₦airaland Forum

Emmy4026:
Hello everyone,

Pls i'm new on this platform, a friend of mine introduced me to it Α̲̅πϑ i must say that u guys are doing a great job.

I would like to know if it is ideal for one to have his or her biometrics at Abuja VFS Α̲̅πϑ submit his or her passport at lagos VFS Α̲̅πϑ if there is any implication to it.

You will be charged for it but I don't know the amount, try and read previous pages and you will get the info

Moadejimi:
Quick one pls.

What would be the fate of the person that gets his visa approval after the school's absolute resumption date?

Most schools give like 2 weeks after resumption for students to resume, so you will need to contact your school to get such info. also if let say you defer your admission and immediately you get your trv, you will still need to contact your school if they can cancel your initial deferral. Basically it's your school that will decide

maralina:
Someone say Lina congratssssss!!!
Who tell you say God no dey answer prayers!!
TRV Approved guys!!!
Done and Dusted
24weeks no be beans
It really ended in praise!!!

WOW! Lina Congratsssss!!! God's time is the best

imoriafe:
Boss mcobex Pls send send me your email.. Thanks

I have sent you PM, check your mail

Tk2017:
come and join me to praise the lord....

my visa was approved this morning

Congratulations, thank God for your approval. please share your profile

Omolara216:
Hello everyone,

Im new on here.
I need your assistance on how to go about canada study permit.

I have an admission in occupational therapists and physiotherapists assistant jan 2018.

I have paid for a semester tuition

And also, i wouldnt mind if i can meet up with anyone that stays in ikeja for more discussion..

Thanks,
God bless

Welcome to the forum, please try and read from page 0 and you will get almost everything you need, after then you can now ask specific questions here. Also about meeting people I don't think that's right for now, don't be in a hurry for that now. Trust me you will surprised by the info you get when you read from page 0

CanadianNurse:
bro no fear... You DEY my prayers God go remember all of us... Preparation dey go well.... Only say my load go pass that 23kg.... And royal air Maroc DEY bill 150 pounds for extra luggage... How much be the things wey DEY inside?

Thanks bro, I appreciate. Concerning the load, I think say na 2 bags (23kg each)dem dey allow? Well try leave those things wey u fit get easily in Canada so as to reduce the weight.

Austinpee4:
Baba, preparations dey o. Trying to sort out a couple of stuffs.

My prayer and hope also is that they respond soon with your approval and that of other hopefuls. Brace up bro. It will end well.

Amen o. Thanks bro

maziude:
Boss, No worry... Oluwa dey your back. It must appear soonest in Jesus Name...Amen

AMEN O

I hail @Mazi1, how that way dey treat you so far? @Austinepee4 and @Canadiannurse how far preparations? I still dey wait for cic oo, I am praying and hoping something great comes up this week by God's grace

Alantobie:
I don't understand this CIC people. My friend told me that she was delayed because of insufficient funds. She paid a year tuition fee, and submitted her dad's statement of account with balance of 20m and she is his only dependant. She said they ticked all three boxes for insufficient funds. It's like they didn't even check her application to find the tuition receipt.

Let her order for her gcms note to get the full details of the denial. may God help us

ebubedrums001:
Hello, pls is anyone here staying in surulere (or ogunlana drive, precisely). I wanna have a one on one conversation about Canadian study visa and how to go about it. I dont mind paying
Was previously denied US visa about three times ,due to my own mistakes, and I wanna apply for Canadian study visa. I dont wanna make mistakes with the canadian visa.
Thanks y'all

Bro I will advise you ask whatever questions you have here so other people can learn from it, it will benefit u and also save u cost as well.

Moadejimi:
Quick one please.

Is it possible to take one's passport directly to Ghana for stamping when he gets the invitation letter? Rather than waiting on vfs' 5 working days thingy

Lol! Did you go to ghana to apply? Just be patient and take it to where you did you biometrics, but if you intend submitting your passport at a different vfs office then you will be charged (I can only speak within Nigeria and not outside)

larrytorch:
Thanks. I have another thing I need to understand. The Letter of Intent, is it to be directed to someone or department? I'm almost done filing in an application but I want to be meticulous enough to avoid errors

If it's for trv send it to : Canada deputy high commission, 4 Anifowoshe street, Victoria Island lagos.
Check online again to confirm the address

larrytorch:
Please fam, is there any difference between SOP and Letter of Intent?

