Bepositive11 and olokings trust u guys are great can't seem to find 7COLOURS. Glad to hear from everyone, currently shopping for cheap flights to vancouver while praying for my family's application. It will end in praise

sos123:

I still dey ooh!! Una don forget me

my guy don't worry ure next in line hope ure good

Thomsyne:


My Geeeeee!!!
Congratulations Chief!
Been waitingggg. I think that wraps it for those of us that were waiting together sometime back. With olutoyiin and co

Thomsyne oo see u guys post all over again us making me emotional. Good news alll over

Thomsyne:
Once again, its PPRRRRR - Loooooonnnnggggg post alert!!

First off, I’d like to thank God and many members of this platform for helping and keeping things running on here.

My profile in summary: 25y/o single male, parent sponsored, Computer Engineering BSc, graduated with second class upper, going for MSc, Computational Sciences. Graduated in 2020, worked as a Software Engineer ever since then.

Timeline and Events
New Portal
First-time applicant
Applied by myself. Learnt all from Google, Youtube, and Nairaland

July 4: Upfront medicals
July 8: Application on New Portal
July 8: Biometrics Request
July 13: Gave biometrics and received on portal
** Somewhere in between I’d uploaded my medical sheet from IOM via webform. Can’t remember when.
August 4 (2AM): Sent mail to Lagos, Nairobi, London and attached my medical sheet.
August 4 (Around 1pm): Biometrics and Medicals updated to pass.
** Long wait, ordered notes, CBSA and GCMS, nothing tangible.
October 11: Sent mail to MP
October 13: MP got back literally saying the same thing on portal.
** Around this period, started firing several versions of mails and webforms.
Nov 16: MP reached out to them again – Preassessment done, eligibility not started.
Nov 17 (Around midnight): Sent mails to Beijing, London, Lagos, Abuja, Nairobi.
Nov 17 (Around 12pm): Eligibility review started on portal
Nov 17 (Around 9pm): BVL and PPR

Little story, for POF which is usually a concern, I had like 5.5M in my account, $2k USD in dorm account. 5M was gift deed from my Dad, he had 25M in fixed deposit since July 2021. As at the time I applied, the money was fixed. There were several opinions about this, but I kept it that way even though I was scared sh*tless. The closing balance of that account was 77k in fact.

Around November 9 ish, I sent updated statement showing liquidated funds and my Dad transferred the balance of like 8M to me since I’d enrolled in courses. My savings in Naira and USD had grown, I also got salary raise at work so I packaged all these and sent severally via webforms – both old and new. Oh yeah, I’ve ordered like 3 notes and I still have 4 pending lol.

I’m adding all of these because I’m not sure what did the trick. It’s pretty much a combination of all.

Docs submitted:

Consent Personal Information

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE (3 pages or so)
BIRTH CERTIFICATE
INTRODUCTION LETTER FROM EMPLOYER
PROMOTION AND SALARY REVIEW LETTER
RECENT EMPLOYMENT MAIL FROM ANOTHER EMLOYER
WORK ID-CARD
PREVIOUS LETTERS OF EMPLOYMENTS
RESUME OF APPLICANT
CERTIFICATIONS
POLICE CLEARANCE CERTIFICATE
BACHELOR’S DEGREE (B.Sc.) CERTIFICATE
WES REPORT
WEST AFRICAN EXAMINATIONS COUNCIL (WAEC) CERTIFICATE
PROOF OF MEDIUM OF INSTRUCTION IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE
FAMILY PICTURES
BIRTH CERTIFICATES OF FAMILY MEMBERS
PENSION FUND ACCOUNT STATEMENT
FAMILY BUSINESS DOCUMENTS (CAC Expired though)

Proof of Funds

PROOF OF FUNDS (APPLICANT’S SECTION)
PAYSLIPS FOR THE PAST 4 MONTHS FROM CURRENT NIGERIAN EMPLOYER
INVOICES FROM FOREIGN EMPLOYER
PERSONAL MBS DOCUMENT FOR PAST 6 MONTHS FROM BANK
(MyBankStatement)
MYBANK STATEMENT FOR USD BANK (CURRENT ACCOUNT)
TUTION DEPOSIT PAYMENT RECEIPT FROM FLYWIRE
STUDENT DEPOSIT STATEMENT FROM UNIVERSITY
PAYONEER LETTER OF GOOD STANDING
PAYONEER ACCOUNT STATEMENT FOR THE PAST 6 MONTHS

