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Baecli:
Hello bosses in the house.
I want to apply for a one year program In Canada next year and my questions are :

I will be 28 by February and it's been 11 years since I wrote weac and I want to apply for a school In Canada. (What are the chances of getting admitted?

I am self sponsoring myself, because I have been working. I'll register for CAC by next month for my business (home ties),I have two lands.

If I eventually get the visa,can I switch from 1year program to a 2 or 4 Year program?

What about switching of courses. I will want to switch from business relates course to tech (cyber security)

I haven't been to any country. Which country will you suggest I visit first before applying for visa?

What should be my budget?

What should I learn before coming? I'm into e-commerce... If theres another thing to learn please let me know.

I'll be applying for next year for January 2025 resumption. This is to enable me prepare against any errors.

When I was younger I got admitted into a Nigeria university,but I dropped out because I was unserious...I realized my mistake but it was already late so I focuses on business, now I want to go back to study.

I'll appreciate suggestions.. thanks

This is where you want to post: https://www.nairaland.com/7776621/canadian-student-visa-thread-part/219

It's not just about talking, it's about doing. If there's something we have seen all too often from the Nigerian government, it's promises. Talk is cheap. What is more important is doing what you say you want to do. Now, the question is, where is the money? Do you want to spin it out of thin air? The money is clearly not there. $10bn is no joke. Is the country's forex reserve up to 10bn dollars? I don't think so.

This is another promise that will go unfulfilled, just as the exchange rate to the dollar continues to go up as people show lack of belief in the government. The truth is that if the money is there to clear it, you will move quickly to action and do so, instead of continually making mouth like you do. Person wey get money no dey waste time to spend am.

DrAkpamudehe:
I disagree with your first point. How exactly do they mingle when they come to Nigeria as expatriates? People who limit them selves to ikoyi, phase 1, Victoria island and banana island, and only hang out with their fellow expatriates. Is that one mingle? Oga, they don't mingle when they come to Nigeria. If you live in Lagos, how often do you see white people on the mainland apart from seeing them in clusters at shopping malls, restaurants, and clubs in ikoyi, Banana island, Lekki phase 1 and v/island....?


2. Not everyone's joke will appeal to you, especially when you grow up in a different culture. Except you want to fake a smile when they crack their boring jokes. I call that hypocrisy.

3. I have lived, worked and travelled between different cultures and countries in the last 14years, and I can affirm to you that as you grow older, you would naturally limit yourself to your kit and kin. When you are a young adult or teenager, you are more naturally adventurous and inclined to interact with other races in the western world, but as you age and grow older, the opposite begins to happen and that inclination reduces drastically. It is just nature.

Summarily, oga ,white people don't mingle when they come to Nigeria either as visitors or expatriates. They restrict themselves to their fellow whites and limit their movements within the highbrow places of where they reside or stay in Nigeria. Pls stop making them feel superior to the Nigerians in terms of mingling. They don't also mingle freely if you are not within their social network. Their mingling ends most times at the workplace. Please, let's not go there with too much argument.

I didn't even see this before I typed by response which is very similar. Don't mind that guy, he's always reasoning with half of his brain.
I worked with Chinese people in Huawei in Nigeria. You won't even believe they are that many in Nigeria. Even down to workspace, they work in their own space away from Nigerians, eat their own food which is imported, and band together to go to the movies or anywhere else. You'll see the coaster bus that brings them, and how they come down like sardine to go to the mall. Coaster bus will wait for like four hours until they are done, then it's straight back inside and onwards to their isolated residences before office on Monday. I can guarantee you most of then are depressed from that already.
I also worked with Americans at Shell. Nearly the same thing. The best several of them have to an interaction with the locals is pulling their window curtain side and looking into the busy streets of ozumba mbadiwe. I don't think Nigerians are aware of how many Americans are truly living in Nigeria. You only see maybe 1-10% around. The rest are all locked up in their apartment, following very strict warnings from their embassy not to step out of the house unaccompanied and if they must do, escorts are provided.

