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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 4:35pm On Jul 07, 2021
One more thing please, ensure you apply for SIN (provided you have a residential address in Canada), open a bank account before leaving Canada.

It affords you the opportunity to work remotely from Nigeria.

Lianna2020:
Good morning ,
Please I need input, would they be a problem if I go back to Nigeria when my 14 days quarantine isn’t over?
I left my infant behind and he’s being cranky since then.
This is like day ten quarantine n I don’t think I can wait since I hv option to study online .

Please advise

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NwanyiOkpa(f): 4:57pm On Jul 07, 2021
People of God.

Please, what is the best and same time affordable flight company to use? I intend landing in Montreal from Nigeria.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NaijaCanadian28: 5:54pm On Jul 07, 2021
Itzlinda:


Chai. What of people like me that even spilled for another year?

You can look into PGD programs.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Itzlinda(f): 7:18pm On Jul 07, 2021
Lagbaja88:
today you are asking about express entry and how to increase scores, tomorrow its study visa with spill over .nawa for you

Nope bro. I am not looking for student route at the moment. Unless I wasn't successful with the pr.

I am just shocked to see that they don't accept 2.2 for msc.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by skull4eva: 2:02am On Jul 08, 2021
NwanyiOkpa:
People of God.

Please, what is the best and same time affordable flight company to use? I intend landing in Montreal from Nigeria.


When do u intend to travel?
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by LordAA(m): 2:36am On Jul 08, 2021
NwanyiOkpa:
People of God.

Please, what is the best and same time affordable flight company to use? I intend landing in Montreal from Nigeria.



Ethiopian airlines

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by bezimo(m): 5:06am On Jul 08, 2021
Neam9:
Anyone flying klm lagos to Toronto on the 21st should please dm. Travel buddy needed�

Travel buddy indeed.. Hope no be drug carry set up? We live in perilous times.lol
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by bezimo(m): 5:40am On Jul 08, 2021
nowhere:

He may have seen sb who will bequeath him PR status or sth. It happens here a lot. I know a couple who came and claimed asylum, the wife just moved in with a Canadian man and that is it. The husband has been running from pillar to post, lawyered up and down. I'm sure he has realized it is a losing battle. They have three children, all here in Canada. Asylum case hasn't been decided..at least positively. It is crazy here.

Ewoooo is a serious matter
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by bezimo(m): 5:43am On Jul 08, 2021
Amakaoyekachi1:
Thank you so much for understanding, I am human also and that’s why I am feeling this way and it’s really hurts when someone isn’t upfront with you. I am trying to stay calm and put myself together, though it’s not easy but the lord is my strength and he will see me through it all.

Which province and school is he based
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by maralina: 6:32am On Jul 08, 2021
Eilenora:
Hello All,
Anyone had a passport appointment with the Nigerian Embassy Ottawa yet? How do you travel to Ottawa? Same day or previous day?Road/train? How does it work when one gets there? Do you have to lodge in a hotel?

I went the previous day by train, (ViaRail). And yeah I lodged in a hotel after my appointment the following day I left same day.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Nobody: 6:42am On Jul 08, 2021
E don do, you came late. grin
bezimo:


Which province and school is he based

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ocpaschal: 6:47am On Jul 08, 2021
Itzlinda:


Nope bro. I am not looking for student route at the moment. Unless I wasn't successful with the pr.

I am just shocked to see that they don't accept 2.2 for msc.
same here... but I once heard that 2.2 is acceptable for Masters in some parts of Canada, but I couldn't figure out which provinces or so can accept 2nd class lower division for MSc seekers. Pls does anyone have ideas on this possibility?
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ocpaschal: 7:30am On Jul 08, 2021
Good morning everyone! Pls my brother wants to study Masters in Environmental Engr in Canada. He has a 2nd class Upper (2.1) and work experience of 5 years above. I would like to inquire on the following;

1. Is it true that applicants must get their undergraduate university to send their transcript on behalf of the applicant through WES (World Education Services) in order to apply for Masters in any Canada universities?
2. Pls which provinces in Canada provides the best choice for Masters applicants seeking to study Environmental Engineering and at the same time be working ?
3. Which universities are the best option for my brother to apply for Masters in Engineering?
4. Pls which universities over less expensive tuition fee or scholarships for Masters program in Environmental engineering?
5. What are the requirements or conditions that must be met to apply for both masters program and the student visa?
6. Pls is there such a thing as post-study permit in Canada?
7. My brother is looking forward to obtaining a Permanent Residency permit, what further steps or process does he need to know to partake in ?
Thanks
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by bezimo(m): 7:46am On Jul 08, 2021
nowhere:
E don do, you came late. grin

Who send You?

