Qudkom:
The rate of Refusals as become alarming however the increased rate in which applicants continue to think what works for Person A will work for Person B is equally appalling. Majority of applicants cannot distinguish;

1. Between Having the proper finances for a study program and establishing an adequate personal asset and finance portfolio.

2. Understand meeting the demands for a clear purpose of visit to Canada and Establishing good ties to Nigeria.

3. Submitting applications in a cohesive and logical manner.

4. Not understanding how to state and explain the use of a 3rd party sponsor.

5. Most importantly not understanding how to generate a solid study plan and choosing the right program and institution. Every institution in Canada pocess a unique blend of speciality a particular institution can be skilled in a particular program and pretty much basic in another. Applicants don't bother doing researches they just apply to whichever school pops up.

The VOs already understand the patterns used by Nigerian applicants right from copy and paste sop formats to basic and unnecessary supporting documents. Difficulty rate of trv application is now HARD!.

Applicants need to understand the game plan, conduct researches and understand what they are doing. When I go through applications this days I can smell a desperate applicant from a mile away and guess what I am not even a trained VO.

P.s: Always try to read up the thread before asking questions.

Nice write up and good points of advice.
But to be honest, how many of the applicant that are not desperate? Na who de sit-down apply for Canada visa just for fun?
Anyway, I pick a lot sense from your write up.

@frankrobbn1....please i need ur advice my brother apply for canada study permit in 30th April, he did pre medical and also the medical wasnt good and tby have ask to so another medical but just receive a mail or 20th June that is apication has been rejected base on insufficient financial stutus. Please wht to you advice]

Qudkom:

Per person.

Great. Thanks a lot

kvbenjamin44:


ok thanks alot
my sponsor is my elder brother
I graduated with 3.97
I wish your cousin a positive reply
would like to ask
a friend asked me to reapply again and silence my first degree
how possible is that. since i have applied before with my first degree being pronounced
13 years study gap
is it justifiable

I don't advise you to withhold any information you submitted with your previous refused application as the visa officer will go through their GCMS data base to uplift all the documents and forms submitted by you in your last application. Once this is done, you might up in misrepresentation. You've a good CGPA 3.97 why settle for a 4 years undergraduate degree 18,000CAD$ per year that is more expensive in Canada compared to a 2 years Master's program? You can check University of Saskatchewan, they offer a master's in Public health and the tuition fee (6KCAD) is favourable and the Admission process is also not stringent.

This is my advice!

Thanks fam! Noted.

JustMellow:


If you don't want your SOP to be plagiarized, don't post it rather seek the help of any knowledgeable persons you know to help vet it.

Good luck!

@frank pls my wife just track her application online and read ur process passport is ready for collection. Is dat an indication that visa is granted

Mickyade:
@frankrobbn1....please i need ur advice my brother apply for canada study permit in 30th April, he did pre medical and also the medical wasnt good and tby have ask to so another medical but just receive a mail or 20th June that is apication has been rejected base on insufficient financial stutus. Please wht to you advice]

If I understand you clearly, your brother submitted an E-medical slip along with his application. However, during an active visa processing he was instructed to undergo another medical exam right? Let me ask, how do you know that his medical exam wasn't good? Did the hospital call him to inform him about it? I know over 8 applicants who were called for medicals and was rejected starting from December 2018 till March 2019. I was thinking the Kenya visa officer's have stopped this style of calling for medicals and rejecting the application. With your brother's case, its sad to see that getting a medical request still doesn't guarantee the issuance of a Visa.

Mickyade:
@frank pls my wife just track her application online and read ur process passport is ready for collection. Is dat an indication that visa is granted

Has she been called for medicals? If no, i am afraid it's a refusal.

Senatorkolade:


Whenever I read some posts especially those made by those who have been approved, he smile. Yoruba adage says "eni Koko e ba ye lo mo lo". That he whose Cocoa husbandry is successful is an expert" whereas those that got theirs unsuccessful are not novices but victim of circumstances. A brother applied in April, he has a BSc in Animal Science and wants to go for a Dipolma in Food and Nutrition. I wrote the SOP for him and today, he is on his way to Canada but me n ko, I was refused.
If your application falls in the hands of a good VO, he/she will not hesitate to approve you even without an SOP but if you meet a sadist and racist, I am sorry, no amount of your sweet SOP will change his)her mind
JUST EQUIP YOUR APPLICATION WITH SERIOUS PRAYERS

You're totally awesome

ALT2:


Let me break it down

My tuition is 4833 CAD per year+ Living Expenses 10000CAD per year

And my sponsor is supporting me with 20000 CAD per year and MUN's financial support is 4732 CAD per year.

