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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by ralfudoh(m): 2:19am On Aug 21, 2019
If you are applying for fall semester, make sure you submit you application before May 1st. If its for Winter, please make sure you submit before September 1st. This allows for enough time and avoid one falling into the rush hour and being a victim of mass refusals for unnecessary and flimsy reasons. On a normal day, most of this applications would scale through. But now we have generic refusal reasons and Copy and paste gcms telling one the study plan is vague and poorly explained. I was once refused before my second app scaled through. I will kindly advise, relax, think it through, dont be in a rush to reapply, seek assistance from friends rather than agents to look at you sop and help make a checklist of documents you require. You might be omitting a key document but when you share with a friend, he will come to rescue. Dont say you can't wait, you don't have time, you dont want this year to waste, if you are so much in a rush, then try another country, CIC are like babes, grin you don't rush them, its slow and steady. Remember, nothing good comes easy. Plan well and deal with CIC/IRCC. Allow your anger calm down and you will come good.
Cheers!!!

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Mykman1202: 2:19am On Aug 21, 2019
@Frankrobbn1...
I summit on the 9th of July(paper route).
Documents Summited:
Degree Certificate
Previous work acknowledgement from my employer
New registered CAC document
Sponsor(uncle)SOA-13million.
Reference letter from my lecturer and Dean of my School, as I am going for an educational program(M.Ed)
Person SOA-3million
House document and an affidavit to support it as gift from Dad and signed by my dad
A land document on my name with survey made as its been used for plantation business.
Relationship with sponsor-my mom birth certificate and his.
Receipt of tuition deposit of 2150CAD
Admission letter from Memorial university of Newfoundland
All CIC documents
SOP
My father's SOA-not financial stable
My Sis Birth certificate
My Birth certificate
Letter of Sponsorship
Affidavit of sponsorship
NYSC Certificate
NYSC posting letter for place of work evidence
Firstbank shares documents of past years but still active.

Refused on:
ties in Canada and home
Purpose of visit
Current Employment situation.

Please help ooo...
This is my second refused Application
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by waynee2baba: 2:20am On Aug 21, 2019
Fair enough
Frankrobbn1:


I'm not saying that there won't be approval.... But, the rate of refusals will supersede the approval! From Monday until now, we have over 10 refusals on this thread with few/no news of approval..... It's a normal trend for IRCC when it comes to this peak period during school resumption.

I'm just seeing this now.

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Frankrobbn1: 2:21am On Aug 21, 2019
Nobleman61:


Thanks bro
But the problem here is this most gcms notes the reasons are same generic

This is true, you can use the ones shared on this thread to prepare for your next application. I think someone shared his note few pages ago, check back to see if you can see the note.
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Frankrobbn1: 2:24am On Aug 21, 2019
waynee2baba:
Fair enough

This guy! Always trying to win the race undecided it's my Pleasure having conversation with you on this faithful Wednesday morning.
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by waynee2baba: 2:31am On Aug 21, 2019
Frankrobbn1:


This guy! Always trying to win the race undecided it's my Pleasure having conversation with you on this faithful Wednesday morning.

Wining the race isn't everything


It's the only thing.

Gelaaaaato smiley

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Nobleman61: 2:38am On Aug 21, 2019
Frankrobbn1:


This is true, you can use the ones shared on this thread to prepare for your next application. I think someone shared his note few pages ago, check back to see if you can see the note.

Okay bro
Thanks a lot, and God bless
Now you can see what m saying,all refusals are same
Family ties
Purpose of visit
Employment situation
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by waynee2baba: 2:42am On Aug 21, 2019
Thought GCMS notes provide detailed record of an applicant file? i.e very specific reasons
Nobleman61:


