2pretty4u:


For this part, we wrote a letter of intent and attached the admission letter

I just sent you an email. Please, respond. I need more direct clarification.

Did you mean you attached the admission letter of the primary applicant?

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Gurus in the house, please help answer how to treat this flight ticket showing itinerary in the attached photo for my spouse that is accompanying me. We are applying for Spousal Open Work Permit (SOWP) for him.

We know he will not be coming back to Nigeria immediately but his letter of employment in Nigeria indicates he is entitled to 20 working days of annual leave.

Our fear now is that if we book a return ticket of 20 working days interval for him they may give him give him SOWP of just 20 days.

Please, what is the best thing to do here? We don't want to make a mistake please.
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Rasakiopoewa:
Honestly it isn't a wise decision since you just got your visa and probably yet to travel.Am sure you answered NO to a portion when you were asked if any family member will be accompanying you.I will advice you get to canada first and ask for SP for her and not visitor visa. My advice is that we venture into 80% approval decision than 50/50. God will help us all as this journey is via Grace after you must have rightly perfect all things. It will end in praise

Please, what is SP?

Please, what document does one need to prepare for a gift of land from one's parent?

olasubomy:


Hmm! The bitter truth is that if you don’t disclose it, the United States Immigrations will still reveal this information to Canada when both countries share your biometric details. Trust me; you don’t want the panic of a Procedural Fairness Letter.

The implication of withholding a previous refusal is that IRCC will serve the applicant a Procedural Fairness Letter alleging misrepresentation ( withholding material facts about your application) with very little time for the person to respond to the PFL, like 15 days which can lead to a five-year ban from applying to Canada

I would advise you to disclose it in your application. Please don’t be scared; it does not adversely affect your applications since you did not commit a crime and not a security risk.

You need to present the refusal reason in any way that they can see an improvement in your financial portfolio over the years.

All the best!

Wow! Thanks so much. I really appreciate.

Please, I gave birth to my baby more than one year before my marriage to my husband who is also her farther.

So, the date on her birth certificate is more than one year earlier than our date of marriage recorded at the marriage registry.

Please, how do treat this in our family application?

Is it not a red flag that my child is older than my marriage?

Kindly share your experience with me on this.

olasubomy:


There is a particular section in your form where they would ask if you have been denied before. Click yes, explain in detail why you were denied (Indicate that it was at the US consulate) and conclude with how your situation has changed and what you have done differently in terms of your finances and the plan towards financing your studies and living expenses.

Refer the officer to check full details and explanation in your statement of purpose. You are good to go once they can sense transparency and truthfulness in your application.

All the best!

Thanks so much. But can I decide not disclose the refusals. Will they detect if I do so?

ManLikeMace:
Hey guys, It's been a minute since I came on here. I thought about Nairaland and how I was always here when I started this travel journey in 2013. It took me eight years to eventually get my study permit, and I would say it was worth the wait. This is to encourage anybody thinking about giving up; please don't. I understand how frustrating it was to wait year after year and one rejection after the other.

If you are waiting on your study permit decision, please look for a skill to learn. When you get here, it is essential you have something you can do to earn some money on the side apart from the 20hrs a week you are allowed to work. Many students here do cash jobs to make money on the side.

Let me clear something up real quick; Canada is the land of milk and honey but trust me, you have to work like a mad man to get to that point where you'd enjoy it. School here isn't as hard as in Nigeria, but the workload is crazy. If your course is online, it is easier, but when you have to be physically present in school, it takes a toll on you. Make friends in school and meet as many people as possible; do not be an island when you get here. The difference between passing and failing a course can be friends willing to assist you with assignments and have study sessions with you.

Nigeria is hard, and Canada is way better in many ways, but that does not mean it is easy here. If you notice, many people here on Nairaland disappear after they travel, and I can tell you that it is primarily because of the new challenges you face here. Rent is monthly, so before you blink, it is time to pay the next; the semesters go by so fast that you have your next semester's tuition to pay in no time. Assignments are back to back, tests are every other week, and you still have to do your 20hr a week job plus the cash jobs.

I am not writing this to discourage anybody, I love Canada, and it's a beautiful place to live, work and build a family. I want you to understand that while you are leaving one set of problems behind, and rightfully so, this one is waiting for you here, too, lol.

