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good morning guys can I still apply for may intake or I should just focus on fall

Good morning guys is it adviceable to apply for may 2023 intake now or I should just focus on fall 2023, thank you

johnstan:
If you paid for a 2 way service then the passport will be delivered to you FOC.
If you did not then visit their office and pick it up in person or pay VFS to send it to you with their courier service.

i thought we were not allowed to pick it up in person, anyways I will go there tomorrow

Powermike8:
Please if i may ask, how long did it take them (VFS) from when you submitted your passport till now. Was it above one week to receive back your passport?

Congratulations Once again�

it took like a week

Good morning guys please I got an email from vfs today that my processed passport has been received and is ready for collection that it will be sent through courier, Please do I need to pay courier fees.

Edc2:
I think you need to wait for a mail from vfs that is ready for pickup mine also shows your processed passport has been forwarded to VAC below when tracked but seems it’s still in abuja and yet to be returned to lagos. For those who picked up their passport did you receive a separate mail that it’s ready for pickup

ok thank you for the reply, i have already sent them an email yesterday, i will call them today

Good evening guys, please i got an email from vfs on the 22nd of December 2022 that my processed passport has been dispatched from the Canada visa office on 2022/12/22 to the Canada visa application center and my decision envelope will be returned to me via courier service offered by the vac but I have not received any thing from any courier service,has anyone experienced this

Good evening guys, please i got an email from vfs on the 22nd of December 2022 that my processed passport has been dispatched from the Canada visa office on 2022/12/22 to the Canada visa application center and my decision envelope will be returned to me via courier service offered by the vac but I have not received any thing from any courier service, please what can I do

Good evening guys, please i got an email from vfs on the 22nd of December 2022 that my processed passport has been dispatched from the Canada visa office on 2022/12/22 to the Canada visa application center and my decision envelope will be returned to me via courier service offered by the vac but I have not received any thing from any courier service, please what can I do

ChiPromise:
Pls when did you submit your passport to Lagos VFS?

I submitted last week

ChiPromise:
Pls when did you submit your passport to Lagos VFS?

last week

good morning guys I got a message yesterday from vfs that my decision envelope has been received from the ircc office by the Canada visa application center Abuja cvo and is ready for collection. can I go and collect it today from the Lekki vfs centre

Guys vfs sent me this email today, where can I get my passport Lekki vfs or Abuja vfs

hammed71:
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feelgoodstuffs:
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good evening guys please is there a good chance of getting a visit visa as an international student in Canada

Good morning guys please what is the chance for visa approval for an international student in Canada that wants to apply for a visit visa

guys am going to submit my passport at vfs now, apart from passport and the letter what other documents do I need to take Along

guys good morning I am going for passport submittion today at vfs, please apart from passport what other documents do I need to take along

Kiddyong123ayo:
Okay I may not have put everything in details, I just tried to remember the basics, but omo this people don't rate we Nigerians at all, there is this feeling you get when you are being interviewed.

They just glide through you and the next person, next person again, like I don't get to be in front of a VO for an interview , it cost so much money, so fucking much and not everyone is privileged to have such money talk less of investing it in schooling abroad, now I want to school abroad, gotten the admission(which is supposed to be the most difficult part) you just reject and reject over and over again, not just me but applicants before me... And some after me.
There has to be an investigation into this people because I just see this as a fraud scheme, how can someone be spending money on their future and at the whole end it is a game of luck between you and your star.
I am never trying ths USA EMBASSY again, just some frauds, if they don't want Nigerians in their country, simply close your border to us, rather than receiving applications and just judging the applicant on the spot from what you feel.
Haa this one pain me o, and I will never forget it. If not that this country is bleeped up, why will I go to a stupid embassy of a fucking country that is bleeped as Bleep... Nonsense

bro calm down and reapply again

ChristianMuslim:
Ghana I hate that place with strong passion.. spit on their ugly heads

lol wetin Dem do you

hope for the best but also expect the worse

i dont think he should come back to naija to apply as naija is facing many refusals now

Blackfinegirl:
Sometimes, it's better to come back home and apply. My first usa visa was refused when I was a student in the UK and when I came home for holiday, I applied in naija and was approved.

lol

why are some people trying to move into the usa from the uk, is it lack of employment opportunities or what, I don't understand

pansophist:
US is even boring lol, but its miles ahead better than Canada. America is blessed with multiple climates.

If you like the Scandinavian Arctic weather, japa to Alaska, or if you like the Naija hot weather, you go to Houston.

If you want to feel like you're the only one that exist on the planet, go to almost empty States such as Wyoming, or if you're a Lagos city person, then New York is for you.

States like California even have a higher GDP than Canada, so yes, the US is an economical behemoth. And offers far more interesting life than boring Canada.

Talk true Canada don deny you visa before lol

IbeOkehie:
Well I don't know what to write anymore about this I guess. This is my real name, I live in Raleigh NC, over 30 years a resident so I guess I'm one of the old immigrants I'm happy and I know FOR A FACT that there's a very low probability I would be enjoying a living standard as high as this in Nigeria. I own a home in a neighborhood that compares favorably, in fact better quality than, Ikoyi, Lekki or VGC. I used to think like you and that was what led me to move back to Nigeria in 2011.