PROOF OF FUNDS (SPONSOR SECTION)
SIGNED SPONSORSHIP LETTER
NOTARIZED GIFT DEED FROM SPONSOR ₦5,000,000 (15,000 CAD)
TRANSATION RECEIPT OF GIFT DEED FROM SPONSOR
MYBANKSTATEMENT OF ORIGINATING BANK (SPONSOR’S BANK)
INVESTMENT CERTIFICATE WHERE LIVING EXPENSES OF ₦5,000,000.00k (15,000 CAD) WAS INVESTED
INTRODUCTION LETTER FROM BANK WHERE ₦25,000,000.00k (78,592.58 CAD) IS INVESTED
FIXED DEPOSIT INVESTMENT CERTIFICATE WITH BANK (I added all 6 or so of them, for every period the FD matured and was re-invested)
BANK STATEMENT FROM BANK SHOWING RETURNS ON FIXED DEPOSIT, RE-INVESTMENT AND EVENTUAL TRANSFER
INTRODUCTION LETTER FROM SPONSOR’S CURRENT EMPLOYER
CURRENT ENGAGEMENT LETTER FROM SPONSOR’S EMPLOYER
MYBANK STATEMENT FOR SPONSOR’S ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT
LAND PURCHASE AGREEMENT OF STUDENT HOSTEL FOR RENT (LANDED PROPERTY
PROOF OF OWNERSHIP FOR CARS (Sponsor’s)

Additional Documents

HEALTH INSURANCE ID CARD
NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS (NYSC) ID CARD AND SKILLS ACQUISITION ID CARD
ONE YEAR NATIONAL YOUTH SERVICE CORPS CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SERVICE (10/21 – PRESENT)
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS
LOCAL GOVERNMENT CERTIFICATE OF ORIGIN
TAX PAYMENTS TO LAGOS INLAND REVENUE SERVICE
NATIONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (NIN) DOCUMENT
INTERNATIONAL PASSPORT
SPONSOR’S CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY FOR CURRENT ADDRESS
LETTER OF CONSENT FROM PARENTS
SAMPLE RECEIPTS AND DOCUMENTATION OF LANDED PROPERTY (STUDENT HOSTEL FOR RENT)
SAMPLE RECEIPTS FOR HOSTEL RENT FROM 2020 TO PRESENT
SPONSOR’S CURICCULUM VITAE

Special shoutout to makano, olokings, 7colours, bepositive, Isyma, gcmswriters, gilb231, demmy10, Iremide2019, Sanicesanice123, olutoyiin, charitojames, johnstan and many other amazing people I interacted with on here.

If I have the time, I’ll try to redact a lot of the documents and mails I used and upload them to a Google drive link – hopefully people can find them useful.

Shalom, God bless and I wish everyone all the very best.

my Geeee congrats, super happy for you.Thanks for the mention. May canada favour you, for me it's being a mix of a whole lot of emotions, still hoping for a miracle for my family's application. Regardless your sucess brought lots of smiles to my face

Frankielilbaby:

2nd and 3rd as in Nairobi or Lagos and london

nrobi-immigration@international.gc.ca
nairobi@international.gc.ca

This 2 especially the first one

Lamika24:
Abeg what mail did you use to contact them? My application has been pending since April last year. If they want to refuse it sef make I know I should move on instead of this state of vacuum. I tried to get the notes but my cards are unable to make payment. Please help me ma.

NAIROBI
nrobi-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca
nrobi-immigration@international.gc.ca
nairobi@international.gc.ca

LAGOS
lagos.immigration@international.gc.ca

LONDON
london-im-enquiry@international.gc.ca
ldnimmigration@international.gc.ca

ACCRA
accraimmigration@international.gc.ca

ABUJA
abuja@international.gc.ca
ABUJA-IM-Enquiry@international.gc.ca.........

I believe the 2nd and 3rd email address is the real deal

Betterlife30:


Okay. Thank you.
Please, don't be offended that I got your gender wrong.