Anyway, do not give up on your dream; Canada is more beautiful than you can imagine. It is so peaceful, and everything works. I pray that everybody reading this gets to experience their dream of moving here.

I don't know much about the immigration process, but if you have any questions about living in Canada, Thunder Bay, or how it feels like studying at Confederation College, please feel free to ask me here or shoot me an email.

Thanks so much for this insight. But I have a question.

For the 20hrs work permit, what is minimum wage per hour do employers pay?

I need answer to do some important calculations. Thanks in advance.

Good evening gurus in the house. Please, I need an urgent answer to a question.

Due to insufficient find, I was denied USA Student Visa 3 times all in 2019.

How do I treat this in my current Canada Study Permit application?

llionaire:
I have paid. I used Wakanow. Airfrance

Did you mean you paid before you submit your application? If yes, was it a return ticket and how many months interval were between the departure and return dates?

llionaire:
Hi guys, I heard the travel ban has been lifted and we can travel months before resumption...is that true? I wanna be sure. School resumes January 2023 and I already booked my flight for September

Please, have you paid for the booked flight ticket?

If you have NOT paid, how were you able to do it?

I will appreciate your response.

kingscare1:


Please what should I do? I'm getting offers from imsu and co to get me result and transcript. Please tell me.

And you are posting this kind of illegality here? What kind of human being are you? You are not even ashamed of being a certificate forger.

Akintosban:
sole owner of the company is my mother
My mind did not even go there.. company still runs till tomorrow

Damn any idea on how to go about this !?
Because I have been wondering my soa is not fake what then would be the issue because I handled the application myself

I will suggest the first thing to do is to quickly ask your company's lawyer or secretary to update the company's record with the CAC to make it active since someone has pointed out that it could be one of the reasons. This should not cost up to 100k or a little more depending on when the last time the company filed a return with the CAC and it does not take too much time. This will make the VO to see the company as active next time if truly they check. Make this small no come spoil sth good.

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ofime123:
Sorry for the refusal but this is the little research I did on your sponsor company and it is imactive and you know embassy run all this check and when they see inactive. It automatically a red flag.

My company is also inactive on the CAC website but it is not the one sponsoring me. However, I will use its letter of introduction, appointment letter, and payslip. Will I also have this kind of issue?

Chubbyface:
Hello house..got PPR yesterday..Family application. Study visa for me, VV for my baby, but my husband’s PPR (SOWP) hasn’t dropped. Was hoping it would drop later in the day so that I would give our testimony at ones, not until I checked his profile and his medicals is not updated yet. IOM promised to send our medical sheets via email, but I didn’t receive any.(so that I can send my husband’s own via webform) How do I go about this plz.

First time applicant, did everything myself, no travel history for both of us.

Submitted: April 26
Biometrics done and updated: May 11
Medical request for 3 of us: June 14
Medicals done at IOM Abuja: June 27
Medicals updated (me and our child): June 28
BVL: June 30
PPR: July 1st

Would send our documentation later.

Congratulations to you.

Please, how did handle this attached part (Purpose of Travel) for your husband as an accompanying relative? I'm confused and I don't know what to attach there. Does that mean we need to book a return ticket for my husband?

I will appreciate your response.

Naomibillonaire:


Who remembers this?

I just got my PPR request. Applied on June 5th got it today. Am still in shock

Did you use Nigerian Student Express by writing IELTS?

Fabprincely:
Please no body should use Barter dollar card by flutterwave to pay for IRCC Visa fee as their banks are frozen in the Usa ‘ Uk and Kenya on Money laundering charges to avoid getting locked by IRCC..

Thanks so much for this info. And I was already relying on them.

Sam796476:
What you need is a gift of deed for the 5m, your lawyer should probably help you out with that.

Please, what is gift of deed?

When or why does one need to get one?

KejiT1:


Same SOWP

Please, how did you explain your husband would return to Nigeria in his SOWP application?

Can you kindly provide a copy of that after you remove all sensitive information there?

I want to apply for the same for my husband but I don't know how to go about it.

RAYSKIS:
Silent reader and 2nd or 3rd time poster on this Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 21.

If I have thousands of tongues, I will use it to praise Allah!

