gracedson: Amen, thank you for the response, yes I already sent a webform to Nairobi and Lagos, I am thinking of sending a email2email message to them also, please kindly send their email address if you have it.
Oreoluwamipo: Someone here reached out to the PM concerning march applicants .. He was replied that eligibility has began for you people but just not updated , it will end in praise.
ikemummy: Good morning everyone, I intend to attach the note below to the mybankstatement and gift deed that I will send to IRCC via webform today. Please is there anything you feel I should correct in the note? Thanks in anticipation of your kind response. "Dear Visa Officer
Thank you once more for offering me the Nigeria Student Express (NSE) for faster processing of my study permit application. I am writing with regards to my previous letter dated 28 May 2021 in which I responded to your NSE offer and informed you that I may not be able to provide the documents you requested before the deadline but assured you that I have sufficient funding required to successfully complete my Ph.D. as I was offered graduate funding by Saint Mary’s University (SMU) and my supervisor.
Kindly find attached the documents requested (a mybankStatement certificate and 12 months of banking history)
The 2 million Naira lumpsum deposit in my bank account is a gift from my father which I have earmarked to supplement the graduate funding offered to me by SMU and my supervisor (please see the gift deed attached for more details).
I kindly ask that you continue with the faster processing of my application so that I can get a decision that is early enough to enable me to attend the fall semester Thank you very much for your time and favourable consideration."
I wouldn’t have advised you to send a lump sum to your account. If the money is from your dad, all you needed was your dad’s bank statement and a letter of support stating how much he will be giving you towards your studies. Also, He must tell the VO the number of persons dependent on him, to further assure the VO that the 2million naira is actually available for you.
Anyway, since you have added a lump sum to your account already, kindly attach your dad’s 1 year bank statement (highlight where the money is coming from, attach my bank statement cert for both you and your dad to make verification faster), attach his work details like payslips, promotion letter and employment letter. The reason is because, if you are adding as low as 10 naira to your funding, the VO wants to be super sure that the money is available and it is from a legitimate source.
Just on the side, you will actually need 2 Million naira to take care of traveling expenses, quarantine and expenses related to your first month settling down in Canada. So, it is just reasonable to show that amount.
I might be wrong but my suggestion is that you get your gsmc note to know the exact reason.
Let me also say something, I have gone on YouTube to learn what are the likely causes as related to this generic refusal reply that we both got >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r5csyW5MO8
Since she is working, let her print her own bank statements, explain in her LOE in details of how the money will cover her stay over there, get her gift of deeds with stamps from a lawyer on any lump sum of money or assets transferred to her..
Also your sponsor will need to submit his/her bank statements, affidavits of support, letter of employment and sponsorship, assets in their name. To validate if they still have some assets and finance for their own upkeep after transferring to her.
All should be formal or at least look formal.
This is what I think you should do and what I have done so far in anticipation of the gsmc note.
Just waiting for the note so as to address the main reason and fire on.
God bless your efforts.
naijaoyibo: We are thinking of doing a gift of deed of a landed property. What date would be ideal to place on it? Would this help to counter the reason for denial of visa which was
"I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay as stipulated in subsection 216(1) of the IRPR, based on your personal assets and financial status"
Talk about being happy, today is one of the happiest days of my past one year.
A year and six days after my first visa application (AOR June 16, 2020), I finally got PPR on my second application (AOR: Feb 26).
This has been a very tiresome journey. Initially, I thought that applying for PhD admission would be the most challenging part of it all, but I never knew that that was the easiest part really. Between Feb and March 2020, I got admission and funding offers from U of Manitoba, Western, and USask. Opted for USask. Submitted my first visa application on June 16, 2020, when I knew almost nothing about the Canadian visa application process. I hadn't even discovered Nairaland then. I committed one error, that of submitting only my funding offer letter as proof of fund, without submitting a bank statement. Sadly, that first application was refused based on personal assets and financial status.
Visa refusal: January 4, 2021
Guided by all the information I got from the good folks here on Nairaland, I reapplied on February 26.
AOR: Feb 26 NSE Request: Feb 28 I sent them my Mybankstatement and IELTS waiver request letter less than 20 minutes after the NSE request came in
Ideologically opposed to taking IELTS, I had preemptively written and armed myself with an IELTS Waiver Request Letter, in which I argued against the logicality of asking an English PhD student to submit IELTS test scores. Silly me though, that letter sounded as if I was beefing with IRCC — and, yes, I was really mad at them due to my initial visa refusal.
You see, one of the things that made me very angry about that first visa refusal was that in the GCMS notes I obtained weeks after the painful hit, the visa officer remarked twice that they had asked me over three months earlier to send my bank statement or that of a sponsor, which I failed to do. Dianyi, I didn't receive any email from them requesting for any such thing. And there was no request letter sent via GCKey either. So I just couldn't understand their wahala. My guess is that probably due to a glitch in their system, the email they generated ended up not getting sent to me, even though it was showing in the 'Outgoing' section of the GCMS notes. So my blood was hot as I was writing the IELTS waiver request, which they never actually honoured, as I learnt.