Not really, they both serve same purpose

tjaz:
Masters, UWO
Applied May 26th, with upfront medicals
Medicals passed updated June 9th
Request for proof of funds on July 10th
Replied request August 16th
Application approved updated August 18th

Docs submitted
All cic documents
Scholarship award letter worth 30kusd as main sponsor
Co-sponsor, aunt with fixed deposit of 12m,
Father's company CAC doc and letter of guarantee of position on return as home tie
Parent and siblings birth certificate as home tie
.
Employment letter and three months payslip
Birth and marriage certificate of mum and aunt to show relationship

Reply to request for proof of funds
Statement of acct showing 3m deposit
Bank reference letter
Letter from UWO stating fees invoice cannot be generated until study permit is issued
Cbn forex operational manual

And it ended it praise, thanks to God.
Posts from a lot of selfless people here are very helpful even to silent readers, may God continue to bless you all.
Wish all hopefuls TRV approvals.

Congratulations bro, God is good

kenny4uu:
U gently answer plssssssssssssssss

Try and send the sop asap. As for printing and scanning it again, just convert the MS word document to pdf or whatever form you intend using (ni need to print and scan again). Lastly not all applicants submitted sop so except u need to explain some very important thing to the vo , if not don't send it

maziude:
Congrats boss.

My garri package don dey plenty. You just by yourself add yourself join the list. The rest sabi demselves. We dey wait una.

To everyone that got approval, we celebrate with una. God is faithful, He alone deserves the praise.

1. Abeg, before una land, make I just tell una. Tim Hortons na coffee/snacks place oh. Me, I think say na person wey dey physically present until them show the sign board. So no do my mistake. (I no fall hand sha, na know i no know).

2. If you no want lost like me, download and stay glued to google map naim be the best geography teacher so far.

To every that got delayed, sincerely I feel your hurt but then life must go on. In essence, order your gcms notes, tackle the issues raised and refire. Testimonies await perseverance.

To those waiting to get the approval notice both active and silent readers including my person, Godspeed is all I wish you. Your testimonies are around the corner.

Warmest Regards,
Mazi

AMEN!!! Thanks Mazi1

jnyuwa02:
Hail Lady Pepetua and Mary!! Are they one and the same person or two different ladies?

One person but we use different names to qualify her. That's a story for another day sha, let's focus on our trv approval

Beyy:
Guys please help me thank God. TRV approved today. I can't stop screaming!!!!! After two denials. God is really faithful

God is good, congratulations.

Sirjp:
Clear star of the morning in beauty enshrined,
Oh lady make speed to the help of mankind!!

Help me thank God oo and the intercession of our lady of Perpetual help!!. My application was apprpved today.

Applied 5th july, 2017...paper route
Medical mail 1st August
Medical passed 8th August
Approved today 18th August!!

Never knew there was sumtin lyk SOP until after i applied.
I had no home ties..well except my parents nd brothers.

Was so scared, but had faith. Prayers work!!!!!

Documents
App forms
Transcripts from U.I (Philosophy)
Sponsor's SOA( uncle)... Cnt rememba amount
Letter from sponsor
Birth cert
Letter from bank backing up sponsor
Affidavit from co sponsor...( cousin nd canadian citizen)
Assessment notice of co sponsor
Admission letter
Police cert..
Passport pages of both sponsors

I really thank God....prayer works.

Pls send dem mails!!. I sent lyk 5 CSE in all and 1 email. It was after the 5th, i was mailed that a final decision had been made...lol

But dey said" your app has bin approved, check ur messages for details." I checked no detail oo. Na normal tin? Or mk i mail dem again??

Congratulations bro and thank God for your approval. Mary Immaculate of all graces, pray for us

imoriafe:
thanks alot. im currently employed and have been given approval for study leave in my office for 20months without pay.i hope i can include this.

Yes you should include it, also state it on your sop

Senatorkolade:
Nairaland guys are doing a fantastic job here. If somebody posits that PGd applicants have a slim chance of TRV, the person might be right in his own opinion based on what he has seen. Also in other perspective, another person will tell you that PGd is the best option based on what he also has seen. I have seen four approvals this year with two PGd, one diploma and one Masters. However, the number of refusals for Masters I have seen are more than the PGds. (Not on nairaland). And we have seen Masters applicants with funding been refused.
I discussed with the consular about people changing career or people going for the course not related to the intended study, he said it is at the discretion of the VO. He said that he himself studied Financial Economics and he is doing a consular job. If he will treat an application and see an applicant like this, he won't look at it as unreasonable but others who are not in the same shoe will see it as illogical. It now depends on how you are able to argue your case with the visa officer and make it convincing.

He noted one point that if you have a brother in Canada who entered through the student route and when he got to Canada, he did not respect the terms of the visa, he may be a legal resident now but if you make the person your sponsor, the VO will doubt your intention to study. He/She will feel like your brother or sister want you to take the path he took to immigrate to Canada.

My point is this, there is no good application and there is no bad application. It all depends on how you package your dossier and how convincing your SOP is. The only bad application I know is the one with forged or not genuine documents and don't ever try it. It ruins career and life.
Most importantly PRAYER! It can direct the VO to reason along with you even if you don't make any sense.
I pray that we will not receive refusals again on this forum and from now we will be reading the praises of approvals.
Amen.