And He has granted you all that you asked Him for. If you tried to count Allah’s blessings, you would never be able to number them. Indeed, humankind is truly unfair, ˹totally˺ ungrateful Surah Ibrahim Ayat 34 (14:34 Quran). وَءَاتَىٰكُم مِّن كُلِّ مَا سَأَلْتُمُوهُ ۚ وَإِن تَعُدُّوا۟ نِعْمَتَ ٱللَّهِ لَا تُحْصُوهَآ ۗ إِنَّ ٱلْإِنسَـٰنَ لَظَلُومٌۭلَظَلُومٌۭ كَفَّارٌۭ ٣٤

Student Visa Application.
School: Mohawk College Fall Intake (September 2022).
To Study: Business Analysis.
Self-Sponsored Applicant.

Old Portal/GCKEY.
Upfront medical. : Q-Life Family Clinic, Jan 27, 2022.

Application submitted : November 17, 2021.
Biometrics done & Updated. : November 22, 2021.
Ghost update. : No
Medical passed: February 18, 2022,
Eligibility started.: May 13, 2022,
Ordered for my GCMS notes 2 times before PPR.
Sent mail and webforms to Nairobi ( Uncountable).

PPR. : June 22-06-22.
I am seriously a busy type but I have decided to share my PPR Journey as of today in order to reciprocate (05-07-2022) after my passport had been stamped and returned to me due to the fact that I benefitted on this forum called Nairaland a lot before now. “To whom much is given much is expected”.

Documents submitted are:
• IMM 1294E (Student Permit Application form).
• IMM 5257B (Temporary Residence form).
• IMM 5645E (Family Information form).

• Letter of Acceptance (Private Section on GCKEY).
• International passport data page (Private Section on GCKEY).
• Passport Photograph (Private Section on GCKEY).

Submitted Under: Proof of means of financial Support:
• Letter of Explanation (Source of Income) Due to lump sum of 13m Plus.
• Reference letter from my Bank
• My Personal Statement of Account
• Half tuition deposit of $9050 CAD later Paid balance tuition fee around June $9572 CAD and send the record of payment via webform.
• Letter of Introduction from company.
• Issuance of study permit letter from company.
• Confirmation of employment letter from my company.
• Leave of Absence letter from my company.
• Letter of Appointment from my company
• Work ID.
• Resume
• Consent Clearance of my landed property from Lagos state government.
• My C of O (Certificate of Occupancy).
• Clearance letter for Building Plan Approval.
• Deed of Assignment of my landed property.
• Survey plans of my landed property.
• Sales of Agreement of my other property.
• Deed of gift (from my wife)
• Sales of Agreements evidencing my lump sum. (Proof).
Submitted Under: Client information Section are:-
• Statement of Purpose (SOP).
• Degree Certificate.
• Transcript
• Iosh Certificate UK.
• OSHA Certificates USA.
• NPC Birth Certificate.
• Sworn Affidavit for correction of name and date of Birth.
• WAEC Certificates.
• Reference letter by my Foundation Secretary.
• Certificate of Incorporation of my Foundation.
• Wife International Passport data page.
• Wife Nursing License.
• Wife Work ID.
• Kids’ International Passport Data page.
• Kids’ Birth Certificate.
• Marriage Certificate.
• Registry pictures Only.
For guys going to Mohawk College please let us know what is up oooooo, you can actually reach me on +2348070708684 whatsapp only please, thinking of moving by late August and yet to get accommodation and flight ticket.

Praise be to Allah before and After.

RAYSKIS, did you submit your NYSC certificate with your application.

Please, those that have gotten their visas should help answer this very important question.

Did you all submit NYSC certificate with your study permit application?

Thanks as I await your response.

Please, I don't understand.

1. What are Old Portal and New Portal?

2. Can I get the links to the two?

3. What are the differences between the two?

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johnstan:


Here.

Thanks so much for making me 100% sure. I saw sth similar on IOM but I wasn't sure. Thanks so much once again.

Kolajero:
How much is the medical exam now? Must a minor also do it?

Please, those that have applied for visa should kindly answer this question. Must a minor of one year do the medical examination.

How much is the medical exam now? Must a minor also do it?

