sheeda995:

I thought I was the only Canadian that appreciate the tax system but Nigerian thieves want free light water and not pay tax. If they don't like the tax system they can go back to their country. I wish I could say this to some people when I meet them
Many of them are angry because unlike in Nigeria, they can't keep buying properties without accounting for insurance and taxes.

sheeda995:

I'm glad I failed bro. I was naive at the time that's why.
As I have mentioned, the last wahala you will want in this time of your snow is mine,if you are bored, try some activities.
Dey do your local champion for nairaland jeje

On one hand you are claiming to be Canadian and on the other hand you are admitting here that you tried to japa and failed but that was when you were naive. This is exactly why I said earlier that something is not adding up. Why are you trying to claim that you are who you are not? I don't get it.

CoronaVirusPro:


You need an offer for a TN visa. That's where it gets complicated. Both TN and H1B are employer dependent, and why I told you how many US companies are ready to give you an offer.

Visit LinkedIn and go compare the ratio of employers seeking for TN visa applicants. I am not saying people don't get it, but its very difficult. US employers are not ready to go through hassles when competent skills are littering the country.

Canadians know TN visa exist right? Why are they still all applying in numbers for H1B? That should tell you the play.

If you qualify for the job, I don't see any reason for the US company not to give you the offer. It does not take the employer any more efforts on their side to hire a Canadian than it would take for them to hire an American. In both cases (for American or Canadian), all the company needs to do is to give you an offer letter. It is the responsibility of the employee to get the visa without the employer doing anything else.

Anyway, if you think that writing and giving a job offer to a Canadian exactly the same way they would to American is an extra hassle to the employer, I don't agree with that. And I think we can leave it this way that you believe what you want, and I believe what I want. Peace!

sheeda995:

You have worked in Europe for 17years?Happy Slave

sheeda995:

I thought I was the only Canadian that appreciate the tax system but Nigerian thieves want free light water and not pay tax. If they don't like the tax system they can go back to their country. I wish I could say this to some people when I meet them
Many of them are angry because unlike in Nigeria, they can't keep buying properties without accounting for insurance and taxes.

You claim to be a Canadian in this post and we can see that you are also a Nigerian from reading your other posts. This makes you a Nigerian Canadian like some of us. If this is the case, something is not adding up for me that you are calling someone living and working in Europe a slave when you yourself is a Nigerian Canadian.

Eriokanmi:
I'm not disputing those born in the USA. I'm sure of those who became citizen by naturalisation. There are conditions attached to their being citizens, unlike those born in America and if they flout thise rules, it can be revoked. I've explained this also in the subsequent post which I made. I didn't just want American citizenship. I'd have gotten one cos with my level, I'm eligible. I don't have to talk much on this. One man's meat is another man's prison. I like entering the USA with visa just as I've been doing since 2004.

As a naturalised citizen, they want you to always be connected with their system and you can't just go there, swear to an oath , secure their citizenship after the green card and now leave and work elsewhere without looking back. If you must leave, then you have to return within a stipulated period of time and if you exceed that allowable time, then you'd need to explain yourself with proofs when returning. Those born there don't have to go through such scrutiny whenever they're returning.

However, you could work as a naturalised citizen outside America, if the USA company employed you there or the government posts you out as in the case of the military and other government workers. This isn't a debatable topic. It's what I know. You may also check with any known immigration lawyer or you check Google for details.

I am not sure where you are getting your information from about a naturalized US citizen losing their citizenship if they decide to leave the US to live in another country without looking back. If you as a naturalized citizen want to live outside of the USA forever, just make sure that you are filing your US taxes annually. If this is done, you are good to go and you will never lose your citizenship (based on the laws that exists today).

There are certain things that can make you lose your US citizenship, but prolonged absence from the US is not one of them. You can check the following links about living outside of the US as a naturalized US citizen for more details:

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-i-move-abroad-after-becoming-naturalized-us-citizen.html

https://www.stilt.com/blog/2020/06/can-i-lose-my-us-citizenship-if-i-live-abroad/

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-l

CoronaVirusPro:


Easy and straight forward path? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
And they are in the top 3 countries applying for H1B visa.

You people can make a 10 mile look like 1 mile and why most people have made wrong decisions in their japa quest.

You keep talking about TN visa, Do you know what it takes for a US company to file you or seek foreign employment. Oh! Someone told you it is easy shey? Mexicans are flooding the southern boarder, and you are talking about how easy it is for a NAFTA member to get TN visa. Don’t you think they would have applied for same TN visa since you said it is “EASY”

You don’t even know the market you talking about!

Canadians are somersaulting to even get H1B and you are here talking about how easy it is to get TN visa

CoronaVirusPro:


Same applies to Canadian citizens. US companies generally don't like filing for foreigners!

