PPR just dropped!!!

I applied 30 April 2021 (Non-NSE)
Fully funded Ph.D.

I am so happy. God has done it for me.

Yours is next in Jesus name.

I will share my timeline and documents submitted shortly.

You have uploaded your explanation but have not submitted it. You have to proceed to the next pages untill it takes you the the final page and then submit your explanation.

OBANLABAMIDELE2:
Hello everyone,the IRCC requested me to upload a reason why I had charge Back in my. Application and I uploaded it immediately, after uploading what I saw was uploaded but not submitted to IRCC,I am confuse ooo kindly put me through is it a normal thing.

Yes it helps. Thanks

CHIKACIC:


I initially submitted my IELTS together with my app on March 1.
On March 5, I got the NSE request letter for my POF. I couldn’t submit cos my sponsors are UK based. I ignored it but later sent an LOE via web form and email stating the reason why I was unable to submit the POF (Mybankstatement) as requested.

Hope this helps.

Congratulations. Did you submit NSE documents?

CHIKACIC:
It has ended in praises!

PPR dropped this evening.

TO GOD BE ALL THE GLORY!!!!

Congratulations. Did you go through the NSE route?

Cflow10:
PPR Today
First time applicant.

Application submitted : April 28th
Correspondence Letter : June 25th
PPR : July 21st

The wait in between the correspondence letter and PPR wasn’t easy but we move sha.

Thank y’all for all your selfless and generous tips you continue to give on here, it was and will always remain extremely helpful.

Congratulations. Did you submit NSE documents?

ifeo123:
PPR GUYSSS

Second Time Applicant

I first Applied in January 2021 & got a Refusal April 29. I didn’t give up. I fired back 2 weeks after.

Second Time
Application Submitted - May 15th
Upfront Medicals - June 9
Medicals Updated - June 16
Ordered for GCMS - July 8
BVL & PPR - July 16.

Isn’t God great ? �

Congratulations. Did you submit NSE documents?

ThekayBature:
PPR Alert!!![b][/b]

Hello Everyone!

So, a friend introduced me to this forum two weeks ago and I have taken my time since then to visit it once in a while to read people's stories and pray along ��
Before now, I hardly ever logged into my IRCC account to check updates, since I believed that they would email me regarding any update. So you can imagine my confusion when I started seeing posts saying "passed medicals" , "started eligibility review". I became frantic at one point oh. I was so worried that I told myself that I would send a webform today, only for me to get a PPR notification.

Congratulations. Did you submit NSE documents?

mamatee2:
Congratulations!

Wow! Congratulations. Did you submit NSE documents?

kunbeeee:
Yayy! It's PPR!! I have never been so scared to open a website before. God is faithful.

First time applicant. See below timeline. I did not see any ghost update throughout.

Wow! Congratulations. Did you go through NSE route? I submitted 30 April. Still hoping for PPR

fejiromich:
Congratulations to you and everyone else that have gotten PPR this season... God is wonderful

Your message is so encouraging. Thank you very much. I am so grateful.

JustMellow:


Hello Ikemummy,

You shouldn't be worried. You have a good profile. Write a concise letter clarifying that 25% of your pension funds will be available to cover your itinerary and any sundry. Include your personal statement even if the sitting balance is =N=300,000.

Some rigid officers cared about the funding as an assessment, but still curious to see some level of financial independence and demonstration.

n.b. I didn't cut the thread because I will like to watch it.

Best of Luck

Ok. Thank you very much for the advice

kelvine95:


I wouldn’t have advised you to send a lump sum to your account. If the money is from your dad, all you needed was your dad’s bank statement and a letter of support stating how much he will be giving you towards your studies. Also, He must tell the VO the number of persons dependent on him, to further assure the VO that the 2million naira is actually available for you.

Anyway, since you have added a lump sum to your account already, kindly attach your dad’s 1 year bank statement (highlight where the money is coming from, attach my bank statement cert for both you and your dad to make verification faster), attach his work details like payslips, promotion letter and employment letter. The reason is because, if you are adding as low as 10 naira to your funding, the VO wants to be super sure that the money is available and it is from a legitimate source.

Just on the side, you will actually need 2 Million naira to take care of traveling expenses, quarantine and expenses related to your first month settling down in Canada. So, it is just reasonable to show that amount.