This socialisation problem cuts across culture. Just as Nigerians go to Canada or US and find it difficult to integrate is the same way they go to Nigeria and find it difficult to integrate. You've made a very strong remark by observing that as humans get older, they try to find answers to life in their own culture and among their own people. Only very few brave ones venture out. That has nothing to do with whether you are white or black

Kobojunkie:
So they are having a hard time integrating and the solution should be for them to hurdle up with others who are equallly struggling to integrate??

Nigerians no dey like to solve problems at all. So instead of suggesting she learn to step out of her Nigerianess, your suggestion is that she find other Nigerians struggling with loneliness to hide away with in their churches, etc? The same hoodoo that is Nigeria where racism seems the order of the day?

Always reasoning out of your arse as usual. I wonder which indices shows you that the so-called white people integrate better when they come to Nigeria. The same white people that never step out of their Ikoyi apartments all day or the ones typically driven in tinted SUVs from place to place and hardly have any one-on-one interaction with the locals? Keep talking from the side of your mouth to make your flabby ideas fit

May06:
You didnt have to make a comment. I bet there was something more profitable you could have done with your time, than to spend at least 60 seconds of your life, that you cannot regain, to make such an unkind comment. Please learn to read and ignore. Looks like an unattainable skill but you can learn it!

Grow up and grow a thick skin! Mummy isn't here to help temper your emotions. How exactly is that "unkind"? How is it not the truth? It's a public forum and I can express an opinion. You don't have to like it. That's not on me. I won't ignore if I think an opinion is worth having on a subject. If you don't like my comment, move past it if your skin is too thin and flabby. Seems to me you are the one needs to find a job.

Brownmannie:
It seems nobody knows how to reach Accra IRCC on phone. So, is over 60 days of passport submission still within their timeline of processing? I have sent several mails for them to return my passport whether stamped or not but without any response. How can they just seize the passport for over 2 months now and nobody seems to know how to go about this ? This is crazy and totally unacceptable.

How exactly is it unacceptable? Did they tell you initially you'll get your passport within a particular period? When you sent your passport there, you committed automatically to their holding it for as long as it took to get the visa.

Because he's passionate about his work

descarado:
One of the world leading producer is Spain.
Why will an European country go to west Africa to buy tigernut?

Tigernut is very cheap in the uk.

It's even likely more cheaper to buy in Nigeria at this time because of the exchange rate loss

PoliteActivist:
This is not "story". This is my life!
All good and well but please understand I already have my ticket. The TRV is ten years or passport expiration date whichever comes first

Guy, you don't have a work visa. What you have is a visit visa. Stay your a.ss in Nigeria and visit when you are on vacation from your 500k job.

PoliteActivist:
I already have my plane tickets o, and been planning my life in Canada oo!
Didn't think I'd actually land the job at all! 500K a month plus housing, car, health and life insurance benefits.
Why is life always like this??!! In serious dilemma what to do

My brother got an 800k a month job before leaving for Canada. He left regardless. Things didn't take off immediately when he got to cabs did ups job for some months and later petrolcanada. Eventually got his CPA and today is warning >200k CAD annually.

Nobody can decide for you. 500k a month is nothing with the ever increasing exchange rate. My only worry for you is that you won't let regret consume you if things don't start brightly immediately you get to Canada.

Edit: Revising my answer. I just saw you got a visit visa, not a PR visa, which is what would have made my advice above there worthwhile. In your visit visa case, I say stay put in Nigeria and only visit when you get the chance. Going to Canada and planning to run away on a visit visa is temporary career suicide and you are starting off on the wrong foot. You may even get deported at some point, and that's if you are able to find any work at all to sustain you. Don't do it!

seniorboy1:
Hello Everyone,

I'm writing to seek guidance and advice based on practical experiences in Canada.

While I await the possibility of receiving an ITA with a score of 480 or below, I'm using this time to plan for my future career in Canada.

