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Amicableoga:
If someone applied for a study permit as a single, later got married before the visa was approved. Will the person inform IRCC about the marriage before inviting the spouse to Canada?

The guy is suffering from an Obstructive Sleep Apnea. To treat it, he need to go for a sleep test at the sleep lab. Base on this, the doctor will recommend a CPAP machine for him which is quite expensive. I experienced it in Nigeria when everybody was running away from.me at night got treated when I got to the US. My CPAP machine is $3300.
Abeg convert it to Naira.

Nigerians and religious bigotry. Keep deceiving yourself with the books written by men

Righteousness2:
Fasten your Seat belts Folks! A New global Crisis is Looming!!

Israel PM says they will Not let Iran get a Nuke under any Circumstances. Israel will be Forced to act.

Bible Prophecies are warming up to unfold right in Front of our eyes.
Isaiah 17:1,14 where Damascus will be Destroyed in a single Night.

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In this Prophecy , Jeremiah says Iran will suffer the fate of a broken bow. Which could imply that Iran Revolutionary guard will be unable to launch scores of its Missiles at its Enemies.

Additionally, Jeremiah declared that Iran will be struck at the Foremost place of its Might, which Today could infer an attack on its Nuclear Program.

One of the Most strategic and Vulnerable Nuclear target today is the " Busher Nuclear reactor" located in the Heart of ancient Elam.

We are residing right in Biblical Prophecies.The Signs of the times are Everywhere! Let no one Confuse or Distract or Deceive you! These are Endtimes!
The Coming of JESUS is NEARHERE! The RAPTURE can Happen anymoment!

Yes, good statement do work, but what I want people to understand is that due to the power of attorney given to these VOs, they exhibit arbitrary tendencies in most cases. Once the VO cast doubt on your motive, no amount of strong SOP will dissuade him/her from refusing the application. For the fact that somebody applied for SOWP before the spouse arrived in Canada and got approved does not mean you would be lucky like that person. Vos is different. The bottom line is that you should not give the VO any reason to doubt your bonafide.

skull4eva:
It depends on the situation that surrounds the applicant after the visa was issued and this will determine whether the applicant can put up a good statement or not.

Mind you,family unification is not automatic

DamilareOla:
What will happen if an applicant did mention that in the LOE?


I believe Family staying back help proof ties to back home.

Plus plans do change. Family unification is equally a priority for Canada.

Yes, but you must have had a job offer from an emoloyer. Most of the employers here will want to see your work permit before they hire you unless you have an exceptional skill they want to quickly grab

hemjayb:
I have heard it is possible to apply for a work permit as a visitor while you are in canada. Is this not true?

This is an open forum and those VOs or their agents may be here reading what we post here. Everybody knows that that it is extremely illegal to work with visitor visa. This your question is capable of casting doubt on the bonafide of genuine visitors. t Canada agents may be among us here.

Holuwatopraise:
Good evening house please can someone use a visiting visa to work

Don't waste time to send a we form to them. Fill another form with the updated background information at an attachment. Tell them that you just realised that you skipped it. Don't let them ask you before you notify them. And remember to keep the copy of the we form you send including the submission page. That will be your defense in case the VO wants to be funny

mfonox:
Hmmmm. Right now I’m just praying not to get banned after reading through the thread. When asked if I have been refused visa before. Although I answered yes and stated my Uk visa refusal in 2015. I forgot to also include my 2nd US visa refusal in 2019. It honestly skipped my mind. I applied for us visa and got it in 2017. Travelled for 3 weeks but when I reapplied in 2019 I was rejected.( that was when trump just stopped drop box) I was focused on answering that I had travel history and completely forgot about the 2nd time rejection. Hopefully the fact that I at least answered Yes to the question will save me

Only me they sent to go for biometrics since 6th of February and I’m just going 4th of March Only me put intended travel date as 28th Feb.

I tire jare…….. the silly mistakes don too plenty

Send them a webform to inform them there is a typo error on your travel date. Them give them a new date

mfonox:
Good day house. I applied for visiting visa on the 5th of Feb and was sent a mail to go for biometrics on the 6th. But I didn’t see it on time. I wasn’t checking the portal(sigh) thank God I still have till 8th of March for it. But my problem is the date I put for travel was 28th Feb.(don’t know why I put it that close( double sigh) Just wanted to know if the fact that my travel date has passed affect the outcome of the visa?

