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kiari:
You have to call Humber and ask.

Lademi12:
When someone is ghost updates please what does it mean

teejhaay:
Hello guys,

I have a question I'm a bit confused about something. I am heading to Calgary by August and so far from my research, airlines with connecting flight through the US have the cheapest fare. However, I have also googled to see that a transit visa is needed to pass through the US to another country. Please can anybody help clarify this for me. God bless.

Osemigho:
Aviod any airline transiting USA except you have a valid USA visa. Aviod any fare that have two transit locations in Europe too. All the best.

Teekay20:
Congratulations...Thank you Jesus

ebyprecy:
Avoid US please unless you have transit visa.

Eden2018:
Silent reader mode deactivated.

Its PPR guys! God is indeed faithful.

Family application. Study visa for kids and SOWP for spouse. I used the GCkey Portal.

Here is my timeline:

Submission: May 4, 2022
Upfront Medical for all: May 10, 2022
Biometric done and Updated: May 13, 2022
Medical Passed for all: May 19, 2022
Eligibility Review: June 9, 2022
BVL/PPR: June 9, 2022

This is to encourage those who want to go for family application that it is doable. Details of documents submitted will be posted soon. I got worried at some point because I did not include Police Clearance Certificate. But we got the approval without it.

I gathered all the information I used for my application from this platform. God bless you guys! The commitment to the success of others on this platform is amazing.

ShowYoung:
If they gave you an appointment for that date, they'll be open.

2pretty4u:
Goodday, congratulations on your PPR.

Please I would love to send you a DM to ask some questions if you don't mind. I'm also applying with my family.

Calebbold:
I have been a silent reader on this forum. Please join me in thanking God almighty. Just received my PPR request.

Applied on: 27th February 2022
Biometrics: 3th March 2022
Upfront medical passed: 4th March 2022
Bvl: 30th May 2022
PPR: 11th June 2022

Congratulations.. mine is next ijn

Eden2018:
These are the documents submitted for my application, SOWP for spouse and Study Permit for 3 kids

Calebbold:
I have been a silent reader on this forum. Please join me in thanking God almighty. Just received my PPR request.

Applied on: 27th February 2022
Biometrics: 3th March 2022
Upfront medical passed: 4th March 2022
Eligibility Review: 30th May 2022
Bvl: 30th May 2022
PPR: 11th June 2022

Calebbold:
I have been a silent reader on this forum. Please join me in thanking God almighty. Just received my PPR request.

Applied on: 27th February 2022
Biometrics: 3th March 2022
Upfront medical passed: 4th March 2022
Eligibility Review: 30th May 2022
Bvl: 30th May 2022
PPR: 11th June 2022

Inyas2015:
Please which student /educational loan can I use for Fanshawe College?

Fanshawe College is not on Mpower and prodigy finance platform?