Haba Not at all, no offense taken

Frankielilbaby:

Congrats big time
Please what do you mean by warning mail?

haha I was advised to respectfully stop sending mails.

Betterlife30:


Congrats bro.

Please when you said you were sending emails and webforms requesting to update your biometrics, are you saying your biometrics number and validity is showing but under the biometrics, it's showing they need your biometrics instead of showing biometrics completed on so so date?

*Congrats Sis

Absolutely correct!!!!. I mailed them countless times some people said its a technical glitch but then I continued to send my yellow slip and Biometrics letter till it changed to completed

Good morning my people, like I promised I’m back to share my timeline

First Time Applicant (DIY)
Application submitted June 24th, 2022

Biometric submitted – June 27th updated on portal August 5th
Medicals upfront - . Medicals passed - August 5th
Eligibility commenced- September 24th

Study program – Phd program, UBC. Fully Funded with Tuition waiver.

PPR – Oct 7th 2022

Docs. Submitted
All IMM forms
SOP - 8 pages long. paragraphed with subheads to address all eligibility review criteria as itemised in the IRCC portal and special mention to @Folaf who encouraged me to tell my own story and also provided me with the guidelines for my sop.
- Employer offer letter, confirmation of employment letter, salary review letter, Role review letter, staff id card, pay stubs from November till date of application submission. (I did this to capture all my bonuses and housing upfront allowances), tax clearance certificate
- POF - 7 month MBS (salary account closing with 3.7 Million: Received 2.5 Million from Spouse for my student fees and flight expenses supported this with notarized consent and support letter from spouse

Funding letter from school (TA and RA) total CAD$25,248 per Month

Tuition waiver letter from school but I have to pay student fees

Received 3 other different scholarships from school while application was processing sent all 3 letters to IRCC via Email and Webforms (Total Approximately CAD6000 for the term)

Pension reference letter with about 3 million

All car documents

Notarised land deed of agreement and notarized valuation report of our house all are jointly owned by spouse and I

Notarised reference Letter from church with different church certificates

All Marriage and children certificates with lots of pictures

Cv and all my international publications, Trancripts and results

My supervisor sent his research proposal for the work I was coming to do, I added this plus all the personal congratulatory emails I got from the school; had about 4 including the departmental head)

* 1 week after application submission, i started firing emails to nairobi office & webforms (info gotten here from gurus... thanks again) requesting to update my biometrics

* 8 weeks after application submission, started firing emails and webforms to Nairobi, London, abuja, lagos, china, (info gotten from gurus... thanks again). no response or auto response.

* 12 weeks after application submission, I took a day off to send mail every 15 minutes for 3 hours straight pls don’t try this

On September 24th, I got a warning mail and eligibility started

On October 5th sent deferral letter and requested GCMS Notes

OCTOBER 7TH PPR


I specially want to thank thank Afolavid, meeny123, olokings for all the resources they shared with me, I truly appreciate. Not forgetting sos123, hesjay, samuelogunniyi and all the gurus and people who made the journey smooth.

I thank God who made it possible and for all those still expecting you shall testify so. For me the journey still continues as I will be applying for my spouse and kids……….

Thanks all.

P.s I edited Olokings Testimonial

KimberleyNl:
Congratulations sis, the wait is over.

Yeps Yeps, the wait is over. Need to log off now. Thank you @ all.
Much love

Frankielilbaby:

Awwwww my eligibility review start date mate. I tap from your glory today this week will not end without testimony from me.

My darling, be expectant you are next. I say a big amen

femo86:


Congrats.........

You applied alone, do make your family come meet u ooo

Yes ooooooo, you already know the drill lolllz. Anxiety is real. Thank you jare

Pastmon:
congratulations!!

Thank you

Ay08020407288:


Congrats toyin may the land of Canada full of honey bless you

Thanks so much, be expectant

@Bepositive11 and Frankielibaby, I have much admiration for you guys. Can you guys just kiss and make up. All these banters are not necessary, take corrections from one another and move on. And by the way I'm posting my full timeline tomorrow morning, you wouldn't want to miss it. Still busy at work, love and light

bepositive11:
Hi @all

I'm taking a break from this thread. I want to take a break from this whole Canada student visa thing. It's becoming an unhealthy obsession. I will just distract myself with other things until my PPR lands -- I still have weeeeks to go.

