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LekwachiJJ:
Masters Study permit
Applied since 11 May
Biometrics since 23 May
Medical passed 28 August
ElIgibility passed 13 September
Original passport request 18 September
Updated bank statement requested and submitted 9 October
No response since!!! My passport kept for almost 2 months.
Meanwhile online status shows background check in process and conclusion: "Application approved, send us your passport to conclude processing"
Any one with passport held like this?

This doesn't make sense. Haven't you been tracking the passport after submitting at vfs?

Asapant:
Henricson. Those african airlines you listed are also international airlines. Perharps you wanted to say compared to European or Asian airlines.

Ok oh. They are cheaper since they are based in Africa

Elizkemi:
Hi guys, to those that travel (to Canada/ USA) alot, what's your advice on booking the cheapest flight to canada to take off on the 13th of November?

What airline won't be too expensive and then what route. Should the booking be double stops or just a single stop or a direct flight will be cheaper?

I need answers please.
No insults.

From my little experience, African airlines are cheaper compared to international airlines. Check Ethiopian airlines, Royal Airmaroc and Egyptair. Best time to check is 1am downwards. It's also best to use not more than 2 stops to avoid you losing your connecting flights especially when the next flight is in a different airport. But from what I hear direct flights are better but mostly expensive.

Frankrobbn1:
Good to hear you're set to travel. Thanks for your wonderful compliments and Amen to your prayers. Please always remember you've a family here, your contributions will be very much appreciated in assisting the newbies. All the best and safe trip to Canada.

No problem... I'll try my best. The nature of my job can be time consuming though. But I have a couple of people who chat with me directly on whatsapp as I can reply there easily.

Hello guys... I'm new on this thread, but I'm hoping to get information on how to get a visiting visa to the USA.
I just got my Canadian student visa, and intend to attend my would be fiancée's graduation next year. I intend applying when I'm in Canada, I'll leave for Canada next month. May I know the procedure for this?

uyplus:
Thank you bro. How is your application going? Any news? Had a crazy exams on the 5th. Studying for another on the 14th. You will get to Canada man. Don't worry! How's my shithole country doing? Frank, runaway from that dead zone. See Una president de struggle with waec result, and he still wants to rule. Please runaway!!! Nigeria is dead!!!

Home is home man... No matter how far you run, you have no other one.

makano:
Hello Peeps, Just stumbled on this. This are the list of accredited Physicians by CIC. Children Practice isnt there again. What happens to peeps that have already done their medicals there ?

This is serious. Only four hospitals in the whole of Nigeria. If I may ask, why can't government hospitals like national hospital, luth, upth, etc be on the list, these are big hospitals who can get required facilities.

Frankrobbn1:
My Boss, how is going with you? I hope you're making preparations for your trip. God will surely do it for the rest of us.

Amen... Waiting for your testimony bro! Preparations are underway, flight booked for December 19 via Ethiopian airlines, winter clothes check, foodstuffs check, money for hand in process. I love your zeal bro.

Congratulations to awuga and lotstuboi

Awuuga:
Guysssssssss! My application was just approved!!!!!
This is surreal!

I was introduced to this wonderful forum by my mum and I have learnt a great deal since I joined.


#Long Post Alert!

My profile:

•Application submitted on 3rd October 2018 ( Paper Route)
• Medical mail after three weeks on 24th October 2018
• Medical exam done on 29th October (IOM Abuja). There wasn’t any opening in Lagos until December for Q-Life & Chidren’s practice. IOM Lagos asked me to come back after two weeks.
• Medical exam passed on 2nd November 2018
• Application Approved 9th November 2018
• My application took 6 weeks and some days. ( I consider myself extremely lucky.

Documents Submitted:-
• All CIC Forms submitted

My Documents
• Letter Of Explanation ( a 7 page well detailed LOE)
• I studied Electronics and Communications Engineering and I graduated with a first class degree.
• I submitted my Conditional Offer letter from University of Windsor (MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering) Classes resume on May 2019
• I paid half my tuition fees (CAD 14,000)
• WAEC result
• Transcript
• Degree Certificate
• Police Clearance Certificate
• Occuption Health and Safety Advanced Diploma
• Nigeria Society of Engineers Graduate Membership Certificate
• Work ID, Employment Letter, Letter of Introduction, 6 months Pay Slip & Letter granting me study leave.
• My Statment of Account with about 109,000 naira

Sponsor’s Documents;-
• My sponsor was my mum
• My Mum’s International Passport & Birth certificate
• Brothers’ Birth Certificates
• All her letters of promotion
• Her 6 months pay slip
• An introduction letter from her office
• Work ID
• Landed Properties (2)
• Late Dad’s Shares & Landed properties (3)
• Two residential properties valued at 71 million naira by a licensed surveyor. One of the buildings is rented, it also shows a steady source of income
• I used my Mum’s company account. I’m also a director of the company.
• Company Registration Documents
• 3 years tax receipt.
• Company’s Statement of Account had a closing balance of a little over 12million naira
• My mum’s personal statment of account with 8,000 US dollars
• Her salary account with about 450,000 naira.