Why do you think Canada is the 3rd highest applicant for H1B behind Indian?

Y`all making it sound like its an express for a Canadian to get work authorization in the USA.

If unemployment was that easy to get, people on B1/B2 visa will be seeking employment before they become illegals.

It looks to me like you are mixing a lot of things up here. TN visa and H1B visa are both work visa that have different requirements and benefits. Here are a couple of points about both type of work visas:

1. Only Canadian citizens and Mexican citizens can apply for TN visa while anybody all over the world can apply for H1B visa.
2. TN visa does NOT need employer sponsorship while H1B needs employer sponsorship. For TN visa, all you need is a valid employment. You don’t need to be in the US to get the job. People get qualified US job while still in Canada.
3. There is quota on the number of HB1 visa issued annually while there is no quota on the number of TN visa issued annually.
4. TN visa is limited to certain professions while HB1 visa is not.
5. TN visa can be obtained immediately at a U.S. port of entry/airport with your letter of employment on the day you are leaving for the US. On the other hand, H1B visa can only be obtained by filing a petition with USCIS which can take several months.
6. TN visa does NOT allow for dual intent while HB1 visa allows for dual intent. Meaning, applicant can intend to be nonimmigrants and eventually leave the U.S. while also intending to stay permanently.
7. Both the TN visa and the H1B visa can be issued in increments of 1 day to 3 years per stay
8. TN visa can be renewed unlimited amount of times while the H1B visa is generally limited to 6 years.

You can read the following links about the similarities and differences between these two types of visas.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/h-1b-tn-visa-which-should-canadian-mexican-choose.html

https://rjimmigrationlaw.com/resources/as-a-canadian-should-i-apply-for-a-tn-visa-or-an-h-1b-visa/

https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-visa-vs-tn-visa/

My take is, if you get a qualified job as a Canadian, then TN visa is very easy to get (note that I did not say that the visa is guaranteed).
About Mexican flooding the US boarder instead of applying for TN visa, my guess is that those flooding the boarder do not have the education requirement to qualify for TN visa and they are also not in the professions that qualify for TN visa. Note that most profession (I did not say all) that requires a Bachelor’s degree qualify for TN visa.

In my view, the reasons some Canadian are applying for H1B visa instead of TN visa could be because those applying for H1B visa do not have the education requirement to qualify for TN visa and they are also not in the professions that qualify for TN visa. In addition to that, they may also prefer H1B because of the dual intent explained above that H1B visa allows for but TN visa does not allow for.

GUNITGuy:

Heal what??
she undermine the man
Do what most of this women like doing even at the worst here going to social media Gistlover that the man is impotent, saying all manner of rubbish before he started to give his own back wotowoto
BLA BLA BLA ...I heard she's been doing this to others but she met her match for this one he called it a bluff and also gave her her own medicine too..
Now she's acting a drama every where trying to commit suicide under camera....
Once something doesn't go their way they try to defame the man's character by every possible means to play the victim even using lies ........
She knows who she's dealing with he's not a saint and not denying his lifestyle

I have read from page 1 to this page 7 and it seemed that you are the only one so far that has the full gist. Everybody is just blaming the estranged husband without knowing what led to this. Yes, the estranged husband is not a saint, but this lady is not any better. She brought this upon herself.

She miscalculated in her attempt to bully her estranged husband and it backfired. She paid several bloggers to bully the guy. The whole thing is on YouTube and Facebook. I read that she enjoys paying bloggers to bully people. She met her match this time around and it backfired. I do not pity her at all.

She brought private family issues to social media to bully her estranged husband. The husband did not respond initially until she started talking about the size of his manhood, how he can not perform in bed etc. I am not saying that the guy did or did not do the things she accused him of doing but those things and other things should not have been brought to the social media in the first place like she did. Which marriage does not have its own up and down? But not everything is meant for social media. I don’t care what happened in their private life but bringing it to social media is a no no.

MAKANAKIABDUS:
am about submitting my application for temporary residence(study) and what i have is islamic CAC registered marriage certificate.pls house is it acceptable(attached below)

Yes, they do. But you must have it officially translated into English or French and submit both the original certificate and the officially translated copy.

Official translation means that it is translated by a licensed translator. The translator must also apply their official stamp on the translated copy.

I hope that this helps.

shortgun:

Oga you are not the one who formulated Canadian visa policy or requirements for artisans in Canada.

This is from Canadian Government official website.

Trade certification is compulsory in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Alberta and available, but voluntary, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Manitoba, British Columbia, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut

The states where certification is not required are states that need artisans for the construction industry, you don't need any certificate to work as artisans there.
All you need is to proof you have the experience required.

