Good evening house,
Please can I have a guide on how to send a webform to IRCC?
Many thanks all❤

Congratulations � Uzomachukwu, I told you, I saw this ccoming. I am super excited for you. More wins & greater heights.

Uzomachukwuu:
Long Post Alert:

Talk about being happy, today is one of the happiest days of my past one year.

A year and six days after my first visa application (AOR June 16, 2020), I finally got PPR on my second application (AOR: Feb 26).

This has been a very tiresome journey. Initially, I thought that applying for PhD admission would be the most challenging part of it all, but I never knew that that was the easiest part really. Between Feb and March 2020, I got admission and funding offers from U of Manitoba, Western, and USask. Opted for USask. Submitted my first visa application on June 16, 2020, when I knew almost nothing about the Canadian visa application process. I hadn't even discovered Nairaland then. I committed one error, that of submitting only my funding offer letter as proof of fund, without submitting a bank statement. Sadly, that first application was refused based on personal assets and financial status.

Visa refusal: January 4, 2021

Guided by all the information I got from the good folks here on Nairaland, I reapplied on February 26.

AOR: Feb 26
NSE Request: Feb 28
I sent them my Mybankstatement and IELTS waiver request letter less than 20 minutes after the NSE request came in

Ideologically opposed to taking IELTS, I had preemptively written and armed myself with an IELTS Waiver Request Letter, in which I argued against the logicality of asking an English PhD student to submit IELTS test scores. Silly me though, that letter sounded as if I was beefing with IRCC — and, yes, I was really mad at them due to my initial visa refusal.

You see, one of the things that made me very angry about that first visa refusal was that in the GCMS notes I obtained weeks after the painful hit, the visa officer remarked twice that they had asked me over three months earlier to send my bank statement or that of a sponsor, which I failed to do. Dianyi, I didn't receive any email from them requesting for any such thing. And there was no request letter sent via GCKey either. So I just couldn't understand their wahala. My guess is that probably due to a glitch in their system, the email they generated ended up not getting sent to me, even though it was showing in the 'Outgoing' section of the GCMS notes. So my blood was hot as I was writing the IELTS waiver request, which they never actually honoured, as I learnt.

Program of Study: PhD in English
Age: 27
Marital status: Single
MA (2019)
NYSC (2016-17)
BA (2015)
Travel experience: None
Work experience: 3
Current employment: Freelance writing


Documents submitted

1. My personal bankstatement: Containing just ₦1.5m
2. Funding offer from USask: Dean's Scholarship of 22k + Tuition waiver
3. Letter of support from popsy (I didn't submit his bank statement)
4. MA transcript (GPA 5.0)
5. MA statement of result
6. BA transcript (CGPA: 4.17)
7. BA certificate
8. WAEC
9. FSLC (Lol)
10. Birth Certificate
11. My land survey document
12. Statement of Purpose (5)
13. Letter Explaining How I intend to fund my studies (4 pages)
14. Curriculum Vitae
15. International Passport
16. e-Medical Slip
17. Digital photo

18. Admission Letter from USask
19. Confirmation of Enrolment

21. PhD Supervisor’s Letter, advocating for me to be issued a visa

22. Attestation Letter from a senior lecturer (my mentor) in UNN, highlighting my academic merits and good conducts

23. Notification of a FUTURE Job Offer from the Head of my Department in my former University, stating that the department will be happy to offer me a job after my PhD in Canada (Lol)

24. Letter of Recommendation from my Master’s Supervisor

26. Certificate of Merit from my NYSC PPA (2016-17)

27. I didn't submit any letter of recommendation or introduction letter from my most recent former employer (make them hold their wahala, abeg)

28. Certificate of Service as a Cadet-Member of the NYSC Road Safety Club

29. Birth Certificates and Passport of my Siblings


Eligibility review started on April 22, that's two days after I contacted the office of the MP representing USask to make enquiries on my behalf regarding the lag in updating my application.

Medical was updated on May 18.

Oh, boy! Na then wey the real anxiety come start. Coming here to Nairaland everyday to read other people's testimonies became like a full time job for me, just as my fingers got automatically configured to opening my GCKey account more than 20 times a day: almost as a first thing anytime I bring up my phone to press.

At a point I almost fell into huge depression. Put off my phone line, got off WhatsApp, deactivated my Nairaland account (that's why you'll see that this current moniker I'm using is newly created, just one alphabet different from 'Uzomachukwu' which was the account I had previously been using here).

Last week when Omalinze (whose visa application I prepared and submitted the same period I was working on my second application) called to tell me that his visa has been approved, I was happy and, yet, cried. Mine was an ambiguous mix of happiness and sadness. He too understood, and kept reassuring me that I was going to get my PPR soon. But you see, one of my 'positive' personal failings, if at all it should be so-called, is that I'm a man who is very much taken to the hermeneutics of suspicion, a young man who has been trained by life to believe in working from the point of pessimism (suspicion) towards the middle point of reality (concrete experience), before arriving at the point of optimism. So it's usually difficult for me to let myself be persuaded to move from pessimism to optimism without first beholding, almost like a Thomas (well, in Nigeria, suspicion has its many uses).

PPR: June 21, 2021.

All I can say about this journey is: All glory be to Jehovah, the father of tender mercies, alone.


And to all the persons here doing the fine work of elucidating the many riddles of IRCC, and helping others through their application, I say: May what you desire locate you. Thanks to you all.

