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OTSAMUEL:
Pls gurus in the house I don't know if this is normal.

I have submitted my application now it's about a month and half did biometrics but my application status is still show WE ARE PROCESSING YOUR BACKGROUND CHECK . They never reach eligibility pls is this normal or what should I do.

Iyere2023:
Please can someone make an input on this

Application submitted since 24th July
Eligibility started 30th aug
Medicals updated to pass 8th sept
It’s over 7 weeks and I am worried
I have sent countless webform, is this time frame normal?
People get medical passes and get PPR within 3days.

Guru’s please what can I do?

OTSAMUEL:
Pls I also want to ask can I do my medical after submission of application even when it is not yet ask for.

zubizareta:
If you don't have it, then you don't have it. Only the agent can give it to you. If you can't get it, register a new GCKey acct.

Bunmijab:
Thanks so much. I finally found a way to link the previous account so I have access now. But I'm not able to download the documents that were submitted and I really need to know so be very sure the documents I'll be using for my reapplication. Please how do I download?

Omoteeoye:
The power of my God is so great!

PPR landed today in a miraculous way!!!
First time applicant, my wife and I did all processing ourselves.
All information gotten from this platform.

Student visa for myself
Work visa for spouse
Visa for 2Children

Timeline
Upfront medical: 31st July 2023
Application submission: 24th August
Biometrics : 8th September 2023
Passport Request: 15th September, 2023.


Documents submitted

IELTS results for both of us
1 year full tuition with sponsor's doc for 2nd year tuition
20k cad GIC
4m POF
10k cad investment certificate
Letters of introduction from work
Appointment letters
Promotion letters
Pay slip and mbs for my salary account
Tax certificate for husband
Letter of leave approval from work
CVs


Home ties

Valuation report, like 50m worth
Loads of pictures of siblings, and aged parents
Planned business upon return to nigeria
Car particulars

Evidence of source of income does not match POF.

Friends, obviously God did it as we saw lots of errors after we submitted.


You times of laughter too is coming in Jesus name. Just put your faith in the saving power God.

Omoteeoye:
The power of my God is so great!

PPR landed today in a miraculous way!!!
First time applicant, my wife and I did all processing ourselves.
All information gotten from this platform.

Student visa for myself
Work visa for spouse
Visa for 2Children

Timeline
Upfront medical: 31st July 2023
Application submission: 24th August
Biometrics : 8th September 2023
Passport Request: 15th September, 2023.


Documents submitted

IELTS results for both of us
1 year full tuition with sponsor's doc for 2nd year tuition
20k cad GIC
4m POF
10k cad investment certificate
Letters of introduction from work
Appointment letters
Promotion letters
Pay slip and mbs for my salary account
Tax certificate for husband
Letter of leave approval from work
CVs


Home ties

Valuation report, like 50m worth
Loads of pictures of siblings, and aged parents
Planned business upon return to nigeria
Car particulars

Evidence of source of income does not match POF.

Friends, obviously God did it as we saw lots of errors after we submitted.


You times of laughter too is coming in Jesus name. Just put your faith in the saving power God.

Ugbanu:
I applied twice for study permit but the applications were refused on the basis of insufficient fund. The reason as outlined by the processing officer in the first refusal letter is as follow:

."Pursuant to paragraph 220(a) of the IRPA, I am not satisfied that you have sufficient and
available financial resources, without working in Canada, to pay the tuition fees for the course or program of studies that you intend to pursue.

• Unable to demonstrate actual financial resources available to cover the program of
studies and to pay for living expenses while in Canada"

My Varsities sent my transcripts and the faculty of graduate studies approved additional $6,200 CAD for me.

I applied for the second time and it was also refused. The reason is stated below:

"• I am not satisfied that you will leave Canada at the end of your stay as required by

paragraph R216(1)(b) of the IRPR (https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/sor-2002-227/
section-216.html). I am refusing your application because you have not established that you will leave Canada, based on the following factors:

• Your assets and financial situation are insufficient to support the stated purpose of travel for yourself (and any accompanying family member(s), if applicable)".

The following is an excerpt from the recommendation letter from the associate head of graduate studies:

"....I believe that our guaranteed financial support is sufficient for graduate students to pay their tuition fees and maintain
themselves in Winnipeg without the need for any extra funds from their home country....