You may want to read this links before concluding that no skilled trade certification is required in some Provinces:

1. https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=743&top=29
2. https://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=744&top=29
3. https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/skilled-trades.html#provinces

apolonius:


We have millionaires in Canada. We know them. You don’t. So, your opinions are not necessarily the facts.

Indigenous billionaires? Are you joking? Given their history and the trauma of their lives, you really want to go there? How many native Americans are billionaires?

I guess we are looking at different things. If you truly know the 2 countries, you won’t be discussing these things. Americans are running to Canada daily.

Men, the thing taya me oh. Can you imagine the guy saying what he knows nothing about. Saying that there is no Nigerian USD millionaire in Canada. Haba! That is the problem with discussing on a faceless forum like this. Every Tom, Dick and Harry just say anything. They even brag about themselves when they are actually living in abject poverty.

ednut1:
when most Nigerians come they declare their previous Nigerian income ( its a requirement to declare previous income) . Which make them qualify for the maximum child benefits around 600 cad a month. As income increases the benefits reduces with time. Someone with over 100k salary will be getting around 250 dols a month as child benefit. While the ones below 32k get the max amount

And at some income level and depending on the number of children you have, you will not get any child benefit.

For example, I have three children but because of my income level, I have never gotten any child benefit (not even 1 cent) despite them all being within the age brackets that qualifies for child benefit.

franchasofficia:
There are so many Nigerians who are millionaires in USD in the US and some EU countries, even UK, but none that we know in Canada.



Even among indigenous Canadians, you can hardly find dollar billionaires, if any, must be a handful compared to US and EU

Hmmm, I am not sure how to properly response to this. But I will try by asking you a question and your answer will determine my detail response.

The question is, based on your statement about Nigerian USD millionaires in Canada:
- Are you saying that there are no Nigerian USD millionaires in Canada? or
- Are you saying that you do not know of any Nigeria USD millionaire in Canada?

Please clarify. Which one are you saying?

MT:


Smiles. No be one leg, na one quarter legs.

NAFTA is a free trade agreement between the US, Mexico and Canada. It has NOTHING to do with immigration.

Read about it here:

https://www.trade.gov/north-american-free-trade-agreement-nafta

With this your response to the post about NAFTA (now USMCA) and how it relates to work visa for Canadians and Mexicans (not only about free trade), it is obvious you don’t know what you are talking about. Go back up and read my post about TN visa (one of NAFTA or USMCA agreement) before you continue to expose your ignorance on this subject.

MT:


You do not have understanding of what you are writing about. Canadian citizenship gives you no leverage in the US, I repeat. You need to find the job and the sponsor, and be subjected to the same immigration rule like someone from Africa. People from Africa too need to find the job, get a sponsor and follow through the immigration rule.

Show me one advantage with proof a Canadian with citizenship has over someone from Africa as far as the US immigration is concerned. People get transferred from Chevron in Nigeria to the US as well. This cuts across. You only feel because US and Canadians are neighbours, the rule should be specially applied to the Canadian. Hell No!

Your Canadian citizenship only allows you to visit the US visa-free for maximum time of 6 months. If you spend a day more, it is a 10-year ban.

Before you come here misleading people, you need to do more research about the advantage a Canadian Citizen has over someone from Africa and even over someone from Western Europe as far as working in the USA and potentially US migration. I will try to break it down for you:

There is the TN Visa for Canadians and Mexicans under USMCA. This is a work visa for Canadians and Mexicans only. You do not need any employer to sponsor you for this work visa. All you need is a valid job offer (not a sponsor). Only Canadians and Mexicans qualify for this work visa category. Even western Europeans are not qualified. You can read more about this here:

https://canadiansinusa.com/work-visas/tn/

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/employment/visas-canadian-mexican-nafta-professional-workers.html

So now, tell me, is there any US work visa category that someone from Africa can apply for and get with just a job offer (without the need for employer sponsorship). If not, is that not an advantage a Canadian Citizen has over someone from Africa? Note that job offer is different from employer sponsorship. Some USA work visa categories require that the employer sponsors you for the visa in addition to giving you a job offer. TN Visa requires only a job offer and you good to apply for the visa on your own as long as you meet other requirements.

As for getting transferred by your employer from any country into the US, that is where there is no advantage as a Canadian citizen over someone from Africa and that is where the example you gave about being transferred from Chevron Nigeria to Chevron USA is applicable. The work visa for work transfer category is also different. It is the L Visas (L-1A Visa and L-1B Visa). You can read more about L Visas here:

https://www.uscis.gov/forms/explore-my-options/l-visas-l-1a-and-l-1b-for-temporary-workers

tensazangetsu20:
I just read a post on Reddit where a 50k USD investment in GameStop stock has ballooned up to 22 million USD in value. The person just held on to the stock for around 5 months.

The above is an exaggeration. There is now way this person would have made USD$22 Million by investing only USD$50K in the GameStop (GME) stock from when it was listed till today December 12, 2021.