Good morning everyone, I intend to attach the note below to the mybankstatement and gift deed that I will send to IRCC via webform today. Please is there anything you feel I should correct in the note? Thanks in anticipation of your kind response.
"Dear Visa Officer

Thank you once more for offering me the Nigeria Student Express (NSE) for faster processing of my study permit application.
I am writing with regards to my previous letter dated 28 May 2021 in which I responded to your NSE offer and informed you that I may not be able to provide the documents you requested before the deadline but assured you that I have sufficient funding required to successfully complete my Ph.D. as I was offered graduate funding by Saint Mary’s University (SMU) and my supervisor.

Kindly find attached the documents requested (a mybankStatement certificate and 12 months of banking history)

The 2 million Naira lumpsum deposit in my bank account is a gift from my father which I have earmarked to supplement the graduate funding offered to me by SMU and my supervisor (please see the gift deed attached for more details).

I kindly ask that you continue with the faster processing of my application so that I can get a decision that is early enough to enable me to attend the fall semester
Thank you very much for your time and favourable consideration."

kelvine95:


Hi, I know a number of persons who have gotten approved with just funding letter. I personally got full funding and my visa was approved, though I added my personal statement showing around 1.6M to cover for travel expenses and my first 1 month in Canada.

My advice is that someone closely related to you like your dad or mum or sibling should come as a supporting sponsor in the eventuality of let say delayed payment. This person mustn’t be super rich, since your tuition payment and core living expenses are cast in stone. Usually, one won’t be refused based on insufficient funds (having been refused before with full funding), one will most likely get this financial status and personal asset story, and that’s why it is just good to add some personal funds or funds from very very close relatives.

That being said, your application will most likely be approved. Don’t get too worried, just pray a good VO reviews your application.

Best of luck and it will end in praise!

Thank you very much. I will send my statement of account ASAP.

kelvine95:


Hi, I know a number of persons who have gotten approved with just funding letter. I personally got full funding and my visa was approved, though I added my personal statement showing around 1.6M to cover for travel expenses and my first 1 month in Canada.

My advice is that someone closely related to you like your dad or mum or sibling should come as a supporting sponsor in the eventuality of let say delayed payment. This person mustn’t be super rich, since your tuition payment and core living expenses are cast in stone. Usually, one won’t be refused based on insufficient funds (having been refused before with full funding), one will most likely get this financial status and personal asset story, and that’s why it is just good to add some personal funds or funds from very very close relatives.

That being said, your application will most likely be approved. Don’t get too worried, just pray a good VO reviews your application.

Best of luck and it will end in praise!

Thank you all for your advice. I will get the gift deed tomorrow and send it along with mybankstatement and 12 months bank history to IRCC. I kindly ask for the following to help me do that:
1. Sample of gift deed I can use to draft mine
2. Link I can use to send the webform to IRCC
3. Appropriate email address to also send it again to IRCC.
Thanks.

elizyous:
@ToluDstar. Oh great, I am glad u have started. I am rounding up the semester this week. Its been intense! Nothing I have experienced before in my years of studying here. I plan to travel next month God's grace.

Congrats to all recent PPR recipients. To those that were refused, pls dont give up, ur testimony will be bigger. PPR hopefuls, remain prayerful, God will perfect what he started.

Wow! Congratulations. It ended in praise. I am so happy for you.

Uzomachukwuu:
Long Post Alert:

Talk about being happy, today is one of the happiest days of my past one year.

A year and six days after my first visa application (AOR June 16, 2020), I finally got PPR on my second application (AOR: Feb 26).

This has been a very tiresome journey. Initially, I thought that applying for PhD admission would be the most challenging part of it all, but I never knew that that was the easiest part really. Between Feb and March 2020, I got admission and funding offers from U of Manitoba, Western, and USask. Opted for USask. Submitted my first visa application on June 16, 2020, when I knew almost nothing about the Canadian visa application process. I hadn't even discovered Nairaland then. I committed one error, that of submitting only my funding offer letter as proof of fund, without submitting a bank statement. Sadly, that first application was refused based on personal assets and financial status.

Visa refusal: January 4, 2021

Guided by all the information I got from the good folks here on Nairaland, I reapplied on February 26.

AOR: Feb 26
NSE Request: Feb 28
I sent them my Mybankstatement and IELTS waiver request letter less than 20 minutes after the NSE request came in

Ideologically opposed to taking IELTS, I had preemptively written and armed myself with an IELTS Waiver Request Letter, in which I argued against the logicality of asking an English PhD student to submit IELTS test scores. Silly me though, that letter sounded as if I was beefing with IRCC — and, yes, I was really mad at them due to my initial visa refusal.

