is IHS in Euro rate

Urgent attention is needed

Abi2022:
Come and join me sing Halleluyah!!!!

I have received my love letter. PPR received 12:41pm. April 26, 2022.

Portal - New Portal
Application Date - April 26, 2022
Biometrics - not needed since I had a visitor visa in 2016 and Biometrics is still valid
Upfront Medical - May 25, 2022
Upfront Medical Passed - June 23, 2022
PPR - August 02, 2022
Sponsor - self Sponsored
Age - 39
I used an agent who helped with admission and application

It has been God all the way.

I stumbled on this thread a month after submissions when there was no movement with my application. I did not submit the numerous documents seen on the thread and doubted my application will be approved at a point especially home ties.

I got frustrated when my medicals was not updated for at least one month. I sent various emails to Accra, Lagos, Nairobi, Abuja and filled numerous forms. My faith was tested and still I believed that God who started this will perfect it.

Documents summited include
1. Bank Statement (Salary and Savings account)
2. Payslips
3. Letter of Explanation on sums paid
4. Offer Letter from Company
5. Acceptance Letter from School
6. School fees balance payment (Submitted through Webform)
7. International Medical Insurance Certificate
8. School Certificates
9 Professional Membership Certificate

I pray for all waiting that the God that did not fail me will show up for you too.

The wait is over

emmy4Gold:
Thank you Gigdraft for the above clarifications. I contributed just to make Linzo be abreast of the total fees for study permit application.

Sanjayd1:
I book PPR for I and my family on this thread. As Jehovah lives, our approval is sure!

emmy4Gold:

Hello Linzo, 150 CAD excluding the biometric fee. The total is 235 CAD. However, if one has done biometric before in ones previous application, then 150 CAD is the amount one is expected to pay.

Linzo:
Hello friends, please I need urgent answer on this. I m currently making travel estimate for a friend who got admitted in Brandon for Bsc, but I got stocked with the Visa fee.

So my question is HOW MUCH IS CANADA STUDENT VISA FEE FOR SOMEONE APPLYING ONLINE?

Please some should help me with real figure either in CAD,NAIRA OR USD, to pay upon submitting the application online. Thanks on anticipation

whitewizardry:
I am currently in the US, and i realized i haven't shared my transcript. Find below, it would inspire someone to not give up!

Visa approved

4th Attempt (2F1s, 1B1/B2)
Abuja
July 2022.
PhD Construction engineering
Fully funded
COA: 25,000 dollars
Funding: 30,000 dollars.

Fringe VO dark hair

**I dressed very casual, 4th attempt isn't your mate na, �. I just needed a miracle.

VO: good morning pass me your documents.
VO: have you travelled to the US before?
Me: No ma I haven't. (My legs started shaking because she had denied like 4 people before me)

VO: where do you work?
Me: I currently work as a research assistant at my alma mater where I graduated as the best in my department, and my CGPA is one that hasn't been attained in the department in the past 5 years. My roles include; statistical data analysis in the field of construction engineering, conducting qualitative and quantitative analysis of data using SPSS, python, and R programming language. I also assist undergraduate students with their research papers and assignments, I attend conferences and produce technical reports from these events. I also assist undergraduate students with laboratory work and testing such as slump tests, Nondestructive tests, and abrasion testing. I help to source for data for proposed publications, I also assist in reviewing literature of proposed publications. (I said all of these word-for-word, while staring her in her eyes. While saying all of these, she was looking at what I filled in on my Ds160 - the work description, to see if it actually rhymes).

She started typing for like forever.
Then she asks;
VO: what will you do when you return back:
Me: I will be returning to my alma mater where I currently work as a RA to take on the role of a senior lecturer - I had an incredible CGPA and the faculty members are really certain that I will be an asset to the department when I return back. On the long run I will be starting up a first of it's kind consultancy firm that will focus on safety in construction. Currently, from my master's thesis, I analyzed that in Nigeria about 900 construction workers die as a result of poor safety measures. I would be...(she was nodding - seemed impressed at this point, then she cuts)

VO: would you be taking a study leave?

Me: yes, I would be.

VO: is it paid or unpaid?
Me: it's paid but I would be only paid about 50% throughout my 5 years.

VO: I see that All your family are in the US? (Omo my mind was like �). - (at this point she looked straight into my eyes, if not that I was prepared, I would probably have stammered or just gotten lost)
Me: I said No I have a lot of my family members here in Nigeria inclusive of my dad, brothers and sisters, although my mum is a Legal Permanent Resident (LPR), while my other siblings are on OPT, who will be returning to Nigeria soon. As for me, my sole intent for travelling is to go for study, after which I would return to Nigeria, because Nigeria needs me more than the US, and this skill I would be getting from this PhD is very vital. I have a strong ambition to become a full-time professor before the age of 40, and to publish high quality research content that will improve the current state of things in the construction industry here in Nigeria. (She smiled, and typed back into her system)

VO: have you been to any other country outside Nigeria?