The lowest (all time low) GME has ever traded was USD$2.57 and this happened on April 3, 2020. While the highest (all time high) it has traded is USD$483 and this was on January 28, 2021. This means that even:

1. If this person bought the stock at the all time low of $2.57, he would have bought about 9,456 units (50,000/2.57 = 19456) with his $50K
2. If the person now sold all the 9,456 units at the all time high of $483, he would make about USD$9.4 Million ($483 x 19456 = $9.4 Million).

$9.4 Million is still an excellent return but it is way too far from the exaggerated amount of $22 Million the person claimed to have made.

Gwan2:


I am just reading this thread....To make things a bit clear to you, everyone intending to have a Canadian PR MUST apply through express entry. So literally, if you studied in Somalia, UK, US, Nigeria or CANADA, you all have an almost equal level base of application for PR. Now, there are some factors that add points to your application and will guaranteed your PR if you meet those points. you can go to the canadian express entry thread to get more info on that.

The point of my post is that, your MSc education acquired in Canada ONLY adds 2 points to the overall points needed for PR qualification, this is almost insignificant especially when you need lots of points. Now, this is the only advantage you have over someone that studied elsewhere other than canada with regards to education and PR Points.

The major advantage an international canadian student will have over his contemporaries is the advantage of being in Canada and having direct or physical assess to employers for job application and applying for jobs to differnt provinces. The application for jobs can be done by anyone outside canada as well, but I think the person legally inside canada will be giving priority assuming all applicants have same qualification, that's the only advantage here. If you are fortunate to secure employment or any province nominate you based on your application, then it is almost guaranteed that you will be call to apply for PR.

Summarily, you can still be in UK and apply for Canadian PR just like the student in canada will do with little advantage of educational point, except if he is fortunate to secure employment or get nominated by a province which you could as well benefit without studying in Canada. By the way, if anyone have to hope on fate to secure employment in canada that will boost his express entry points, why not hope on fate to secure employment after study in UK and secure your indefinite leave after 5yrs of stay in UK..this years include your duration of studies and employment years in UK?

I felt the need to contribute because I know someone in future, maybe my son will google the pros and cons of this topic discussed and be enlightened just like I stumbled on a thread dated 10years back, and it was helpful.

Bro, your analysis and conclusion that when it comes to PR through the express entry, someone that studied outside of Canada has equal level base with another person that studied in Canada is incorrect for the following reasons:

1. Considering that after you completed your studies in Canada, you can apply for a Post Graduation Work Permit (PGWP) to gain work experience which you can in turn use to apply for PR through the Canadian Work Experience Class. The person that studied outside of Canada can not have PGWP and as a result will not have Canadian experience needed to be able to apply through the Canadian Work Experience Class. Note that job offer is not required for this pathway.

2. Some provinces also have special pathway to PR for people that graduated from their provinces. Again, a person that studied outside of Canada does not have that opportunity. Granted, you need to study in that province to qualify but at least you can narrow your schooling to such provinces when applying to study. Note that I am not talking about the generic Provincial Nomination Pathway here. For this special provincial nomination, you must have completed your studies in the province that have this program in place.

3. See the link here for more options that someone who studied in Canada has over and above the options everybody else has:
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/work/after-graduation.html

Gwan2:

By the way, if anyone have to hope on fate to secure employment in canada that will boost his express entry points, why not hope on fate to secure employment after study in UK and secure your indefinite leave after 5yrs of stay in UK..this years include your duration of studies and employment years in UK?

As for the above, this is misinformation. The time you spent on your student visa (about 4 or 5 years for first degree and 1 or 2 years for Masters and 3 or more years for PhD) and on graduate work visa ( 2 or 3 years work visa as the case may be) does not count toward the 5 years needed to secure indefinite leave. See the link here for the time on other visa that counts towards your indefinite leave: https://www.gov.uk/indefinite-leave-to-remain-tier-2-t2-skilled-worker-visa/time-uk

canadaddy:
In case, you are wondering what course or career path to choose in Canada, I will be elucidating some courses that when you are done studying your chances of a success is high and you will definitely get a job.

NURSING PRACTITIONERS
As the population ages, there is an increasing high demand for primary health care. So you can go into this field of study.
If you already have a degree in nursing from outside Canada, you will have to register and take exams from the nursing institute in Canada. Once you have done the needful, you can start to earn.

Earnings is as high as 100,000CAD per annum and 35CAD/hr.
There are two types of nursing, practical nurse and registered nurse. To be a registered nurse, you need a two years diploma but there will be limitations to what you can do as compared to practical nurse with 4 years degree.

