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I would assume you would be required to provide records to that effect. Rape - police record, sperm donation - hospital records, immaculate conception - records of crucifixion and resurrection.

SlowlybtSurely:
Wow! That's a lot. Thanks for the clarification.

Just wondering. . . What happens if a woman really doesn't know the father of her child? Rape? Sperm donoation? Immaculate conception?

I applied with my child as a single parent. I was asked for and presented the following:

1. To get a Nigerian passport, she would be required to present court affidavit that the child is born out of wedlock along with a signed letter from the child's father permitting her to apply for an international passport on behalf of the child.

2. Whether the child has a different surname or the same as hers, IRCC would require her to provide a signed and notarized form stating that the father consents to the permanent residency application along with the information page of the father's passport.

3. I was also asked by AOR to state the nature of my relationship with my child's father. It is very important for her to point out, if asked, that she has never lived with the child's father as Canada considers that too as long as it's true.

Gifty28:
Gifty28(f): 3:17pm
Good afternoon everyone, for single moms who have gone through this process or for people who have ideas about this. (1) A friend wants to try this express entry process but she Just gave birth recently and isn’t with the baby’s father( she’s single not married) she wants to know how to go about it? She hasn’t collected her baby’s birth certificate yet and she wants to know if putting her surname on the certificate won’t have any issue with the immigration process concerning/asking about her baby’s dad??
(2) Will they ask for a consent letter from the child dad regardless of who’s surname is on the certificate? The guy isn’t in her life so she doesn’t want to even tell him anything about it, since it’s just her and her baby.
Pls so many responses will be appreciated �

chicmoniq:
Hi Cherrymia. I’m also looking to exchange naira for CAD.

I am looking for naira, please pm me your rate.

Sorry I missed your messge, I'm not online often.

Chenkes:
Hi Mamatea

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EngrSarah:
Please house....HELP!!! I just got a refusal letter for my express entry application.
The reason given was that the points in my reference letter does not match my NOC.

Can I appeal please - I am thinking of getting a new reference letter and a letter from my employer saying the old list of duties was not exhaustive (and it truly wasn't).

Just can't imagine reapplying again!

Your experienced thoughts really appreciated!

Where is your VO?

You have two options: 1 - you could request a new reference letter (check NOC description to ensure the duties listed on the reference letter matches NOC as much as possible), submit this along with a letter of explanation. 2. you could withdraw your application and submit again with new reference letter.

I would suggest you try the first option depending on your VO, I know this option works.

I know someone who also did the second option (same reason for rejection) and got PPR 6 months later.

This message is for everyone with CoPRs, patiently waiting for Convid-19 to blow over, borders to open up and airlines to begin flying again. I'd like to encourage you put this time to very good use. There are a lot of very good, very useful, and VERY FREE pre settlement services available to help newcomers find houses, jobs, write CVs - even help with starting a business, going to school, finding childcare, accessing benefits etc. Here are a few below. I hope these help.

arriveprepared. ca
aeipsuccess. ca
planningforcanada. ca
jvstoronto. org (if you are planning to land in Toronto)
nextstopcanada. ca
accesemployment. ca

This message is for everyone with CoPRs, patiently waiting for Convid-19 to blow over, borders to open up and airlines to begin flying again. I'd like to encourage you put this time to very good use. There are a lot of very good, very useful, and VERY FREE pre settlement services available to help newcomers find houses, jobs, write CVs - even help with starting a business, going to school, finding childcare, accessing benefits etc. Here are a few below. I hope these help.

arriveprepared. ca
aeipsuccess. ca
planningforcanada. ca
jvstoronto. org (if you are planning to land in Toronto)
nextstopcanada. ca
accesemployment. ca

Thank you very much for all your help.

ainatutu:
Hello Guys,

CIC requested i do a re-med. I want to know if i am to upload any document after the test or i just wait for IOM to upload the test results?

Thanks.

No, you do not need to upload any document. You need to print out the form attached to your re-med request and take it along with you to IOM along with a passport photo, your international passport and a photocopy of the data page. You also need to note your IME number so you can write it on the form that IOM will give you on the day of your re-med.

MY PRAISE IS UPGRADED!
AFTER 15 MONTHS & 15 DAYS!!
DELAY IS NOT DENIAL!!!

(Warning: Long Post)

I’ve been a silent reader for the past 6 months. I discovered this forum towards the tail end of my journey (I hoped). I had a lot of false starts. In 2009 while finishing up NYSC, a friend told me of his preparations to move his family to Canada, another said he was applying to universities in Canada for his Masters degree. I already had admission to a UK university for my Masters and I didn’t want to do the wahala of studying for one English exam like that when I have been speaking English my whole life. Besides, I had done my school, College and Bachelors degree in the UK, and more importantly at the time, I had friends there. The plan was always to come back to Nigeria, do NYSC then go back to England. Strike 1.