Me: No.

VO: Are you married?
Me: No.

VO: Any Kids
Me: Not anytime soon, I am really focused on my career in academia (she laughs).

Then she touched the blue papers (my mind almost cut, but I was ready for any outcome, as I felt I had been astute and sincere enough) then she moved the blue papers to the other side and reached out for the sought-after white paper and said the golden words congratulations. I just fell down on the ground, everyone was laughing like who's this village boy ��.

Vo put her hand on her chin and was just shaking her head while smiling. I picked up my white paper was almost in tears while giving God praises. - people must have been so shocked to see my reactions. But i couldn't hold my emotions;

This is my 4th attempt, and I had the odds against me, because I have been denied severally even without the VO checking my i20. Once they see that I have my family members in the US they already assume that I have immigrant intent and instantly deny me.

One thing I'll advise people, is to be truthful with their DS160 (especially what you filled on your first DS160, please be consistent with it), I declared the family members I had in the US. In all the DS160 i filled. (Even when people kept telling me, to lie about that - the chances they have the information about them in their system is high), so just come out plain and truthful. And defend yourself as to why your intent is genuine.

Let your story make sense. VOs are human, especially when you have a VO who's ready to listen to you. Please don't give one-word replies. That's too dangerous.

Maintain eye contact with the VO, and watch the body language of the VO.

While you're waiting for your interview, please listen to the questions the VO is asking other people - there is a high chance it's the same questions you'll be asked.

Speak boldly, don't be shy about whether anyone is watching you or not, your purpose there is the white paper so please stay focused - and shout if you can. Confidence is an underrated skill in this journey.

If you can get funding, please do. Funding plus adequate preparation works magic. (Less questions, you'll be more confident). Most of the people they approved today had at least some level of funding ( even if it was 20%)
Write standardized tests and cold email professors. The chance of being denied when you have full funding is very slim because VOs know you have a low tendency to abscond when you get to the US.

Lastly, delay is not denial, I knew that I really needed to study in the US, so I made up my mind that it had to be the USA or nothing - call it desperation, but I call it ambition.

Appreciation to all the several groups (mocks, prayer groups, date groups) I was in - we shall all win. Although, i was scared to do mocks because I knew my story didn't resonate with that of others. So, I just listened, and asked questions from people who had experience in this Visa Journey.

Thanks to @Geraldine from Active Participant group she's amongst the reasons I got a date in July ��. She kept re-adding me to the date group even the admin kept removing me �. That admin guy, if i catch him ehn .

Also, Major thanks and gratitude to @NigPatriot on nairaland, i believe he is a cheat code in this visa thing . That guy should be a visa officer. He's too damn smart. I reached out to him and he helped me for free without charging a dime; in answering questions which were troubling me with regards my visa application and also provided clarity for me in this application process. I wish every applicant success in their upcoming interviews.

Morenikeji25:
thank you so much

TOSM:
you tooo much abeg. thanks so much

Gigdraft:


Hi TOSM,

Below is the data I have accrued from last month:

Banks & their average Length of Transaction (LOT):

1. Unity Bank ----- 2 weeks
2. Eco Bank -------- 3 weeks
3. Access Bank ---- 1 month

Note: These data and my suggestions are based on personal experience.

I can't wait to read your testimony!

Cowbell521:
I don't know but my Junior brother used Unity and Eco last month and he got it almost same time as gigdraft put. When did you use Unity Bank?

Mattmich:
Someone reported here that unity bank is fast. You have to change bank or go for black market which harsh. I used Ecobank and my money left on the 19th day. I have no one in the bank

Morenikeji25:
Hi everyone I am new on Nairaland my friend just introduced me here he said I can post anything concerning my travel and I will get answers. I want to go for my BSc and it is my first time applying so I got a refusal in May based on personal assets and financial purposes I have ordered the gcms note and it is yet to be delivered. I want to reapply now so my dad is my sponsor but he wants to use his company as my sponsor (he is the owner of the company). I. In the last application, some people said one of the reasons was because I didn’t submit my statement of account and all of that but I am 19 and I am still a dependent is the ere a need for me to submit my account or is there any need for living expense to be transferred to me? I am open to all suggestions please if you have any advice or you had a similar application kindly reach out to me in this thread I wait for your replies. Thank you.