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Josade69:
Congratulations nochyks87 !!!, I've been wanting to speak with you about your choice of course to study. Kindly check your DM.

Honeypels:
Are you traveling with your wife and kid?

nochyks87:
LONG POST ALERT

Approval on 2nd application

Age: 33years married with a kid.
Sponsor: Third-party (brother-in-law)
Ist degree: Industrial physics (2009) 3rd Class honours
Intended course: Post-secondary Diploma in Health Information Management
1st app : 6th April,2019
Refused : 21st May, 2019 based on travel history, purpose of visit and personal assets and financial status.

2nd app: 20th December,2019
Upfront medical passed: Jan 9th,2020
PPR: 4th Feburary, 2020.

My case was very sensitive because my degree and my intended program was not the same but my work experience was related to my intended program. In addition, I was not going for a PGD but a POST-SECONDARY DIPLOMA. I was strong-willed and stubborn as I went against the advice of many experienced people and reapplied with the same school and course while tackling the refusal reasons and believing in God to actualize my dreams.

Documents submitted:
All CIC forms
LOE (2 pages) and SOP(4 pages)
No police certificate
Birth certificate
Transcript
Nysc
Included Joint account bank statement(me and my wife) with 3.2 million naira balance
Tuition Deposit Receipt 1000CAD
Sponsorship letter
Third-party(brother-in-law) Sponsor's account with $350,000 balance. Sponsor did not transfer any funds to my account just a promise to pay my fees if study permit is granted.
Resume/CV
Study leave approval letter
Reference letter from current employer
Appointment letter
Confirmation letter
Pay slips
Reference letter from previous employment
Offer of appointment from previous employment .
Reference from Pension fund
Pension fund statement of account
Letter from my mom to CIC stating that she gifted me a property in 2012.
Included land property by deed of gift from my mother.
Affidavit of transfer of property.
Property valuation certificate (36 million naira).
Marriage certificate
Wedding picture( 1 copy)
Wife's birth certicate
Daughter's birth certificate
Sibling pictures of me and my eldest sister showing relationship with her husband.
My sister's birth certificate
My sister's marriage certificate
My sister's wedding pictures
My sister's American passport
My brother-in-law's American passport

Finally PLEASE FOLLOW YOUR HEART AND DO WHAT YOU FEEL INSIDE DESPITE THE RULES AND REGULATIONS. DO WHAT YOU CAN, DON'T GO OVER THE CLIFF TRYING TO GET WHAT YOU DON'T HAVE.

@Frankrobbn, @Qudkom, @Mcobex, @Bracha. Thanks for all your posts as I read them from beginning to end. Very informative on constructing my LOE & SOP. God bless you all.

God will visit all applicants.

nochyks87:
Original passport Request!!!! Testimony loading with long post alert!!!

vibrant99:
One thing That you don't get to find on this page is Guys been sincere and straight Sarcastic (if they intend to see it like that).

Do you how much you spend on application alone?

Telling people not to lose hope and re-fire, when deep deep the application can "never" get a consideration, Making money for Canadian government.

Point Blank.... "SOME SPECIMEN APPLICATION CAN NOT GET APPROVAL"

How about we become sincere with this people?.

Most of the People here advising don't have Visa.

Qudkom:
Just had the smoothest POE experience. I wasn't asked any questions or whatsoever just directed to a counter where the lady requested my passport and excused her self came back after a few seconds and handed me my study/work permit. To all trv hopefuls I wish you the very best and I'll still be present here to offer my advises et all to those who need it. Cheers!

yomeximas:
Hello House,
Please I need a link showing colleges in Canada(Manitoba province to be specific). Someone needs admission in a science/heath related course towards next winter(January 2019).

Thanks house

hiambenson:
Bros, you can only renew your passport when it has at least 6 months to date of expiration. My time of reapplication and initial traveling schedule prompted me to opt for submitting my application with the old passport.
Thanks anyways!

Stonecoldsteve:
And so I had an 8 am class this morning (I am a lecturer) and after the class by past 10 am, I get to the office and see a 'Do not Reply' mail for CIC. I log into my account and behold, it's a passport request.

Application type: Re-application
Application Date: 5th of June 2019
Medical passed: 13th June, 2019
Eligibility Review: 25th June 2019
BVL: 28th June 2019
Passport Request: 2nd July 2019

Will be back with the details. Let me roll on the floor first!

TheInvestor:
Hello Guys,

I have some concerns, hope someone on this forum can help me.

I have just created an account on cic for online application .The concern I have is that the document checklist(see attached) is fewer when compared to that of paper application.... for instance, where do I upload the police clearance certificate, SOP et all?

I will appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction

Kenny4real68:
APPROVAL ALERT GUYS!!!