Fast forward to the end of my UK Post Study VISA in 2014, I came back to Nigeria and my mother told me about her friend who had an agency that helped people migrate to Canada. I had a good job, living in Lagos, starting my business and I’m finally back among family. Strike 2.

In 2016 at my mother’s insistence (blessings of Abraham on that woman), my brother and I went to see her friend agent who told us about Canada EE program. We were told to do IELTS and to aim for at least 7 points and to bring 150k so he can help us file our applications. So we said okay, let’s start gathering money for IELTS. While in the process of doing that, a brother from another mother also moved he and his family to Canada. Buhari came into power and fuel scarcity gave us petrol at 1k per litre. Now Canada was looking like serious matter.

Wrote IELTS in April 2017 (first attempt) LRWS: 8.5, 7.5, 7, 8. Overall band = 8. ‘Thank God, first hurdle passed’, was what I thought. Little did I know that I was just getting started. I didn’t prepare for the listening and speaking but I did practice for the reading and writing. I met someone in the same year and things were getting serious, or so I thought and he was not interested in sitting for one English exam like that. Let nobody come and say I have priding so I put Canada to one side yet again and put marriage forward. Strike 3.

Then came a blessing of a bun in the oven. I knew I had to get serious and lay down some concrete future plans.

I verified my Bachelors and Masters degree with WES and got my ECA back in August 2018. Medicals was done at The Consultant’s Practice in September 2018 and I submitted by application in for EE.

WES Account created: 30th October 2016 (Yes o, no mistake)
IELTS: 20 April 2017
Degrees submitted: 02 July 2018
ECA Completed: 20 August 2018

EE Profile Created: 20 August 2018 (CRS Score: 464)
ITA: 22nd August 2018
Medical Examination (The Consultant Practice): 20th September 2018
PR Application Submitted: 7th October 2018
PR App fee, RFRF & Biometric Fee: $1125CAD
Acknowledgement of Receipt (AOR): 7th October 2018
Medical Examination Passed (MEP): 6th November 2018
Biometrics Instruction Letter (BIL): 6th November 2018
Biometrics Submitted (Canada VFS, Lekki): 8th November 2018
Then the wait began... DECEMBER 2018
And wait... JANUARY 2019
Wait... FEBRUARY 2019
MARCH 2019 - I had a beautiful baby girl (I had informed Medicals of my pregnancy during my examination)
APRIL 2019 - Raised CSE via web form advising IRCC of my new status. I was advised that I needed her birth certificate and to email Ottawa VO directly once I had the certificate. Hospital said I had to wait 6 weeks for certificate. Informed Ottawa VO of the mandatory 6 weeks wait.
13 MAY 2019 - Emailed birth certificate to Ottawa VO.
15 MAY 2019 - IRCC update my profile with Child Add On kit and requested her passport.

Come and see race to passport office, filled forms and then I was asked to go and bring her father. I informed the officer that we are no longer together besides, I have included his letter of consent and mine as well as data pages of both our passports with the application. Customs officer then said I should go and sign affidavit in high court swearing to that fact which I did immediately. Came back and he said he still wasn’t convinced, that the child’s father should send another letter because he didn’t believe that the first letter was an original one. I came back with another letter, he asked if he could call the child’s father to which I replied, ‘of course ‘. Last last he sha signed, then the next drama. We were told to come back 2 weeks later for the passport. On getting to passport office after 2 weeks, we were told their printer broke and the guy that is meant to be fixing it was not around and we should come back a week later. The week later, we were told that they were out of booklets and to come back again next week. All this while the 30 days that Canada gave me to add my child is counting down. I uploaded the completed forms and paid the fee. Raised CSE via web form advising that passport is not yet available. We finally got the passport with a day to spare and I uploaded the information required to my profile and paid the fee.

11 JUNE 2019 - Paid $150CAD dependant application fee
02 JULY 2019 - Raised CSE and sent passport page to IRCC
22 JULY 2019 - Raised CSE because profile was updated and medical was requested for dependant but no medical form was provided in my messages
2 AUGUST 2019 - Still no medical form so Raised CSE again
26th AUGUST 2019 - Dependant medical completed. Raised CSE to send proof to IRCC
10 SEPTEMBER 2019 - Raised CSE requesting update and received a generic reply
13 SEPTEMBER 2019 - Raised CSE informing IRCC that my child’s father and I are no longer in a relationship. I included a notarised declaration (IMM 5604 E) the father (non accompanying parent) permitting me to apply for PR as well as travel with child.
14 SEPTEMBER 2019 - Requested GCMS notes from GETGCMS
20 SEPTEMBER 2019 - Medical should have expired for me.
4 OCTOBER 2019 - Ghost update
8 OCTOBER 2019 - Medical updated to ‘Not required’
10 OCTOBER 2019 - IRCC requested another up to 90 days to provide GCMS
11 OCTOBER 2019 - I finally caved in and emailed Ralph requesting status, no response.
15 OCTOBER 2019 - Emailed Ralph at another email address
Response Received same day
Criminality passed.
Eligibility requires review.
Security checks have not been initiated. They cannot be expedited and timelines are not available.
Medicals are expired – no action required at this time.
VO: Ottawa