Your information above, particularly those in bold, is so incorrect. Correct information as as follows:

1. Registered Nurse (RN) requires a B.Sc. degree in nursing which takes 4 years to complete after high school.
2. Practical Nurse (RPN or LPN) requires diploma in practical nurse which takes 2 years to complete after high school. It is lower than RN and has limitations as to what you can do.
3. Nurse Practitioner (NP) is a postgraduate program (Master's program). To be admitted into the program, you need to first have B.Sc. degree in Nursing and be registered as a RN. It will take minimum of 2 years to complete after completion of B.Sc. degree in Nursing and being an RN.

Note that Nurse Practitioners (NP) are not the same as Practical Nurses (RPN or LPN).

SenorFax:
So all the ones carried out on road side, schools and hostels are also religious leaders? Cos for you to arrive at 75% you must have done a really intense statistics. Nothing wey pastors no go see for Nigeria because of rape.

SenorFax:
You just gotta back it up with statistics that's all. Can't just come up with a % based on what exactly? Getting back at religious leaders ?

@SenorFax:
First, she did not say 75% of all cases. She said 75% of all the cases she is handling (in other words the cases she is familiar with). What other statistics do you need from her? She looked at all the cases she has and said 75% of them (not 75% of all cases in Nigeria or anywhere because she has no data/statistics to say so).

Your point would have been valid if she said 75% of all cases but she did not say that.

Secondly, she did not say pastors. She said religious leaders. Are pastors the only religious leaders in Nigeria or is Christianity the only religion in Nigeria?

wheelzcoded:
Nollywood Actress, Foluke Daramola - Salako who's also the Founder of NGO, Passion Against Rape and Abuse Africa (PARAA) has revealed in a recent interview that most rape cases she's handling have majority of religious leaders as culprits.

The actress who was raped by her tenant when she was 17, said;

“75% of the cases I have on my table are from religious leaders, and a lot of time, we don’t get to the end of it, because when we start, the family would come and tell us we should leave the religious leader to God.”.

[https://netbreeze.com.ng/2020/06/07/religious-leaders-commit-75-of-rape-cases-im-handling-actress-foluke-daramola/]

Odingo1:
Abeg you people in Canada should be giving us real information from Canada.

How come that someone can save $100,000 as security person per year, no expenses.

I live in Germany �� and I am on the process of coming to Canada on permanent resident status.We need true situation of things. In Germany here you can never save 65,000€ which equivalent to $100,000 CAD per year no matter how high you are paid because tax, expenses will run down the earnings.

How can you guys save 100,000k per year and still be hustling for student loan.

@ Odingo1:

Read carefully, the guy never said anything about saving CAD$100K in a year. His goal when he started the thread was to save CAD$120K in two years (which is doable) but he was not able to accomplish that goal because of some situations he explained already. You need to read the thread from page 1 to understand how it is possible to save a lot of money even when working on low wage. I also explained, on page 11, how this is possible in general and on page 14, I explained how I personally save a lot on low wage before I started working in my profession. Here is the link to both postings:

Page 11: https://www.nairaland.com/4857306/monthly-savings-canada/10#73854976

Page 14: https://www.nairaland.com/4857306/monthly-savings-canada/13#74065280

I hope the information in those two postings will be helpful in your decision making.

atutupoyoyo2211:
yeah I meant the first one. I dont qualify for the CERB once I'm working. And moreover, if i try to take it and work, i will still have to pay back. its simply not right. Other people are really having a hard time now and need that money. But lets see if i can meet my target.

Thanks for the clarification. I guess as much too. You have done right my friend by thinking about the others that need the money more. I am so proud of you.

Finally, please do not be discouraged by those people with negative energy and trying to slow you down. You are on the right track. What you are doing is perfectly doable as many of us have done it in the past before we got our professional jobs. If I can do it, I don't see why you or anybody with drive can not!

atutupoyoyo2211:
Hey guys, so i want to just try a quick 3 months activity. As some of you know, because of School i have not been able to work so much late last year and this year so far. So i decided last night to work for the next 3 months. I have 2 places i will work at. First is a health center and the 2nd is a pharmaceutical company. Now i'm gonna be doing security at the 2 companies.
I got 4 security job offers, but i decided to go for the 2 safest and also the ones i could help out during this pandemic. Now i could sit at home and take the government $2k, my wife is doing that already. But working gives me an opportunity to make 4k or 5k each month. I know we are in a pandemic, and i am keeping myself as safe as can be, we are provided all the PPE we require. i'm gonna put up a picture of me in my PPE.
Now, i am gonna put up all the paystubs up as i get them, so we can also see the taxes I'm paying. Now i do have bills to pay as does everyone, but I'm gonna plan it out as best as i can. The health center pays $20.448 an hour while the pharmaceutical company pays $17.20.
I like doing this cos its very educative and informative based on personal experiences, on how much one can earn and save on little wages.
Hopefully, we will all survive this pandemic and give God the glory and our medical practitioners the kudos.

