₦airaland Forum

DTravel:
Hello House. I am sharing the current state of my application and want to join the conversation during this my second application. Find details of my process so far.

1st Application:

Upfront Medicals Booking: 16 August 204
Upfront Medical at Q-life: 23 August 2024
Study permit Submission date: 06 Sept 2024
Biometric Collection Letter: 07 Sept 2024
Biometric Date: 11 Sept 2024
Biometrics updated: 13 Sept 2024
Rejection letter: 22 October 2024
Eligibility and background check updated on 23 October 2024

I ordered GCMS notes within a week of rejection and that came out 20 November. It said my study plan was vague and it wasn't clear how the course would progress my career goals.
I updated my personal statement with one page on study plans, how it affects my career, etc. I added another page for family ties and return plans to Nigeria. I also added my business ownership documents and family business shareholding. I requested deferment from the college and got new LOA and PAL (2025 PAL received 05 February)

2nd Application:
Application date: 13 February
Biometrics updated automatically
Medical Passed via platform update: 26 February

Kaykaychizzy:
Good day Bro. Please which intake did you defer your admission to? May or September 2025?
I submitted my application on 19th February and biometrics done on 20th February. I'm for May intake and patiently waiting for a good news soon.

DTravel:
Hello kaykay. I am female btw.

I am going for May 2025 session. The school has informed me, if visa doesn’t drop by April, I can defer to Sept 2025. Good luck. We are waiting together.
Oh! My apologies for assuming your a male 😁.
That's great and hopefully visa drops for us before May and good luck to you too.

DTravel:
Hello kaykay. I am female btw.

I am going for May 2025 session. The school has informed me, if visa doesn’t drop by April, I can defer to Sept 2025. Good luck. We are waiting together.

Oh! My apologies for assuming your a male 😁.
That's great and hopefully visa drops for us before May and good luck to you too.

DTravel:
Hello kaykay. I am female btw.

I am going for May 2025 session. The school has informed me, if visa doesn’t drop by April, I can defer to Sept 2025. Good luck. We are waiting together.

Kaykaychizzy:
Good day Bro. Please which intake did you defer your admission to? May or September 2025?
I submitted my application on 19th February and biometrics done on 20th February. I'm for May intake and patiently waiting for a good news soon.

Amadioha02:
How is it going with you guys over here ? Been a minute. My cuzzo got a refusal yesterday. I was helping him with his study permit. Did his biometrics on Friday,got a refusal on Monday. Crazy work. I know lot of you really wanna come here , but take into consideration that US elections,a lot of issues too. Canada is going to have a new prime minister this year too. They’re not immigrant friendly at the moment. Follow the news, this year is gonna be tough. It ain’t like before when thousands were coming in. I wish you all good luck. But remember, the chances are very slim now. More reason why you shouldn’t procrastinate . Just do it…,at the right time too

Zihno:
Same timeline here

Submission was Feb 16
Biometrics updated Feb 20th
No update since

Kaykaychizzy:
Yeah no update yet but I'm hopeful there will be soon. I trust God to do it.

Zihno:
How's this possible? How did someone whose biometrics was completed on 20th get rejected on the 23rd?

Amadioha02:
well it happens and it happened. Not everyone is on Nairaland to share their stories

Zihno:
Since you're going for May, why didn't you do upfront medicals?

Kaykaychizzy:
I did my medicals last year September but couldn't meet up with the submission last year due to some documents I needed to get.

EseFUF:
Make sure you check the expiry date for your PAL so you can apply for your visa before the expiration date. If you have built you bank account up to 4 months you can start your visa application .

EseFUF:
Hello, please what's the process of applying for SWOP.
How did you go about it?

Emma549:
I am back to this thread to give you my people latest update.

We are now PRs.
As i write this, My wife is still a student but now a DOMESTIC STUDENT.

SAME GOD!!!!!!!
he did the study permit for us and in less than a year of entering this land he gave us our Permanent Residency.

We had a strategy and God helped us.
Getting here as a COREN Registered Electrical engineer from Nigeria, I looked around and discovered it’s easier to get PR with Trade skills and so i started my ELECTRICIAN trade pursuit, applied to challenge the interprovincial RED Seal exam,
Got approved to write the exam within 2 years and four attempts.
I researched for Red seal past questions online and discovered it was a tough one, i went to the college on my city and requested to see the instructor of the trade for level 4 apprentices, He recommended the CSA online electrical practice exam 1 year subscription, which i paid $90 for.
Sincerely, chances that an uneducated Nigeria Electrician will pass the exam is almost zero as me as a University graduate of the electrical engineering studied hard to prepare for the exam,
It took me five months to prepare and i passed on my first attempt.(pass mark is 70%).
The Red seal gave me 50point in my CRS score and got ITA for PR.

The PR journey story is long and i cant cover all in a single writing.
If you will want to get more details or guide you can always send me a message. I will be glad to assist




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.

Predator188:
Study permit extension should be made 30days before expiry of the permit,But there is no how your study permit has expired before a decision is made,it is still valid until a decision is made on the application, as long as it is not restoration of status.
If you decide to make another application, it may require you to apply for a restoration of status and pay the correct fees.
Study permit extension applied together with SOWP takes 5 to 6 months for a decision to be made, your spouse must have received authorisation to continue work until a decision is made on the application on maintained Status if applied for work permit.
I suggest send new LOA to IRCC if on same DLI continue studying till a decision is made,updated bank statement not necessarily needed.

Emma549:
I am back to this thread to give you my people latest update.

We are now PRs.
As i write this, My wife is still a student but now a DOMESTIC STUDENT.

SAME GOD!!!!!!!
he did the study permit for us and in less than a year of entering this land he gave us our Permanent Residency.

We had a strategy and God helped us.
Getting here as a COREN Registered Electrical engineer from Nigeria, I looked around and discovered it’s easier to get PR with Trade skills and so i started my ELECTRICIAN trade pursuit, applied to challenge the interprovincial RED Seal exam,
Got approved to write the exam within 2 years and four attempts.
I researched for Red seal past questions online and discovered it was a tough one, i went to the college on my city and requested to see the instructor of the trade for level 4 apprentices, He recommended the CSA online electrical practice exam 1 year subscription, which i paid $90 for.
Sincerely, chances that an uneducated Nigeria Electrician will pass the exam is almost zero as me as a University graduate of the electrical engineering studied hard to prepare for the exam,
It took me five months to prepare and i passed on my first attempt.(pass mark is 70%).
The Red seal gave me 50point in my CRS score and got ITA for PR.

The PR journey story is long and i cant cover all in a single writing.
If you will want to get more details or guide you can always send me a message. I will be glad to assist




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.

bullstriker:
It is acceptable to apply a day before your permit expires. Applying 30 days before the expiration of your permit is just a recommendation.
You can only update them with the new LOA if you have completed your current program; otherwise, wait for them to make a decision on your application and then apply for another one with your new LOA.
The field of study requirements does not apply to your current program since you started before the policy was implemented. It applies to people who submitted their study permit after November 1, 2024. So, you are eligible for PGWP with your current program, and you can get 3yr PGWP if you do an additional 1yr program that meets the field of study requirements
Their application will be approved with yours.

dzionyte:
Hi guys, I submitted an application recently, however, I noticed when I was asked to put in my name I saw Family name (surname) then given Name ( First name) singular so I used only surname and first name, but all my documents has middle name and it didn't use middle name all. So my question is

1. Does it matter?
2. If it matters, what can I do to correct it.