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Alchemist01: 9:43am On Jul 08, 2021
Which of the Canadian government approved hotels is the cheapest and allows you to book the reservation but only pay when you arrive?
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 11:23am On Jul 08, 2021
ocpaschal:
Good morning everyone! Pls my brother wants to study Masters in Environmental Engr in Canada. He has a 2nd class Upper (2.1) and work experience of 5 years above. I would like to inquire on the following;

1. Is it true that applicants must get their undergraduate university to send their transcript on behalf of the applicant through WES (World Education Services) in order to apply for Masters in any Canada universities?
2. Pls which provinces in Canada provides the best choice for Masters applicants seeking to study Environmental Engineering and at the same time be working ?
3. Which universities are the best option for my brother to apply for Masters in Engineering?
4. Pls which universities over less expensive tuition fee or scholarships for Masters program in Environmental engineering?
5. What are the requirements or conditions that must be met to apply for both masters program and the student visa?
6. Pls is there such a thing as post-study permit in Canada?
7. My brother is looking forward to obtaining a Permanent Residency permit, what further steps or process does he need to know to partake in ?
Thanks
these things are on google or other Nairaland pages already. No masters is cheap here too.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by seunpinky(m): 11:32am On Jul 08, 2021
Hi Guys,

Just landed a few days ago and I realized that I forgot my laptop and hardrive in Nigeria. Pls can you recommend various options of sending the laptop to me from Nigeria to Ontario.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by amaya21: 12:05pm On Jul 08, 2021
Congratulations, you've finally landed!

You can check with DHL / UPS etc. It will cost you sha but you can track movement. Be sure to get appropriate insurance.

seunpinky:
Hi Guys,

Just landed a few days ago and I realized that I forgot my laptop and hardrive in Nigeria. Pls can you recommend various options of sending the laptop to me from Nigeria to Ontario.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by maziude: 12:37pm On Jul 08, 2021
ocpaschal:
Good morning everyone! Pls my brother wants to study Masters in Environmental Engr in Canada. He has a 2nd class Upper (2.1) and work experience of 5 years above. I would like to inquire on the following;

1. Is it true that applicants must get their undergraduate university to send their transcript on behalf of the applicant through WES (World Education Services) in order to apply for Masters in any Canada universities?
2. Pls which provinces in Canada provides the best choice for Masters applicants seeking to study Environmental Engineering and at the same time be working ?
3. Which universities are the best option for my brother to apply for Masters in Engineering?
4. Pls which universities over less expensive tuition fee or scholarships for Masters program in Environmental engineering?
5. What are the requirements or conditions that must be met to apply for both masters program and the student visa?
6. Pls is there such a thing as post-study permit in Canada?
7. My brother is looking forward to obtaining a Permanent Residency permit, what further steps or process does he need to know to partake in ?
Thanks

Una wey wan travel no one put in effort.

Do your own research first and then ask questions for comparison.

Make una Dey do well na.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by seunpinky(m): 12:39pm On Jul 08, 2021
Thanks Amaya21, grin I remember that we got ppr at about the same time, we eventually landed on Tuesday to avoid the whole hotel quarantine.

amaya21:
Congratulations, you've finally landed!

You can check with DHL / UPS etc. It will cost you sha but you can track movement. Be sure to get appropriate insurance.

Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Alchemist01: 12:45pm On Jul 08, 2021
Hello guys,

For those that travelled to Canada recently, how did you change your naira to USD before travelling. I have tried the personal travelling allowance route but almost all the banks have return ticket as a requirement. I am going as a student hence I booked one way trip as I have no idea when I will be returning.

Is anyone aware of any alternative asides Bureau de change/Aboki ?
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by seunpinky(m): 12:48pm On Jul 08, 2021
Landing gists grin

We arrived at the airport at 9.05am, our flight was scheduled for 1.40pm.
We went to the ET check in stand, weighed our luggages. We had excess luggage and the ET staff was very helpful. He advised us to upgrade 2 of our luggages from 23kg to 32kg and we made pymt of 53,000 for the upgrade.

They requested for print out copies and photocopy of covid-19 test results, CoPR, passport data page, evidence of full vaccination and arrivecan app code.

After this we proceeded to get our boarding pass, na there wahala start... The Nahcol staff issuing the boarding pass said there was an issue with my wife's or baby's visa. He said it was not activated, ghen ghen..... He asked us series of questions and we answered. He said the only solution is to call IRCC and that we have to use our credit to make d call. Na xo we load 4k airtime. He spoke with an IRCC agent, this process took us over 50mins. Time was already 12:45pm. The IRCC agent checked and said there was nothing wrong with the visa and she gave them a code to use to override the error. It took the Nahcol staff another 20mins battling with the system. At this point we became apprehensive, time was already past 1 and we didn't have a boarding pass, boarding had started like 30mins earlier. We had to involve the head of ET who then gave the Nahcol staff instructions on what to do. Eventually they printed a boarding pass for my wife to take her to Ethiopia and that they will send a mail to Ethiopia to prepare her boarding pass from Ethiopia to Toronto.

