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EmeeNaka:
I have not done that yet. What I did recently is to send them message through Webform and I also requested for information through one Canadian MP.

okay, thank you

EmeeNaka:
This Charge back stuff delays Application too much. What you should do is to order for your GCMS notes. That will show you the activity in your application. Has eligibility review started in your GCKEYS?

My Gee, I know you are an April Applicant, please have you ordered your GCMS notes yet?

Please what’s the link for IOM medicals appointment booking

Stephblues:
There are dates for next week on Qlife. Check their website.

I just did…nothing till 28th July

Please who can help my friend get earlier dates for medicals, he won’t be in Lagos on the days that are available on the Qlife and IOM’s portal.

Please does ordering your gcms in anyway quicken or prompt your application.

Foski01:
The Eagle has landed.. PPR guys!
It came in yesterday.

Already differed to January 2022.

2nd application
Applied Dec 28th, 2020

NSE request Jan 4th 2021
I opted out: did nothing and allowed the 30days reply period elapse.

Got an update on the official receipt of application and commencement of processing of application 8th Feb 2021.

My program was to resume 17th May, 2021. Got no response. I lost hope. Started preparing for yet another application for September and hoped to apply to other countries because I definitely had to leave this country.
I dragged my feet rather than differ immediately hence Sept 2021 was filled and had to differ to Jan 2022.

Applied gcms 20th May... silly me, should have done that earlier... ( felt like they abandoned by application until the 3rd party company asked for an update on the application)

Medical request came June 3rd 2021,

Did medicals 17th, June.
Medicals updated: passed 22nd June.

Passport request (PPR) 24th.

I'm currently in lagos what company is most reliable to send documents? Where should it be sent and how much..

Pls help guys... thanks.

Congrats. But does requesting for Gcms notes prompt them to attend to your application

philerhurun:
Thanks
Submitted my second application on the 6th of May 2021

wow thats fast!

LadyBlaq:
Words have failed me. Who am I that he is so mindful of me? A wretched sinner like me? With all my baggages, Grace has found me...


Will be back ooo

congrats

philerhurun:
God be praised now & forever.

PPR landed this morning.
I have been a silent reader, came here after my first refusal.
I want to thank all the Gurus in the house and everyone on this platform - who is either here to provide solutions or voice their challenges.
I have learnt so much from you all & God bless you.

Those who are still expectant, keep praying, activate your faith & get your GCMS notes as applicable.

God will do it for us all because it must surely end in praise.
I will post my timeline later.

Incoming student @MUN

congrats

owee:
Bro, yet to do the new medicals but sent the one I had which is still valid through next month to them via mails and webforms. Basically asked them to use it as it was still valid and I could not do a new one immediately.

bro when did you apply abeg give us your timeline.

EmeeNaka:
A lot of people get PPR without NSE. NSE doesn't guarantee PPR, it's just a way to speed up the application process.

please bruh put that “speed up” in quote….cos ain’t nothing fast about it. Lmao!

owee:
My people. It has happened ooooo. PPR. I can only give God praise.

Congrats, drop timeline abeg.

Dynatotita:
Good morning all,

God has done it for me.

My PPR dropped moments ago.

Online Application submission with NSE documentations: March 4, 2021
Biometric enrolment: March 5, 2021 updated to March 8, 2021
Upfront medical updated to passed: March 9 2021
More than 5 ghost updates
BVL: June 4, 2021
PPR: June 23, 2021
Series of reminders to Nairobi office
God will do it for all of you expecting this. Amen

congratulations

Kobayashi01:
I want to thank everyone on this platform. I’ve learnt a lot by reading messages here, as I now understand things about the process which I initially didn’t know. I also appreciate everyone who carried us along by sharing their timelines, it was very helpful.

I pray all still waiting for PPR would get positive decisions on time. May God come through for us all.

Finally, I want to encourage all those who are reapplying, don’t give up, there’s nothing too big for God. Commit the situation to his hands, order your gcms notes and table the reason for the delay here on this thread. This is one big family, I personally would contribute in my own little way by making suggestions, and I know everyone else, including the gurus would do the same.

Congratulations Buddy

Soulz22:
I applied 15th of May and Biometric done 26th May. I’m just nervous if I can meet up fall session or it’s too late.

Anyone in same situation with me or have encouraging answers?

If you applied in May, have you gotten any response yet?

Hi, kindly go and do upfront medicals to fasten your timeline.

Akannitommy:
Anyone know where second stream (first dose) are being administered in Lagos Island/VI/Ikoyi axis? My spouse has checked at Sura and Onikan PHC but they said in two weeks time. I suspect something is off. One will get there in two weeks and they will say it has finished again. Any confirmation of where first dose vacinnation in ongoing in this area or even mainland?

Hello, I took my second dose today at Sura Primary health center, I went be 8:30 a.m. and I was done 9. When I was there, first dose persons were also being attended to. So I confirm you can get first doses at Sura Primary Health Center.

eriax12:
This wait is really exhausting, April 19th applicant here. Hoping for the best but I don tire honestly.

keep the hope alive!

Richiesamson299:
Same here bro � my eligibility review never even start, I dun tire.

I have never been this optimistic in my entire life before, let’s keep the hope alive. It will come

CHIKACIC:
I got the NSE request but ignored it cos my financial sponsors are UK based.

BTW, am a Sista

oops sorry Sis�…it will end in praise.

Oreoluwamipo:
Same here , I'm always having mood swings .

mehn! I can’t lie, I wake up in the middle of the night and refresh my emails and this page.���

CHIKACIC:
Nope.

Though I have tried to login this morning, but couldn’t. I think I saw a notification yesterday on their website that the site will be under going some maintenance work between 1am to 6am ETD ( 6am to 11am Nigerian time).

bruh did you go through NSE?

EmeeNaka:
Brother, we need to get this result

Bruh! The should provide the approvals abeg. My mental health needs a break.

EmeeNaka:
Abeg, where is the PPR now ooo? Have all April Applicants here got their PPR? I am restless

calm bro, April 22nd here and I haven’t heard anything.

It is the English for me! Congrats bro…

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.

Queenmama03:
Indeed what my God cannot do does not exist!
PPR received just now.
I still feel like I'm dreaming.
April 22nd applicant
@FrankRobbn1 you are the real MVP.

please share your timeline

Queenmama03:
Indeed what my God cannot do does not exist!
PPR received just now.
I still feel like I'm dreaming.
April 22nd applicant
@FrankRobbn1 you are the real MVP.

congrats, I applied on April 22nd! That means God is in the neighborhood..

HartyA:
As my application is processing could I still book an appointment or wait till my application request I go for my medicals, bare in mind I applied in February 2021 [color=#990000][/color]

please book and go for the upfront medicals, it saves time

jfrazzy:
Awwww
I see.. But someone today me , once they ask for it .that means they want to give u

it’s not true! The ask for it when they have looked at your bank account and you have had up-to 30,000 CAD for at least 6months. I think that’s the only criteria they look for. Because the asked me to switch to NSE, 2 days after I had submitted my application, they wouldn’t have reasonably been able to review my entire application in 2 days to determine whether to give me visa.

jfrazzy:
In December they sent me
But I don't have IELTS or use mybankstatement .so I don't know maybe they used it or just left it

sorry about that. It will end in praise

jfrazzy:
My friend I applied since October 2020

wow, did you use NSE?

[quote author=Olaapaps post=102881019][/quote]True though! Thank you.