Home Ties:-
• My mum and Siblings
• Landed properties I had to come back to inherit
• My job. ( Study Leave)
• My Certificate from Nigeria Society of Engineers
• My Certificate from Occupational Health and Safety Advanced Diploma
• My directorship in my mum’s company

I saw how long the applications took so I decided to apply very early so as to avoid having to defer. Also to have enough time to take a step back and restrategise in case of a denial.

P.S I have not received the introduction letter yet. Please does anyone know how long it takes? Must I receive it before I go and pickup my passport?

I want to say thank you to Frankrobbn1 for his patience and answers to my questions, also Jnyuwa02 ( we never interacted but your contributions helped me a lot). My boss Kylexy1, thank you for your help. I appreciate you. Thank you to every other person that has contributed on this wonderful forum. I have learnt from you all one way or the other.

I pray that the grace of speed that worked for me, will visit all the TRV hopefuls. Keep the faith strong guys.
To those yet to submit, put up an airtight application and pray. The God that did it for me will do it for you too.

You'll receive it once passport has been appended with counterfoil in your package at vf

Frankrobbn1:
Hello Adedayo, sorry to hear you're unable to access your inbox messages. Nevertheless, I'll post my reviews here.

Having gone through your SOP, I have the following to say:

1-) Your passion for your proposed program was extensively expressed and the manner in which you linked your current job role and past experiences with your intended program is great.

2-) Why the program in broadcast journalism is too lengthy. Please reduce it as it can bore the visa officer. It should be concise and focus on a few key points.

3-) The sub-heading where you discussed about WHY CANADA NOT NIGERIA was well substantiated and convincing.

4-) Your reasons for coming back is not so strong. More practical and logical reasons should be highlighted and not surface reasons which you gave. There was this particular area where you mentioned about your NYSC and how you deployed just to stay close to your family is not relevant and I have scrapped it off. Talk more about your parents properties which you're traditionally heir to as you did and must return home after studies to continue managing, discuss about the obligations and responsibilities which falls on you as the only son and why you will be coming back to continue discharging your duties and can't abandon them for a foreign education, your family business (if any), your career prospects in Nigeria etc... All these mentioned can be your unwavering commitments back home.

5-) In every SOP, you are expected to talk about your finances, who is your sponsor? Who will be responsible for your expenses while studying in Canada should also be explained.

6-) You also did not make reference to your school of choice in Canada, what facilities does the college in Canada offer that has interested you so much to further your postgraduate studies there and not in Nigerian higher institutions.

7-) Finally, I found so many errors (Which includes punctuations, and spellings) while going through the letter and I have corrected them.

Do the needful and resend me the letter for final vetting.

Regards,
Frank

Baba you too much.

Freshprince777:
congrats bro. Pls can u send me ur number on this email Francis_chuks@yahoo.com . Am a customer care person too that wants to apply

Email address is wrong

makano:
Thanks for making it clear to him/her. Dunno how people find it difficult in understanding what someone wrote before coming at me. Well i know some people are tensed here tho, so I understand.

No problems bro... Let peace reign!

Snillous:
Read my msg again. I didn't says the Oba's needed visa I said they will attend the program in Canada. And some Oba's and many celebrities. Thank u

You misunderstood him... He just corrected you on their titles, and confirmed the ease such people go overseas if they want to!

Frankrobbn... You're all over the place, you too much bro! Very detailed explanations you give

Ezriela and jummy saw a notification that you guys sent me a pm, but didn't see it in my email. Please you guys can send it again. Apologies

Coast2Coast:
Approval Alert !
I want to thank everyone in this forum. My wife’s SP and son’s TRV just got approved and PPR sent. She’s 40years! Never too late to study. She had BSC sociology (2002) over 16years study gap. Another Bachelor Degree in Public Health, Almighty UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE! Her first ever TRV. I started to follow this group on her behalf since June, but because of some technicalities( about the forms IMM) we opted for an agent.
I want to encourage everyone still waiting, Your miracle is on the way. This group helped us a lot and I will always look back. Thanks a lot. Timeline to follow anytime soon.

Sweet news!

Ifyraymonds:
Hello everyone am new here,I applied 23rd of June ,got the refusal e mail from them today.reason for refusal purpose of visit am so sad .i applied for undergraduate studies.am thinking of re applying but I don’t kn how to do it or what to do next.pls guys what can I do next.my age is 30yrs.

This is sad... After four months! I don't think your age is an issue, you can reapply and address the purpose of visit issue. The VO was probably not convinced about your intent to study. Order gcms notes as it's the norm to evaluate VO notes for refusal.

Senatorkolade:
ONE WAY IS FINE

Alright boss!

Guys is it ok to use one way when travelling on a Canadian study visa?

Lagos2canna:
Online route from September to October has been confirmed Kenya....... London was attending to May, June, July and August applicants before they went on inconclusive break.