@atutupoyoyo2211:

First, like I have said in the past and shared my personal experience to show that your goal is doable, I must state again that I like your drive.
Considering that you are still working, I do not understand the part in bold in your statement above regarding sitting at home to take government $2K. Please clarify on it. Are you saying that:

1. Instead of working, you could have stayed at home (not work) and just take the $2K (but you chose to work and not take the money) or
2. Despite working, you will be taking government $2K

I honestly think you meant the first statement and if that is the case, no issue with that but if it is the second then you are not qualified to take the money and it will be wrong of you doing so. In addition, I can guarantee that the government will come after you later if you are working and still taking the $2K.

sabanageorge:
What would you do if you must quit your job in Nigeria to leave for permanent residency in Canada? My salary is seven figures and my career prospects here in Nigeria are bright. I have less than 2 months to leave for Canada or I'll lose my permanent residency. I can't travel to Canada in between jobs; not only because the job itself requires my constant presence in Nigeria, I also won't be able to make the number of days in Canada required for residency renewal. I am extremely comfortable in Nigeria; maybe overcomfortable. No real idea how Canada will be.

what would you do in my shoes?

I'm a pretty smart person, so I have thought about this long and hard. I have probably also arrived at a temporary decision as well. However, I'd like to hear what other smart persons may have to say about this. I'd also like to hear what others have to say who have been in this situation. So, thanks in advance.

Mods, please help push to front page so I can get the best opinions.

Regarding the amount of time you have to finally decide if you want to move to Canada or not without loosing your PR status, you really do not have a problem because if you plan properly you actually still have about 3 (three years) to make that decision. So, how did I come about three years and what do you need to do?

How did I come about three years? Well, as per Canadian Immigration requirement, the condition you have to meet to keep your PR status is that you must be living in Canada for at least 730 days (2 years) during the last five years and these 730 days don’t need to be continuous.

What do you need to do now in the next 2 months? Well all you need to do now is to do short landing for some days (maybe say 1 week but the more time the better). So, take short vacation to Canada from your current work just for the purpose of landing. Go back to your work in Nigeria after your short vacation. You now have 3 years (three) from when you depart Canada to return to Canada so as not to loose your PR status. If you decide to move to Canada after spending 3 years in Nigeria, you must now stay live in Canada for 2 years before you can travel out again.

Note, If I was in your shoes and I decide to return to Canada, I will do so after only 2 years (not using all of my 3 years window).

You can read more about all of these here:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/helpcentre/answer.asp?qnum=727&top=4

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/new-immigrants/pr-card/understand-pr-status.html

https://settlement.org/ontario/immigration-citizenship/permanent-residence/permanent-resident-pr-status/what-are-the-residency-requirements-for-permanent-residents-prs/

https://www.ackahlaw.com/blog/how-to-maintain-permanent-residence-in-canada-while-living-overseas/

I hope this helps.

oluayebenz:
Please house
Can somebody on visit visa drive in Toronto with Nigeria drivers license?

This person is staying for a month and can't cope with street bus.

@oluayebenz: Please don’t be offended about the question I am about to ask. I am asking the question because I am genuinely confused.

On another discussion thread, you mentioned to have lived in Canada before for 2 years (from 2014 to 2016) and you are here now asking question if somebody on visit visa can drive in Toronto with Nigeria driver’s license? Should you not know the answer to this question having lived in Canada for 2 years? Granted that you might not have lived in Ontario (where Toronto is located), but having lived that long anywhere in Canada should you not know the answer to your question?

oluayebenz:


That's how Canada exposed me to many opportunities in Nigeria. I left nigeria in 2014 with the mentality of living big abroad as if everything is easy over there which i ended up working my ass off with pay cheque which is not even enough to live good.
Fast forward to 2016 I sat myself down and think deeply cos I got a lot of dependant which canada situation can't help or else I will end up ignoring my dependants by not not letting them to know my contacts again.
Here we go April 2016 I decided to leave Canada to Nigeria cos I have a lot of business idea, thou right from the beginning business is in my blood.
When I decided to leave i inform my family about it my brothers, sisters, mom and my friends were all scared and wonder how can I decided such a silly thing to come back to nija. Sometimes self decision is the best. I kept mute I didn't listen until I carried out my plan, booked a one way ticket to nija, landed and the hustle started. Everybody are looking at me like let's see what will end u in Nigeria.

I dont know Why we Nigerians lose hope on our country as if these western world are paradise?

I went back to my business I was doing before I left for canada which is agriculture. I put some money I managed to save on it. Upgrade myself by advertising my products online, travelling around, visiting big big farms for sales cos I'm into poultry and I also sell foreign feed additives such as feed proteins and amino-acids.
These business I have been doing before I left for canada but the mentality of travelling out for greener pasture has eat deep in me, then I didn't work too smart cos I believe abroad is the only option to success.