Okay bro
Thanks a lot, and God bless
Now you can see what m saying,all refusals are same
Family ties
Purpose of visit
Employment situation
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Urielbam: 3:14am On Aug 21, 2019
Good morning Team,
Please any 11th June here?biometric 11th,application receive on the 13th.bvl received but no update till now.sch resumes 4th September.i am worried
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Austinpee4: 4:03am On Aug 21, 2019
Urielbam:
Good morning Team,
Please any 11th June here?biometric 11th,application receive on the 13th.bvl received but no update till now.sch resumes 4th September.i am worried
It's only normal to be anxious about the outcome and timely response of your application considering your program commencement date. However, i believe they will soon get back to you soon about your application. So hang in there, be hopefull and do all you can to be less worried.
Regards.
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by porchy(m): 4:14am On Aug 21, 2019
Mykman1202:
I summit on the 9th of July(paper route).
Documents Summited:
Degree Certificate
Previous work acknowledgement from my employer
New registered CAC document
Sponsor(uncle)SOA-13million.
Reference letter from my lecturer and Dean of my School, as I am going for an educational program(M.Ed)
Person SOA-3million
House document and an affidavit to support it as gift from Dad and signed by my dad
A land document on my name with survey made as its been used for plantation business.
Relationship with sponsor-my mom birth certificate and his.
Receipt of tuition deposit of 2150CAD
Admission letter from Memorial university of Newfoundland
All CIC documents
SOP
My father's SOA-not financial stable
My Sis Birth certificate
My Birth certificate
Letter of Sponsorship
Affidavit of sponsorship
NYSC Certificate
NYSC posting letter for place of work evidence
Firstbank shares documents of past years but still active.

Refused on:
ties in Canada and home
Purpose of visit
Current Employment situation.

Please help ooo...
This is my second refused Application.


Sorry about the refusal bro. I will like to connect. If you don't mind can you send me your whatsapp number. I also got admission into MUN and waiting for visa

Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Nobody: 4:14am On Aug 21, 2019
Urielbam:
Good morning Team,
Please any 11th June here?biometric 11th,application receive on the 13th.bvl received but no update till now.sch resumes 4th September.i am worried

What's your medical status saying?

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by porchy(m): 4:17am On Aug 21, 2019
Sorry about the refusal bro. I will like to connect. If you don't mind can you send me your whatsapp number. I also got admission into MUN and waiting for visa


quote author=Mykman1202 post=81450526]@Frankrobbn1...
I summit on the 9th of July(paper route).
Documents Summited:
Degree Certificate
Previous work acknowledgement from my employer
New registered CAC document
Sponsor(uncle)SOA-13million.
Reference letter from my lecturer and Dean of my School, as I am going for an educational program(M.Ed)
Person SOA-3million
House document and an affidavit to support it as gift from Dad and signed by my dad
A land document on my name with survey made as its been used for plantation business.
Relationship with sponsor-my mom birth certificate and his.
Receipt of tuition deposit of 2150CAD
Admission letter from Memorial university of Newfoundland
All CIC documents
SOP
My father's SOA-not financial stable
My Sis Birth certificate
My Birth certificate
Letter of Sponsorship
Affidavit of sponsorship
NYSC Certificate
NYSC posting letter for place of work evidence
Firstbank shares documents of past years but still active.

Refused on:
ties in Canada and home
Purpose of visit
Current Employment situation.

Please help ooo...
This is my second refused Application[/quote]
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Austinpee4: 5:02am On Aug 21, 2019
@waynee2baba and Frankrobbn1, both of you have very valid points. I just want to add to both views.

While it is always advisable to apply early for study permits due to various reasons one being 'pressure' on the officers to conclude on these applications by applicants as well as meeting their stipulated processing time, it is also not completely detrimental to apply later or close to resumption date especially if one has a very good reason(application) and can convince through with such application.
Applications as we all know are processsed all through the year irrespective of the resumption date. Each application are concluded based on it's individual merit and uniqueness.

Also, there are other factors that must be considered too. These applications go through different stages(security, background, eligibility checks etc)and some may completely not be at the discretion or instance of the officer untill maybe the final stage(decision making) considering the numbers of application to be concluded on to meet resumption dates. During these peak periods, the stages may not take or go through a particualr order as it would during the less application period which may lead to an officer not carefully considering all evidenced documentation presented before him/her .