Ketima:


Hello, I will be frank with you. Walking out of marriage isn't separation or dissolution. So long as you wedded in church, you need the church to dissolve the marriage. If you wedded in court, You need court of competent jurisdiction to dissolve such marriage. If not, what you're doing is bigamy and is a huge punishable offence in Canada and here in Nigeria

I understand what you are saying. But I need are just clarifications on the following two areas:

1. How can prove dissolution of the previous marriage. Can I use Court Affidavit for that since the guy has married someone else and we live far apart. I'm in Abuja but he is in Lagos.

2. Must provide photographs of the first marriage as a proof or is the marriage certificate I have enough.

Note again, I didn't get married to the guy and we didn't have any marriage ceremony. I just got the marriage certificate then in order to be reposted to the same state with him because of love. That's why his surname is the one on my NYSC certificate.

Ketima:


Hello Kolajero,

I don't see any issue with your documents. All you need is affidavit and newspaper publication stating that previous documents are yours and still remain valid. But then, you need to provide proof of previous marriage, proof of previous marriage dissolution, proof previous newspaper publication of change of name and proof of current marriage certificate etc.

Note: in your new newspaper publication, state that "I formerly referred and addressed as (name from childbirth) and (name answered in previous marriage) now wish to be addressed and know as (your new name as appeared on your Passport) bla bla bla.


So with that, include your discharge certificate. Is part of your educational qualifications.

Thanks so much for your response.

But here is one more thing. Although I have a marriage certificate for the first marriage, but there is photography to back it. We didn't do any marriage ceremony till we parted ways without any child. We got the marriage certificate because I wanted to be reposted the same state he was serving during our NYSC.

Please house, is NYSC certificate compulsory for study permit application?

Due to two marriages, I have three surnames on my documents now. My BSc certificate has my father's name as my surname, my NYSC certificate has my former husband's name as my surname, and my international passport has my present husband's name as my surname.

vividlooks:


My take;
1) if you can show SUFFICIENT POF for the family and very strong home ties, go ahead and apply for everyone. Otherwise, start with yours and then let the others join in afterwards.
2)You can get medical upfront or decide to wait for a request. I don't think upfront medical has really sped up application processing times as it were. As for the police report, it's only valid for 3mths and some others have gotten approval without it. The choice Is yours.
3)If the certificate carries the names&signatures of you and hubby and perhaps, witnesses and a cleric, I believe it should suffice. Backup with pictures .
4) you can book on hold for most airlines. But note this is usually valid for a few hours depending on the airline. Kindly note, having a booking doesn't in anyway guarantee an approval .

#Myopinion.

Others can weigh in on this.

Thanks so much.

ShallyK:


My Story
This dream started in 2011 during NYSC and with no one to finance my study abroad plans, at that time, I didn't know about Canadian schools with full scholarship as I finished with a 4.17 CGPA. So I aborted mission in 2014 when I got a better job.
Thou from 2011, I had started saving aggressive for my immigration plans, in between then and now, I have travelled to the US twice and once to Canada for holiday. The plan was to build travel history and migrate legitimately.
Imagine my shock when I got my first study permit refusal Jan this year.

Got gingered in 2017 when my Sister and her family were reallocating to Canada via PR, started the process, score not sufficient for ITA, took a PGD course in 2019 to boost, while waiting for ITA, age took off points, then Covid happened in 2020. I decided to try Canadian visit visa since they were favouring family of PR and Citizens, so I applied and got the visa in 2021. Went to Canada and fell in love with the place and people.
It was during this trip I started to consider other routes of migration to Canada, then the study pathway came up during my research. I looked it up on Nairaland, found this thread when it was in part 18 and started reading and following people's stories.

I got admission to Fanshawe for Jan 22, defered to May 22 cos of late payment of deposit. I wanted hubby to come with me, so I delayed applying for study permit till Nov21 while he applied for visit visa in Oct, then the waiting started for both of us.
I was so sure I will get the visa as I still had a valid Canadian visit visa and been to the USA twice, but that didn't count ooo cos I got denied on the 30th Jan22.
Honestly I panicked! The only reason they gave was personal assets and financial status, I was shocked because I paid tuition deposit, had N12m statement, earn over 500k monthly, N2m Sukuku bond. I ran to Nairaland, opened this account and solicited for help. I got several reponses, thanks to everyone.