You see, one of the things that made me very angry about that first visa refusal was that in the GCMS notes I obtained weeks after the painful hit, the visa officer remarked twice that they had asked me over three months earlier to send my bank statement or that of a sponsor, which I failed to do. Dianyi, I didn't receive any email from them requesting for any such thing. And there was no request letter sent via GCKey either. So I just couldn't understand their wahala. My guess is that probably due to a glitch in their system, the email they generated ended up not getting sent to me, even though it was showing in the 'Outgoing' section of the GCMS notes. So my blood was hot as I was writing the IELTS waiver request, which they never actually honoured, as I learnt.

Program of Study: PhD in English
Age: 27
Marital status: Single
MA (2019)
NYSC (2016-17)
BA (2015)
Travel experience: None
Work experience: 3
Current employment: Freelance writing


Documents submitted

1. My personal bankstatement: Containing just ₦1.5m
2. Funding offer from USask: Dean's Scholarship of 22k + Tuition waiver
3. Letter of support from popsy (I didn't submit his bank statement)
4. MA transcript (GPA 5.0)
5. MA statement of result
6. BA transcript (CGPA: 4.17)
7. BA certificate
8. WAEC
9. FSLC (Lol)
10. Birth Certificate
11. My land survey document
12. Statement of Purpose (5)
13. Letter Explaining How I intend to fund my studies (4 pages)
14. Curriculum Vitae
15. International Passport
16. e-Medical Slip
17. Digital photo

18. Admission Letter from USask
19. Confirmation of Enrolment

21. PhD Supervisor’s Letter, advocating for me to be issued a visa

22. Attestation Letter from a senior lecturer (my mentor) in UNN, highlighting my academic merits and good conducts

23. Notification of a FUTURE Job Offer from the Head of my Department in my former University, stating that the department will be happy to offer me a job after my PhD in Canada (Lol)

24. Letter of Recommendation from my Master’s Supervisor

26. Certificate of Merit from my NYSC PPA (2016-17)

27. I didn't submit any letter of recommendation or introduction letter from my most recent former employer (make them hold their wahala, abeg)

28. Certificate of Service as a Cadet-Member of the NYSC Road Safety Club

29. Birth Certificates and Passport of my Siblings


Eligibility review started on April 22, that's two days after I contacted the office of the MP representing USask to make enquiries on my behalf regarding the lag in updating my application.

Medical was updated on May 18.

Oh, boy! Na then wey the real anxiety come start. Coming here to Nairaland everyday to read other people's testimonies became like a full time job for me, just as my fingers got automatically configured to opening my GCKey account more than 20 times a day: almost as a first thing anytime I bring up my phone to press.

At a point I almost fell into huge depression. Put off my phone line, got off WhatsApp, deactivated my Nairaland account (that's why you'll see that this current moniker I'm using is newly created, just one alphabet different from 'Uzomachukwu' which was the account I had previously been using here).

Last week when Omalinze (whose visa application I prepared and submitted the same period I was working on my second application) called to tell me that his visa has been approved, I was happy and, yet, cried. Mine was an ambiguous mix of happiness and sadness. He too understood, and kept reassuring me that I was going to get my PPR soon. But you see, one of my 'positive' personal failings, if at all it should be so-called, is that I'm a man who is very much taken to the hermeneutics of suspicion, a young man who has been trained by life to believe in working from the point of pessimism (suspicion) towards the middle point of reality (concrete experience), before arriving at the point of optimism. So it's usually difficult for me to let myself be persuaded to move from pessimism to optimism without first beholding, almost like a Thomas (well, in Nigeria, suspicion has its many uses).

PPR: June 21, 2021.

All I can say about this journey is: All glory be to Jehovah, the father of tender mercies, alone.


And to all the persons here doing the fine work of elucidating the many riddles of IRCC, and helping others through their application, I say: May what you desire locate you. Thanks to you all.

Thank you very much for your detailed response. I am so grateful.

Akannitommy:
@afomon12 and @ikemummy

Congrats on your admissions and funding. I also wish you both and others still waiting a positive outcome in your applications.

From personal experience and those I know on this paltform as well as offline, it is best to always include your own bank account statements in addition to the school funding. For instance, I had less than N50,000 in my account when I submitted my application with full funding (for 4-years). However, that didn't stop me from generating MBS for the naira and for a virtually empty dorm account too to show as POF. I requested my GCMS note two months after arriving in Canada to get a sense of how the processing went. It was a 78-page document. NB: When I submitted application for SP in August 2020, NSE was not yet in effect then.