My SOA is just to show my persona asset in the first place.

$2,000+1.9M ($6,000 plus) isn't up to $10k.
If my calculation is not wrong, then I suggest you work on this before applying again.

Frankrobbn1:


If I understand you clearly, your brother submitted an E-medical slip along with his application. However, during an active visa processing he was instructed to undergo another medical exam right? Let me ask, how do you know that his medical exam wasn't good? Did the hospital call him to inform him about it? I know of over 8 applicants who were called for medicals and was rejected starting from December 2018 till March 2019. I was thinking the Kenya visa officer's must have stopped this style of operation. With your brother's case, its appears that getting a medical request still doesn't guarantee issuance of a Visa.

From what I gathered, when an application is submitted, it goes straight to central processing center in Mississauga, where a home Visa Officer will do the initial review. The home officer may recommend a satisfactory status for your file or otherwise at this stage and return it back to the queue online for the lead Visa Officer at the Canadian High Commission in Kenya to later pick it up for final processing. This is where the issue is. Some VOs have a style of inviting applicant for medical once they sight satisfactory remark of the home Visa Officer before they open the file for their own final assessment. Now, during the lead Officers's assessment, he/she may have his/her own issue with the application dossier like the funds issue he raised. Mind you, he has already sent out medical invite and will not hesitate to refuse the application at this stage since he/she has the final say.
Go and check your GCMS notes from the first page to the last page and confirm this story

God bless you for this! If you have a pending application, pls don't underestimate the power of prayer.


[quote author=Senatorkolade post=79578389]

Whenever I read some posts especially those made by those who have been approved, he smile. Yoruba adage says "eni Koko e ba ye lo mo lo". That he whose Cocoa husbandry is successful is an expert" whereas those that got theirs unsuccessful are not novices but victim of circumstances. A brother applied in April, he has a BSc in Animal Science and wants to go for a Dipolma in Food and Nutrition. I wrote the SOP for him and today, he is on his way to Canada but me n ko, I was refused.
I[b]f your application falls in the hands of a good VO, he/she will not hesitate to approve you even without an SOP but if you meet a sadist and racist, I am sorry, no amount of your sweet SOP will change his)her mind
JUST EQUIP YOUR APPLICATION WITH SERIOUS PRAYERS[[/b]/quote]

Senatorkolade:


From what I gathered, when an application is submitted, it goes straight to central processing center in Mississauga, where a home Visa Officer will do the initial review. The home officer may recommend a satisfactory status for your file or otherwise at this stage and return it back to the queue online for the lead Visa Officer at the Canadian High Commission in Kenya to later pick it up for final processing. This is where the issue is. Some VOs have a style of inviting applicant for medical once they sight satisfactory remark of the home Visa Officer before they open the file for their own final assessment. Now, during the lead Officers's assessment, he/she may have his/her own issue with the application dossier like the funds issue he raised. Mind you, he has already sent out medical invite and will not hesitate to refuse the application at this stage since he/she has the final say.
Go and check your GCMS notes from the first page to the last page and confirm this story

Well said Senatorkolade! I think your points are valid. Above all, there is no blueprint that works perfectly for this visa processing thingy as applicant's cases differs in spite of the fact that we try our best to gather precise details from refused applicant's GCMS notes.

Bro, it is not justifiable to silence your first degree when you even know you have stated that in your first application. And what reasonable reason will tell the VO for the 13 years study gap? Bro I will advise you go for a PGD course or for direct masters because your Cgpa is good.

kvbenjamin44:


ok thanks alot
my sponsor is my elder brother
I graduated with 3.97
I wish your cousin a positive reply
would like to ask
a friend asked me to reapply again and silence my first degree
how possible is that. since i have applied before with my first degree being pronounced
13 years study gap
is it justifiable

Amahjosh:
Bro, it is not justifiable to silence your first degree when you even know you have stated that in your first application. And what reasonable reason will tell the VO for the 13 years study gap? Bro I will advise you go for a PGD course or for direct masters because your Cgpa is good.