My academic background is in IT, but I've been working in HR and hold certifications such as SHRM-SCP. I understand that transferring HR skills might be challenging due to cultural and legislative differences. Therefore, I'm considering a shift to IT (or management consulting) to better prepare for the Canadian job market.

I'm contemplating a deep dive into backend engineering due to my interest in Object-Oriented Programming. Alternatively, I'm also considering data science and analytics because of my proficiency in tools like MS Excel, a bit of SQL, Power BI, and Looker Studio, which I've used extensively in HR Analytics and Payroll.

I would greatly appreciate your advice and insights based on your own experiences in Canada. Which path—HR/Management Consulting, or IT—do you believe offers a wider range of opportunities, despite the competitive landscape? I visited Indeed to look at the figures, but real experiences would help also.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

You seem to have a good profile. This would be my advice to you:

Clearly there are more opportunities in IT in Canada than there are in HR. Nevertheless, whether you get a good job or not often depends on how you package yourself than it does on whether there are more jobs in one field or the other. If you love HR and would love to continue in it, my advice would be to have one CV where you sell yourself as an HR professional who uses IT to distinguish his own work. What do I mean? Write your CV such that it highlights your HR achievements, while specifically highlighting how you also use your IT skills to deliver on the job through, for example, excellent people analytics. Then you can use that to apply to HR Jobs. You could also consider HR Jobs that have an analytics side to them. An organisation will always be excited to bring onboard an individual who could easily liase with the IT team on software they are building for their HR department.

However if you don't care much for HR and want to change your field completely, then of course you should consider IT. That depends on which part of it you like. The one with most opportunities is software development. Back end like you mentioned. If you excel at OOP, then by all means take it seriously and chase your opportunities there. Make sure you are ready for coding interviews though. Some organisations may do up to one or more coding interviews and some problems could be unrealistically tough.

Data analytics is also good. But expect to still do coding interviews in SQL, Python, etc. There are also opportunities here, but perhaps not as many as in Software development. The good thing with this field moreover are the many possible pivots, e.g. business intelligence, business analytics, data science, data analysis, etc. So you have wider choices. Some coding interviews here could be no more than designing a dashboard in PowerBI.

Whatever you decide on, I'll still counsel you should start considering a certification in a Canadian school. There are many cheap options once you are PR and you can finish some in as little as 6 months. They are not compulsory as people get jobs without them, but still they could help freshen up your CV, especially for some Canadian recruiters who care about some form of Canadian education.

Finally, the design of your CV is very important. Don't place too much emphasis on where you did what as opposed to what you did where. If you are applying for remote work, try to let it reflect on your resume that you already have remote work experience. And if there's a way you can start volunteering in a Canadian institution immediately you get your PR, start looking into it immediately so you can put it on your resume. There are many coding volunteer opportunities here and there. Google them.

And finally finally, thumbs up on the proactiveness and foreplanning, instead of the usual worry on how long VFS will hold your passport.

Venom104:
Wow. Taught in Canada? Or where?

Isn't that just unwarranted discrimination? Is it only Africans who write such letters? More internet fraud is likely even perpetrated in Russia and India than in Africa.

Jhigan:
Thank you for this, I found lots of advise in this your reply to the person that asked the question.
I've been thinking of how to go about it. I'm a Web developer . I'm engaged(due to be married soon). She's 31, and she studied Medicine in Morocco for 8 years in French, so she's very fluent in speaking French. Myself on the hand, zero French(except for few j'emapelle, c'est bonn...lol 😃). And I'm a Web developer.
I initially thought with good scores in Ielts and TEF(for her), we can get good crs score in EE. But the POF is the issue, so, I'm looking forward to Arrima since that's a low POF that we can afford.
I wanted to ask initially if I should just focus on the Arrima, or still push myself to get the POF for EE? The reason is because I don't speak French, and I don't know how I'm going to survive in Quebec that way.
Your advise as a French speaker resident in Canada will go a long way for me pls.
And from others too. Please.