Currently, our graduate program in XXXX is composed of 90% of international students (30 students) with a study permit who receive $XXXX CAD when in the MSc program and $XXXX CAD for the Ph.D. program.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require any additional information".

I attached her recommendation letter, and the application form and all supporting documents was proofread by my supervisor before the submission because he thought may be I made mistake in the first application.

The program is fully funded by an institution in Canada. I have above $26,000 CAD for the first academic year and my tuition fee is $12,648 CAD for the first academic year. The scholarship is guaranteed for 2 years. The program duration is minimum of 1 year and maximum of 4 years. My plan was to finish by the first quarter of the second year, that's within 15months and use the second quarter to prepare for my comprehensive exam so that I will start my PhD latest by fall term of the second year of my studies. I made the above calculation based on the program timetable.

Please, I need advise on what to do. My email is nguyenjohnson115@gmail.com in case you prefer to send me mail.

Thanks.

Julietogelekac:
if you are in the UK you don’t need medicals and PCC , I did mine from UK too and none of that was requested for just yet.

ExcellenceAb:
Hi everyone! Please, when traveling how do you have to change money into Dollars when moving out or your Nigerian bank statement would do the job?

Lastly, how can you transfer money from your Nigerian bank to your Canadian bank once you arrive?

Thank you for your response(s) in advance

Bobomaigida:
What is your tracker showing?

JMG12:
You should follow up with the agent, for a medical request for a study permit. It shouldn't take that long except if there are some errors in your IRCC form, don't panic, use webform to send them an email if you know the email that was used for the process, your application number and UCI should be in your biometrics letter

Emma549:
THIS IS A VERY LONG POST. I TRIED TO PUT IT TOGETHER WITHOUT ERRORS AND TOOK ME SOME DAYS TO WRITE IT.

Long post alert,
PPR and landing gist.
First of all,
Grateful to Almighty God to be able to write this because each time I open this thread and see PPRs I always look forward to the day I will also write mine and someone who is reading this will surely get PPR.
I am a strong believer of God and I can say my application was 100 percent on GOD.
Also I want to thank the guys here contributing and shedding lights, God Continually bless you guys.

First time Applicant
Family of Three,
Wife on study,
Husband on SOWP
9 months Daughter on Visit permit.

Me and my wife are both in Express Entry pool since September 2022 and wife score is 463
Mine was lower.

We were hoping the score will drop but when it got to 480 it went up back.

We didn't want to take chances based on Nigeria instability and we decided to try study.

Upfront Medicals September 2022.
Application Submitted 18th April 2023.
Wife biometrics drop 19th april,
Husband biometrics drop 20th april
We both booked Biometrics for 25th April, paid for premium lounge at VFS Lekki and we were able to capture quick.

THEN THE LONG WAIT,
This is the longest wait of our lives.
Wife medical passed 8th May,Eligibility started day.
Husband eligibility started 9th May
Medicals passed 9th May.

On status tracker
Eligibility and medicals completed for both.
Then we started waiting ooo,
A little later
Eligibility for my daughter started, and I was like what are they checking in an innocent 6months old.

After 6weeks of application we started sending emails and webform to IRCC daily,
We didn't let IRCC rest
I mandated my wife to send at least webform and email twice daily.
Infact we still got a reply to some of our webform we sent in June few days back.
It was plenty disturbance on them.

Fast forward to July 14
The Golden mail dropped.

JULY 14 PPR dropped for me and wife but medical request for our daughter,
I was happy/ angry that why will IRCC request for medicals because we were not asked to submit medicals for her in the pre application questionnaire, i was not understanding why ircc will request her Medicals, but I think getting here I came to understand that she's a special visitor because she got her visit permit at the port of entry, so I guess it's because she will be staying longer than 6months in Canada she will be mandated to do medicals.

Resumption is September 5.