Dear thanks
smiles I am a female
am not a bro
lols in bobrisky voice

Thanks i appreciate
I would try to apply i hope a supervisor accepts me.
I will always keep in touch

Frankrobbn1:


I don't advise you to withhold any information you submitted with your previous refused application as the visa officer will go through their GCMS data base to uplift all the documents and forms submitted by you in your last application. Once this is done, you might up in misrepresentation. You've a good CGPA 3.97 why settle for a 4 years undergraduate degree 18,000CAD$ per year that is more expensive in Canada compared to a 2 years Master's program? You can check University of Saskatchewan, they offer a master's in Public health and the tuition fee (6KCAD) is favourable and the Admission process is also not stringent.

This is my advice!

My wife did a pre-medical and a paper application, just track online today and saw ur process passport is ready for collection. Visit VAC. what does this indicate (granted)

Thanks allot sir

@frankrobbn1, my inlaw did a pre-medical and paper application. Thy send a msg from a medical center london to repeat some test that it wasnt ok, which is about sending the on Monday but they now send a refusal mail on thursday from kenya. That he financial status is too low and do not believe he leave canada after his study. Please your advice

Frankrobbn1:


You can apply for a PGD in any of these schools - Conestoga College, Centennial college, and fanshawe college

Thanks alot

Hello! Is there anyone who is heading to Thunder Bay or knows someone already in Thunder Bay? Kindly let me know, thanks.

Was the repeated Medicals passed? If yes you can submit the slip given you with other documents when re-applying.. And for ur refusal, u will need to order for ur GCMS note to know the exact reason ur application was refused ... And also work on ur finances in ur next application cos it's obvious u were not able to convince them financially that you are capable of ur expenses while in Canada.. Peace

Mickyade:
@frankrobbn1, my inlaw did a pre-medical and paper application. Thy send a msg from a medical center london to repeat some test that it wasnt ok, which is about sending the on Monday but they now send a refusal mail on thursday from kenya. That he financial status is too low and do not believe he leave canada after his study. Please your advice

Was ur upfront medicals passed? If ur medicals was not passed before the message, am afraid it's a refusal..

Mickyade:
My wife did a pre-medical and a paper application, just track online today and saw ur process passport is ready for collection. Visit VAC. what does this indicate (granted)

I can relate to the bolded.. such is life

Senatorkolade:


Whenever I read some posts especially those made by those who have been approved, he smile. Yoruba adage says "eni Koko e ba ye lo mo lo". That he whose Cocoa husbandry is successful is an expert" whereas those that got theirs unsuccessful are not novices but victim of circumstances. A brother applied in April, he has a BSc in Animal Science and wants to go for a Dipolma in Food and Nutrition. I wrote the SOP for him and today, he is on his way to Canada but me n ko, I was refused
If your application falls in the hands of a good VO, he/she will not hesitate to approve you even without an SOP but if you meet a sadist and racist, I am sorry, no amount of your sweet SOP will change his)her mind
JUST EQUIP YOUR APPLICATION WITH SERIOUS PRAYERS

If you are heading to University of Western Ontario/Western University or Fanashawe College this fall and interested in co-sharing an apartment(to save cost) , kindly contact me.

Ur SOA is nt bad tbo.. have u paid ur school fees? If yes, then dis is very ok.. Yea choice of degree can be a problem if you fail to convince them the relationship between ur 1st degree and ur intended degree... And also if you fail to convince them how that degree can be of benefits to you in the future ... Peace

kvbenjamin44:
my SOA of sponsor is 25m
my personal soa is 2.3m
but i dont know if the choice of degree could be the problem
a second bsc degree

After astounding two years. I want this to encourage someone
Done and dusted, Graduated this April. Won 5 awards.
Paid MY SCHOOL FEES by MYSELF here so anyone saying its not possible. It is very very possible.
Work permit approved within 38 days for 3 years and also landed a good job with good pay. GOD is great

I pray for all those here that are trying their very best that God grant your heart desires.
Trust God, there is nothing he wont do.

