Jbelieve:


Hi if you come with usd how do you change it?

You can change it at the bank

XE or Monzo. I check for the best exchange rate. Sometimes, good to transfer naira to GBP then CAD. Rather than naira to CAD straight

Transformium:
Hi Guys, For those that moved funds from UK to Canada. How did you do it? Cc smslive2

Two here. One is my baby girl and my number 1 fan and we were both born in July

(It was madam that typed that intro for me o)

LANDING GIST
2 singles and 2 weeks old in Canada

One has been asking me that I have to share our landing gist on this forum because we only found out about nairaland months after we submitted.

We sha undercover decided to travel together for this move to Canada even though we told our family we were doing separate waka. But as a sharp guy, decided to change flights last minute so we could be on the same flight. We flew Westjet from Gatwick to Calgary

Pre Travel Gist.
Basically filled with visiting families and friend all over the UK and doing more travelling than I have done since living in this country. Madam One spent her time researching on accommodation (she secured a 2bed through word of mouth for herself, I will rough it with the guys for now as man never marry yet ), different banks and their charges, SIN, Job hunting, CV and every other necessary task she did expect packing. She registered us for pre arrival services but we no get any time to do am.

Travel Day.
We travelled separately with our families and met at the airport. I was now forming surprise to my soon to be MIL that "ahh mummy ki ni eshe ni bi" (what are you doing here) Trust my naija mother to say "mo wa pomi" ( I came to fetch water) . They all saw through our plans sha. We went to self check in. Bought extra luggage cos airline does not come with luggage allowance. WestJet is the worst. Thankfully all bags were below 23kg as per frequent flyer and carefully weighing them the day before. After the whole checkin was done. Snapped pictures with our parents then we all went to a pub at the airport for a final british breakfast "cos we're bri-ish init..."

Flight food was ok. Inflight entertainment was good. One and I sat together and slept for most of the flight. This is our first time flying together but she was so on point with everything. Had all our docs ready etc. We gisted and talked about our new life we're about to start in this country. I am the worrier. She is the planner. Flight from London to Calgary went like a breeze

Landing
We landed Calgary, went through to the queue for self check kiosk and had our passport scanned by the machine. Then directed to another woman who put E on our receipt and asked we go to the room with the big E on it and we can collect our luggage before going there. Waited for about 20mins before our bags came through. Mistake we did was that one of us should have gone to the E room while the other waited to collect the bags. Cos there was another queue in the E room when we finally got in. Spent over an hour till it was our turn. They asked just the basic question if our marital status had changed. We went to different counters and still said single because not yet married. Got our copr stamped. Gave them One's address for PR card to be sent. They gave us a paper to show the custom people on our way out. That was it! No welcome to Canada or any greeting. I guess the agents were tired.
Connected to the wifi at the airport. Booked an uber and went to the apartment. We were both really tired so we slept off. I woke up and vamoosed to my friends place.

Next morning One described how to get to the Service Canada, we met up there and got our SIN. She checked distance to the nearest bank and had it on the map. We strolled to RBC where I opened an account and they gave me a 2k credit card. Not too far was a CIBC where she went and got a 1500 credit card and opened an account. The agent was really nice and explained everything to us. We did not want to open with the same bank so we could see what other banks had to offer.

When we were done at the bank, we went to the Registry to do our health card. It was in the same area as the banks. Really easy to navigate and find. Registered for the health card with the proof of address we got from the bank. We tried to change our UK driving licence but we were told we needed to bring another proof of address. So we'll do that later. At this point we were both really tired so we walked around and found a restaurant to have lunch.

So far...
Calgary is very big in comparison to the UK or Nigeria. I hired a car so that we can get around easily. The transit system can't be compared to the UK. You need to drive here. Things are also very expensive. We both found ourselves constantly converting to pounds or naira when we wanted to purchase anything. We've started job hunting earnestly and sending out resumes everywhere. No interview yet but we both hope we find something soon and we can settle down and relax finally.

Thanks for reading to the end.

From One and Two

lennyk:
Good morning my landed seniors, Please I have an urgent question to ask. Please if you arrive Calgary on a weekend (Saturday or Sunday) will you be able to get the SIN formalities done? As someone told me that the people in charge of this would not be around on the weekend and then I would need to come back to the airport again for this. Please can anyone confirm for this from their own experience?

There's no Service Canada at the Calgary airport. You will need to do it on Monday. Just google Service Canada Calgary

No, UK sorry ma

Claire18:
Are you coming from Lagos or Abuja, please need help with my FRSC Extract. I am in Calgary.

Landing in Calgary next week ��

raphrulz:
No please. I put the address of a friend. The CBSA officer even advised me to do so too

Thank you very much for your response.

Do you have any advise please, for someone going to a city they have no contact (friend or family)? What address could they possibly use if they will be staying in an hotel or air bnb?

raphrulz:
My Landing Story

I then moved to my already secured Airbnb directly from the airport with an Uber that almost finished me with price (They charged me N10k + for a trip less than 25 minutes). However, the driver was very nice and told me quite a number of things about Canada and his own immigration experience.

Congratulations on your safe landing.

I noticed you went to an Airbnb. Was that the address you put down at immigration?

smslive2:
You can PM me any question you have...

Just read your landing gist. Unfortunately, I have already booked westjet. Did you book directly through them or travel agent?

salford1:

I moved here from the UK, and I am sure there are many that did the same on this thread.

Can you share a link to your landing experience pls. Making the move soon. Thanks

swaga007:
On my document check list I was asked to provide police certificate for England and police certificate for Scotland.
Please my senior in the house, can I upload acro UK police certificate issued to me for both countries? Is Scotland police certificate different from England ? Please guide me my people!