To cut the long story short
I'm now a owner of a company.
We sale imported feed additives in case a farmer might be interested in buying.

Till today Canada door is still opened for me.
I was there 2 times this year, planning to go again next March thou for visiting online.

All my write up is all true cos I know some might want to quote me wrong. I swear
Some might wonder how come all these happen in 2yrs yes it's God's grace and focus.

Funny enough, a lot of people didn't believe all these till today, some believe I'm into Yahoo thing and even sarz always stop me while driving but when they see evidence they free me cos I'm just 29yrs still very young for face. I swear with my life I have never try that Yahoo Yahoo thing or ritual in my life. God is my witness.



@mile
Nigeria is the best if you have a very good business idea and fund to finance it.

I will never advice who's going for greener pasture abroad not to do it cos not everybody got business idea and everybody can't be a boss.
Some will live all their life on pay cheque while some is destined to be d boss. That's life.

I just joined nairaland cos if catch my attention especially this thread. One love

I struggle not to comment on this because the person in question is dead but I changed my mind because I think some things must be made clear about how things work in Canada.

First, I give credit to Pius for doing well for himself as a Nigerian Canadian, but the fact is that within the Nigerian Canadian community, he is not exceptional (as per Canadian standard) to be given the privilege being mentioned here. Apology is not impossible if they made a mistake (not saying it happened or did not happened) but going to stamp visa on passport at home is definitely not true. There are lot of Nigerian Canadians who are Engineers, Medical Doctors, Professors, Accountant, Ph.D holders making Nigeria proud here in Canada and holding very top position up to C-Level positions where they work.

By the way, being invited as a guest speaker the Department of Foreign Affairs is not a big deal here. You don’t have to be important or hold any high post to be invited as a guest speaker at an even as long as they know you have something of value to say. Many Nigerian Canadians get invited by one arm of the government or the other as guest speakers at government organized events regularly.

The main part of the write up that point to the fact that this story is cooked up is that his mom was denied visa three times (not once) and it took the intervention of a high level government official to overturn the refusal. If he is so important to Canada and as it is being pointed out, why was his mom denied visa three times? Typically, once you are denied once, your sponsor can appeal with more supporting facts and most often than not the visa will be issued at that point. So, in this case, what we are being made to understand is that each time his mom reapplied he did not give information to the visa that will enable them know that he is a very valuable Canadian as such be accorded some respect by giving her mom a visa at least the second time after additional information must have been provided. The fact that his mom was denied visa actually points that nobody knows or value him in Canada because he is not exceptional as per Canadian standard.

As I mentioned before, my write-up is not to rubbish Pius Adesanmi's accomplishments but just to set the fact straight. May the good Lord comfort the family he left behind.

Finally, this is the only time I will comment on this topic no matter what anybody says about it. If you like call me names or abuse me. I will not dignify you with a response.

naijaman3:


According to StatsCan here is the median income distribution in Canada back in 2013:

$25,000 = 94th percentile (This means 94% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$50,000 = 53rd percentile (This means 53% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$75,000 = 27th percentile (This means 27% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$100,000 = 14th percentile (This means 14% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$150,000 = 5th percentile (This means 5% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$225,000 = 2nd percentile (This means 2% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$300,000 = 1st percentile (This means 1% of Canadians make more than this amount)

If these numbers were from 2013, we can only imagine what the number will look like now in 2019 (6 years later).

ahiboilandgas:
must you live in ikoyi there are cool place in calabar ,abuja etc over 90 percent of canadians earn 30 k dollars

ahiboilandgas:
whoa I even dash them 5000 dollar ....94 percent =25000 dollars that pay check to bills straight cos house na 1000 dollar s

This will be my last comment on this as I will not like to derail this thread.

@ahiboilandgas: It is obvious that reading comprehension is your problem but I will try to break it down for you before I give up finally on you.

First, the following two statements are not the same (take note of the position of the word OVER in the two statements):

First statement: OVER 90% of Canadians make $30K annually (this is your own statement which is wrong):

What this your wrong statement means is that if you take 100 Canadians, 90 or more of those 100 Canadians make $30K annually (i.e they make exactly $30K, not more and not less). Only 10 or less than 10 out of the 100 make an amount different from $30K annually (i.e The amount that the less that 10 people out of 100 people make could be more than $30K and it could less than $30K).

This is definitely wrong and it is not what the data I produced above is suggesting. The correct statement will be second one below.

Second statement: 90% of Canadians make OVER $30K annually (This is different statement from yours and it is what the data above is suggesting):

What this correct statement means is that if you take 100 Canadians, 90 of those 100 Canadians make more than $30K annually (this means that 90 people make anywhere from $31K to infinity amount). Only 10 out of the 100 people make anything less than $30K.