Now to the struggle of how to get the Medicals done to getting her ppr and traveling together as family before September 5th.
It was alot on me sincerely. At the same time I was also planning to book flight and everyday, flight was getting expensive and expensive. Told my wife to go to iom and qlife and gate crash to see if we can do the medicals on the spot.
Told her to see and sort anyone any amount just to get it done, after series of begging and begging the earliest date for iom was july 28,
We proceeded to qlife and started looking for how to gate crash and do it as well, but after series of begging and begging and also sorting a staff 30k we were able to get July 21st appointment date.
We did medicals and started begging qlife to send results to IRCC.
They kept telling us it takes 5-10 business days.
The medicals was just a check on the baby and no blood sample was taken I was telling them since they are not culturing or testing any sample they should just forward the result to IRCC.
They no gree o
Until the after 5 business days when we called and a reasonable customer service agent picked the call, narrated the whole situation to her and she promised to push it to be forwarded.
While disturbing qilife we were also sending emails and webform to IRCC informing them we have done medicals and they should release our daughter ppr.

July 29th medical passed for daughter.

August 1st PPR dropped.

We parents sent our passport through UPS to vfs Lekki on July 20th and got email to pick up exactly 10 working days.
Sent my daughter passport through UPS to vfs abuja, paid transmission fee because she didn't do biometrics, paid for return courier fee and SMS fee. We didn't get any sms only email.

We book our flight of 4.5m for the three of us on july 25 and to travel September 6 o, very expensive!.
Let me quickly say this if you are tall like me, 1.86m, I will advise you not to book normal seat for a long journey like that. Better you pick a seat in front of demarcation where u can spread your legs..
We could not get straight flight to prince George in BC, so we only got flight from Lagos to Vancouver.
Then I book separate with Air Canada from Vancouver to prince George. About 500$ with insurance.
First flight took off at 1.40pm and landed Addis Ababa around 8pm then we were carried by bus to where we will connect our next flight from ADD to Toronto.
Ethiopian airline didnt transfer our luggage at Toronto we had to do that ourselves which was very stressful.
When we landed Toronto we saw a signpost saying new students, we lined up and was taken to where new students will get their study permit. Because we had an infant we where at the front, we were showed the self declaring machine which we input our details and a ticket print out. Took the ticket and proceeded to two border officer desk to collect our permits.
The officers searched for her name but couldn't see it because the name on her visa is her maiden name and that was because we opened the GC key account last year with her maiden name and all her documents then was in her maiden name. She asked us to sit down and the officer took our receipt and proceeded to do a system check and was nodding while checking, then she came to us and handed over her study permit bearing her maiden name to us.
She then directed us to go downstairs to get my work permit and visitor permit for our daughter.
But for the other students after collecting the print out, they will go to the next desk to get their study permit then line up to see the border officer who will ask them questions before he stamps their passport for entry. I saw where one officer asked a student to show him something on his phone, probably maybe he asked for his bank account balance I guess.
So we proceeded downstairs to and met a long queue of work permit / visit entry. It got to our turn and the border officer asked us while we were here so I told him my wife is here to study while I'm on open work permit and my daughter on visit visa, so he said my wife already got her study permit and we should just submit her study permit while mine and daughter passport alone. He didn't know my wife passport was not stamped yet. He asked us to sit and wait while he works on on the work permit after a while he called my name and then boom he has printed my work permit and also stamped our passports, but my wife quickly told him her passport as not been stamped so he requested for her passport and study permit again and then stamped it.
So I think God orchestrated it this way cos we only paid 4k out of 18k tuition and we were worried not to be asked at the POE for proof of funds even though we did globus POF for one week o.

So we joined our connecting flight to Vancouver, got to Vancouver and boarded our last flight.
Guys I must say Canada is very fine and even the city we are is so fine, there are a lot of opportunities for work, especially if your technically inclined, you go see work tire.
Please I beg you reading this, if you considering or contemplating to come to Canada, pls decide now and come fast, this is a good place to be, the system is working.
I am here now and I can categorically state that you will never regret spending all your life savings to land here.

TIMELINE
Upfront Medicals for me and wife September 2022.
Submission 18th April,
Biometrics 25th April
Medical passed for wife 8th May.
Medical passed for me! 9th May.

July 14th PPR for me and wife. Medical request for daughter.
July 20 parents passport sent to vfs
July 21 medical done for daughter.
July 29th Medical passed for daughter.
August 1st, PPR for daughter.
August 3rd, passport collection for parents.

August 21st daughter stamped passport delivered.

Departure September 4th, 1.40pm in Lagos.


