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Yk45:
Please house, i want to submit my passport for stamping. I did my biometric in Lagos VFS. How can i go about it, also is Abuja VFS faster than Lagos. What would you advise

Chubby682:
Good day house, anyone gotten admission to sheridan college for the 2024 January intake, I have applied since April and I haven't got a response.

dafuturis:
Bro congratulations on your PPR
Please I want to know how you knew your school was contacted
Secondly, is payment of the tuition deposit taken as registration? Because I've been asked to go do medicals and I've submitted an upfront medical. I need to be sure what exactly registration means because I haven't fully paid first semester school fees, in case my school is also contacted...

My school is Conestoga college

Thanks

Officialarhnie:
Are you sure they’ve not told you to send anything and you’re yet to. I had this similar case I was waiting for them not knowing I was supposed to send something to them.

tenderjunkie:
It is very misleading. I know someone traveling via Egyptair and he was forced to visit their office to find out. The information about booking a return ticket is false. The document he was asked to provide upon departure was the yellow fever card.

I believe this return ticket nonsense is the handwork of some flight agents to get bigger commission from their clients

kc6964:
Have anyone gotten admission in NBCC recently. Their admission process is taking too long

Vheekthur:
Hello house, good morning. Please, gurus in the house, I need help.
I have a friend that is interested in studing in Canada. She has BSC, Post graduate and MSc in Accounting already. Considering the fact that Masters programs are usually expensive in Canada than Graduate Certificate (post graduate), is it advisable she use her BSc result and apply for a post graduate, or use her post graduate to apply for another post graduate or use her post graduate to apply for MSc?

Please someone should help 🙏
2. Please what school do you think is best for her to apply.

NB, She will be travelling with 3 Children.

zubizareta:
Lol. It's not even up to 3 weeks the portal opened and you are saying it's taking long. I accuse you apply go other schools as well.

tenderjunkie:
It is very misleading. I know someone traveling via Egyptair and he was forced to visit their office to find out. The information about booking a return ticket is false. The document he was asked to provide upon departure was the yellow fever card.

I believe this return ticket nonsense is the handwork of some flight agents to get bigger commission from their clients

Vheekthur:
Hello house, good morning. Please, gurus in the house, I need help.
I have a friend that is interested in studing in Canada. She has BSC, Post graduate and MSc in Accounting already. Considering the fact that Masters programs are usually expensive in Canada than Graduate Certificate (post graduate), is it advisable she use her BSc result and apply for a post graduate, or use her post graduate to apply for another post graduate or use her post graduate to apply for MSc?

2. Please what school do you think is best for her to apply.

NB, She will be travelling with 3 Children.

daisy1:
PPR ALERT!!

My PPR came in today at 7am.

I am a first time applicant and I have had  a USA B1 visa refusal before.

BACKGROUND
My initial target was to go to the UK to school because everyone I spoke to said Canada was hard to get into. Last year I applied to about 5 schools, 2 in UK and 3 in Canada.

Fanshawe responded really quickly, I almost didn't take it as I wanted George Brown, they had a course a bit closer to what I currently do, but one mind was like, just take what you see first, so I accepted their offer and I paid 9k CAD using my GTBank USD card.  2-3 months later, none of the other schools I applied to accepted me, George brown I really wanted, said my study gap was more than 5 years as the last time I was in school was in 2011.

I then came on nairaland and I read as much as I could from here, I even asked questions and I got responses. In my case, I have a fulltime job and 2 different side gigs, that pay me monthly so I needed to know if this would not affect me as I am self-funded.

THE APPLICATION

I did not need to write IELTS or verify my documents via WES.
My application to Fanshawe was done via www.applyboard.com.
I wrote my SOP myself, ensuring that I use headlines to break it so that it doesn't become a long read. One key thing I did here was explain how as an accounting graduate, I pivoted into Marketing. I treated my SOP as a story, ensuring that I hit the high notes really quickly without boring or oversharing irrelevant information. The headlines and a brief synopsis for what each section contains can be found below:

YOUR NAME
The Visa Officer,
Deputy High Commission of Canada,
Lagos Nigeria.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

- Introduction: In this section, I gave my name, a bit of my educational background and the course I want to go and study in Canada. I ended this section with saying how this course will improve my career

ABOUT ME
In this section, I gave some info about my family, If you are married, state that, have kids, state it here

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
in this section, I gave more information about my education, I only have a BSC in accounting, so to set the ball rolling for why I want to take a different path in my studies, I stated why I am making the switch to a different course of study.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
in this section, I talked about my work experience, showing a clear progression of my career from after university to date.