05 November 2019 - Raised CSE to send POF for 2 (I didn’t know to send when I added my dependant)
07 November 2019 - Progress bar has disappeared and I can no longer log into On-Line Services at services3.cic.gc.ca.
21 November 2019 - Emailed Ottawa VO requesting status update.
22 November 2019 - Called IRCC and was told file is being reviewed
25 November 2019 - Ottawa VO replied that file currently in review and additional verification is required.

31 December 2019 - Remedical request. I booked an appointment with IOM after the holiday
21 January 2020 - Remedical passed

Passport Request (PPR): 22 January 2020[i][/i]
Passport Submission: 27 January 2020
Awaiting Passport Collection: Estimated 30 days


FAQs
1. Why didn’t I request for GCMS notes earlier? I didn’t even know I could.
2. Why did I send affidavit and declaration form? I read on this platform about two different cases of people travelling with children as a single parent and decided to follow their advice. I also know Border Agents are very particular about children that are travelling with one parent because of child traffickers.
3. How did I call IRCC? You can call Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) in Toronto Pearson airport
Terminal 1: (905) 676-3640
Terminal 3: (905) 612-5416
Skype works! All you have to do is to choose the second option (refer to IRCC customer support) then you will find yourself directed to the IRCC menu itself.

Happy New Year

Please does anyone have an appointment date for medicals in Lagos between the 6th and 10th of January 2020 please? Please I have a remedical request and Qlife's earliest available appointment is the 20th of February. Please HELP. Thank you very much in advance.

Congratulations!

jamesbellu:
PPR is here finally!!

AVO
ITA Aug 2018
AOR Sept 11 2018
Medical passed Sept 30 2018

Long wait ....

ADR April 2019
ADR responded to May 2019

Numerous follow ups,emails to Ralph etc

Two days ago we escalated to Ottawa.

Here were are PPR early this morning 8th November 2019.

All glory to God�

Abeg, please, jo, Biko,how can I like this twice.

bily:
Take your time to read the story below... Hope it answers your question

Raccoon Orientation for Canada-Bound Nigerians

By *Pius Adesanmi*

I promised I was going to get around to tell you all this story.
Eventually.

Happened last summer – before my accident.

The jazz of all my political enemies in Nigeria finally crossed the Atlantic and caught up with me here in Ottawa.

The trouble with Homo Occidentalis North Americanus is that as soon as he arrives within a certain income bracket that is no longer middleclass but not quite upperclass but dangerously close to upperclass, he will move far away from the city and create a new paradise he calls upscale suburbia. Swanky neigbourhoods with manicured lawns, removed from the rabble of the city.

That is where you will find high-earning doctors, engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. If you are a Professor who negotiated a good pay when you were hired, you also tag along, buy property among them, and begin to form associate big man.

Trouble is suburbia in Canada or the US is always encroaching on the habitat of much older residents. Man steals land from these residents but cannot always predict consequences. That is why a family in Florida will return from work to an alligator chilling in their swimming pool. That is why a family in Arizona will grumble about rattle snakes all over their yard. They call animal services. Never mind that these animals have called that place home for millions of years before man put one leg on top of another leg and developed his suburbia there.

In Ottawa, if you live in the suburbia called Riverside South as I do, you have encroached on prime raccoon territory. As in Florida and Arizona, these raccoons have a way of behaving like omo onile in Lagos. Occasionally, they let you know who truly owns the land (This is where you google raccoon).

Because the jazz of my political enemies in Nigeria worked as I was saying, a family of raccoons elected residence in our roof last summer. We’d been hearing mawuru mawuru in the ceiling for months. The noise would come only at night. Tise said it was the tooth faerie. I thought it was squirrels, but we couldn’t fathom how squirrels could tear into the roof of a duplex from outside and make their way into the attic.

One day, madam called me urgently and asked me to hurry home. I arrived to a small situation in front of our home. Our otherwise very friendly neighbours had converged on our front lawn. It was quite a scene. Bloodshot eyes everywhere. No friendly faces. In upscale suburbia, we are naturally the only non-white homeowners within a certain radius so when normally friendly white neighbours converge, looking sorrowful and unfriendly, you worry.

I exited my car to behold quite a scene. Unknown to us, we had accommodated a pregnant raccoon for several weeks. Mama Raccoon eventually gave birth to six pups. On this day, she suddenly went crazy like she found a mixture of codeine, sniper, and tramadol in our attic. She began to fling her babies down on the lawn one by one. From the roof of a duplex fa.