Program of Study: PhD in English Age: 27 Marital status: Single MA (2019) NYSC (2016-17) BA (2015) Travel experience: None Work experience: 3 Current employment: Freelance writing
Documents submitted
1. My personal bankstatement: Containing just ₦1.5m 2. Funding offer from USask: Dean's Scholarship of 22k + Tuition waiver 3. Letter of support from popsy (I didn't submit his bank statement) 4. MA transcript (GPA 5.0) 5. MA statement of result 6. BA transcript (CGPA: 4.17) 7. BA certificate 8. WAEC 9. FSLC (Lol) 10. Birth Certificate 11. My land survey document 12. Statement of Purpose (5) 13. Letter Explaining How I intend to fund my studies (4 pages) 14. Curriculum Vitae 15. International Passport 16. e-Medical Slip 17. Digital photo
18. Admission Letter from USask 19. Confirmation of Enrolment
21. PhD Supervisor’s Letter, advocating for me to be issued a visa
22. Attestation Letter from a senior lecturer (my mentor) in UNN, highlighting my academic merits and good conducts
23. Notification of a FUTURE Job Offer from the Head of my Department in my former University, stating that the department will be happy to offer me a job after my PhD in Canada (Lol)
24. Letter of Recommendation from my Master’s Supervisor
26. Certificate of Merit from my NYSC PPA (2016-17)
27. I didn't submit any letter of recommendation or introduction letter from my most recent former employer (make them hold their wahala, abeg)
28. Certificate of Service as a Cadet-Member of the NYSC Road Safety Club
29. Birth Certificates and Passport of my Siblings
Eligibility review started on April 22, that's two days after I contacted the office of the MP representing USask to make enquiries on my behalf regarding the lag in updating my application.
Medical was updated on May 18.
Oh, boy! Na then wey the real anxiety come start. Coming here to Nairaland everyday to read other people's testimonies became like a full time job for me, just as my fingers got automatically configured to opening my GCKey account more than 20 times a day: almost as a first thing anytime I bring up my phone to press.
At a point I almost fell into huge depression. Put off my phone line, got off WhatsApp, deactivated my Nairaland account (that's why you'll see that this current moniker I'm using is newly created, just one alphabet different from 'Uzomachukwu' which was the account I had previously been using here).
Last week when Omalinze (whose visa application I prepared and submitted the same period I was working on my second application) called to tell me that his visa has been approved, I was happy and, yet, cried. Mine was an ambiguous mix of happiness and sadness. He too understood, and kept reassuring me that I was going to get my PPR soon. But you see, one of my 'positive' personal failings, if at all it should be so-called, is that I'm a man who is very much taken to the hermeneutics of suspicion, a young man who has been trained by life to believe in working from the point of pessimism (suspicion) towards the middle point of reality (concrete experience), before arriving at the point of optimism. So it's usually difficult for me to let myself be persuaded to move from pessimism to optimism without first beholding, almost like a Thomas (well, in Nigeria, suspicion has its many uses).
PPR: June 21, 2021.
All I can say about this journey is: All glory be to Jehovah, the father of tender mercies, alone.
And to all the persons here doing the fine work of elucidating the many riddles of IRCC, and helping others through their application, I say: May what you desire locate you. Thanks to you all.
I submitted 8.5mil as bank statements and mistakingly didn't submit any asset of my parents then, even I already paid 9.5kCAD as deposit to school, and classes and test had started.
we still got the same generic refusal.
I don't think it is the money for you. but something must be flagging your application. cool down and know what it is, get ur gsmc note.
Hopefully other can help explain better.
naijaoyibo: Submitted gift of deed of about 10M Naira. and also funded the account of the applicant with the remaining tuition amounting to another 13M Naira. So funded the applicant's account with total of 23M Naira
April 23 applicant. Eligibility hasn’t started too. So we’re many like this? I just feel they haven’t updated our pages sha, let’s be hopeful for this week and next week.
Queenmama03: Omo my story long oo! But i'll just go straight to the point.
First time applicant, self sponsored although I finished with a first class in economics, I have a 10yr study gap so I wasn't sure how that played out. Going for Masters in Economics at UNB. I'm employed and also have a side business I registered last year. Previous travel to US and Turkey. I wrote GRE, applied and got admission myself but when it came to visa application my liver failed me. That was where Frank (God bless his soul) came to my rescue. Timeline:
Applied 22nd Apr Vfs biometric 26th Apr Eligibility & background check started 4th May (may have been earlier but after applying I didn't check the portal until this date) Upfront Medical done 4th May Medical E-Slip uploaded 6th May Biometrics Updated 6th May (I had to email them a reminder) Medical Passed 7th May Ghost update 4th June Sent renewed passport & unconditional acceptance letter via webform 8th June Agreement prayer with husband when I noticed April applicants getting their decisions 16th June Ghost update 16th June BVL & PPR 21st June
Regarding ghost updates, I may have had more but I only check my portal once or max twice a week on average so I can't really say. Also I didn't pay school fees o, not even deposit. The Ijebu in me didn't let me part with my money before visa approval also my school didn't make it compulsory.