Well said again bro. Thanks for the updates and prayer, may God continue to bless you for us

Deschain107:
Hello guys, I'm a silent reader here and my application got approved today! This thread has been a great help and I just want to thank everyone. Applied June 9, paper route, medical call on August 9, APPROVED August 17. God is powerful!

Congratulations bro, please help us share your profile so we can learn from it

jamie55:
How do we order a GCMS note and how long does it take? We are hoping to re-apply for January resumption. BTW, I just spoke with RBC now and they said they can't open the account while he is outside the country but I saw it somewhere before. Which bank have people been using?

Normally if someone applies for it from Nigeria it takes around 30 days to get here and cost around $23 but since you are in Canada you can order for it on his behalf and it will cost you around $5 but I don't know the time it will get to you (but obviously lesser than 30 days). You can order for it on cic's site (CAIPS FILE ). Concerning the bank the person used I can't remember but I know one or more persons o this forum will still remember the name

jamie55:
Thanks Mcobex:
Bachelors in Civil Engineering (UG)
Going for Masters in Geotechnical Engineering (one of the areas of specialization for civil engineers) at UWO

I just found out that we can open an RBC account for him here. We will do that and transfer his tuition fees into the account. I just hope that people have done that successfully in the past and the VO would not have a problem with that.

Yes someone did that recently and it worked. But it is very important your brother orders for his GCMS note so we can be sure what the vo was thinking before denying him

jamie55:
NB: You said you got info here about 7 years ago and u couldn't even come back to share ur experience with those of us(upcoming ) until u need info for ur younger brother, that's not fair at all. Imagine if everyone does that how will this GREAT thread continue? That's just my view sha.

@mcobex: Thanks for replying and no vex. I did share my experience at the time but I was certainly not a guru like some of you. More so, over time my information is bound to become irrelevant. For instance, back then there were no biometrics or VFS. Now that I have signed back in, I can answer some questions that some of you have about Canada in general. I'm in Ontario btw (Greater Toronto Area).

No problem bro, I am also not a guru but I try to give the little I know. Though am not going to Toronto but I know people going there will need some little info from gurus like u that have need there for sometime atleast to make them settle I'm quickly.
Concerning the matter at hand, work with the suggestions I gave earlier about transferring of the funds to your brother's account (be it the one he will open in canada or nigeria ). Hope his previous program(UG) is related to his intended program? a clear picture of his profile will help people here to give more and better advise, also try to order for his GCMS note as that will give detailed reasons why the vo decide not to approved his application

Cc:Jamie55
.....sorry I didn't answer all your questions, as regards documents to submit your brother will have to submit everything afresh. All documents should be photocopy except the ones directly addressed to cic (bank statement, offer letter.....)

bbclue:
Mcobex. ......u De vex ooooo

Lol! Sorry jare, I no know say the thing made so many copies oo (thought the message didn't deliver at first )

jamie55:
Hello house,

First of all I want to congratulate those who have received their visas and for those waiting, I pray it ends well. I actually used this forum when I got my study permit in 2010 (been in Canada since then) and it’s interesting that this forum is still very active with bright minds left right and centre.

Please I have a question regarding my biological brother that applied for study permit recently. His application was refused based on insufficient funds despite the fact that my dad is the sponsor, with over 50 million in its bank account including fixed deposit. We also included landed properties worth over 200 million naira.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but I have a feeling that the Visa office did not have time to process his visa as he submitted his paper application on June 28, 2017 and school resumes on Sept 1. The VO only selected insufficient funds as the reason and mentioned that we can re-apply after addressing the issue. No other reason was selected.

Now my question:
My brother is going to University of Western Ontario for masters in engineering. My dad opted to pay the fees upfront but the school says that they don’t collect school fees until the student gets a visa so we didn’t pay any fees. Is there anyone in the house that is going to UWO and got the same response from the school? I feel a strong way to prove that funds are available is to pay the full year tuition ($25,000), which my dad is ready to pay but we don’t know how to pay it since the school would not collect it.

Secondly, they only returned his passport and kept all his documents. Is that normal? When he is re-applying would he have to re-submit all documents again or just address insufficient issues and back it up with the relevant documents?

Sorry for the long write-up. Please the guidance of veterans in the house would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

It's simple, let your dad pay the tuition fee and living expeses into ur younger brother's account here(cos just like the school said they won't accept any payment for now until trv is secured) or another option is for your brother to open a bank account with a Canadian bank (people have been doing that) then your father pays the tuiton fee into the bank account in Canada while ur dad pays his living expenses into his Nigeria bank account.
NB: You said you got info here about 7 years ago and u couldn't even come back to share ur experience with those of us(upcoming ) until u need info for ur younger brother, that's not fair at all. Imagine if everyone does that how will this GREAT thread continue? That's just my view sha. If your brother can do the suggestions I gave above then he should be good to go as regards funds. Best of luck[b]

jamie55:
Hello house,

First of all I want to congratulate those who have received their visas and for those waiting, I pray it ends well. I actually used this forum when I got my study permit in 2010 (been in Canada since then) and it’s interesting that this forum is still very active with bright minds left right and centre.

