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[quote author=awelekiti post=48801610]This is saddening. Please ensure you apply for your visa yourself in your next attempt. It's not rocket science. If you have the required documents for the category of visa you're applying for, you could be issued one on a virgin passport and if you're refused, you'd know where and how you missed it and try to avoid such mistakes in your next application. Let me tell you a short story for this purpose... In 2004, my close friend applied for a US visa and was refused, on his first application. I asked why he was refused an he said the VO asked for a bank statement which he did not have at the time of the interview. The VO also asked for his ID which he could not produce. He arranged his documents by himself I was always going to a cyber cafe after work,with him as internet was mainly restricted to cyber cafes and a few companies in those days so, we booked a system for a night browsing as usual. He was the computer guru while I was just learning. He printed all his visa documents that night ,alongside his visa application forms. He did not go to work the following day and headed to US Embassy for early morning appointment. I felt bad as he said he was refused due to the aforementioned reasons and I learned from his mistakes when it was my turn to apply. I went to meet my uncle working in a bank at that time for help and he called one of his loyal customers to assist me and act as my sponsor. The man agreed and gave me the assistance I needed, including his bank statement. I went to the embassy with a virgin passport. On seeing the VO, I was expecting him to ask me for a bank statement as I was ready for him...I had learned from my friend's mistakes. After he asked for the Invite and I gave it to him, I was about giving him the bank statement in a hurry when he did not even ask for it... he said ''please hold on, when I need it, I will ask you for it'' . Fortunately, I did not spend up to 5 minutes before this man when he gave me a tally, asking me to come a few days later for my visa. He did not even ask for the bank statement eventually.....I was given 3 months single entry, unlike now that they are issuing 2 years multiple like pure water. My friend was not happy but i encouraged him to reapply . I thanked him because I learned from his mistakes. He reapplied and was also issued 3 months single entry. We both traveled to NY for the conference we both registered for, in Nov 2004. The moral of my story is...Never engage any agent to process your visa for you. You can do it yourself. Nobody ever taught me and my friend how to go about it. We woke up one day and said we wanted to travel and we pursued our dream to actualization. While others would be spending the whole night chatting on yahoo messenger with oyinbo at the cyber cafe, we would be busy searching for visa information. Today, the rest is history and I thank God for that.The information you need is free and available on the internet if you're not lazy. Thank God for NL. Every visa information you need is available here on NL. American Embassy also has a thread on NL and I hope CIC will follow suit soon. I wish there was NL in 2004, maybe my friend would have also learned a lot here before applying and wasting his 100USD the first time( which was 12k at that time). Stop patronising miscreants . Funny enough, many of them are not as knowledgeable as you are. Ignore anybody asking you for money to process your visa for you. You can DIY. Good luck!


anyway I just reapply again on the 11th of Oct 2016 and less than three weeks I got an email from the VFS that my application is ready for pick, though I have not gone to pick it as I am in TOGO right now, hopefully two weeks time I will go pick it, anyway thanks for your advice.

jayfierce:
That's a sad story. From, all you've just said it is possible a fake visa was stamped on your passport.

However, since you submitted the application by yourself and captured your biometrics it's important to find out what happened to your original application.

Going forward, do you have your application number or any communication between you and CIC or VFS? Like Sms, emails, etc.

Thanks for your response, actually I do not have communication or application number with CIC or VFS because being my first time on this Canadian issue I did not pay any attention to that, anyway I just reply again on the 11th of Oct 2016 and less than three weeks I got an email from the VFS that my application is ready for pick, though I have not gone to pick it as I am in TOGO right now, hopefully two weeks time I will go pick it, anyway thanks for your advice.

cheeers

Good day every one, please how long does it take to issue Canada visa? because I apply on the 11th of Oct and just got an email today that my application is ready for pickup, its less than 3 weeks.

Thanks

Greetins to everyone here, please in 2014 I applied for Canada visa, through an agent, it was a group visa stuff, we went to the Canadian submission center in Ikeja to submit our documents, paid visa fees, 29 days later the agent called me to come collect my passport, when we got to the submission center we were asked to wait outside opposite the submission center, then the agent went inside to bring our passport, when i open mine i notice i was given 2yrs visa, I was so excited becox I have been hustling for long time to go to USA or Canada, so I left my passport with the agent then travel back to where I based TOGO, after i got to TOGO two weeks later i transfer the money for the visa to the agent (1.5m naira) so i came to Nigeria to collect my passport and my visa and the issue became a story, they agent said he has no access to my pasport because the guy who have the connection took our passport and travel because of late payment from me, after two months I got my passport back but the visa is no longer in my passport, I really don't know what happen, my agent was arrested and he said the visa is fake and that he was deceived by another agent.

Please i need your advice is it possible to sell someone visa? because I went to the submission center myself to submit my documents, but somebody told me its Oluwole visa

I am confuse.