REASONS FOR PURSUING (INSERT YOUR COURSE NAME HERE) COURSE IN CANADA
here I talked about why pursuing this course in Canada was important to me, in my case it was very important to get an additional degree in the field I currently work in, if I wanted to advance in my career.

WHY FANSHAWE COLLEGE IN CANADA?
ExIplain why you chose this school and not any other. It would be great to look through your school's website and find out what makes them standout and add it in this section.

SPONSORSHIP OF MY CANADA STUDY TRIP
Explain who is sponsoring the trip, if you are self sponsored like me, state how much you earn monthly, if you paid any part of your fees, state it here, state how much you have kept aside for upkeep. If you are sponsored by someone, tell the story about why this person will pay your fees, show a clear relationship and also state their monthly revenue or salary.

MY FUTURE PLAN
here I talked about what I will do with the Canadian degree when I return to Nigeria

Overall, Make sure you stick to the point, tell a clear story about your life. The general rule of thumb for font size/type on SOP is times new roman, size 12 with a line spacing of 1.5 (I don't know if this is important, but it does make your writeup look neater.

THE SUBMISSION
I submitted my application on March 30, these are documents I submitted
I used the GCKey portal to submit.
- All the IMM forms
- Letter of acceptance
- Passport
- Digital photo
- Medical e-sheet
- Proof of funds (MBS for my USD account as well as MBS for my Naira account, Payment receipt from Flywire to fanshawe)
- Client Information (see all the documents below)
- SOP
- Invoices I sent to clients for my side gig
- My Payoneer account print out (if you are a freelancer, you will know what this is)
- A picture of my car
- My car ownership papers
- My old scheghen visa
-My full time job contract showing clearly that I am still going to be working for them, I am not on leave. This was my home tie. I did not need a study leave letter because of this.
- Shares certificate I received from this fulltime job.

THE WAIT
This is the timeline after submission
- Upfront medical IOM - March 20
- Apllication was submitted - March 30
- Confirmation of application - March 31
- Biometrics letter - March 31
Biometrics done - April 5
Then silence...
I scheduled emails via my gmail to send to the IRCC emails, Newyork, beijing, nairobi at least once a day. I just scheduled the email for 10 days in like 1 hour and I just left it, same email no changes and my subject line was URGENT - STUDY PERMIT.
May 30 - Medical passed
June 8 - Correspondence letter (BVL)
Then silence again, it was unusual as BVL comes a few hours before PPR but mine didn't, so I started researching again. Then angie88 told me to create an account via https://ircc-tracker-suivi.apps.cic.gc.ca/en/login to check if I would see my visa document number. On June 9, I checked and my visa and study permit numbers were there under the Document status. I sent a couple of emails but I got a generic response.

THE FINAL APPROVAL.
During the weekend, I had scheduled like 42 emails to go out to all IRCC offices starting from 10am today, but at 7am, I got the PPR. I had to stop all the scheduled emails immediately
June 19 - PPR

TIMELINE
- Upfront medical IOM - March 20
- Application was submitted - March 30
- Confirmation of application - March 31
- Biometrics letter - March 31
- Biometrics done - April 5 (Updated on GCkey same day)
- May 30 - Medical passed
- June 8 - Correspondence letter (BVL)
- June 19 - PPR

zubizareta:
So I just got off the phone with Egyptair customer care and they confirmed that's a pure lie.

They said the only conditions they have for students are:
Ensure your departure date is close to your resumption date.
Evidence your school fees is paid and enrolled as a student.

tenderjunkie:
Having a master's degree in accounting doesn't stop her from applying to colleges in Canada. She needs to convince the VO why a college postgraduate certificate suits her more. I know someone who has a master's in engineering and went ahead to do a postgraduate certificate in robotics

zubizareta:
So I just got off the phone with Egyptair customer care and they confirmed that's a pure lie.