Unnn
All applications on hold to attend to Ukrainian crisis.

What's the purpose of the visit? Can't you do the meeting online? Why must you be in Canada to participate in the meeting?
These are part of the questions you need to address.

dalamilove:
I HAVE AN INVITATION FROM LIONS CLUB WITH AN IRCC NUMBER, PLEASE WHAT ADDRESS DO I ENTER INTO THE SPACE OF INVITERS ADDRESS BECAUSE MY LETTER DOES NOT HAVE AN ADDERSS IN CANADA

When is your program ending?

nochyks87:
My people, I need your advice on this request letter given to my wife. she submitted her application since January 7, 2021(over one year plus). I am a student here in Canada and I do not have a full time job. Kindly advise please

The New family unification portal is meant to bring families together based on Justin Trudeau Mandate letter to the new immigration minister. They created the portal to bring families together as quickly as possible but our people bastardized it. People who don't have family members in Canada are now using the portal for tourist visa application. Those with pending SOWP are also jumping into the new portal. What they don't know is that all these TRV applications we are flooding the IRCC go to only one immigration department in Kenya with limited manpower, hence the shooting up of the processing times. We need to endure the mess we created for ourselves.

This is one of the problems of AI software IRCC is using to process the applications now. The system classified your son as low risk and recommend him for approval while you as an adult that can elope is classified as high risk and recommend you for further VO scrutiny. Don't worry, it may take time, your own PPR is coming.

ennygal:
Kindly mail me through ennygal2016@gmail.com. We need to talk please

Family re-unification

Teau:
PLEASE PPLE THIS IS URGENT
NEED HELP MY MUM IS TRAVELLING THIS NIGHT AND I AM TRYING TO COMPLETE THE ARRIVE CAN ITS ASK PURPOSE FOR VISIT. Is it discretionary or family reunification i pick please. I am just a adult student with kids here.

Please urgent thanks

NO

Amicableoga:
Please, is police clearance compulsory for visit visa applications?

When people submit applications to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) they typically have spent significant time carefully completing forms and assembling documents. They expect that their applications will be processed by visa officers who carefully review the information before them. However, applicants need to understand that artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in visa processing, as is the bulk processing of applications.

IRCC has not been forthcoming with how it uses technology to process applications, however, through a series of Access to Information Act requests as well as Federal Court of Canada litigation, the public is beginning to get a sense of measures being implemented.

Predicative learning
Automated processing of some categories of applications is not new. Since 2015 most visa-exempt foreign nationals have had to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization before they could board a plane to travel to Canada. These applications were, for the most part, automated applications.

What is less known is that in 2017, IRCC successfully conducted a pilot in which automated systems based on predicative analytics triaged and automatically approved low-risk online temporary resident visa applications from China.

Visa applications were sorted into tiers – the lowest risk for auto-approval, medium and high risk for officer review. This triage model was deployed for all applications from China in 2018, and in the same year was piloted in India. The goal appears to be for artificial intelligence to automatically approve low-risk applications, with officers only manually assessing those that have been flagged as medium to high risk.

Chinook
In addition to automated triaging, IRCC has also introduced software so that officers can bulk process applications. The software tool is known as Chinook.

According to an affidavit that IRCC filed in Federal Court, Chinook is a standalone tool that streamlines administrative steps. Applicant information is extracted from their applications and presented in a spreadsheet. Visa officers are assigned a workload of applications through Chinook. They are able to see multiple applications at a time on a single spreadsheet.

This allows them to review the contents of multiple applications on a single screen and allows them to complete administrative steps through batch processes. It also allows visa officers to create “risk indicators” and “local word flags” so that officers can identify possible applications in the processing queue of concern or priority.

According to the Federal Court affidavit, when visa officers enter Chinook, a message pops up that says, amongst other things, “The Chinook User Interface allows you to view multiple applications for review and initial assessment.

It does not replace reviewing documents… and/or reviewing other information… The refusal notes generator is means to assist with general bona fide refusals. If the notes do not reflect your refusal reasons, please write an individual note.”