I’m in need of 7m

Kindly help a sister

Spicy12345:
Its PPR guys. Long Post alert

I have been a silent reader of Nairaland since the beginning of this year and everything that led to this point (obtaining our PPR), Nairaland contributed to it.
We started this journey in 2021. I started off with some countries which eventually did not work out. My husband had applied to a couple of schools and we either received rejections or no responses at all. Fast forward to January, my sister was leaving for Canada at the time and came visiting so I requested that she helped apply to a school. We followed up and received admission to Centennial College for a Postgraduate Certificate program in Cybersecurity. It is also worthy to note that we applied to several schools in the UK, I think about 6 or 7 of them and got admission to all.
Amidst all these, my husband insisted on Canada.
We applied for my husband's Study visa, my Spousal Open Work Permit and a Visiting Visa for my 19 months daughter on the 1st of April, 2022. This happened when everywhere I turned to for assistance on how to proceed with these applications kept giving warning signs for my husband to apply alone. My husband insisted that we all apply together and back it up with prayers and I agreed.
We gathered all our documents and applied with faith and the wait started. Sometimes, I would wake up in the middle of the night and say my prayers sometimes with tears. Sometimes, I and my husband would find it difficult to sleep at night. I would disturb my sister from time to time even during her busy schedule just to find out if there was anything to do to hasten the process. I am not a very patient person but my husband who has more patience among the both of us started to worry too on the 1st of June. We kept praying and hoping that God comes through.
I felt our application could be better but believed God will use the documents we had submitted to speak for us. We noticed that his passport was due to expire in October and then we decided to apply for that as quickly as possible.
On the 5th of June, my husband came back home worried which increased my worry as well but we kept telling each other that our application was more complex so it may take them a while to get to it.
On the 7th of June at around 7:30am, my husband called my attention and, in his words, "it is already happening o"
I ran to his phone and saw 3 emails with "do not reply", my heart skipped several beats and I remember saying to him, if we were rejected, we fire again.
I went straight for the laptop but was not fast enough as I kept shaking. My husband grabbed it and signed in.
At this point, I hissed and said aloud "Eligibility just started and its a ghost update", then he said hold on let me scroll down and there it was Original Passport Request. I screamed my lungs out.
Our timeline:
GCKey 1st time applicant
Application: 1st of April, 2022
Upfront medicals: 26t of March and updated to pass on the 21st of April, 2022
Biometrics: 14th of April, 2022
PPR for Study, SOWP, and VV on the 8th of June.

I would say it has been God and I am putting this out there to encourage people most especially families who are too afraid to apply together. Do it, research, make your application as tight as possible, and back it up with prayers. I reached out to only one person on this thread who happened to be going to the same school as my husband, @centennialguy, thank you for your help, I appreciate it.
I wish everyone the best and to all PPR hopefuls, your time is now.

It will end in praise

Osemigho:
Let your sponsor pay your one year tuition in full and transfer some living expenses to your account. Submit pictures together and any other documents to show your relationship.

ShowYoung:
The successful ones did something differently than the unsuccessful ones

Calebbold:
I have been a silent reader on this forum. Please join me in thanking God Almighty. Just received my PPR request.

Applied on: 27th February 2022
Biometrics: 3th March 2022
Upfront medical passed: 4th March 2022
Eligibility Review: 30th May 2022
Bvl: 30th May 2022
PPR: 11th June 2022

Eden2018:
These are the documents submitted for my application, SOWP for spouse and Study Permit for 3 kids

International Passport
• International Passport (No travel History), NIN Slip, Birth Certificate, Voter’s Card, Driver’s License, Certificate of Origin

Letter of Acceptance
• Offer of Admission
• Curriculum Vitae
• University Degree Certificate and Academic transcript
• WASSCE and NYSC
• IELTS & ECA
• Other training certificates
• Reference Letter from previous and employer
• Reference Letter from Professional Association
• Pictures at work

Marriage Certificate
• Marriage Certificate, Affidavit of Change of Name, Newspaper Publication, Hubby and children’s int’l passport, several family pictures

Proof of fund
Here the total cost of POF shown for a family of 5 was $63,000 CAD (including 25% of Pension) for one year program. Tuition fee is $30,000 CAD
• Letter of Sponsorship from Sponsor (Spouse)-notarized
• MBS for sponsor’s company, personal and salary account
• MBS for applicant’s Salary Account
• Statement of Account for Applicant’s Personal Account (No MBS available)
• Evidence of fund transfer from sponsor to applicant for part of tuition (to show commitment)
• Reference Letter for Retirement Savings Account of Sponsor and main applicant
• Pay stubs for me and Sponsor
• Letter of Appointment, ID card, Letter of Promotion for me and sponsor
• CAC docs for me and sponsor’s personal business
• Tax Clearance Certificate
• Tenancy Agreement for property (Notarized)