Landed September 5th 11.30pm in Canada( Wednesday September 6th 7.30am in Nigeria ).

DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED.

Detailed SOP with sub headings.
GTB BANK STATEMENT OF 10M.
GTb USD account of 1800$
BUSINESS CAC,CTC and 2022 ANNUAL RETURN
2 Landed properties.
2 House and 2 landed properties from wife late father
The documents was in her Father's name we just supported with the death certificate.
My employment letter and pay slips.
Business receipts from suppliers and receipt given to clients.
Affidavit of sponsorship that I will sponsor my wife.
Letter for purpose of travel stating I will just be traveling with my wife to settle in Canada for 8 weeks and return back to my employment and business.

Pic and vehicle particulars of two cars.

Pictures of sold cars as proof of doing car business.

Throwback pictures of us in 2018.

Naming pictures of our daughter
Wedding pictures.
Education Credentials for wife.
My professional certification with COREN and my annual practicing license.
Pictures of me in work conferences and working.
2 IELTS GT and 1 Academic for me and wife.
Screenshot of business website.
Screenshot of student portal showing awards and scholarships applied to, still awaiting decision.
Invoice of 1500 CAD deposit paid.

Annual leave form showing I applied for 40 working days leave.
Pictures of wife conference done in Benin Republic and stamped page on passport.

She mentioned her Masters supervisor in SOP and also showed pictures of various seminars done with her supervisor.

Sponsorship letter stating I will sponsor wife.

Explanation of my Finances with subheadings explaining , introduction,assets and investments,employment details, personal business.
Birth certificate of daughter.
Pictures of marriage registry.




Ur post is so encouraging, God bless u real good for dis encouragement. I pray d land of Canada favors u n ur family, congratulations

Lolatomi090:
Hello pls has any one answered you yet? I'm looking to learn too.
Sorry its not an answer.

JapaPrince:
Yes you can do it and upload via the web form

Lolatomi090:
Hello please someone help, I'm trying to do an upfront after submitting my application, The hospital is asking for IME number while booking an appointment, but it's a compulsory field, what do I do?

Emma549:
THIS IS A VERY LONG POST. I TRIED TO PUT IT TOGETHER WITHOUT ERRORS AND TOOK ME SOME DAYS TO WRITE IT.

Long post alert,
PPR and landing gist.
First of all,
Grateful to Almighty God to be able to write this because each time I open this thread and see PPRs I always look forward to the day I will also write mine and someone who is reading this will surely get PPR.
I am a strong believer of God and I can say my application was 100 percent on GOD.
Also I want to thank the guys here contributing and shedding lights, God Continually bless you guys.

First time Applicant
Family of Three,
Wife on study,
Husband on SOWP
9 months Daughter on Visit permit.

Me and my wife are both in Express Entry pool since September 2022 and wife score is 463
Mine was lower.

We were hoping the score will drop but when it got to 480 it went up back.

We didn't want to take chances based on Nigeria instability and we decided to try study.

Upfront Medicals September 2022.
Application Submitted 18th April 2023.
Wife biometrics drop 19th april,
Husband biometrics drop 20th april
We both booked Biometrics for 25th April, paid for premium lounge at VFS Lekki and we were able to capture quick.

THEN THE LONG WAIT,
This is the longest wait of our lives.
Wife medical passed 8th May,Eligibility started day.
Husband eligibility started 9th May
Medicals passed 9th May.

On status tracker
Eligibility and medicals completed for both.
Then we started waiting ooo,
A little later
Eligibility for my daughter started, and I was like what are they checking in an innocent 6months old.

After 6weeks of application we started sending emails and webform to IRCC daily,
We didn't let IRCC rest
I mandated my wife to send at least webform and email twice daily.
Infact we still got a reply to some of our webform we sent in June few days back.
It was plenty disturbance on them.

Fast forward to July 14
The Golden mail dropped.

JULY 14 PPR dropped for me and wife but medical request for our daughter,
I was happy/ angry that why will IRCC request for medicals because we were not asked to submit medicals for her in the pre application questionnaire, i was not understanding why ircc will request her Medicals, but I think getting here I came to understand that she's a special visitor because she got her visit permit at the port of entry, so I guess it's because she will be staying longer than 6months in Canada she will be mandated to do medicals.