I was in the bathroom taking my bath and at the same time playing music with my phone, my music got interrupted and it was an email that entered. Still sponging my body I walked close to my phone to see and it was CIC “donotreply”, you have a new message(s) in your account, I didn’t even know when my sponge fell off my hands. I just picked my phone and ran out of the bathroom like that with my soapy body, my mother saw me on the way and was surprised!.. I told her mum the hour is here Canada just replied and I don’t know if it’s a refusal or approval- she shouted and joined me as I run to my room-. As I was logging into my account my hands were uncontrollably and terribly shaking, My mum kept shouting for grace as my account was loading, lo and behold it’s an approval guys.. we laughed and hugged ourselves . Now, Let me go back and complete my shower will be back for the full testimony.

IJE CANADA ADIRO NFE (Canada Journey is not easy!!!)

Bracha:
I see. Let's start.

To sell yourself, talk very briefly on your BSc as it isn't of relevance to your future course. You could say you chose Physics because it was the course available at the time, but what you've always wanted was Health Information.

You could then go on to state why you love Health Information Management (HIM) - be concise and straight to the point, no beating about the bush, no love stories.

This is where your stint at the Paediatric hospital comes in; you could say you just couldn't leave HIM, so the first opportunity you got to work in that role, you took it at so and so paediatric hospital. When you left the job, you took this current one at so and so hospital doing all these you mentioned. Don't just mention them, outline and explain them, go into details of what they entail. But remember, be concise. Only the relevant details matter.

Then you say why you chose Canada to pursue it instead of Nigeria, why you chose that school also.

For what you'll do with the course when you return, you could include in your writing that Nigeria doesn't do proper collation of data, this includes health data and statistical analysis. This course could help you do that, also analyse these data and aid tremendously in proffer solutions; this would be done by the medical doctors.

PS: If you decide to use what I have written, please use them in your own words, so one VO looking through this thread won't see my words in your application

Good luck

Bracha:
Why do you want to introduce that previous job? Would its introduction aid the approval of your visa? Is there a link between that job and your current study plan?

amazonrck:
APPROVAL!!! GOD ALONE BE PRAISED.
From a very silent reader who has been following the thread since Part 13 ………….

PROFILE
B.Ed (Educational Management)
M.Ed (Education Policy Studies)
PhD in Education Administration and Leadership.
First Application: Online - June 19, 2018 (Withdrawn in January after 7months with no update)
Second Application: Paper – March 25, 2019
Eligibility – April 30
Request for Medical – May 2, Done – May 8 (IOM)
Medical Passed – May 12
Biometric Validity – May 15
Approved – June 12, 2019.

DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED
- Letter of Admission
- Study permit form/Questionnaire
- Temporary Residence Form (Our 2 year old son accompanying me)
- Family Form
- Letter of Funding from School (Fully funded)
- Bank statements (Hubby & Brother: Commitment of 1.2m yearly, first year transferred to my account by brother, no personal bank statement submitted)
- Well written and detailed SOP (5 pages, didn’t have anyone to help review)
- LOE (1 Page, stating reasons for withdrawing the first application)
- Letter of sponsorship & co-sponsorship from hubby and brother.
- Sponsor & Co-sponsors' bio-data pages, CAC of hubby company, Employment ID & Appointment Letter of brother e.t.c
- Letter of consent from hubby (For our son)
- Previous Visa (SA – Study Visa for my Masters)
- Copies of mails between the faculty dean and I, stating I am not required to pay any fee till registration begins in September.
- CV
- Copies of my articles in Academic journals.
- Copy of my published book by an international publisher
- Degree certificates
- Police clearance (SA only)

*** My timeline has been shared to encourage someone who is about to, or may have given up on this journey (don’t give up, your time will come in due season if you faint not).

mcobex:
Try to explain how Petroleum engineering is related to Environmental engineering to the vo, it should be well detailed (cos these VOs don't really know these things so you have to present it like you are explaining to a novice). All these should be in a separate LOE(apart from your SOP). Also, make sure you talk about your funding. i.e your LOE should be about your funding and how related petroleum engineering and environmental engineering are(shouldn't be hard at all)

Oluwaseunbd:
What if it's a paper application?

Frankrobbn1:
Your mother can transfer the property as a Gift Deed after the demise of your father. Your LOE should state that;

You have an asset in Nigeria which you must return to upon your graduation to continue managing, most notably a building which was gifted/transferred to you by your mother few years ago in 2009 (should be backdated), which you did not include in your initial application because you're being fully sponsored by your mother/brother/uncle (as the case maybe) and you assumed sponsorship covered the need for the applicant to disclose personal assets. You have therefore attached documents evidencing this property in Nigeria etc.....


Please this is just a guide, add more reasonable points to the letter and make it look convincing. Please don't declare that it's your current residential building that was transferred to you when drafting this letter.