Applications from our part of the world go through rigorous scruitnity to determine essentially 'INTENT'. So rather than considering the academic purposes of these applications alone as it should be, officers largerly would also consider the intent behind these applications hence different factors would be considered. (Age,year of previous study, recent activities, strong home ties etc). All these during the peak periods i would assume may not be well establised by an officer hence you see a very good application refused on a rather ridiculous reason(s).

However, it still isn't enough to say applications during these peak periods stand a high chance to be refused or that the government have reached it's quota for the year. Statistics have shown that Nigeria has about the lowest positive issuance of the study permit all round the year in recent time. This ofcourse are from obvious reasons. We are not even close to our counterparts from Asia and other part of the world who usually would stand better chance.

Having mentioned these, it is highly advisable to apply months before resumption dates. However, this does not guarentee an approval or mean that such application would be delayed or refused. The only thing i feel is that it would give an applicant sufficient time to readdress an issue in a case of a refusal or respond to a correspondence from the processing office.

So yes, both of you have made good points and they are valid. An application is processes and assesed based on it's merit but there is always and 'unknown' extra when Nigerians are involved, more so when there is an influx of applications that sometimes do not even pass the eligibility stage. It becomes difficult to see through the good ones.

Regards guys.

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Ayoola03(f): 7:02am On Aug 21, 2019
@Austinpee4, nice to hear from you again, longest time bro grin.

You have said it all but to add to your point and in my own opinion, this visa approval stuff is just by luck it's not a matter of how perfect your application is and another thing I would advise people to.always take note is do not overload your application, screen and remove all unnecessary documents, the more garbage documents you submit, the more time it takes for the VO to verify all your documents (not to talk of when we now know these VOs are impatient to review documents anymore) and also too much documents can raise a red flag when the VO notice any contradictions in some of the documents you have submitted most people dont know this can also lead to refusal. Austinpee can testify to this, in the past, we have so many people that kept their applications simple and tight with all necessary documents and they still got an approval while we that overloaded our application took forever to be approved/many was refused. Some people will include all the academic credentials of their 5 siblings starting from primary school to the highest level attained and other funny documents (I have seen an app like this).

I applied for my study visa in October 2016 against winter 2017 term, when I noticed my app wasn't approved in the last week of December, I contacted my school to defer my admission till summer, I waited till last week of april 2017 still no show from cic, I contacted my school again to defer till fall, around early june 2017, cic requested for a new admission letter in other to proceed with my app, I sent the fall admission letter and after 2 weeks, my app was approved. One of my colleagues who also had same funding package and same supervisor as me got his 1st admission letter 3weeks to resumption for fall term, he applied 2weeks to resumption and his application was approved 4days to the R-day, the guy booked his flight asap. since then, I realized everything is by grace of God. it also depends on the mood of the VO at the point of reviewing your app this is where much prayer comes in. We cant say they have reached their quota for the year, how about people from other countries? The rate at which they approve these people ehn even when their resumption date is close, they will still be approved, most times I doubt if they actually checked their documents.

For everyone still waiting for approval, be optimistic, there is nothing impossible under the sky, it has happened before and it will still happen, your case is different and God hasn't forgotten about you. I wish one day, Nigerian application would be treated with priority like all.other countries, this people even trust ghanaians more than us. More approval coming by his grace grin

PS: for those that asked me questions in the previous pages and via my email, am highly sorry I haven't responded, please kindly forgive me, i cant intentionally ignore your questions, it hasn't been easy tho but I.promise to respond asap cry.

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by mcobex: 7:19am On Aug 21, 2019
Estar400:
Hello house

Please I would like you to advice me on the best way forward with regards my husband's application.

My husband got a full PhD. scholarship from WLU and he has put forward his online application. Please see the timeline below:

Submission Confirmation - May 6
Confirmation of online application - May 6
Biometrics Collection Letter - May 7
Biometrics Completion - May 9
Medical Report letter - June 19
Medical Result - July 12
Biometrics Correpondence Letter - July 22

He is to resume 1st week of September 2019 and up until now, he hasn't received any mail to submit his passport. Also, he is yet to resign from work since he hasn't gotten the study permit confirmation and he is required to give 1 month notice in lieu of resignation.