Meanwhile, I've updated the roll call without the closing square brackets. Anyone who's interested can continue where I stopped. Just copy and paste the text, then add back the closing square brackets.

The goal was to update it daily and repost the updated version every Monday.

https://www.nairaland.com/7255452/canadian-student-visa-thread-part/329#117219201

Why now, please let's sheath our swords and coexist in peace. Whether we like it or not, we draw strength from our various experiences.

My people My people its PPR time!!!

I'm overjoyed.

Full timeline coming soon

meemeelisco:
Application submitted: June 24
Biometrics: June 27
Medical passed: August 22
Eligibility: Sept 26
BVL : Oct 5
PPR : Oct 5

Program: PC
School: NSCC
No travel history
Bachelors degree holder

Document submitted
All CIC forms
Sponsor: Sister living in Canada
Proof of funds: bank balance statement from BoA
Sis letter of employment (from US company)
Sis letter of support
My statement (#54,000) balance
NYSC certificate
Degree certificate
Brother’s letter to take care of parents while gone
Police certificate
Letter of employment
Letter of introduction from company
Covid

Couldn't submit transcript because of the strike

FD: I am the sis!

Congratulations

Chuksiesmom:
This far by grace! Its PPR!!!!!!!!!! 2nd time applicant
Application date - 31st August
PPR - 5th October

1st Refusal reason - purpose of visit. Amended the sop and used the same documents i presented during the 1st application.

GOD SHOWED US MERCY AND MADE 5TH OCTOBER AN ANNIVERSARY DATE. WHAT GOD CANNOT DO DOES NOT EXIST.
Thank you to all the gurus in the house. You are doing a good job.

Congratulations, Canada awaits you

Buks03:



Let me be the first to congratulate myself�
Congratulations Zee���

Alhamdulilah!!
Alhamdulilah!!
Alhamdulilah!!
I can’t thank God enough. It can only be you
Masha’Allah ��
I prayed for a miracle and God did it. I’m Grateful.

My Application wasn’t the best but God made it perfect.

1st time Applicant (My Application was done by an agent, but I had access to my portal)
No travel history
No career Progression (Bsc: Geology, occupation: Safety Consultant for over 4years)
Applied for a post sec Certificate course (PSW )

Application: June 15
Biometrics: June 22
Medical Exam: July 25
Eligibility: August 17
Medical Passed: September 8
BVL: October 3
PPR: October 4

Contacted MP twice: I was told my application is on further review (processing time does not apply ) both times.

Documents submitted:

- [x] passport photograph
- [x] Passport data page
- [x] Birth certificate
- [x] Police report
- [x] SOP (3pages)
- [x] Bsc Transcript
- [x] Bsc Certificate
- [x] Waec Result
- [x] NYSC certificate
- [x] Other Professional Certificates
- [x] Letter of Acceptance
- [x] Tuition Deposit receipt (8800cad)
- [x] 5months Personal Statement of Account ( 3.8m)
- [x] 6months mother’s Account Statement (20m plus) No Proof of income. I only stated in my SOP she run a clothing business. Her company is registered but i didn’t use it coz she doesn’t have a company’s account.
- [x] My Mother’s NIN(I wanted to submit her international passport coz she has traveled to different countries my agent told me not to submit it)
- [x] My Mother’s land receipt alone.
- [x] Family pictures.
- [x] Sponsorship letter from my mum.
- [x] Affidavit of Sponsorship.
- [x] Letter of Employment ( Didn’t submit payslip because I work based on commission )
- [x] Study leave letter

I applied Thinking my application was the best, Until I joined this group ���
Moral of the story: You’ll never know until you try. do your best and let God do the rest.

To those expecting their PPR. I hope you get it very soon.

Thanks to everyone for your contribution. God bless you all. And Yes it doesn’t stop here, May we have so many reasons to celebrate one another.Insha Allah ������

Mehn…. This feeling ������

Awwwww so happy for you, congratulations

Xclusiveman:
PPR Alert!!