That explained the sadness and sorrow of our neighbours. Remember, this is an animal-loving civilization. It also explained their hostility. Somehow, it must have been something we did that got that poor animal so crazy that she began to murder her own kids. Everybody was looking at us one kain, like, what have you guys done now?

The only analogy for you in Nigeria is if your home was invaded by destructive giant rats. You’d tried everything from traps to rat poison. Then, one day, Mama Rat begins to miraculously kill her own children before your very before. Only for your neighbours to gather around sorrowfully because those awesome baby animals are dying. Only for them to be hostile to you for not doing enough to keep the baby rats alive!

Anyway, animal services eventually arrived to rescue some of the babies that had not yet died. Come and see interrogation! Even Tise did not escape questioning! Are you guys perhaps a little noisy in the house? What time do you all normally sleep?

Nigerians, believe you me, Oyinbo was trying to determine if we did something to cause the postpartum depression of Mama Raccoon, which led her to killing her babies!! They began to explain the characteristics of raccoons to us. How it was still too early for her to bring her babies out, let alone fling them from the roof. There was the unsaid: you guys must have done something.

When we were eventually “acquitted”, the animal services people went into our attic to inspect. They screamed in excitement: three more babies that Mama Raccoon had yet to fling! We said: thank God. Now you can evacuate Mama Raccoon and her remaining babies.

I hope you all know that in Obodo Oyibo, public animals are government property. All those doves you see in Trafalgar Square or the squirrels you see on lawns, geese, ati bebelo, are all government property. Una wey dey go holiday in London from Nigeria, go to Trafalgar Square and touch a dove, that is the day you will realize that the life of a public animal is worth more to the government of obodo oyibo than your life is worth to the Nigerian government.

So, we asked Obodo Canada to please carry their raccoons from our ceiling. We were in for another shock. She is a nursing mother, the animal services people replied, we don’t move nursing mothers. By law, Mama Raccoon has the right to remain here and nurse her remaining babies. We will keep checking.

I have been in Obodo Oyibo for 22 years. I didn’t see that one coming. Apparently, the Raccoon had eminent domain! The best they could do for us was to come and move her at the end of the biological breeding cycle or something to that effect. With that, they entered their van and zoomed off.

I looked on in wonderment, lost in one of those na-who-send-me-come-obodo-oyibo moments that every Diasporan goes through on occasion. With which mouth am I even going to tell this sort of story to a Nigerian audience?

Then I noticed that Tise all along had had the same attitude as our Oyinbo neighbours.

Now she is glad that some Raccoon babies had survived and would not be moved.

I realized that only her parents had a problem.

I realized that we were two Nigerians raising a Canadian.

This is her country.
This is her culture.
These are her people.
These are her baby raccoons.

I jejely borrowed myself brain and joined the little girl in rejoicing that three baby raccoons had survived.

Congratulations @cutiep @pejuhazel on your PPR, May the good Lord establish you in the land He has given you.

I am always looking forward to all the amazing PPR stories on this group, they are all truly inspiring and I know I will share mine too, very soon.

13 month wait today! I discovered this thread in part 8(at my 11 month mark) read all the way back to part 1 and I’m believing God that I will share my PPR story in this part 9.

I’ve been through all the stages of anger, despair, disbelief, frustration, and I have arrived at resignation, God is teaching me patience and preparing my place for me.

To everyone waiting for PPR, start preparing for that which you are praying for. May the land favour us all, amen.

Nothing peculiar as far as I can tell. I applied as a single applicant in October 2018 and added my dependant in August 2019. I ordered GCMS notes in September 2019 but was advised that IRCC needed up to another 90 days to provide the notes. Emailed Ralph in October 2019, he advised that Criminality passed, Eligibility under review and Security not yet started. Medical is expired now so may need to redo that although I've not been asked to yet. So I'm waiting patiently.

Pwinkle1:
Wow! Is there anything peculiar about your application?

And have you ordered any gcms notes?

Not 2019, I definitely mean 2018. I know there are quite a few of us on CanadaVisa forum but not sure about here.

jjohndoe83:
Did you mean 2019??

I found this thread a few months ago and I've read back from part 1 and now part 9. The lessons and support from this community is nothing short of amazing. Congratulations @ladymarshall on getting your PPR! May the land forever favour you and yours.

Are there any October 2018 AORs in the house? I reserve my PPR space in this part by God's grace �

You can only apply from the country where you have lawful permanent residence. A Visit Visa only provides temporary residence status. Your 'bro' will have to return to Nigeria to apply to Canada for immigration purposes.

fineyemi:
Thanks for your prompt response, I understand what u are saying. Will it be possible for canada papers to be processed in the UK since my bro is presently in the UK with a standard visitor visa