PS: I can actually learn French

If you are web developer, why not look into Ontario PNP tech. You seem like an ideal candidate

Your first mistake was thinking that marrying as a virgin, etc was an automatic ticket to having a good life. You lived in delulu land for too long. I'm not even sure you have exited delulu just yet

Qwertyuser:
Landing Calgary in 2 weeks time and not sure of what to expect. Accommodation appears to be on the high side. Any information that can help with settlement will be appreciated.

Any local job links one can use before getting a proper job will also be useful.

Any ideas please.

Being not sure of what to expect is normal. Reach out to people and see who can add you to Naija's Calgary group. THat's always a good way to start with connecting locally. And if you are a muslim/christian, find a mosque/church with a good Nigerian population. Even though I'm not religious, I have found that this is often the best way to connect and learn about the city and find new opportunities.

Donchibuzor:
pls how authentic is this, because I feel its scam. a friend forwarded to me. just to make enquiries on his behalf. Although no money lost yet. so he can run as far as his legs can carry him.

It's a scam. IRCC does not use the domain "@consultant.com". That's a private domain. IRCC always uses "@canada.ca"

Una too like wahala for this country. Ordinary sex na him una carry for head like say na weapon of mass destruction. Una just like trouble.

Ofunaofu:
That's basically Farooq's opinion

While The below is what the law says

Section 468 of the Criminal Code Act in Nigeria. Uttering false documents and counterfeit seals

Any person who knowingly and fraudulently utters a false document or writing, or a counterfeit seal, is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment as if he had forged the thing in question.

It is immaterial whether the false document or writing, or counterfeit seal, was made in Nigeria or elsewhere.

This is the very simple conclusion the supposedly erudite US law professor failed to draw in his almost 3000-word article that seems to support a criminal more than it tried to lampoon Atiku's lawyers.

Tricia14:
Hi, are there any legal means for a 57yr old retired woman with 3 children below 10yrs, relocate and work in Canada without writing IELTS? Thanks for the info.

It is possible, but you have to write ielts to increase your chances. Don't expect too much if you don't want to go through the trouble.

What is important in this context is that Naira Marley (king of Yahoo boy musicians) should be questioned. He deserves the questioning. There are a lot of grey areas yet uncleared by his notorious actions not only towards Mohbad, but also towards many others in his Marlian crew. The evidence points to that. In turn, the public deserves to know the results of the questioning so we can hold the Nigerian Police accountable. Yet, we won't see that. We likely won't see the results of any questioning which is very bad in itself and is a reflection of the hush-hush attitude with which authorities in Nigeria treat matters of immense importance.

oluayebenz:
The thing tire me, he/she might be living just beside Trudeau house

Perhaps he's using a floating rate or gas a leak he's unaware of. Paying over a thousand in energy bills is grossly unusual

njambert:
At the start of this discussion,I wrote this;

"If you are considering homeschool,I highly encourage you.Though it is no guarantee that our children would turn out upright, but it gives us greater chances to mould our children in the ways of the Lord,and we hang unto the promise that if we train our children in the way they should grow,they would not depart from it"

So yes,there isn't any absolute guarantees,same way there's no guarantee that hardwork will lead to success, but we all know in perspective that hardwork leads to greater chances of success.This is same with homeschooling.Actually,our decision to homeschool wasn't made as a consequence of our move to Canada, but this is what we were going to do regardless of whether we were in back home or here.There's alot of evil equally going on in our schools back home,and our children need shielding everywhere.

Cool. You seem to have it quite figured out.

njambert:
Lawani, you are looking at it from a purely economical perspective(which is even erroneous economics IMO), and I look at it from primarily a biblical perspective.I'm a huge proponent of biblical economics, and in biblical economics women don't have to be at the workplace but true homemakers in every sense of the word.Our decisions aren't only self gratifying motivated decisions, but kingdom-minded decisions.This world isn't my home.