For you to better comprehend, here is the break down of this 2013 numbers:

$25,000 = 94th percentile (This means 94% make $25K or more. It also shows that 41% (94 minus 53) make between $25K & $50K)
$50,000 = 53rd percentile (This means 53% make $50K or more. It also shows that 26% (53 minus 27) make between $50K & & 75K)
$75,000 = 27th percentile (This means 27% make $75K or more. It also show that 13% (27 minus 14) make between $75K & $100K)
$100,000 = 14th percentile (This means 14% make $100K or more. It also shows that 9% (14 minus 5) make between $100K & $150K)
$150,000 = 5th percentile (This means 5% make $150K or more. It also shows that 3% (5 minus 2) make between $150K & $225K)
$225,000 = 2nd percentile (This means that 2% make $225K or more. It also shows that 1% (2 minus 1) make between $225K & $300K)
$300,000 = 1st percentile (This means that 1% make $300K or more)

I give up after this if you still find it difficult to comprehend his simple information.

ahiboilandgas:
must you live in ikoyi there are cool place in calabar ,abuja etc over 90 percent of canadians earn 30 k dollars

9JAFULLBREED:
90% of them they earn 30K monthly or annually?

ahiboilandgas:
daily

While I would not like to derail this thread, I will also not like to leave this wrong information by @ahiboilandgas unaddressed.

Really, over 90% of Canadians earn $30K annually. The way some people here on Nairaland display their ignorance when a simple google search could have helped na real wa oh. The article in the link below says the following about median income in Canada in 2013:

According to StatsCan, the median income (plus our 10 per cent factor) in Canada in 2013 was $35,200. This means that half of Canadian tax filers have incomes over that number and half are under that number.

https://business.financialpost.com/personal-finance/managing-wealth/how-does-your-salary-stack-up-to-the-rest-of-the-country-a-look-at-what-canadians-make

According to StatsCan here is the median income distribution in Canada back in 2013:

$25,000 = 94th percentile (This means 94% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$50,000 = 53rd percentile (This means 53% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$75,000 = 27th percentile (This means 27% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$100,000 = 14th percentile (This means 14% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$150,000 = 5th percentile (This means 5% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$225,000 = 2nd percentile (This means 2% of Canadians make more than this amount)
$300,000 = 1st percentile (This means 1% of Canadians make more than this amount)

If these numbers were from 2013, we can only imagine what the number will look like now in 2019 (6 years later).

emmadeking:


Bro, please can you explain more on "taking some open courses in universities in Canada which can boost your GPA"

@naijama3 can you help us out?

Please someone should clear us...

@emmadeking

Unfortunately, I do not know about the open courses in universities in Canada as I never attended university in Canada. All my university education were from outside of Canada. The only Canadian qualification I have is my professional certification/registration with my profession regulatory body.

atutupoyoyo2211:
First of all, Bro, this is a huge encoragement and i appreciate you for that. My intention is to get to the point where i could have achieved or even surpassed you. I pray God make you bigger.

@atutupoyoyo2211

I am glad to know that you found my experience encouraging. Going by your determination, I am confident that you will be able to surpass my accomplishments. I will keep monitoring this thread and continue to encourage you the best way I can. You can do it buddy!

tolani4real:


Full time job is normally 40 hours a week for hourly rate job.
1 year = 52 weeks

For 1 week: $16 × 40 = $640

For 1 year: $640 × 52 = $33,280

Exchange rate Canadian $ to naira through oanda currency converter as today is Can $1 = N266

Total in 1 year: $33,280 × 266 = N8,852,480.

Remember Canada is not Nigeria. 25% to 40% of that money is government (taxes). This will depend on your filing status.

Also 30% to 60% of the reminder is going for rent.

That money only look big because of exchange rate. Don't get me wrong, you can't compare Canada to Nigeria.

@tolani4real

Going by the part of your message above in bold, when it comes to taxes and the remaining income after taxes & deductions in Canada some of you are just not getting it. At the income you calculated above ($33,280), if he lives in Alberta he would only pay $5998 (or 18.02%) in taxes & other deductions (Employment Insurance - EI & Canadian Pension Plan - CPP). By the way EI and CPP are not even taxes.

Regarding how he could potentially spend the after tax income with due diligent if he wants to save a lot see my write up here on this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/4857306/monthly-savings-canada/10#73854976


Regarding what his taxes, EI and CPP are being used for that he gets for free in Canada which he would otherwise have paid for in Nigeria, see my other write up on another thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/4795992/7-m-annual-income-move#72235695


Regarding how much tax, EI and CPP he would pay depending on his income and province of residence, see the link here:

https://simpletax.ca/calculator