Upload the same document in each placeholder. That was what I did

I came across this thread months after I had submitted my application. All the documents I needed for my application was found on the CIC website. I am sharing this link here in case someone might need it. It gives an idea of what documents you need to show for proof of employment, bank, etc here

I hope it helps

Gec8:


This is what I am talking about. There is no section for 'two or more cert'. My question remains that since WES has it as a Postgraduate diploma (which is higher than bachelors) what do you guys advice I select

You fill the education section twice. You would add your bachelor's degree and the one year certificate in the field.

I hope that helps

Yureyes:
Hi, So I don't have payslip for where i currently work and i know uploading it is optional. But i was thinking of highlighting my salary deposits on my bank statement but the bank statement doesn't show the name of my company. It's either deposited as "pay" or "April" or "March salary". I guess i shohdn't just bother including it then. What do you advice?

If this helps, I claimed points for my previous employment which was 2yrs ago since I quit. I did not get pay slips. I only included my work reference letter which had salary details and 6 months bank statement. The 6 months bank statement did not have any salary coming in btw.

If your reference letter is in CIC format and covers all they require, I think you are good to go.

The cancellation of COPR is the issue. We will both wait and come back for the wedding.

Thank you very much! Congrats to you and @JustinTrudeau

Ifeoma77:


You are free to get married before landing, but you MUST inform IRCC. Whether it's court o, trad o, church o or mosque, you must inform them. Both your COPRs will be cancelled and new ones issued.

Or you can both do soft landing and come and get married. If you don't want to come back for wedding, do the wedding in Canada.

In other news, twale to you and your fiance!! I like your style

Aww congrats to you and Ifeoma77. It's a Nairaland wedding! We are pausing the wedding for now

JustinTrudeau:
Bros why,soup wey don done,why go through such stress. Just do small ikenujo here and vamous. Wedding is weding wherever you do it in any part of the world.

Take for instance now,mysef and Ifeoma77 just got PPR and we wont do any wedding till we get there. Take a cue from us

Your PM

joo2018:
You status still has to be consistent at the point of landing.

The CBSA officer interviewing you may ask for your marital status. Will you say yes and be deported immediately or will you answer yes and live in fear for the rest of your life in Canada of being outed? The end result is the same deportation and added revocation of PR status or citizenship.

There was another story of a divorced/widowed lady who got remarried just before traveling. When she was answered the question, she said yes and found herself back in Nigeria.

cc: @Onetwo77

The fear of deportation is the beginning of wisdom. We have waited this long separately. Waiting till we get to Canada won't hurt. Thank you so much for clarifying this for us

iaatmguy:
in thick waffi accent ...................see levuuuuuuuu

in brother shaggi's voice......what concern IRCC with una. you are free to do anyhaw olorun!!!!!! o ye e

Ahh that's what I thought too. Good thing I asked on here to get the opinion of others. Before deportation will follow. After all this struggle

Thank you very much!

We will end up travelling separately anyways. Someone replied that we need to inform IRCC. To avoid misrepresentation, we will wait till we get to Canada to proceed with the wedding. And live happily ever after. Family members will be alright

Edmontonlad:
Meanwhile, congratulations �

I will suggest you tell no one.
You two can actually travel same day, together but when presenting documents, present separately. Move into Canada. Settle down and do a court wedding there in Canada and live happily. As for family members, your man can pay bride price and even do small trad/engagement as the case maybe. Wait, I am blabbing right?

Wow. Thank you for the link! If we have to inform IRCC we will just wait till we get to Canada. Considering how long we have had to wait to get to this point.

Thank you

joo2018:
You have to inform. Not to inform is misrepresentation.

After you inform, your COPRs will be withdrawn and the visas cancelled. Both your applications will be opened again and you will be added to each others' applications. You will then be issued new visas and a new COPR. At least that is what happened to someone from either the part 3 or 4 thread.

Modified.
Here is the link. Their experience is not an exact match. One had a COPR, the spouse's application was still being processed. However, I think a similar process may apply. The whole process took like 2 weeks.

Hi,

My now fiance and I applied separately and we both have our COPR, but yet to land in Canada. We are now considering getting married before we land in Canada. It's just a small wedding. If we do proceed with the wedding, do we need to inform IRCC? How would this affect our COPR? We are trying to avoid having to come back for the wedding lol.

Any suggestions please?

COPR:


If anyone had been refused any kind of visa, tick YES to both questions. Otherwise, s/he is flirting with a 5-year ban.

I agree. I realized post AOR that I ticked yes to both questions unintentionally. I have been denied study visas in the past and was of the opinion I should have ticked only the 2nd question. This however did not affect the processing time for my application. I got PPR within 5 months

top14life:




It takes approximately 3weeks. Mine took 2weeks and 4 days.

Wow another wait for passport after scaling through ppr!

Thanks for your reply.

Hi all,

Please for those that have submitted their passports recently at the VFS in Lagos, what is the current processing time and process to expect. Kind of new on this thread and your response will be much appreciated.

Thanks

cmaamaa:
Good evening fellow NLs... Please I jst found out my SIL has an NCE in French (ALVAN) plus DELF (Diploma in French Language)

She has already sent in her BSc in French (UNN) to WES before mentioning these other certificates.

Please how can she add and possibly verify one of these to claim 2 or more certificates.

Please epp our ministry biko

If your SIL's report has not been completed yet, she can modify her order by logging into her account and adding additional report. Or she can simply use the contact us option on the WES website and request to add her other certificates to be verified to the order.

Hope that helps.

N.B she has to do this before they complete the current report