At 1.20pm we started racing down to do immigration, customs etc. We were lucky to have a family frnd who works with faan.. he helped us breeze tru these, and we eventually boarded d plan at 1.40pm as the last passengers.

Gosh it was a terrible experience, imagine having to carry a one year baby, with three hand luggages and other stuffs and running all the way to the tarmac. We were sweeting like goats

The trip to Addis Ababa was smooth, we disembarked and went straight to join the connection flight to Canada. When we got to the boarding gate, we told them that we were to pick up up boarding pass for my wife, they took her passport and told us to chill, within 10mins her boarding pass was ready and we boarded the plane off to Canada.

Canada Events:

After we landed, we were ushered into a room where they separated fully vaccinated travels from non vaccinated. Vaccinated travellers get to show evidence of vaccination to the boarder agent and a green sticky paper is affixed on the passport.

We proceeded to another agent who requested for our CoPR, Passport and asked some basic questions ( address in Canada, phone no, how much we were coming with) he signed off the CoPR and said welcome to canada cheesy grin. We joined a queue for covid-19 test and within 10mins we were done.

We spent a total of 3hours from landing till we got out of the airport. Our hosts were already waiting for us.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by geezynoni: 12:53pm On Jul 08, 2021
I'm about to apply to a school in canada for a masters program but the middle name on my passport has a spelling error ( rilwan instead of ridwan). can an affidavit cover for this). The rest of my documents have ridwan.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 1:04pm On Jul 08, 2021
Alchemist01:
Hello guys,

For those that travelled to Canada recently, how did you change your naira to USD before travelling. I have tried the personal travelling allowance route but almost all the banks have return ticket as a requirement. I am going as a student hence I booked one way trip as I have no idea when I will be returning.

Is anyone aware of any alternative asides Bureau de change/Aboki ?
get to Canada. Open a bank account, join 9ja canada WhatsApp and telegram groups. They exchange naira for cad there ( fastest fingers most times). Rate is now 400 to 410.

Or just convert to usd from bdc/aboki carry the cash along with you to Canada. Convert it in a bank

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 1:08pm On Jul 08, 2021
seunpinky:
Landing gists grin

We arrived at the airport at 9.05am, our flight was scheduled for 1.40pm.
We went to the ET check in stand, weighed our luggages. We had excess luggage and the ET staff was very helpful. He advised us to upgrade 2 of our
welcome home

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by amaya21: 1:45pm On Jul 08, 2021
Yes, I remember - welcome home!

seunpinky:
Thanks Amaya21, grin I remember that we got ppr at about the same time, we eventually landed on Tuesday to avoid the whole hotel quarantine.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by maralina: 4:09pm On Jul 08, 2021
Hey guys
So I got an open work permit for one year, can I use that to apply for PR after one year of work?
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by ednut1(m): 5:20pm On Jul 08, 2021
maralina:
Hey guys
So I got an open work permit for one year, can I use that to apply for PR after one year of work?
you need one year experience in an noc in skill a,b or o to qualify for CEC in pr application.
Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by Winkus18: 5:37pm On Jul 08, 2021
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Hi @ojzreal I’m got admission for January start, please is there any group I can be added to? I need a lot of assistance as I am new on this platform

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by NaijaCanadian28: 8:02pm On Jul 08, 2021
ocpaschal:
same here... but I once heard that 2.2 is acceptable for Masters in some parts of Canada, but I couldn't figure out which provinces or so can accept 2nd class lower division for MSc seekers. Pls does anyone have ideas on this possibility?

It depends on the program you are interested in. University of Alberta accepts 2:2 for their MPH programs but you must have had mostly Bs in your last semester. You have to check the requirements of the programs you are interested in.

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by mamababe(f): 9:34pm On Jul 08, 2021
congratulations May the land favour you.[quote author=seunpinky post=103495068]Landing gists grin

We arrived at the airport at 9.05am, our flight was scheduled for 1.40pm.
We went to the ET check in stand, weighed our luggages. We had excess luggage and the ET staff was very helpful. He advised us to upgrade 2 of our luggages from 23kg to 32kg and we made pymt of 53,000 for the upgrade.

]

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Re: Living In Canada/Life As A Canadian Immigrant Part 2 by mamababe(f): 9:35pm On Jul 08, 2021
ednut1:
get to Canada. Open a bank account, join 9ja canada WhatsApp and telegram groups. They exchange naira for cad there ( fastest fingers most times). Rate is now 400 to 410.

Or just convert to usd from bdc/aboki carry the cash along with you to Canada. Convert it in a bank

grin grin grin very correct at the fastest finger

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