Resumption is September 5.

Now to the struggle of how to get the Medicals done to getting her ppr and traveling together as family before September 5th.
It was alot on me sincerely. At the same time I was also planning to book flight and everyday, flight was getting expensive and expensive. Told my wife to go to iom and qlife and gate crash to see if we can do the medicals on the spot.
Told her to see and sort anyone any amount just to get it done, after series of begging and begging the earliest date for iom was july 28,
We proceeded to qlife and started looking for how to gate crash and do it as well, but after series of begging and begging and also sorting a staff 30k we were able to get July 21st appointment date.
We did medicals and started begging qlife to send results to IRCC.
They kept telling us it takes 5-10 business days.
The medicals was just a check on the baby and no blood sample was taken I was telling them since they are not culturing or testing any sample they should just forward the result to IRCC.
They no gree o
Until the after 5 business days when we called and a reasonable customer service agent picked the call, narrated the whole situation to her and she promised to push it to be forwarded.
While disturbing qilife we were also sending emails and webform to IRCC informing them we have done medicals and they should release our daughter ppr.

July 29th medical passed for daughter.

August 1st PPR dropped.

We parents sent our passport through UPS to vfs Lekki on July 20th and got email to pick up exactly 10 working days.
Sent my daughter passport through UPS to vfs abuja, paid transmission fee because she didn't do biometrics, paid for return courier fee and SMS fee. We didn't get any sms only email.

We book our flight of 4.5m for the three of us on july 25 and to travel September 6 o, very expensive!.
Let me quickly say this if you are tall like me, 1.86m, I will advise you not to book normal seat for a long journey like that. Better you pick a seat in front of demarcation where u can spread your legs..
We could not get straight flight to prince George in BC, so we only got flight from Lagos to Vancouver.
Then I book separate with Air Canada from Vancouver to prince George. About 500$ with insurance.
First flight took off at 1.40pm and landed Addis Ababa around 8pm then we were carried by bus to where we will connect our next flight from ADD to Toronto.
Ethiopian airline didnt transfer our luggage at Toronto we had to do that ourselves which was very stressful.
When we landed Toronto we saw a signpost saying new students, we lined up and was taken to where new students will get their study permit. Because we had an infant we where at the front, we were showed the self declaring machine which we input our details and a ticket print out. Took the ticket and proceeded to two border officer desk to collect our permits.
The officers searched for her name but couldn't see it because the name on her visa is her maiden name and that was because we opened the GC key account last year with her maiden name and all her documents then was in her maiden name. She asked us to sit down and the officer took our receipt and proceeded to do a system check and was nodding while checking, then she came to us and handed over her study permit bearing her maiden name to us.
She then directed us to go downstairs to get my work permit and visitor permit for our daughter.
But for the other students after collecting the print out, they will go to the next desk to get their study permit then line up to see the border officer who will ask them questions before he stamps their passport for entry. I saw where one officer asked a student to show him something on his phone, probably maybe he asked for his bank account balance I guess.
So we proceeded downstairs to and met a long queue of work permit / visit entry. It got to our turn and the border officer asked us while we were here so I told him my wife is here to study while I'm on open work permit and my daughter on visit visa, so he said my wife already got her study permit and we should just submit her study permit while mine and daughter passport alone. He didn't know my wife passport was not stamped yet. He asked us to sit and wait while he works on on the work permit after a while he called my name and then boom he has printed my work permit and also stamped our passports, but my wife quickly told him her passport as not been stamped so he requested for her passport and study permit again and then stamped it.
So I think God orchestrated it this way cos we only paid 4k out of 18k tuition and we were worried not to be asked at the POE for proof of funds even though we did globus POF for one week o.

So we joined our connecting flight to Vancouver, got to Vancouver and boarded our last flight.
Guys I must say Canada is very fine and even the city we are is so fine, there are a lot of opportunities for work, especially if your technically inclined, you go see work tire.
Please I beg you reading this, if you considering or contemplating to come to Canada, pls decide now and come fast, this is a good place to be, the system is working.
I am here now and I can categorically state that you will never regret spending all your life savings to land here.

TIMELINE
Upfront Medicals for me and wife September 2022.
Submission 18th April,
Biometrics 25th April
Medical passed for wife 8th May.
Medical passed for me! 9th May.