Concerns
There have been many concerns raised about the implementation of automated triaging and Chinook. These include the possibility that it is what has led to increased refusal rates, that individual care is not being given to applications, that applications are not being carefully reviewed and instead quickly bulk refused, that AI flagging a file as high-risk will lead to an officer wanting to simply affirm the AI’s finding, that refusal reasons are increasingly consisting of boiler plate templates which is not helpful for applicants, and that it may perpetuate systemic racism.

Because IRCC has not been transparent about the implementation of these systems and their results, it is difficult to confirm if these concerns are founded. Regardless, it is important that those submitting applications understand that Canada’s immigration system is no longer one in which human officers meticulously process individual applications in the order that they are received. I have previously written about how it is important for individuals with refused applications to obtain the internal reasons for refusal, or Global Case Management System (“GCMS”) notes. IRCC’s use of artificial intelligence and bulk refusal generators makes this even more important, as a review of the internal reasons or GCMS are often indicative of whether such software was used, and whether a refused applicant should either file a reconsideration request or seek judicial review to see if a human may reach a different conclusion.

When people submit applications to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) they typically have spent significant time carefully completing forms and assembling documents. They expect that their applications will be processed by visa officers who carefully review the information before them. However, applicants need to understand that artificial intelligence is playing an increasing role in visa processing, as is the bulk processing of applications.

IRCC has not been forthcoming with how it uses technology to process applications, however, through a series of Access to Information Act requests as well as Federal Court of Canada litigation, the public is beginning to get a sense of measures being implemented.

Predicative learning
Automated processing of some categories of applications is not new. Since 2015 most visa-exempt foreign nationals have had to apply for an Electronic Travel Authorization before they could board a plane to travel to Canada. These applications were, for the most part, automated applications.

What is less known is that in 2017, IRCC successfully conducted a pilot in which automated systems based on predicative analytics triaged and automatically approved low-risk online temporary resident visa applications from China.

Visa applications were sorted into tiers – the lowest risk for auto-approval, medium and high risk for officer review. This triage model was deployed for all applications from China in 2018, and in the same year was piloted in India. The goal appears to be for artificial intelligence to automatically approve low-risk applications, with officers only manually assessing those that have been flagged as medium to high risk.

Chinook
In addition to automated triaging, IRCC has also introduced software so that officers can bulk process applications. The software tool is known as Chinook.

According to an affidavit that IRCC filed in Federal Court, Chinook is a standalone tool that streamlines administrative steps. Applicant information is extracted from their applications and presented in a spreadsheet. Visa officers are assigned a workload of applications through Chinook. They are able to see multiple applications at a time on a single spreadsheet.

This allows them to review the contents of multiple applications on a single screen and allows them to complete administrative steps through batch processes. It also allows visa officers to create “risk indicators” and “local word flags” so that officers can identify possible applications in the processing queue of concern or priority.

According to the Federal Court affidavit, when visa officers enter Chinook, a message pops up that says, amongst other things, “The Chinook User Interface allows you to view multiple applications for review and initial assessment.

It does not replace reviewing documents… and/or reviewing other information… The refusal notes generator is means to assist with general bona fide refusals. If the notes do not reflect your refusal reasons, please write an individual note.”

Concerns
There have been many concerns raised about the implementation of automated triaging and Chinook. These include the possibility that it is what has led to increased refusal rates, that individual care is not being given to applications, that applications are not being carefully reviewed and instead quickly bulk refused, that AI flagging a file as high-risk will lead to an officer wanting to simply affirm the AI’s finding, that refusal reasons are increasingly consisting of boiler plate templates which is not helpful for applicants, and that it may perpetuate systemic racism.

Because IRCC has not been transparent about the implementation of these systems and their results, it is difficult to confirm if these concerns are founded. Regardless, it is important that those submitting applications understand that Canada’s immigration system is no longer one in which human officers meticulously process individual applications in the order that they are received. I have previously written about how it is important for individuals with refused applications to obtain the internal reasons for refusal, or Global Case Management System (“GCMS”) notes. IRCC’s use of artificial intelligence and bulk refusal generators makes this even more important, as a review of the internal reasons or GCMS are often indicative of whether such software was used, and whether a refused applicant should either file a reconsideration request or seek judicial review to see if a human may reach a different conclusion.

Ok
But when is your intended date of travel?

Titiwealth:
I am going to visit my husband along with my children.