Client Info
• Statement of Purpose
HOME TIES
• Parents’ and siblings Identity Document
• Pictures with parents and siblings
• Picture of Personal business Logo
• Landed Property and car Documents
• Evidence of membership in several professional groups, religious and charitable organizations
• Evidence of membership of Christian groups (including screenshots of Whatsapp groups)
• Pictures of engagement in volunteer services

Spouse
• SOP (He gave strong reasons why he needs to go with me and also how he will make valuable contributions to the Canadian community using his skills and knowledge)
• Same documents provided in LOA and POF above
• Work related docs
• Pictures with family, pictures at work and volunteering activities
• Int’l Passport (with travel history)

Kids
• Int’l Passport, birth certificate, NIN
• Parent Offer of Admission
• Email of Enquiries on Admission for Elementary School in Canada
• Academic Report and school fees receipt from Current school in Nigeria
• Pictures with family and friends, pictures of them in their school
• International Passport of Parents

In my SOP, I left no stone unturned. Wrote on the importance of the course to my career, its benefit in my place of work, personal business, community and Nigeria as a whole, I wrote on my experiences and educational background and linked all to the proposed program. I wrote a lot on my volunteer activities as well. I broke down my POF in a tabular form for clarity purpose. I wrote on how our personal business will keep running in Nigeria while we are away.
Also, I gave them strong reasons why I need to go with my kids and husband. I also dealt extensively on my Home Ties which are parents, siblings, commitment in church, charitable organizations, professional associations, Christian groups, landed properties, cars, personal business. I included available pictures to prove.

Sensible11:
Thanks for your response. I appreciate. Did you make payment before the proposed date was Confirmed for you?

DamDamDam1:
Hello my people!

My mum had just sold a property to fund my MBA, I would be applying with my husband and two children. I want to ask which is the best way to show pof, she sends the money to my account and i give a letter of explanation to the lump sum and a notarized deed of gift or use her account to show sponsorship with the lump sum and receipt of the property transactions.

Kindly advice �

Eden2018:
Also, as others have advised, please make things easy for the visa office who picks up your file
-Do a table of content for each section of the application. Make sure compressed documents are legible
-Label your photos if possible ( For instance if you have a picture with you, your parents, label it as "picture with parents"
-Write a convincing SOP. Dwell on areas that could give rise to rejection like Purpose of Visit, Personal Asset, Home Ties and POF.
-Organize your SOP in sections.(e.g Educational Background, experience, POF etc)
-Read your SOP over and over again for errors. Also, get someone to read for you.

I also want to advise those going for family application to take a step of faith and start gathering your documents as soon as you apply for admission because it takes a lot of time and effort to gather documents for more than one person. It is better to submit a well packaged application than one submitted in haste.

My two cents

It will end in praise!

pearlies100:
Very Long Post Alert!!

I got admission December 2020 for Fall 2021 in University of New Brunswick but could not apply immediately because I was due to give birth in January 2021. I planned to submit my application in March but thanks to our immigration service, it took over 3 months before I could get passport for my baby despite paying through my nose for expedited processing. I ended up submitting our application on the 9th of June 2021 due to this delay. I was advised to put in mine while waiting for the passport but going without my children was not an option. We applied as a family, Myself, husband and 3 children. My husband applied for SOWP and visiting visa for my children because they're not up to school age.

Aside from the wahala of having to convince the VO and the fact that we are close to our mid 40s, two things stood against us. We had applied to visit Canada in 2019, but were denied, reason given was that we will not come back and false information in my husband's application, he didn't disclose his denial for US visa. We had applied for US visa a month earlier but the consular officer decided to give myself and my son but refused my husband. When we asked for the reason, she said she had none but was making a split decision. It was an oversight on my part because I filled our forms, I did mine first and just edited same form for my Husband and son. I forgot to change that part.
The second issue was my husband had a health condition and no information on how it was handled by IRCC. He didn't want to apply with us because he was scared he would ruin our chances but it was a no no for me. How will I manage with 3 small boys while studying.
We decided to use agents to help with our application but when I heard the price, I ran away quickly, not in this Buhari's economy.