Frankrobbn1:


Wow, this is great news! I really would like to learn from your Judicial Review journey as I am not a custodian of knowledge and always open to learn at any given time in my life. Permit me to ask you, how much did it cost you to hire an experienced immigration attorney in Canada to file for a judicial review on your behalf at the high court of Canada. More so, how long was the whole process including transferring your file to the next visa officer for reassessment down to when you got your approval.


Thanks very much at the bolded.

I'm loving this conversation. Please we await your response. Thank you.

kpizzle:
I got my PR April 17th which coincide with the same period you were preparing for ur exams. It's a day i will never forget. I have never been top or the best all my life but God and fortune has been good to me. I am going to study a dream course and I am so looking forward to it.

We are so happy to learn u are also making your way to join us in maple land. Thanks for your usual support, we appreciate you.

Please can you reply to Frank's last conversation with you as regards the JR. Thank you

glam4444:
After astounding two years. I want this to encourage someone
Done and dusted, Graduated this April. Won 5 awards.
Paid MY SCHOOL FEES by MYSELF here so anyone saying its not possible. It is very very possible.
Work permit approved within 38 days for 3 years and also landed a good job with good pay. GOD is great

I pray for all those here that are trying their very best that God grant your heart desires.
Trust God, there is nothing he wont do.

I'm happy for you! Keep it up.

God be praised!

Dera12345:
ORIGINAL PASSPORT REQUEST!!! (May applicant)

Experience is truly the best teacher, and my Canadian Sucess story made me believe the saying “EVERY DISAPPOINTMENT IS A BLESSING”!!! I know very well my story will motivate or strengthen some people never to give up in whatever that interests them, pursue it desperately like your life depends on it!! Yes I mean it.
Before I proceed, below is my timeline.

Online Application (2nd Application)
Submitted May 9th (10:57pm)
Upfront medicals passed on 11th June
Correspondence letter (today by 10:12am)
Original passport request (today by 10:32am)

This experience is my most difficult experience in life so far, I have always thought I can have anything I want in life but this Canada journey taught me that “Human beings can make any plans they want, but it’s God that decides their Sucess or failure”. I don’t even know where to begin from, but only God, Myself and @frankrobbn1 can tell my tragedy-comedy story.

So exactly a year today 20th June 2018, I submitted a paper route application and It was refused within 4weeks based on family ties, purpose of visit , personal assets and financial assets. Meanwhile, I have a Bsc in Biochemistry with overall CGPA 4.15 and last two year CGPA 4.71 , going for 2year diploma, paid tution fee $8,880cad.
when I received my refusal letter, I cried that very day like never before and till date my first refusal date 18th July,2018 still remains the worst day of my life, and the agent my parents used was just after money. After crying, knowing how bad i needed to leave this country I woke from my comfort zone and began my personal research, this was how I came across this wonderful forum and started reading up!

Through this wonderful platform I met an angel in human form, a motivator, my soulmate and my support system @frankrobbn1, may God bless you richly for me. Frank took his time to explain the errors in my application starting from advising me to secure a masters admission and that is nearly impossible to convince a VO on why diploma and not masters considering my high Gp, and secondly that my application is as empty as anything, I didn’t even submit my family’s information, no assets declared, no employment evidence and so on.

So I began my admission hunt and the devil started his work. Almost all the schools offering my course/ or related course requires a supervisor , and you know how difficult securing a supervisor can be. Some schools I contacted will tell me pump and play that I must identify a supervisor before applying while some will tell me to apply that they will assign me a supervisor once am admitted! I fell to their tricks and lost my application fee, I also tried contacting supervisors all kept turning me down. I kept sending countless mails to different supervisors in different universities all to no avail, some would always come up late with their negative mails of not having space in their lab while some will totally ignore me. I got feed up and I decided to stop sending mails but to call them on phone at least to get a straight forward response rather than waiting for their response that takes weeks and at the end must be negative. I made it as one of my daily activities to call at least 10 supervisors daily, and I did this for months!!! Even the ones that later accepted to supervise me though without funding just all of a sudden will deny even knowing me after I have submitted my application hoping I have secured a supervisor.