I put in over 7 years preparation for that move, all my friends knew about it, I told them for years I was saving and preparing to go, they thought I was joking, some called me CRAZY, which I know now is true. I quit my job as a pharmacist at one of the best health institutions in THE WORLD, Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD and sold off a lot of things except my house in North Carolina....and moved.

Moving back to Nigeria was one of the worst decisions of my life. Money wise I lost over $200K cash and that's a very conservative estimate that doesn't include ANY of the preparatory expenses for my move, including the psychological toll of working like a dog for endless hours overtime.

The only good things I got out of it was that I learned what Nigeria was REALLY like for a working rich person AND I met my wife who worked in one of the major American oil companies in Lagos. By the way, she says it all the time that if she knew the USA was like this she would have moved here much sooner. This is someone who had traveled the world before she met me. None of this is hard to find out, my FAMILY is fairly well known in Raleigh NC.

When I left Nigeria at the age of 16, my family was eating 2 meals a day. We had a family meeting where my parents told us they couldn't afford to give us 3 meals and I, yes me, I suggested 2 meals a day. My father was riding a bicycle to and from work and anywhere else. He never built his own house. It's a time we eventually laughed about but they always warned me to stop telling people the story, that it's shameful. My parents were both teachers, my father was earning ₦‎720 per month and my mother ₦‎240. The naira rate at the time was ₦‎4=1$, I still have letters saved from that time so I know. [b]That means my our total family income at the time was about $250/month. [/b]I attended a Federal Government College where my classmates, children of top businessmen, supreme court justices, CBN governors and Perm Secs were coming to school with ₦‎5,000 POCKET MONEY....my father always gave me ₦‎20, that was it for the whole term.

My father borrowed the money for my air ticket and whatever he paid, he put ₦‎250 bribe on top for the privilege of getting me a confirmed seat on Nigeria Airways, I saw him pay the bribe with my own eyes. I landed in the USA and after living with a relative rent free for 6 months, I was on my own. I sent the money back for my plane ticket and jara on top for sibling school fees, feeding and so on, my first money home was $1200. That's how I started life and I can count around 10 to 20 people that arrived here in Raleigh NC around the same time, most of them much older than me. Remember, I was still a teenager, but many people didn't even know because I'm very tall and big. With time I was a popular caregiver or baby sitter for some their kids.

By the way, I scored 8 straight As on WAEC and some ungodly high JAMB number that got me admission to do medicine at Nsukka. Why didn't I do it? My parents weighed the cost of putting me through University and it was decided I take the chance of fending for myself in the USA and sending back money to help them. The rest is history. Would I have been better of in Nigeria? Like 70 to 80% of those my classmates from high & mighty families are here in the US/UK with me, and people like them definitely know what's up with Nigeria. If they left, who am I to stay?

So what is your story that's making you think twice about your sojourn in the USA?



I sincerely don't know what you're on about. Again, I've tried to be as open as I can. What exactly is your story?

Yes, some don't make it. Remember I told you I knew about 20 to 30 new arrivals just like me when I got to the USA. Some of them were on THE SAME PLANE as me, by the way. Two of them got deported soon after, and one of them died in Nigeria about 5 years ago and another one, Henry N, went back and died maybe 10 years ago? That was a fellow I worked side by side with at Hilton Hotel. A few of them served prison time for one thing or the other. However, the MAJORITY are living middle class lives just like me, with adult children who mostly doing well. Definitely nothing worse than they could have achieved in Nigeria. Even the ones doing LOW CLASS JOBS as cooks, used car salesmen, care workers or drivers for the past 30 years among them own homes, some of the homes are PAID OFF, they own 3 or 4 cars....you can go to their homes and see all this. And I'm very proud of them and also proud of the doctors, engineers and teachers and nurses. Life is NOT ever going to be equal, but it's definitely better to be unequal in the USA than in Nigeria.



Well other opportunities have opened up. Situations are never static. Human beings ADAPTED and Nigerians, whatever their faults, also have the human capacity to adapt. This was my related comment elsewhere, I'll copy & paste below -

Good thing too Nigerians going to the West now are learning to do manual work like landscaping, computer wiring/network setups, auto mechanics and mobile car wash, cooking food and selling from their homes, sewing clothes & shoe repair, so having papers is not even as much a problem as before. Honestly I wish I had such skills when I arrived here, life would have been a lot easier. There's a woman who sells Nigerian food that we patronize often, we buy like one week worth of food at a time. When you go to pick up at her home you can see they're VERY BUSY. There's one or two more people that have opened walk up - carry out restaurants. They cater parties too. A Nigerian mobile car washer cleaned my car last week, he came to the office and did it. Who needs Green Card to do that?

Have a good weekend, all the best to you and yours.

God bless you

Artiiclebeast:
There are personal questions I won't be answering here for obvious reasons.
Thanks.

ok I understand, I will be in the USA soon

see the small thread we dey manage