While I support your decision and think your initial foundations for it make some sense, I think you are carrying with you too much expectation. Homeschooling a child does not guarantee that they are absolutely going to toe your so-called biblical line of reasoning. You should be taking care to not indoctrinate the child and actually make him/her develop core critical thinking skills to enable them perform handsomely well in the future. I fear you are full of too much expectation in thinking that you are absolutely going to dewean the child from some of society's base ideas, and I fear that you will fail at this. Firstly, you are in Canada, not Nigeria. Your kid is ultimately going to grow up in an environment where critical thinking is encouraged, and with the combination of nature and nurture there's no escaping what the future may hold. It's good to have expectations, but it's also healthy to temper them with the realities of your society, because when it hits, it hits. No go suffer heart attack asking yourself where you got it wrong, when in fact you never got it wrong.

lawani:
Sacrificing your career to homeschool one or two kids is not living. It will adversely affect the economy. A teacher teaches up to fifty kids or more a day in different classes and if it is a class teacher, it can be twenty permanently, if a high school teacher, it needs specialization and one teacher will teach several classes a day. Therefore a parent teaching only one kid is a drain on the economy, a waste of human resources. What are you afraid of?. A child needs also to mix with other kids in a community of kids as it is part of growth and development and no one parent can teach all high school subjects efficiently especially in the sciences but also others. There is nothing bad in day school. Let your kid go and return everyday since you pay tax too and if there is a good boarding school it is also okay since it is a community too and whatever is agreed to be taught to kids by the majority should be acceptable because majority carries the vote

It's not your business if he chooses home schooling. Many kids have been successfully homeschooled without any issues in their future or their career. In fact, he's better off with that choice. What's grossly improper is for you to think you have an opinion on the subject

buchito1:
It’s done! Naija is finished!!!

Tinubu has destroyed everything Buhari scattered

Crazy when I remember this was only 270,000 when I came to Canada and I still thought it was too much then.

Have you gotten to the point where the loot is shared to the driver too? Naija, I hail!

The AIU needs to leave this lady to move on with her career. At this point, it's becoming almost a witch-hunt. If the court has seen earlier that she didn't do anything wrong, why not move on? She has proven again while the allegations simmered that she is the fastest hurdler on earth, yet the AIU does not want to bury the hatchet. This is where a country's athletics federation will usually step in and use its influence to sway the situation. But trust Naija athletics chief to do nothing besides resting with their big stomach in an hotel room and having a smallie rub it for them.

Racoon:
Humn! Though the trauma is too heavy given the situations with the painful death of his parents, I think the board of trustees of the church ought to have nominated someone different away from the Odukoyas. Church leadership should not be as a result of monarchial inheritance.

If you thought Nigerians were anything other than business entities, then you thought really wrong.

njambert:
Hi guys, it's weekend let's have this discussion.

So I've been here for close to 4months with my wife and son.My pregnant wife does a WFH call centre job but I'm not yet working.I'm self studying and hoping to start applying for IT jobs(cloud computing) in November coming from a non-IT background.I still have my online gig which makes me about $1500/month currently.What we earn is sufficient for us,and we are happy.I was doing extremely well back home with lots of investments but we decided to make the move for lots of mostly non-financial reasons.We absolutely have no regrets over our move.

However,we have been seeing so much negativity, bitter complains and outright vilification of how bad Canada is on Tiktok/IG/Facebook and this is making us a little worried.Do any of you regret your move? What percentage would you estimate of Nigerians who couldn't make it here migrating LEGALLY(PR, student to PR, Work visa)? Any thoughts?

Good discussion! Let me give my own opinion. Warning: this is a long one! Sorry

I think many people coming to Canada come with too many expectations. These expectations often start with that well-known worry inherent in the constant “why is VFS delaying my passports?”, “who can I send a message to”, “I just messaged the MP of my district”, bla bla bla. THat offs me on a steady. You are sending mail to VFS to hurry along with your passport that will certainly come if you don’t lift a finger, yet you are not even researching the other things you need to do to SURVIVE in canada. You are not researching the techniques with which to get a job. You are not investigating LinkedIn and looking into how to build a good profile. You are basically instead worrying day and night about VFS sending a passport that will certainly come to you. I’m digressing sha, but I just responded to one of them today, so it’s sort of fresh in my head. Not knowing it is a problem is a big thing.

