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Congrats @codebrew85 and @fatiah. Go and excel in your new home!

A great way to end the year.

Hi All,

It is quite alright to share our understanding about:
a. Canadian laws
b. mainstream Canadian culture and values

This is information that will help immigrants to navigate their new home.

A discussion about personal values will however always disintegrate into an argument and that is unhelpful as you can't impose or dictate your values on someone else over the barrel of an argument. Certainly not when arguing with faceless interlocutors on an anonymous social media thread.

This caused us to derail the thread during the discussion about marriage in Canada and we are doing the same in this argument about sexual orientation in Canada.

I think by now we all have an understanding of what to expect in Canada. Let's kill the argument please.

I don't think there is any cause for alarm.

Files are routinely transferred to different VOs because of caseload distribution. Someone from an earlier thread got PPR from Montreal VO.

Etobicoke VO normally handles refugee cases. They must have unassigned officers and so took up some EE cases.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/contact-ircc/offices/canada-appointment-only.html#on

Adeyemmy24:
Here is my enquiry...
I will like to know if any one has information about file transfers to Etobicoke visa office? It seems my file has been transferred there and I am just wondering why. I am a US resident and my application was initially with CIO, sydney, so from past trends I felt it will be transferred to ottawa or remain with CIOam also looking at ordering GCMS notes too(Aor Oct12).

You might not get penalized, but the more you write, the more the possibilities for errors which will end up lowering your score, not to talk of pissing off the examiner.

cc: nice2

CheesyTee:
You do not get penalized for writing above 150/250 words. You may be doing something wrong. Punctuations, spelling error etc. I may be wrong.

You may request for EOR or try BC’s computer-based test if you choose to rewrite.

That's rough. Hang in there Sis, rooting for you.

So hustling for housing is becoming a bigger deal.

Corroborates the news on cbc.ca that house vacancy rates are at a historic low. Simply put, there are not enough houses to go round in Canada.

That makes it a sellers' market and they can be making things difficult for people as they like.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4923635

sistaj:
Settlement journey. Pardon my long post...... Always lots to share when I come around to it. I !h been staying with my crew in Apple Hill, Ontario where our family friend lives. Apple hill is a small community of primarily farmers about I hour drive from Ottawa and Montreal. It is really a small suburb which has no primary school or major grocery store. I believe every family here owns a car to get around.

I really think that question is beyond the scope of this thread. I would rather we don't go there.

cc: theCongo2

toboy:
Just wondering, what are the reason (s) why you don't agree with homosexuality?

I concur.

For peace of mind, people should put extras in their POF.

Canadian dollar is low against the US dollar now, that's why the rates are low now. It might be higher when an agent is checking your file and we don't know the rate they are using. You might end up a few dollars short.

For mine, I used N295 to make sure my funds was enough, then used xe.com to present the POF. That made it seem like I had excess at the end of the day.

Godisincontrol:
@ All.

The point I am making is that rates fluctuate. To be on the safe side convert using a higher rate so as not to develop HBP for fear of the unknown.

Agreed, POF is supposedly locked in at AOR but we have seen cases where visa/case officers have used a different rate and have thrown a file for "review required" due to POF not meeting the required minimum bla bla bla. Review Required though not bad will in most cases cause a spin and the trauma one may go through is something else.

Let everyone do whatever would make them sleep well at night.

Dude, this table you are shaking sha. SMH.

Osaze007:
Yoruba or Edo girls are welcomed

My 2cents

I don't know about moving spouse's education to personal history, but "proof of studies " is what CIC asked for. I think if your spouse has a "statement of results", you can submit it. At any rate, you didn't do ECA and so not claiming any points.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/permanent-residence/express-entry/applications-received-on-after-january-1-2016-completeness-check.html

Babyface6:
Hello,

Please I just found out that my hubby has not collected his MSc certificate and I already stated that he has one when I was filling in our forms, I don't know how long it would take for him to get the result from his school (we didn't need his ECA because my points were sufficient for ITA).
My question is, since his result doesn't affect our score, can I move it to his personal history? Has anyone done this before? Or do I just wait... I'm about to upload my documents.

2 gists. Naija, naija.