Lol... Brother please I want to ask a question. Still trying to book my flight in December, someone told me to book for round trip and not one way to avoid issues with immigration, is this true?
I have never traveled before so I don't know anything. But I noticed round trips are cheaper than one way though.

Trapping:
@Jnyuwa, do you know how many days it will take VAC in Abuja to send someone's passport to Lagos embassy. I ask because I've only 10 days to submit my passport. I've already sent the passport to vAC in Abuja, because I dont want to pay that unnecessary passport transmission fee.

5-10 working days if it's for original passport request.

Labims:
Equivalent of $10,000 in CAD. This is the maximum .
So if he decides to take 10,000CAD, it's fine as it still falls within the allowed amount.

Alright... Thanks!

Please guys, what does one use to show proof of funds I asked at port of entry?
I presume school fees receipt for first semester at least and cash?

Labims:
Hi gurus, Kindly assist with this:
Graduated with a B.SC in Computer Science 2003. Yet to have any Post Graduate qualification, she has worked for over 13years in Financial Institutions, with over 11 years in the Bank as a Business Development Manager. She is 36, married with a 2 year old daughter. Has travel history(US and UK). Both her and hubby have properties(on mortgage though).plan to take daughter along.

Was able to get Admission into Humber college within 2 weeks of application to study PGC Global Business Management.

Now, talking about putting docs together for the study permit, starting from the Bank statement, being a self sponsor plus husband a co sponsor they currently have their funds in investment accounts and not current account. Though their current accounts are transactional in that they receive salaries as inflows and also withdraw(outflows)

Q1- Can the investment account statements be used for the study permit application or they"'ll need to terminate into current account
Q2 - If they have to terminate, how long are the funds expected to be in their current accounts before they can print the statements?
Q3-Whats the process for upfront medicals?
Is there a specific form to be printed and taken along to the hospital? She live in Lagos.
Q4 - Humber has asked she applies for a co-op work permit alongside student permit, at what stage will she do this?

Kindly assist with these enquiries and advise generally considering her profile.

Thank you.

I'll answer based on my experience. She can use investment accounts as part of home tie in addition to hubby. I used my treasury bills since I have no land at moment, and didn't have documents to prove that of my dad.
But she still needs to have an account showing readily available funds which she will use to sponsor her program. If salary accounts of hubby and herself is sufficient, she can use that and add hubby as co sponsor.

Secondly, if you are to terminate, funds should be present having inflow and outflow for at 6months I think.

Thirdly, she needs her passport original and photocopy to go do upfront medicals, she'll be given a paper to upload for online application or submit for paper application.

Lastly, I also got the co op work permit thing from Humber college, she can apply when she gets the visa and is in Canada. This is what I plan to do also.
But in her application she should upload the acceptance letter showing mandatory co op work permit as a proof for work requirement for study. She should also fill this in her questionnaire.

I hope this helps... I stand corrected on any information given so fat

MISFITrep:
wow! This is extremely painful! Money, time, effort and prayers. This entire process cost me about 5 million naira. Travelling all over south south nigeria to get original certificates and documents. It is well
I will go pick the passport tomorrow and close that chapter for good. After many weeks of waiting.
To all those still expectant, I wish you Goodluck

Be strong bro... Ups and downs in life doesn't mean one wouldn't succeed.

Please for those who have traveled and received their study permit, may I know what you presented as proof of funds? Should this be a new bank statement or cash?

Aside, introduction letter, passport, proof of funds, what other documents can one keep handy to present at port of entry?

Guys, please I need an answer to this question.

galala123:
Remember to send it with a copy of your Biometrics slip and receipt as evidence that you did biometrics there. I forgot that document at home as I thought it was something they could easily verify on their system but had to go back to pick it.

Also, original passport request letter.

Trapping:
@Henricson,

I did my Biometrics in Abuja VAC. If I'm to send my passport there, does it mean I will not include any service charge? What if also I'm to pick up the passport through an appointed representative what happens then.. Please if you can throw just a little more light on the process, because just like everything Canada there processes seem cumbersome.

OR,

Maybe just include the link of the article you cited above so that I can read what's written there.

Log on to their site and read it up,
http://www.vfsglobal.ca/canada
But from what I was told at Lagos vfs, no one can pick up your stamped passport, it has to be you.

Labims:
Hi Henricson, thank you. Another plea to assist with your email if you don't mind...

henryelims@yahoo.com

Pstcozzy:
Is there anybody here who is currently experiencing difficulty in uploading the validated copy of the Form IMM 1294E?

I downloaded the recent form, completed and validated it successfully, yet, It is still showing error message wen I try to upload it.

It happened to me, I was using Mozilla Firefox browser, so I used windows internet explorer and it uploaded.

Hephzibah2018:
You will not need to collect an official work permit (hard copy like your study permit) to work 20hrs/week as a student. Just go to the nearest Service Canada Centre to you and ask to get your SIN number. Go with your international passport and Student permit. As a student with a SIN number, you're allowed to work only those number of hours. Please do not exceed working hours ever. I know better now. Except you mean a type of work permit separate from that which is associated with a study permit.

Sorry. . I meant study permit!