July 14th PPR for me and wife. Medical request for daughter.
July 20 parents passport sent to vfs
July 21 medical done for daughter.
July 29th Medical passed for daughter.
August 1st, PPR for daughter.
August 3rd, passport collection for parents.

August 21st daughter stamped passport delivered.

Departure September 4th, 1.40pm in Lagos.


Landed September 5th 11.30pm in Canada( Wednesday September 6th 7.30am in Nigeria ).

DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED.

Detailed SOP with sub headings.
GTB BANK STATEMENT OF 10M.
GTb USD account of 1800$
BUSINESS CAC,CTC and 2022 ANNUAL RETURN
2 Landed properties.
2 House and 2 landed properties from wife late father
The documents was in her Father's name we just supported with the death certificate.
My employment letter and pay slips.
Business receipts from suppliers and receipt given to clients.
Affidavit of sponsorship that I will sponsor my wife.
Letter for purpose of travel stating I will just be traveling with my wife to settle in Canada for 8 weeks and return back to my employment and business.

Pic and vehicle particulars of two cars.

Pictures of sold cars as proof of doing car business.

Throwback pictures of us in 2018.

Naming pictures of our daughter
Wedding pictures.
Education Credentials for wife.
My professional certification with COREN and my annual practicing license.
Pictures of me in work conferences and working.
2 IELTS GT and 1 Academic for me and wife.
Screenshot of business website.
Screenshot of student portal showing awards and scholarships applied to, still awaiting decision.
Invoice of 1500 CAD deposit paid.

Annual leave form showing I applied for 40 working days leave.
Pictures of wife conference done in Benin Republic and stamped page on passport.

She mentioned her Masters supervisor in SOP and also showed pictures of various seminars done with her supervisor.

Sponsorship letter stating I will sponsor wife.

Explanation of my Finances with subheadings explaining , introduction,assets and investments,employment details, personal business.
Birth certificate of daughter.
Pictures of marriage registry.

ExcellenceAb:
Please, help me out with answers these? Thank you

Housings:
Good evening guys
I want to start my visa application process myself.I am booking my medicals as I want to do uprfront medicals
I want to go ahead and apply for my visa with my sister as my sponsor with a closing balance of 10million naira,I also have an offer of residency throughout my stay in canada from my elder sister which she will be writing a letter towards that notion asides this there’s no other pof no landed properties or anything.Please I want to know what are the possibilities of getting my visa.
My course is a 1year course starting in May anyways…I want to know what you guys think please.I just started my letter of explanation but I am having a problem explaining family ties..how do I prove this?

Please what documents does my sisters sponsoring with pof need to submit asides bank statement and what about my sister sponsoring accommodation?

Bobomaigida:
What is your tracker showing?

Emma549:
Sponsorship letter stating I will sponsor wife.

ekeson45:
Greetings people,
Please I need an advise on this.
I'm applying for a masters degree program course based at uni.calgary, the course requirements states that your last two years study cgpa at minimum of 3.0 can be used.
Now, I used the school excel calculations sheet sent to me which I enter my results and it is 9.05 cgpa

My concern now is that, I have 2.2(2.75) when I calculate the 4yrs study results. But I used their sheet to calculate the last two years study results I'm seeing 9.05( I think it's Indian 10 grading scale) and if calculated into 4.0 grading scale, I have 3.62cgpa.
Should go ahead to apply or send a mail to them first. Thanks for the reply in advance

Ugbanu:
I
I attached her recommendation letter, and the application form and all supporting documents was proofread by my supervisor before the submission because he thought may be I made mistake in the first application.

The program is fully funded by an institution in Canada. I have above $26,000 CAD for the first academic year and my tuition fee is $12,648 CAD for the first academic year. The scholarship is guaranteed for 2 years. The program duration is minimum of 1 year and maximum of 4 years. My plan was to finish by the first quarter of the second year, that's within 15months and use the second quarter to prepare for my comprehensive exam so that I will start my PhD latest by fall term of the second year of my studies. I made the above calculation based on the program timetable.

Please, I need advise on what to do. My email is nguyenjohnson115@gmail.com in case you prefer to send me mail.

Thanks.