Best of luck

Frankrobbn1:
A father has the right to transfer his property to any of his dependents. The deed can be backdated and explanation from the applicant should suffice that the said property has been gifted to him/her in consideration of the love and affection the father has for him/her.

As you suggested that the applicant should claim they have been managing the property, which is also acceptable. Though in this case, a written letter from the family's solicitors should be submitted to support the claims that applicant has long been performing this duties and will not abscond to Canada after studies.

OptimusPrime21:
No... wen applying, wea section was asking evidence of work requirement in study... so am asking wat will I put as the evidence

Pinkandblue26:
Hello
I am new here
I want to enquire if I can use my US WES Evaluation for Canada or will I have to start the processing of WES Canada all over again.

Thank you

OptimusPrime21:
Please for those writing sops, you need your sop to be in bullet form with each talking about a certain aspect...
no1 should start with your introduction/background...you full name, date of birth, where you are from, name of your family...where they are from....i see sops with no introductions, no format...just go straight to I am dis, I did this here, I have certificate in this, bla bla bla...thats why vo use vague cos it's vague.

No 2, talk about why you are doing so so course...this is where you try to align your previous degree with wat your intended course, pick some courses in your final year or 3rd year to align with it. Also here is where u talk about your experience, what you have been doing after your degree that pushed u to wanna do so so course. This is where u need to be very very very CONVINCING. Spend more time here than any other place...

No3 and 4, should talk about why canada and why so so school... Google can do that for u...

No5 should be titled Travel history.. here even if u have not left naija before since you were born..you just tell the vo, you haven't been opportune to travel outside of Nigeria before but I have had the chance to travel to (name all the states you have gone to), which gave me the opportunity to experience different cultures and traditions, visit different places. Each time I travelled,[b]I always respected and obeyed the laws, rules and regulations[/b]of the state/country and always returned home because there's no place like home (Nigeria/state).

No 6, the home ties... here pls try to list all the full names of your family and their respective date of birth starting from your dad wat he does, to the last person in the family where all of you are from again. This saves the vo time to start checking for their birth certificates...

Finally, Your plans after studies, this is where you need to actually show you have a plan or something that you tend to offer to Nigeria wen you return (new ideas to improve the economy or employment for people, it can be anything so long it's realistic and possible). This aspect actually helps you to avoid purpose of visit in a way....

If you noticed I didn't include anything concerning how much I have in my account or my sponors cos I believe as long as I submitted a bank statement the vo should look at it there...this avoids the vo focusing so much on how much I am making or have...

Others might have done something different (sops) and got their approvals, but this is how I did mine..you might find it risky, you might not but it worked for me.. also try to grow the habit of praying cos that's the juju you have over the vo...

My 2kobo

Damlovey:
Application approved guys!!!!! Thank you all I’m very grateful to you all. God bless you guys abundantly bracha, dmerciful, qudkom, kez, makano and the rest. Thank you!!!!!!!

Qudkom:
The first advice I give people reapplying is to avoid rushing the next application. You don't want to appear desperate in your next application. Secondly, it is important to ensure your application correlates with the previous application, you don't want them thinking why didn't he/she attach it in the first application etc.

You need your gcms note to guide you accordingly. You can't also be transferring cash in and out just to show good credit the funds need to be retained that's why it's called a "savings account"and also for any additional documents you'll be adding ensure you state reason why it wasn't in the previous application.
All the best.

Caddy123:
Sorry about the delay.
1. Get your GCMS notes to understand what the vo better.
2. I think your SOA was small
3. You need explain more why you going for PGD in the course since according to them is available here.
4. You need get study leave from your organisation.
5. Prayers!!!!!! Because you can still have all and the vo will just be funny. God bless you
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Documents submitted:
All CIC forms
LOE
Third party sponsorship (in-law) SOA 6months with around 450,000 USD closing balance. He has three teenage dependents.
Sponsorship letter
Tuition Deposit Receipt
Employment reference letter
Employment offer letter
Confirmation letter
Nysc
Bsc transcript
Salary SOA and pay slips
Am married with an infant daughter( home ties)
Wedding pics
Sibling pics of my sis n l
Certifications in Health and safety
Birth certificates of myself wife and child
My sisters birth certificate
Passport pages of my in-law and sister


Thanks alot

sillysassysally:
I am so sorry to hear about the outcome of your study permit application.
Can you share more details about your application?
1. Age
2. Academic History (What you studied and the year you graduated)
3. Working experience
4. Intended program (school and course)

Then you can go ahead to share a comprehensive summary of the documents that you submitted with respect to your application and i believe this would give people more perspective to your application.

Do not lose hope. With God, all things are possible!
Wishing you the very best!