What I did differently
Requested for my GCMS using my sister's email. I know this will take 30 days so I used the wait period to pay my tuition balance via form A and bought 12kCAD GIC. Also, during the wait, I went to renew my international passport as it was expiring in June. Unfortunately, my BVN was in my husband's name so I had to do change of name before passport could be renewed. All these activities took my mind off the visa refusal.
When the note came Feb ending, it showed the document submitted does not support funds will be available or sufficient.
I reapplied 18th March and added my hubby to my application as we were yet to get response to his visit visa application that was submitted Oct21.
Documents Submitted
I applied via the new portal on the 18th of March
Study Permit (Mine)
SOP - stated strongly that I have fully paid tuition and bought GIC of 12k for my living expenses, talked about the course I am going for and how it will help boost my current career.
Mentioned my hometies: parents and other siblings, job (earn close to 600k, did not get letter from office but used my employment letter and payslip), hubby and the Sukuku bond.
BSC & PGD certificates and Car documents were also submitted.
Past visa pages with stamps to show travel history.
Financial Proof (self sponsored) - Full tuition fee receipts, GIC certificate, 4 months payslip, 4 months bank SOA with less than N3m balance, Pension SOA, Sukuku Bond certificate.

Visit Visa (Hubby)
SOP - stated he was going to help me settle, get accommodation and do the run around. Also that he having the visa will give him some form of rest of mind back home in Nigeria as it will enable him easily travel to me in case of any emergency I encounter over there.
Home Ties - his aged mother and siblings (he did not include their birth certificate or pictures), Job ( letter of introduction stating he is entitled to 25 days leave), 4 months payslip, Salary and Savings SOA (both combined were less than N2m)
Proof of Financial - SOA, payslip, my full tuition fee and my GIC certificate (both to show I am not a liability to him). My SOA ( I wrote a letter of support that I will be accommodating him in Canada and also purchase his ticket), so my GIC of 12k was evidence of that and my SOA is were the flight ticket will be purchased.
We did a table in the financial proof letter to show he will handle his PTA N300k and indicated the account that will come from. Also showed cost of the flight ticket which was about N515k and tallies with the holding ticket we attached, we indicated that will come from my own savings account.
On invitation, he stated he was visiting spouse, he used Fanshawe address as the address he is visiting.
We attached an holding flight ticket, to show how much it will cost and his duration of visit (3 weeks).
Marriage certificate
He does not have any travel history.

After submission, we started waiting and hoping approval will come in April cos school resumes in May. I did not send any email, was just hoping and praying. Last week in April, I had to defer my admission again, I got the new LOA (Jan22) on the 13th of May. I sent it immediately via email and web to Nairobi, then 20th of May, BVL dropped for both hubby and I and PPR for hubby.
I wasn't surprised I didnt get PPR, recall I said my passport was expiring in June. I still had not gotten the renewed passport as at then.
Picked up my new passport now in Hubby's name on the 26th May and sent it via webform and email to nairobi that same day. There was no response, a week after I resent it alongside my marriage certificate, change of name Affidavit and newspaper Publication.... Just to show its still me. Still no response, so I gave them two week....nothing.
I started sending weekly emails and webform to Abuja, Lagos and Nairobi...then yesterday BVL and PPR dropped and they both indicated my new name.
It ended in praise!

For those still waiting, it will surely end in praise.

Ps: My long story is just to encourage someone out there and for people to learn from my experience. This is my way of giving back to all I got here on Nairaland right from when I applied for my first USA visa in 2015 till this very day. .

Congratulations to you. Please, what do you mean by holding ticket? Is it a flight reservation? If yes, how did you get it and it was for how many months? Tha is where I am stuck currently.

Uzoamaka123:
Good morning.

Good questions you asked , although I’ll wait for more experienced gurus on Nairaland to respond to your NO 1,2 and 3.

But you see that number 4 and 5, it’s like jumping steps lol.

You need to apply for your study permit first and get your visa before you start thinking about ticket booking or how to book a return ticket.

Without applying and getting an approval , you can’t book a ticket talk less of traveling to Canada.

So focus on gathering the right documents for your application and worry about fight booking later.

May God see you through.

Thanks so much for your response. I asked number 3 and 4 because of the info in the attached. It is a document that appears for Purpose of Travel - Other that must attached for the spouse that needs open work permit.

I will be glad if others that I have obtained their visas can guide me on how they handle this part.