Good day house,

Please I would like to ask if it's necessary to add the notification/letter that comes with mybankstatement certificate. It states " The reference is neither a Guarantee nor a letter if Comfort and has been issued in attestation of the position of the customer's account, without any liability on the part of the bank or any of it's officers" - This was from Fidelity Bank.
Please I want to know if to detach the page from my bank statement or leave it that way. Please I need your opinion on this anyone. Many thanks.

@Frankrobbn1

Okay, thank you much.

Frankrobbn1:



Why deed of gift? Why can't he (dad) sponsor you? It is much better if your dad is the sponsor for your study visa application to Canada.



It will end in praise

Please can anyone guide me on how to use a gift of deed to apply for a study visa?

@Frankrobbn1
@justMellow
@justwise

Please I would like to confirm if I could use deed of gift by my dad worth 8M to make a self-sponsored visa application. Please how do I go about it? Please I need your opinion:

@Franrobbn1
@justMellow
@Justwise.

Many thanks ��

Good evening house,

Please I would like to confirm if a normal bank statement can be used in place of "mybankstatementcertificate"? My sponsor sent that saying that was what his Bank Manager sent to him. Unless I wait till Monday before it can be rectified and I have to submit my application by today - 15th.
Please I need your advise on what to do. Should I wait for the mybankcertificate or submit with the normal stamped Bank Statement?

Good Morning House,

Please I would like to know the most preferred Bank to make payment for my visa application. I don't have an idea how to go about the payment

Also, please can anyone kindly give me the address where can I get a Plolice Clearance Certificate in Abuja?

Thanks a million.

Okay, thanks much.

Rootiab:
zone 3. Close to neighbourhood plaza

Good Evening Everyone,

Please does anyone have an idea where I can do Police Clearance Certificate in Abuja?

Many Thanks�

Thank you very much @ JustMellow.

The Company can't make payment now because payment for my tuition to my school will be opened by June and I have to submit my application by or before the 15th.

JustMellow:


Hello Modestmj,

Not advised as there are so many associated questions to be asked on why is the employer sponsoring an employee, has there been such record or history of sponsorship in the organization, the capacity and financial strength of the organization, the duration been with the organization and the held position, and the associated benefits of the sponsorship, etc.

If you have no close relative to turn to for sponsorship help, get the employer to make a financial commitment to making at least full/partial (have the other half deposited to your account) tuition and also have your LE deposited in your BA (and if possible, set up a GIC account with the funds).

To support these commitments, the employer will need to release to your the company financial records, a board resolution letter consenting to the sponsorship, and proof of company business existence and dealings.

A truth is that company or employer sponsorship doesn't always go well with immigration if it is not a multinational and/or an easily verifiable company/organization.

Best of Luck

Okay, thank you.

Anon123:



Chances are slim.

what is the relationship btw you and the employer

why is the employer sponsoring you..

If you can convince the VO genuinely, then you have a slight chance

Thank God. Okay, I sent an email request already.

Good Evening House,

Please I would like to know if an Employer can be a student's sponsor. What are the chances of getting one's visa approved? Kindly help if you know anyone who has done this��. Thank you all❤

@blackman @JustMellow

Good Morning House,

Please can anyone help me with @blakkman email or link to his profile. I want to make enquiries.

Please can anyone help me with who I contact to in Lagos to for the Police clearance certificate? I'm in Abuja.

Also please what Bank rate is the best for making payment?

@Frankrobbn1: Thank you for your response. I'll present my SOP here for review before my next application again.

Good evening all,

Thank you for the response �� @Frankrobbn1.

Please I would like to confirm if anyone here has used any of these agencies, "skyned_consults and also besor associates". I would like to use either of them for my application process, perhaps with their influence as agencies I might get admission.

I am also considering applying to Saint Paul University Ottawa, does anyone here has information about the acceptance rate for International students, as a personal experience or friends?

Thank you all in anticipation.

@Frankrobbn1: Good evening, I am a graduate of Sociology with a 2:1(4.28 CGPA).
Please I have applied to four schools in Canada (University of Manitoba twice, Windsor University and Memorial University) and did not get admission in any of the schools.
Please can I get your email address to email you details with regards to my applications and if you can be of any help to me, I will sincerely appreciate it. It's almost becoming frustrating for me.
Thank you and God bless.

Good Morning House & Happy Sunday,

I am a graduate of Sociology with a 2:1 (4.28), 2018. I applied to Manitoba 2019, Sociology & Criminology, I didn't get admission. I applied to Manitoba again 2021 same course, I still didn't get admission, same as Windsor for Criminology. I didn't get admission still. I was already getting sad. So I decided to apply to Memorial University, "Folklore" shortly before the deadline Jan 15th as advised by someone with similar experience who has been active here.

My questions are:

-What are the reasons for me not having admission to those schools even when I was thorough with my SOP & other documents?

-When does admission come in for applicants to Memorial University since I applied Jan 15?

-What advise can I get with regards to applying for other schools or should I be patient & wait for Memorial University?

Please I need your responses and advice. God bless, thank you. �

Okay, I will check it out. Thank you.

Hello everyone,

I studied Sociology & graduated with a 2:1 & decided to apply after my NYSC to University of Manitoba 2018 for fall 2019. I didn't get admission. I tried applying again to University of Windsor & Manitoba December 2020 for fall 2021. I followed all steps duly, yet I was not admitted for University of Windsor. I am waiting for response from Manitoba. This would be my second time, so I contacted the admission officer for the department of Sociology & Criminology via email. She responded well. But I don't want leave out on any chance. I want to apply again to the University of Newfoundland before Jan 15th. I don't know what decision to take now.