In general, I applied to 6 different universities in a space of 8months and all turned me down. I kept asking myself who did I offend? who is after my progress? Through this same wonderful forum I met a very nice fellow @agronat. Immediately he posted about him securing a masters admission with funding, i pm him to put me through, and that was how I realized the vital points/information missing out in my application and the reasons behind my refusals regardless of my high scores. And today am glad that my finally attempt landed me a full fulled scholarship worth $38,076CAD at BROCK UNIVERSITY ONTARIO , 2 years MSc in Biotechnology. Big thanks to @frankrobbn1 for recommending Brock University to me. I nearly craze that day (April 18th, 2019)!!! NB: the scholarship covers my tution and living expenses with extra left, I was also guaranteed a graduate assistantship position. Isn’t God great? This was when I realized that God was preparing something greater for me.

Fast forward to my visa application, guru @frankrobbn1 finished work.. I personally wrote my SOP and LOE, but when frank was done reviewing it I couldn’t recognize my LOE and SOP .. lol, he reconstructed it and was even using the VO’s terms to address every issue. He sold me well and also left the Change for the Visa officer to keep. I can’t thank you enough.., even after I submitted my visa application he took me to a church where I was given 4 days dry fasting and prayers (something I have never done in my life). I’m not the churchious type but this journey brought me closer to God and will forever remain grateful. I will be traveling to lagos next week to submit my passport and at the same time celebrate this wonderful journey that ended well. Seriously my sleep tonight will be very special after one year of dreaming of CANADA �� Lol, and to @justwise thanks for making this platform possible.

Below are the list of documents I submitted with my application:
Father sponsor.

All CIC FORMS
MY PASSPORT DATA PAGE
DIGITAL PASSPORT
UPFRONT MEDICALS
CLIENT INFORMATION;
•LOE
•SOP
•CV
•A reference letter from my supervisor
•Degree Certificate
•Degree Transcripts
•NYSC Posting letter
•NYSC Certificate
•My birth certificate
•WAEC result
•Employment letter (Written by frank , signed by my employer)
•Study leave approval letter (Written by frank , signed by my employer)
•work ID CARD
•police clearance certificate
•Picture with my parents
•HSSE professional Certificate (levels 1,2 and 3)
• social club reference letter (Written by frank)
•Deed of Gift of a four story building with a penthouse on top from Dad( Drafted by a senior advocate of Nigeria), I did the deed of gift before my application but it was back dated!
•My parent’s marriage certificate
•My family 25th marriage silver jubilee calendar as far back as 2008 . (Showing a portrait of all my siblings and my parents in the center) I was only 12years old then but I added it because we don’t have family picture.
•Siblings birth certificate
•Reference letter from my dad company stating I am one of the directors of his company existing for more than 30years now.
• My ID CARD showing am a director

PROOF OF MEANS OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT
•My full funding unconditional acceptance letter
•Affidavit of sponsorship (Drafted by frank, signed by Dad and notary public )
•Letter of sponsorship (Written by frank , signed by Dad)
•Board of resolution letter
•Dad’s international passport data page
•Dad’s Statement of account ( Bal: #113,000,000 inflow- 440M outflow-375M)
•My Personal savings acc. About eight something!
• My Dom account statement (I explained that regardless of my full funding, my father transferred the sum of $10,000Cad for my flight itinerary and other miscellaneous expenses that might rise)
•Dad’s CAC
•Dad’s company particulars of directors (showing my name as one of the directors)
•Dad’s company memorandum of association
• proof of his company shares in all my siblings name and also my mum
•Dad’s landed property, evaluation report and survey plan( I included two building, one rented and one personal building), AND three empty lands under construction)

Even though I know my application is a little bit tight, I still handed it over to God because I have seen better applications refused, or the acceptance quota being reached as rumored on the forum,I said to God that they will bang the door when it’s my time to enter, I prayed against errors which can come from the VO leading to common refusals, lol, I prayed against bad mood on the head of the VO handling my application. Prayer is the Key.

I wish all TRV hopefuls SUCCESS!!!

Congratulations dear. I am so happy for you !