They said the only conditions they have for students are:
Ensure your departure date is close to your resumption date.
Evidence your school fees is paid and enrolled as a student.

Hopez456:
I called EgyptAir customer care in Abuja and I was told return ticket us compulsory when your visa is less than 2 years. Which is the location did you call?

tenderjunkie:
Nothing concern airline concern your visa length.
Even if you want to book a return ticket, you can choose to do so with any airline of your choice.

The claim that Egyptair will make booking a return ticket with them compulsory is absolutely ridiculous.

No airline has that authority!

Hopez456:
Thanks bro. I know it is illegal, but what can one do.

I will however go their office soon

Gentlesoul3268:
Relax dafuturis, Conestoga only requested for $1,500 as tuition deposit and it's shows in your LOA also the deadline for your first semester fees.

I'm also going to Conestoga Brantford campus and already requested for my medical but no luck to book for my medical yet.

Call iom to get a quicker date

hillyvee:
My PPR timeline..
First-time applicant. (Did everything myself, with the help of this forum).
*Application submission - 6th May.
*Upfront medical - 8th May.
*Biometrics - 11th May. Updated same day.
*Medical request - 26th May.
*Upfront medical updated to pass - 26th June. (After a series of webforms and emails).
*BVL - 26th June.
*PPR - 27th June.

DLI: University of Saskatchewan
Program: Masters (2 years)

Tuition (2 years): 26,000 CAD

POF documents:
*Notification of Tuition deposit payment (1,000 CAD).
*Sponsor’s one-year MyBank Statement for Savings account with Bank A (15m).
*Sponsor’s one-year MyBank Statement for Savings account with Bank B (6m).
*Sponsor’s one-year MyBank Statement for Current account with Bank A (2m).
*Letter of Introduction from Sponsor’s workplace.
*Sponsor’s work ID
*Sponsorship Letter from Sponsor.
*Affidavit of Sponsorship from Sponsor.
*Sponsor’s International Passport data page.
*Fund transfer request letter to Sponsor’s microfinance bank.
*Fund transfer receipt from Sponsor’s microfinance bank account.
*Rent Remittance notification letter from rental property.
*Deed of Assignment of Property in Location A.
*Deed of Assignment of Property in Location B.
*Building planning permit.
*Sponsor’s Tax Clearance Certificate.
NOTE: I did NOT present any bank statements in my name, nor letter of introduction from my employer. Sponsor is my mother.

Client Information:
-Well-articulated and itemized SOP.
-IELTS result (Not compulsory).
-Academic CV.
-Undergrad Certificate.
-Other academic certificates.
-NYSC certificate.
-Birth certificate.
-Reference letter from my academic supervisor.
-Letter of employment from my current employer.
-Two family photos.
NOTE: I did NOT present Police Clearance/Character report cert nor undergrad transcript.

Many thanks to @Mallo27.
I pray that more and more PPR's will keep dropping.

Gentlesoul3268:
Relax dafuturis, Conestoga only requested for $1,500 as tuition deposit and it's shows in your LOA also the deadline for your first semester fees.

I'm also going to Conestoga Brantford campus and already requested for my medical but no luck to book for my medical yet.

Hopez456:
I called EgyptAir customer care in Abuja and I was told return ticket us compulsory when your visa is less than 2 years. Which is the location did you call?

zubizareta:
+234 1 271 2307

Hopez456:
@ tenderjunkie
I just left their office now at Victoria Island. The return ticket thing was confirmed to be true.

tenderjunkie:
Absolutely ridiculous!

Does visa length apply?

Gentlesoul3268:
IOM finally booked me for appointment for earliest date 30 July 2023,

I have already make a payment of 46,500 yesterday when I went to their office to complained, now I saw payment instruction that I should use my UCI # as my reference when making payment.

Well I have made the payment before gotten payment instruction.

Hope no problem or affecting my medical?