Guys, God has done it for me and my family.
I woke up this morning to a message from IRCC and with shivers down my spine, I paced around with my PC on my hand while I check for the 3 of us. And guess what? My study Visa application has been approved, work permit for my wife and visitor’s visa for my daughter.

First time applicant
Did my application myself
Nairaland helped me! Although I wish I read Nairaland before submitting. I thought I made mistakes.

Documents submitted;

*Admission letter from the University of Alberta (MBA)
*6paged SOP for me and 2paged SOP for my wife
* marriage certificate
*My Child’s birth certificate
*CAC documents (For myself and my wife’s businesses)
*Proof of funds
- 16M balance
- 110M transaction volume
- 2M+ from my wife’s account
extra 2M+ for my wife and daughter’s upkeep when they return to Nigeria
- 3months Proof of salary payment to my employees

*Travel history
- Dubai- Stamped passport page

*Education
Bsc certificate (for myself and my wife)
Nysc discharge certificate (for myself and my wife)
GMAT score (640)

*Home ties
-Land deed of assignment
-Property valuation document of about 52M+ (A house and 2 cars)
-Street named after me with receipt from local government
-Letter from the Landlord Association of my street
-Recent PHCN bill

*other documents
-Police character certificate

*Pictures
-pictures of myself and my wife in Dubai
-wedding pictures
- pictures with family members
-Pictures from my child’s naming ceremony
-Random pictures in our compound

Congratulations go and succeed super happy for you welcome to the green league

bepositive11:


I personally find it hard to process the one ranked by eligibility dates. You can maintain that list and I can maintain the general list.

I've posted the general roll call as a quote above. We can maintain 1 post for each week (posted every Monday), and if people want to add or update, they can reply to the main post for that week and include their details, then I'll update the main list for that week.

Since I've placed the roll call in a quote, it won't get posted over and over again

You did such great job, I'm awed. I think this one list is fine. Well done again

bepositive11:


Kindly reply to this to add or update yours.

Application date:
Eligibility start date:
Approval/Refusal date:

Thanks

Wow this looks great, Great job and thank you for doing this for the clan, I know it wasn't easy. God bless you

lolathegenie:
LANDING GIST!!!
Hey guys,
So the drive to the airport last week Friday was pretty stress-free for me, my dad and my brothers followed me.
They each carried one of my boxes so they didn't have to bribe anyone at the entrance to enter. We got to the check-in queue for Ethiopia Airlines which was a bit long but we were able to skip it by talking to one of their officials.
So within 30 minutes, I was done. Saying goodbye at immigration was the hardest part of the trip since they couldn't follow me any further.
I just swallowed my tears and I keep on trying to remind myself that I'll see all of them again.
My flight began boarding at around 12:40 and by 2:00 we had taken off.
This was my first time traveling alone so I was a bit nervous but I met a very nice lady who was also transiting to Toronto so we stuck together.
Finding the boarding gate wasn't hard, but I had to open my carry-on almost 4 times �, it is well sha.
The second leg was longer (14 hours) but I occupied myself with some movies and shows. (Please try and bring a powerbank don't make the same mistake I did�).
We sha finally arrived safely on Saturday morning 8 am Toronto time and everyone clapped for the pilot because omo e no easy.
I followed the signs to arrivals and filled in the declaration form. They sha led me and a bunch of other people to immigration where we waited for a while before the CBSA agent came. Please obey all their instructions word for word o.
He had already printed the study permits so all he did was stamp my passport to show I entered and wished me goodluck!
He also liked my name and he apparently graduated from the school I'm going to.

My aunt was waiting for me at the arrivals and we were able to set up my bank account and also get a phone number and plan for me. We also did some shopping as I was to move into my accommodation on Sunday.
I've now moved in and I've been attending classes physically now, the only problem is remembering where my classes are �

Thank you so much to everyone who answered my questions no matter how silly they seemed.
Let me go and read o.

Congratulations on your successful landing. I just saw you had a previous study visa that you didn't use because of the counterfoil date. Does IRCC gives one deadline in which they must travel or have their visas revoked? Whats the time frame or Grace period given? This cannywaka is truly not for the faint hearted. I had thought you could travel anytime you had the visa.

bepositive11:


Actually, the credit should go to olutoyiin. He's the one who initiated it.

lolllz thanks everyone thinks I'm a he but I'm female ooo

bepositive11:


Thank you for putting the roll coll together. It's much easier to analyse.