But that’s besides the point. For me, I can easily imagine anyone regretting their coming to Canada. It’s very easy to regret it. You get here full of so many expectations. The country is after all just north of America. It’s basically America’s 51st state, lmao. So, opportunities should abound, right? Well, wrong! There is nowhere in the world where opportunities are handed out like a chicken on a plate. Not even in the Nigeria you were coming from. Many a times, we have to work for our opportunities everywhere we find ourselves. In any case, it’s easy to regret. You are working odd jobs. You are paying the type of rent you have never paid in your life. Car insurance for a year is basically the same amount of money you will pay for a year’s rent in Lekki. No be juju be that? Lmao! One other thing some of those youtubers mention (I’ll come to them in a minute), is that they have to pay for daycare, or that there’s nobody to help them with their children, or that they are afraid of what is being taught in the schools, so they must send their wards to catholic schools. All well and good. Another complaint is loneliness, how it’s very difficult to find someone to marry, said in the breadth as if it’s any easier in Lagos (Nearly all the men in Lagos are mad! –now, that’s a good reference book).

In any case, it’s easy for anyone to regret their Canada move. Coming in with so many expectations and finding Canada trash these expectations one after the other, they become disillusioned and start to wallow in regret.

But not everyone does. I know because I have a couple of friends who will tell you immediately that Canada has done for them what Nigeria could never have done. One of my friends I was talking to the other day, who was working pretty much an executive assistant job in Deloitte in Nigeria, now finds herself in a position here in Canada that she could never have imagined being in Nigeria. In fact, she actually almost lost her life, but thanks to the same Canada health system that YouTubers love to vilify, she is well and alive today. And not just that, she and her husband have a much better marriage than they did in Nigeria, they recently bought a house that has risen tremendously in value, and are doing extremely well for themselves, all from working what are regular jobs in Canada, not tech jobs, not nursing jobs, etc. Standard, regular jobs. They boast of a net worth they will never have approached in at least 10 years of working in Nigeria.

That aside, personal stories aside. living in a different country and expecting things to obtain like they do in your home country is really just plain stupid. There’s no loneliness in Canada; there’s just a Canada way of life. There’s a way people (and Canadians generally) live in this country that appears to suggest or cause loneliness, but it’s the way of life. People are mostly indoors in winter time, because it’s cold outside. Most get-togethers happen among friends, not strangers. Sports is a very good way of passing time in this country and that cuts across. Football (or what is called soccer) is not a popular sport here. Put simply, there’s a way of life. If you come from Nigeria and you can’t find people to play football with you, it’s not because they are boring. Dude, wake up! Most people just don’t play football here. Have you tried hockey!? In Nigeria, it’s not out of place to just walk into a random party on the street and suddenly get accepted by those celebrating. You could even be served food. In Yoruba parlance, they call it “mogbo moya”. You can’t do that here. It’s the culture. Celebrations happen mostly among friends known very well to each other. I read something the other day when someone said “Christmas was so boring in Canada.” No dude, CHristmas is not boring in Canada. They just don’t celebrate Christmas here like they do in Nigeria. CHristmas is mostly sitting at a table with family, having a good discussion and a drink. Maybe find or get into a friend group where you could also do the same? And there are places you can find friend groups. Start with a church, if you are lost. If you are not a church person, but you are still “lonely”, again, start with a church. They’ll accept you. Or look for friend groups on whatsapp, telegram channels, etc. There’s always one or two things going on. What you shouldn’t expect is that someone will literally come and drag you from inside your apartment to come hang out with them. Even that doesn’t happen in Lagos. But people often get so carried away with their loneliness, that they think everything else should start with them.