For the person who is married and already submitted the application with school funding only, (27k CAD is not addequate per the new NSE rule). This is where you could have used you own personal bank statement to make up the difference. Note that you also have a family and the VO will likely adjudged your application with an eye on what your family will survive on while you are away. So if you want to send additional document, I suggest you add a LOE that shows breakdown of your costs for the first year and your funding plans. Show how your family will cope financially while you are away even if this is just showing that your spouse has a job/business to support in your absence. March application date also seems a bit mature so I would request GCSM notes now.

For the single applicant, I think you did a good job but could always be better. If you have no qualms with submitting your own bank statement for one year, I think it is okay to do so. Although it would have been best if this was done originally.

All in all, both applications are promising.


post=102957456]Wow!!! Please let us keep in touch.

Thank you very much for the advice. I will do that.

SweetJJ:
I will advise you get the gift deed sharperly of at least 1.5mil. And upload to them via webform or email or both. Do not hesitate before they make a decision on your case. Please act fast.

PS: I am not a guru but this is what I have learned from this platform

Wow!!! Please let us keep in touch.

afomon12:

This is serious. Infact, we have so many similarities. Im also going for (Phd) fully funded from the University of Toronto. However, funny enough i only submitted POF of just 400k alongside my funding letter. My home tie was just my parents, siblings and proof that i have a lecturing appointment waiting for me at the University of Ibadan upon the completion of my program. Though, asides my funding i also won another award of above $4000 cads. I applied in march still awaiting final decision. I also got NSE request and replied just the way you did too. Well, i believe nothing is impossible. Let's keep hope alive.
Same here : First Class Honours - 2015 ( University of Ibadan) M.A Distinction - 2019 ( University of Ibadan). Single, with no travel history !!! Lets keep hope alive.

Thank you very much for the advice.

lawfree638:


Before the gurus say something on this, Please do the gift deed that covers all your living expenses aside from the scholarship. Anything that can help your application, Please do! Using my wife as an example, scholarships are paid biweekly to the student account. So the question is what will happen before the funds from the school come in?

Please do the gift deed, nothing is too much in the Canada visa process so far its related to your application.

On the gift deed, Please ensure it is explained by you and the person giving you the gift.

Thanks.

LONG POST BUT PLEASE READ TILL THE END
Greetings everyone, please I need your advice. My Ph.D. admission in Canada came with graduate funding. The graduate funding is $28,816 CDN for the first year, this covers the cost of my annual fee for the program ($14,607 Tuition Fees, + $1,077 Mandatory Fees + $1,118 Medical & Dental Fees) with an excess of $12,014 to contribute towards my living expenses. I applied for a study permit on 30 April and received NSE on 7 May to submit mybankstatement and IELTS. I replied to the NSE request with a letter of explanation that my studies will be funded by the University and reattached my admission letter.

Today, my friend from Zimbabwe who was also admitted to the same program received a visa rejection based on the reason “insufficient funds, including income or assets to carry out your stated purpose in coming to Canada or to maintain yourself while in Canada and to effect your departure”

She used the Statement of Account of her Uncle as proof of fund to cover travel expenses and miscellaneous.
My question is, since I am yet to get a decision, should I get a gift deed from a family member and then send a mybankstatement via webform stating that the gift deed is to cover my travel expenses? If yes, what should be the minimum value of the gift deed? NB: I did not submit my Statement of Account because the balance was not much (less than 500k); I also did not say anything about my travel expenses in my Letter of explanation, I only focused on expenses while in Canada.
Thanks in anticipation of your advice

MY PROFILE:
1. Age: 27 yrs
2. B.Sc: First Class (Nigeria, 2015)
3. Masters: Distinction (South Africa, 2020), very related to my PhD
4. Travel history: 6 months in Germany for Research Internship with the United Nations, 2 years in South Africa for studies.
5. Scholarship: Former recipient of the German government fully funded DAAD scholarship for masters.
6. Career: Have been working as an academic staff in the University since NYSC

POF DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED:
1. Admission letter stating graduate funding of $28,816 CDN for the first year, and that funding could be maintained with good academic performance.
2. Supervisor support letter stating she will provide me with comprehensive funding (but she did not specify the value of the funding)

HOME TIES DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED:
1. 2 bedroom apartment in my name worth 12.5 million Naira
2. My pension account of about 900k
3. Letter from the Vice Chancellor of the University where I currently lecture supporting my studies and stating that I will be granted leave
4. Payslip for 3 months
5. Marriage certificate and birth certificate of my child