Are you visiting your family member?

Titiwealth:
I don't.

Do you have a pending Permanent Residence application?

Titiwealth:
We are reviewing your eligibility. And biometric was completed on Jan 25th thou I had it done on Dec 20.

They may not.
Many people who applied between Dec 10 and 31 are on review of eligibility now. Some are on the eligibility review for more than a week now.

thejokist:
Please does IRCC notify you before they commence reviewing your eligibility or you’ll have to keep checking your profile to know when eligibility review has started?

You are right.
I don't know why Nigerians are so selfish like this. When they need help, they rush to this forum to ask question, but when they get their visa, they disappear from the radar. To share their timelines and how they go about it for others to learn is no more their business. Only few people come back here to share their experience on their positive decision.

Papapa1234:
Dropping of transcripts and timeline should be encouraged on this thread...

Pretty sure so many have gotten their visas..

pls don't just come here to seek help,

Try and drop procedures used once you get your visa..

Thank you.

What's the status of your application now?

Titiwealth:
I applied through the new portal on Dec 14, yet to get a response.

Let your husband land in Canada first before you think of any spousal open work permit. You short work years at NAFDAC will cast doubt on you of getting a leave to join your spouse. Hence, weaker home tie, which may affect your husband's chance of getting the study permit

Deronke1:
Hi guys, so my husband and I are planning on applying together. Him for student visa and I for Sowp. I currently work at nafdac, just 1 year and its my only work experience. I've taken many online courses.
What are the criteria for sowp? Am I eligible?
Please help as we don't want to make a mistake

What's the status of your application now?

ikemummy:
I applied on 9 November and still waiting for decision.

Did anybody apply for visit visa in December and still waiting for decision?

If depends, you can use your parents.

Wales55:
Please how do you tackle family ties when you don't have any properties or assets in Nigeria

Yes, you need all those information from the agent. When did you apply?

Wales55:
Hello Nairalander, I was just refused based on families ties and travel history (never traveled before). An RCIC agent was used thinking it would help as they have experience doing that

I want to go through the application myself now,Please has any one used an agent before that failed and applied by him or herself?
If yes,do I need any information on the past application from the agent?
Also how can the above reasons be tackled in next application as I do not have any property or asset in Nigeria expect my family (wife is a student in Canada expecting a baby in May)
Kindly help me with information,please

Google "ircc medical exam request form", fill the form and upload it there

Kamsiroyce:
Each time I click on the '?' button, this is the page that shows. The link doesn't bring out the form. Please, I need your advise. Thanks

Many people here are as intellectually daft like Malami that was saying this rubbish on air. It is ashamed that this law illiterate is your Attorney General. Up till now, after good six months, the Malami and his his rogues DSS have not brought a single charge against Igboho. Even Benin Republic is saying they arrested him on the order of Nigerian Government. The problem with Igboho's case is that his legal team has been compromised. They shut their court in Benin Republic to delay trial with the purpose of keeping him in detention. They know they have no case against him. That is why the Nigerian Government is running away from their own court in the Kanu's trial. Kanu's legal team is ready for trial but the Malami and his Almajiris in the DSS not ready.
For the intellectual buffoons here, Ighoho won the same FG in court over his attack and Dss declaration as being wanted. FG did not appeal this judgement. The only thing they said was that Nigeria has no money to pay Igboho. Buhari himself is a defence for Igboho and Kanu. Buhari in many fora has consistently calling for the independence of Palestines, is this not a call for a self-determination for Palestinians? Then why is he criminalising a campaign for self determination by Kanu and Igboho? As for Benin Republic, that country is committing an international crime. Under the United Nation law, any means a person fearing persecution take to enter your country should not be used against that person and Benin Republic is a signatory to that agreement. Whereas in this case, Igboho used the Nigeria passport to enter as an ECOWAS citizen. If Benin Republic has any case against Igboho, why shut down their court to prevent proper trial?
I think we need to educate those intellectual buffoons here. It is a pity that Buhari has successfully reduce the sense of reasoning of many Southern graduate to that of a typical Almajiri.

What date in December did you apply?
Have you gotten a decision?

LadyBlaq:
Yes, eligibility review started on 24th of January. I don't want to send mails to them any more. It will surely end in praise ooo, I remain very hopeful. Thank you.