And on these YouTubers who are quick to post the “top 10 reasons why people are leaving Canada”, maybe we need to start first with why they themselves haven’t left? That’s possibly a sensitive trigger question for them. I’m sure they are having it so good with their fast uploads/download speeds, their restaurant outings, their “follow me grocery shopping” and nobody is snatching their phones, or their “I went on a Jamaican vacation” to be too bothered about leaving Canada. The life they portray in their videos may in fact be literally impossible if they were not in Canada. That can only say one thing, and that is that they do these videos just for the clicks and the views. Nothing else.
People may in fact be leaving Canada. That’s not unusual. It’s not automatic that everyone will have success in Canada. That’s not written in stone anywhere. To succeed in life, we have to apply ourselves in different ways. But to think Canada doesn’t make the path easy is to tell a lie. I know a few people who have pivoted into tech in Canada from taking a few courses online and truly applying themselves. Admittedly, this happens in Nigeria too, just as it does in Canada. But if you don’t want it badly, why should you expect to get it? And of course, the pay can never be commensurate.

One of the YouTubers I was listening to the other day also mentioned something about how daycare is expensive for them. I'm actually quite surprised she didn't expect this before coming to Canada. It simply means she didn't do her research well. If she did, she'd have planned better for this. Maybe prioritize only WFH jobs? Maybe move without the kids for starters? Whatever is possible, good research will most certainly tell her what to do. What's plain dumb is coming on YouTube to lament about it, as if it was not expected. There's a reason most Canadians are content with just having one or two kids and no more. This is something they have an intimate understanding of while growing up. Most of them have even ruled out kids completely, which is not an entirely bad move for someone who wants to stay financially independent. Again, it's the way of life. And that's why you will hardly ever see a Canadian go on YouTube to complain about expensive daycare. The Nigerian, on the other hand, comes into the country expecting things to be exactly like they left it in Nigeria. Sorry, babe, that's not how life works. You needed to understand this well before making your Canada move. If you did, you will plan much better for it.

It’s not a surprise that an idle mind is the devil’s workshop. That saying is truer than ever about those who wallow on their couch in Canada thinking about what fancy life they had in Nigeria and why they can’t have the same in Canada. They grovel in their previous success and cannot replicate it. You start to wonder if they really truly succeeded in Nigeria or if it was just all luck. Was passing that exam in Nigeria a fluke for them? If it wasn’t, why are they struggling with passing their exams here? Did they truly understand the subject? Did they have the passion for what they did in Nigeria? One of the tales I told up there about the couple who succeeded in Canada actually has a side to it that’s not that impressive. The wife was a practicing doctor in Nigeria who couldn’t scale the hurdle of practicing in Canada. Talking to her, you could perceive she wasn’t even passionate about being a doctor at all. Little wonder she couldn’t truly apply herself in Canada to scale that well-known, difficult hurdle. She ended up with a government job that she still enjoys now anyways. But at least, she’s not complaining like the many others.

There are different sides to Canada, let’s be real. There’s the good and the bad. But one thing I can tell you for real is that opportunities abound, but only if you set your mind to earning those opportunities. That much is true.

Brownmannie:
E reach to worry because those that submitted on a later date after mine has received theirs.

It is more certain that you will receive your passport at some point than it is that the sun will rise tomorrow. Yeah, that's an exagerration, but it's a near certainty that you will get your passport. You have no need to worry. it would make more sense to worry if you had some kind of a deadline waiting for you in Canada. But we all know you don't. Use the available time to start planning well. Have you even started using the job bank and applying for jobs already? Focus!

Brownmannie:
Good day House,
Today is 27 days since my passport submission at VFS Abuja.
No counterfoil yet, no update on my profile and nothing from VFS except that initial mail that it has been forwarded to Accra visa office. Is there anything I can do about this. Is there a dedicated mail box I can write for escalation

Una too like to dey worry