I used same SoP I used to get my admission because I had no time to start afresh, I just edited it and in addition explained why I was doing a second masters (I have an MBA, same with my husband), how it would be beneficial in Nigeria and course not available in my country. I also addressed the issue of the denial in 2019 stating we never planned to break any visa rule and pointed them to our travel history to show that we have never overstayed in the countries we have visited. I also had to explain the false information in my husband's SoP stating it was an oversight. Reason given for going with my children is that they were too young to be left behind and I need my husband to take care of them. He runs his business and will take time off to support me in my career advancement. Reason given for him applying for work permit is that he wants work part time to gain experience that he would apply to his business back home and also support his family while in Canada.

Application was submitted 9th of June and the wait started, UNB gave us ultimatum of 13th of September to get our study permit or defer. We would not be allowed to even start online without it. I had no choice but to defer to September 2022. I wrote to IRCC but got generic responses. I got Nairobi email address from this forum and sent several mails. At some point, they stopped responding. I decided to fast and pray first week in February, a friend gave me Abuja email address, I sent a mail to them on the 7th and got a response on the 9th to go for medicals. I was so excited that finally, we have made progress. My husband and I did ours first. We had to disclose his condition and he was asked to go for further test, the tension of waiting was not easy especially on his part, mine was updated on the 19th while his was updated on the 22nd. We finally crossed that hurdle. Then our kids were asked to go for theirs a month later. Theirs was updated on the 23rd of March. I was asked to submit an updated application letter from the school and I also had to send a new passport because of the expiry date on the one I submitted. My hope was that within a month we should be done with this whole process. Then another wait started. I started writing to IRCC every other week from April but they didn't respond to any of my mails. I saw a format on nairaland 3 weeks ago to use to send email reminders but still no response. I decided to chill until the one year anniversary of our submission. At this point I was tensed because so many things were hanging, cost of ticket was rising, I needed to give enough notice to my boss to get my replacement before leaving. I entered another fasting and prayer last week, I had no other option. On the 10th of June, that's last Friday, someone posted the email address of different Visa Offices. I started sending mails to all of them. I also sent message to IRCC's twitter account and was about to send to London VO when I saw 7 donotreply emails. I first of all panicked and was afraid to open the mail. It was like a miracle, finally after one year of waiting, this came through. I also pray for those waiting patiently to get yours quickly in Jesus name, Amen!

My timeline:

Application Submitted: 9th of June 2021
Medical Request for me and my spouse: 9th February, 2022
Medical Passed: 19th and 22nd February 2022
Medical Request for my children: 9th March 2022
Medical Passed: 23rd March 2022
BVL: 10th June 2022
PPR: 10th June 2022

Documents submitted:
Myself:
IELTS Result
Police Clearance Certificate
Resume
Marriage Certificate
BSC and Masters Certificate
Proof of Current Employment
Travel History
Land Documents
Proof of Fund: Joint Account (had to explain the source of a lump sum), Dorm Account, Children's individual account, savings from office cooperative and RSA account (I stated this was for back up).

Spouse:
Police Clearance Certificate
Company Registration
Land Documents
Travel History

Children:
Birth Certificate

pearlies100:
Very Long Post Alert!!

I got admission December 2020 for Fall 2021 in University of New Brunswick but could not apply immediately because I was due to give birth in January 2021. I planned to submit my application in March but thanks to our immigration service, it took over 3 months before I could get passport for my baby despite paying through my nose for expedited processing. I ended up submitting our application on the 9th of June 2021 due to this delay. I was advised to put in mine while waiting for the passport but going without my children was not an option. We applied as a family, Myself, husband and 3 children. My husband applied for SOWP and visiting visa for my children because they're not up to school age.