Please I have a question regarding my biological brother that applied for study permit recently. His application was refused based on insufficient funds despite the fact that my dad is the sponsor, with over 50 million in its bank account including fixed deposit. We also included landed properties worth over 200 million naira.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but I have a feeling that the Visa office did not have time to process his visa as he submitted his paper application on June 28, 2017 and school resumes on Sept 1. The VO only selected insufficient funds as the reason and mentioned that we can re-apply after addressing the issue. No other reason was selected.

Now my question:
My brother is going to University of Western Ontario for masters in engineering. My dad opted to pay the fees upfront but the school says that they don’t collect school fees until the student gets a visa so we didn’t pay any fees. Is there anyone in the house that is going to UWO and got the same response from the school? I feel a strong way to prove that funds are available is to pay the full year tuition ($25,000), which my dad is ready to pay but we don’t know how to pay it since the school would not collect it.

Secondly, they only returned his passport and kept all his documents. Is that normal? When he is re-applying would he have to re-submit all documents again or just address insufficient issues and back it up with the relevant documents?

Sorry for the long write-up. Please the guidance of veterans in the house would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

It's simple, let your dad pay the tuition fee and living expeses into ur younger brother's account here(cos just like the school said they won't accept any payment for now until trv is secured) or another option is for your brother to open a bank account with a Canadian bank (people have been doing that) then your father pays the tuiton fee into the bank account in Canada while ur dad pays his living expenses into his Nigeria bank account.
NB: You said you got info here about 7 years ago and u couldn't even come back to share ur experience with those of us(upcoming ) until u need info for ur younger brother, that's not fair at all. Imagine if everyone does that how will this GREAT thread continue? That's just my view sha. If your brother can do the suggestions I gave above then he should be good to go as regards funds. Best of luck[/b]

jamie55:
Hello house,

First of all I want to congratulate those who have received their visas and for those waiting, I pray it ends well. I actually used this forum when I got my study permit in 2010 (been in Canada since then) and it’s interesting that this forum is still very active with bright minds left right and centre.

Please I have a question regarding my biological brother that applied for study permit recently. His application was refused based on insufficient funds despite the fact that my dad is the sponsor, with over 50 million in its bank account including fixed deposit. We also included landed properties worth over 200 million naira.

Please correct me if I’m wrong but I have a feeling that the Visa office did not have time to process his visa as he submitted his paper application on June 28, 2017 and school resumes on Sept 1. The VO only selected insufficient funds as the reason and mentioned that we can re-apply after addressing the issue. No other reason was selected.

Now my question:
My brother is going to University of Western Ontario for masters in engineering. My dad opted to pay the fees upfront but the school says that they don’t collect school fees until the student gets a visa so we didn’t pay any fees. Is there anyone in the house that is going to UWO and got the same response from the school? I feel a strong way to prove that funds are available is to pay the full year tuition ($25,000), which my dad is ready to pay but we don’t know how to pay it since the school would not collect it.

Secondly, they only returned his passport and kept all his documents. Is that normal? When he is re-applying would he have to re-submit all documents again or just address insufficient issues and back it up with the relevant documents?

Sorry for the long write-up. Please the guidance of veterans in the house would be much appreciated.
Thank you.

It's simple, let your dad pay the tuition fee and living expeses into ur younger brother's account here(cos just like the school said they won't accept any payment for now until trv is secured) or another option is for your brother to open a bank account with a Canadian bank (people have been doing that) then your father pays the tuiton fee into the bank account in Canada while ur dad pays his living expenses into his Nigeria bank account.
NB: You said you got info here about 7 years ago and u couldn't even come back to share ur experience with those of us(upcoming ) until u need info for ur younger brother, that's not fair at all. Imagine if everyone does that how will this GREAT thread continue? That's just my view sha. If your brother can do the suggestions I gave above then he should be good to go as regards funds. Best of luck

Jaejay:
God is so good! Submitted July 13th with upfront medicals, medicals passed a week after. Eligibility Review on August 16th being yesterday morning. Approval on August 16th when I checked at night.

Got a BA in interior Architecture- Cyprus
Ma in Architecture- UK
Going for a second masters in Environmental Studies.

I've been a silent reader here. Was really encouraged by the faith some of us possess here. It's amazing. When I went to submit my application last month, VFS officer told me "you are submitting late" considering my program starts commences in a couple of weeks, but the Holy Spirit told me "I got you". Nothing is a rule out with God truth be told.

Be encouraged everyone!

Wow! God is good. congratulations