A. I was with some friends doing Friday night out, when one mentioned they had just sent forth a friend to Canada.
"Express entry?", I asked.
"No, " he replied. "The wife had been in US for 2+ years before moving to Canada.
Light bulb! "Refugee claim?".
"Yes, she settled it and now the whole family is going"

B. While doing biometrics at vfs the other day.
A mature lady came to sit in line at our back. After a moment, she leaned forward.
"I hope they are not going to ask interview questions," she asked.
Taken aback, I said no.
"Thank God," she said. "I have been rejected by the American embassy 2 times, those people can ask tough questions."
Now curious, I asked, "Are you here for permanent residence, student visa or temporary residence"
She looked at me strangely and said in Yoruba, "I don't understand your English"
So I asked her in the same language, "What do you want to go and do in Canada?"
"To work," she replied. "My agent asked me to come here today. That this is the next stage".
Shocked, I mumbled Ok and leaned back in my seat.
Oh to be a fly on the wall when she meets back with her agent after getting a TRV not a work permit (that's if she gets it).

Yes.
Add a letter from your spouse stating that he/she is accompanying and that you (the PA) have free and unfettered access to the account.

rukayato:
Can POF be in spouse account (TBills)? Accompanying spouse thou. If yes, what are the requirements?
Thanks

WES, WES, WES... after creating problems of verification, of adding and verifying high school cert,, now they want you to pay for the stress.

Newmum0615:
For your info.

Happy holidays people of God.

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Swansy10:
At the bolded, Please I take God beg you no try am. You cannot come here and be jumping queue. Let's respect ourselves to avoid fight. Thank you

Congrats bro. Thanks for checking in. Good to know you are doing well.

Osaze007:
My pple well done
I just got an offer as assistant director with a bank in Toronto (4 levels higher than my previous role in dubai)
I can’t even believe my luck
This year I lost my job in dubai and thought my life
Everything is going smoothly
Peace out

Requirements have changed for a while.

Only upfront medicals allowed now: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/documents/medical-exams.html

cc: @JERRYMAG4

lobell:
You do not need medicals to submit your application. Medicals will be requested from you once you pass the initial stages (AOR I think). Front-loading medicals just speeds up the process but is not entirely important at this time. Cheers.

I believe your application is still under processing, so yes, you are required to (see here) and here.

However, I think it can only affect your application if it was a Canada based LMIA job offer, under a closed work permit, or you are applying under PNP where you got nomination based on an NOC on demand.

Are you not changing jobs? If you are changing jobs, you can wait until you resume the new job and raise a CSE on change of job.

OYASALOF:
Hello all, I resigned from my current job this December, please do I need to raise CSE to that effect?
Cc: joo2018

Yes, you can. Have you been to page 1?

Ashkay:
Good Afternoon, please I need more clarification on this

My Educational qualification is B.sc Botany and I work as a Teacher.

I would like to know if I can apply for Canada Federal Skilled Workers Program and PNP as a Teacher without an Education certificate.

Thanks in anticipation.

Thanks.

Planning for Canada and Next Stop Canada.

Godisincontrol:
Wish you Godspeed.

Which Pre-arrival service did you contact pls?

TSL:
Nope. I did my gift deed at notary public for 2k as well. it's not expensive. I'm in Benin.

joo2018:
It should vary based on the notary him/herself, location and negotiating ability. I used that figure because she quoted it earlier.

You will be surprised how some people can quote funny price to charge you.

Wait is ok. Only wish I could start pre-arrival services. Applied for 2, got responses that I needed min. PPR.

Things are moving well. MEP, BIL gotten and completed. IP1, Ottawa VO. 2 months post-AOR next week.

Tojued:
Na their way. How's your wait going? Hope things moving nicely.

No.
But if you do choose to do it, you upload it together with your passport datapage in a pdf. Only make sure you make your current passport datapage as page 1. An easy way to go get rejection is to upload stamped pages and forget to put the mandatory part which is datapage.

TITILOLA88:
Hi everyone, happy post-boxing day!
Please, is there any need to upload stamped pages of passport declared in my travel history section? And where do I do that?

It should vary based on the notary him/herself, location and negotiating ability. I used that figure because she quoted it earlier.

Tojued:
Notarising my deed (at a law firm) cost either 5 or 10k. Can't remember exact figure again. I think twas 5k sha.

WES, WES, WES...

Tojued:
WES has figured out a way to frustrate the Indians as well

https://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/threads/wes-rule-changes-for-india-dec2018-word-of-caution.599261/

Both affidavit (the 2k option being mentioned) and notary public (30-40k) are accepted.

Ella99:
Lol at shine your eye. Sorry for my "silly" question but this is notary public abi cos someone just said something about affidavit. My guess is cic only accepts notary...i may be wrong.