Shall we also include approvals and refusals for this year? Approvals in green and refusals in red like they used to do in previous years? This will give us a good idea of what timeline to expect.

I think that would be a nice idea, but I can also see that our register is growing by each passing minute and I can't really keep up with updating the list lollz plus I fear we might end up cluttering the thread. Do you mind helping in including all others in the register? @ dxclusiveman did a good job in spacing it out nicely as the layout was quite orderly. I was also thinking if we could have 2 lists, one for general applications and the other ranked by eligibility dates. A weekly review at the beginning of the week say Monday would also help us keep track. Thanks and Happy Sunday to you.@justmellow great to have you back @olokings thanks for being so selfless and for advocating for the DIY gang.

Thomsyne:


Upfront Medicals: July 4th
Application Date: July 8th
Biometrics given: July 13th
Medicals and Biometrics passed: August 4th
Eligibility: Not started.
Current timeline as of 01/10: 12 weeks 1 day

please can you insert yours into the register lollz yes oooo we are marking register. I think its better that way so we don't clutter the thread. Just insert and bring forward, thank you

Thomsyne:


Upfront Medicals: July 4th
Application Date: July 8th
Biometrics given: July 13th
Medicals and Biometrics passed: August 4th
Eligibility: Not started.
Current timeline as of 01/10: 12 weeks 1 day

I love this, this is what Nairaland stands for, ever since I joined this forum sometimes in 2010/2011 can't remember the date, this hub has been my go to place for information. My God's Grace I got my side hustle and current job using the resources from this forum . I remember those years there used to be a roll call like this at the start of every thread. Please let's keep the spirit and update each other. Ire oooo

ELIGIBILITY DATE ROLL CALL
UPDATED OCTOBER PPR HOPEFULS
7COLOURS: (FAMILY APPLICATION) Eligibility started 22nd July, Application date June 9th
Buks 03: Eligibility August 17th, Application date June 15th,
Otikmsk: Eligibility started 26th August, Application June 25th,
xxsandyxx: Eligibility started August 26, Application date June 15th
Timex146: Eligibility 30th August, Application July 22nd
Zacolas(FAMILY APPLICATION): Eligibility 18th September, Application June 24th,
Frankielibaby: Eligibility 24th September, Application date June 21st
Olutoyiin: Eligibility 24th September,Application date June 24th,
Sos123: Eligibility 28th September, Application June 23rd
perfectbecky: Application date 16th June, Eligibility/ Medicals not updated
Bepositive11: Application date August 31s, Eligibility not yet updated.
May God help us all
Kindly add yours as the update comes

UPDATED OCTOBER PPR HOPEFULS
Happy new month and Independence, this October we shall receive our golden mail.
ROLL CALL
7COLOURS: Application date June 9th, Eligibility started 22nd July
xxsandyxx: Application date June 15th, Eligibility started August 26
Buks 03: Application date June 15th, Eligibility August 17th
perfectbecky: Application date 16th June, Eligibility/ Medicals not updated
Frankielibaby: Application date June 21st, Eligibility 24th September
Sos123: Application June 23rd, Eligibility 28th September
Olutoyiin: Application date June 24th, Eligibility 24th September
Zacolas: Application June 24th, Eligibility 18th September
Otikmsk: Application June 25th, Eligibility started 26th August
Timex146: Application July 22nd, Eligibility 30th August
Bepositive11: Application date August 31s, Eligibility not yet updated.
May God help us all

Anyways others you can add yours

Happy new month and Independence, this October we shall receive our golden mail.
ROLL CALL
7COLOURS: Application date June 9th, Eligibility started 22nd July
xxsandyxx: Application date June 15th, Eligibility started August 26
Frankielibaby: Application date June 21st, Eligibility 24th September
Sos123: Application June 23rd, Eligibility 28th September
Olutoyiin: Application date June 24th, Eligibility 24th September
Otikmsk: Application June 25th, Eligibility started 26th August
Timex146: Application July 22nd, Eligibility 30th August

May God help us all

Anyways others you can add yours