Aside from the wahala of having to convince the VO and the fact that we are close to our mid 40s, two things stood against us. We had applied to visit Canada in 2019, but were denied, reason given was that we will not come back and false information in my husband's application, he didn't disclose his denial for US visa. We had applied for US visa a month earlier but the consular officer decided to give myself and my son but refused my husband. When we asked for the reason, she said she had none but was making a split decision. It was an oversight on my part because I filled our forms, I did mine first and just edited same form for my Husband and son. I forgot to change that part.
The second issue was my husband had a health condition and no information on how it was handled by IRCC. He didn't want to apply with us because he was scared he would ruin our chances but it was a no no for me. How will I manage with 3 small boys while studying.
We decided to use agents to help with our application but when I heard the price, I ran away quickly, not in this Buhari's economy.

I used same SoP I used to get my admission because I had no time to start afresh, I just edited it and in addition explained why I was doing a second masters (I have an MBA, same with my husband), how it would be beneficial in Nigeria and course not available in my country. I also addressed the issue of the denial in 2019 stating we never planned to break any visa rule and pointed them to our travel history to show that we have never overstayed in the countries we have visited. I also had to explain the false information in my husband's SoP stating it was an oversight. Reason given for going with my children is that they were too young to be left behind and I need my husband to take care of them. He runs his business and will take time off to support me in my career advancement. Reason given for him applying for work permit is that he wants work part time to gain experience that he would apply to his business back home and also support his family while in Canada.

Application was submitted 9th of June and the wait started, UNB gave us ultimatum of 13th of September to get our study permit or defer. We would not be allowed to even start online without it. I had no choice but to defer to September 2022. I wrote to IRCC but got generic responses. I got Nairobi email address from this forum and sent several mails. At some point, they stopped responding. I decided to fast and pray first week in February, a friend gave me Abuja email address, I sent a mail to them on the 7th and got a response on the 9th to go for medicals. I was so excited that finally, we have made progress. My husband and I did ours first. We had to disclose his condition and he was asked to go for further test, the tension of waiting was not easy especially on his part, mine was updated on the 19th while his was updated on the 22nd. We finally crossed that hurdle. Then our kids were asked to go for theirs a month later. Theirs was updated on the 23rd of March. I was asked to submit an updated application letter from the school and I also had to send a new passport because of the expiry date on the one I submitted. My hope was that within a month we should be done with this whole process. Then another wait started. I started writing to IRCC every other week from April but they didn't respond to any of my mails. I saw a format on nairaland 3 weeks ago to use to send email reminders but still no response. I decided to chill until the one year anniversary of our submission. At this point I was tensed because so many things were hanging, cost of ticket was rising, I needed to give enough notice to my boss to get my replacement before leaving. I entered another fasting and prayer last week, I had no other option. On the 10th of June, that's last Friday, someone posted the email address of different Visa Offices. I started sending mails to all of them. I also sent message to IRCC's twitter account and was about to send to London VO when I saw 7 donotreply emails. I first of all panicked and was afraid to open the mail. It was like a miracle, finally after one year of waiting, this came through. I also pray for those waiting patiently to get yours quickly in Jesus name, Amen!

My timeline:

Application Submitted: 9th of June 2021
Medical Request for me and my spouse: 9th February, 2022
Medical Passed: 19th and 22nd February 2022
Medical Request for my children: 9th March 2022
Medical Passed: 23rd March 2022
BVL: 10th June 2022
PPR: 10th June 2022

Documents submitted:
Myself:
IELTS Result
Police Clearance Certificate
Resume
Marriage Certificate
BSC and Masters Certificate
Proof of Current Employment
Travel History
Land Documents
Proof of Fund: Joint Account (had to explain the source of a lump sum), Dorm Account, Children's individual account, savings from office cooperative and RSA account (I stated this was for back up).

Spouse:
Police Clearance Certificate
Company Registration
Land Documents
Travel History

Children:
Birth Certificate