Document submitted Transcripts SOP GRE IELTS MBS & regular account statement (First bank doesn't have MBS so I just submitted the regular statement and included introduction letter from the bank) WAEC Certificate Degree certificate Employment letter Introduction letter from employer Study leave approval letter Consent letter from my husband We both indicated that my mum will be taking care of my kids in my absence Husband's employment letter and work related documents ID's of my parents and siblings
Hmm the waiting wasn't funny o especially when I see the type of document people submit here, at some point I felt I may not have submitted enough. I just told myself "las las if dem deny my application i'll just focus on my business''. But alas! God did it. Also special thanks to @Lekiboboe his posts really guided me when I was searching for graduate programs.
To all those still waiting, I wish you the very best, God willing it will end the praise.
signing out.
PS: If you dey go New Brunswick please hit me up make we reason one or two.
My fellow New Brunswick cruz, congratulations....I got PPR on June the 17th myself and I'm going to UNB.........If you wouldn't mind let's connect...I'm a guy o, just thought I should mention that....
Though I have tried to login this morning, but couldn’t. I think I saw a notification yesterday on their website that the site will be under going some maintenance work between 1am to 6am ETD ( 6am to 11am Nigerian time).
I have also sent an email to Nairobi, was told that my application is under “active review”.
Congratulations Sis. Please did you do upfront medical after submitting your application? I thought it could only be before
Queenmama03: Omo my story long oo! But i'll just go straight to the point.
First time applicant, self sponsored although I finished with a first class in economics, I have a 10yr study gap so I wasn't sure how that played out. Going for Masters in Economics at UNB. I'm employed and also have a side business I registered last year. Previous travel to US and Turkey. I wrote GRE, applied and got admission myself but when it came to visa application my liver failed me. That was where Frank (God bless his soul) came to my rescue. Timeline:
Applied 22nd Apr Vfs biometric 26th Apr Eligibility & background check started 4th May (may have been earlier but after applying I didn't check the portal until this date) Upfront Medical done 4th May Medical E-Slip uploaded 6th May Biometrics Updated 6th May (I had to email them a reminder) Medical Passed 7th May Ghost update 4th June Sent renewed passport & unconditional acceptance letter via webform 8th June Agreement prayer with husband when I noticed April applicants getting their decisions 16th June Ghost update 16th June BVL & PPR 21st June
Regarding ghost updates, I may have had more but I only check my portal once or max twice a week on average so I can't really say. Also I didn't pay school fees o, not even deposit. The Ijebu in me didn't let me part with my money before visa approval also my school didn't make it compulsory.
Document submitted Transcripts SOP GRE IELTS MBS & regular account statement (First bank doesn't have MBS so I just submitted the regular statement and included introduction letter from the bank) WAEC Certificate Degree certificate Employment letter Introduction letter from employer Study leave approval letter Consent letter from my husband We both indicated that my mum will be taking care of my kids in my absence Husband's employment letter and work related documents ID's of my parents and siblings
Hmm the waiting wasn't funny o especially when I see the type of document people submit here, at some point I felt I may not have submitted enough. I just told myself "las las if dem deny my application i'll just focus on my business''. But alas! God did it. Also special thanks to @Lekiboboe his posts really guided me when I was searching for graduate programs.
To all those still waiting, I wish you the very best, God willing it will end the praise.
signing out.
PS: If you dey go New Brunswick please hit me up make we reason one or two.
My fellow New Brunswick cruz, congratulations....I got PPR on June the 17th myself and I'm going to UNB.........If you wouldn't mind let's connect...I'm a guy o, just thought I should mention that....
bro i wrote SOP for admission , I'm feeling it's not so okay as a first time applicant, pls can you help to review it via a mail , i bliv u passed through that stage so i need ur experience. thanks
bro i wrote SOP for admission , I'm feeling it's not so okay as a first time applicant, pls can you help to review it via a mail , i bliv u passed through that stage so i need ur experience. thanks
To those that submitted their passports to Vfs Lagos how long did it take for them to confirm reception of passport and possibly send a tracking id?
I sent my passport since on Friday, and till today no single message from them. Is there anything I can do to know the status of my documents? Cos, I am beginning to be worried if they received the passport or not.
Good Morning my wonderful people in the house trust we are all doing great. Please I have a question that requires urgent attention. My international passport that I used to apply for study permit will expire on April 06, 2022, as I’m still awaiting for my PPR to drop. I saw on one of the approval letters here that Canada does not issue visa beyond the expiring date on your passport after seen it, I decided to renew my own as it is left few months to the expiring date. Is it advisable to renew it now or not?
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