He sent a webform last week to make inquiry concerning his application but he is yet to get any response.

Please house what do you consider the best step going forward?

1. Should he wait until the visa comes out and then email the school that he will be coming in late since he got the visa late? (that would mean resuming October)

2. Should he just ask the school to defer his admission to the Winter term (January 2020)? Would that mean getting a new admission letter and sending it to the IRCC?

3. Or should he just wait and do nothing and let the application run its course.

Please your prompt advice will be highly appreciated.

Thank you.
Let him email his school to give him more time(most schools give 14 days for students to resume after resumption), hopefully before then he will hear from CIC. Also he should send email to CIC again (to their Lagos, London, Kenya and Accra offices ) reminding them politely how far his application has gone.
Most passports will be dispatched in the next 2 weeks(it is a trend). As for the resignation, it is his choice, but it is 99% certain he will get his passport request
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Masterariyo(m): 7:19am On Aug 21, 2019
Ayoola03:
@Austinpee4, nice to hear from you again, longest time bro grin.

You have said it all but to add to your point and in my own opinion, this visa approval stuff is just by luck it's not a matter of how perfect your application is and another thing I would advise people to.always take note is do not overload your application, screen and remove all unnecessary documents, the more garbage documents you submit, the more time it takes for the VO to verify all your documents (not to talk of when we now know these VOs are impatient to review documents anymore) and also too much documents can raise a red flag when the VO notice any contradictions in some of the documents you have submitted most people dont know this can also lead to refusal. Austinpee can testify to this, in the past, we have so many people that kept their applications simple and tight with all necessary documents and they still got an approval while we that overloaded our application took forever to be approved/many was refused. Some people will include all the academic credentials of their 5 siblings starting from primary school to the highest level attained and other funny documents (I have seen an app like this).

I applied for my study visa in October 2016 against winter 2017 term, when I noticed my app wasn't approved in the last week of December, I contacted my school to defer my admission till summer, I waited till last week of april 2017 still no show from cic, I contacted my school again to defer till fall, around early june 2017, cic requested for a new admission letter in other to proceed with my app, I sent the fall admission letter and after 2 weeks, my app was approved. One of my colleagues who also had same funding package and same supervisor as me got his 1st admission letter 3weeks to resumption for fall term, he applied 2weeks to resumption and his application was approved 4days to the R-day, the guy booked his flight asap. since then, I realized everything is by grace of God. it also depends on the mood of the VO at the point of reviewing your app this is where much prayer comes in. We cant say they have reached their quota for the year, how about people from other countries? The rate at which they approve these people ehn even when their resumption date is close, they will still be approved, most times I doubt if they actually checked their documents.

For everyone still waiting for approval, be optimistic, there is nothing impossible under the sky, it has happened before and it will still happen, your case is different and God hasn't forgotten about you. I wish one day, Nigerian application would be treated with priority like all.other countries, this people even trust ghanaians more than us. More approval coming by his grace grin

PS: for those that asked me questions in the previous pages and via my email, am highly sorry I haven't responded, please kindly forgive me, i cant intentionally ignore your questions, it hasn't been easy tho but I.promise to respond asap cry.

Thanks for this. God will do it. You answered my about to be asked-question.

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by mcobex: 7:44am On Aug 21, 2019
Austinpee4:

It's only normal to be anxious about the outcome and timely response of your application considering your program commencement date. However, i believe they will soon get back to you soon about your application. So hang in there, be hopefull and do all you can to be less worried.
Regards.
Boss I sight you
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by mcobex: 7:50am On Aug 21, 2019
Ayoola03:
@Austinpee4, nice to hear from you again, longest time bro grin.

You have said it all but to add to your point and in my own opinion, this visa approval stuff is just by luck it's not a matter of how perfect your application is and another thing I would advise people to.always take note is do not overload your application, screen and remove all unnecessary documents, the more garbage documents you submit, the more time it takes for the VO to verify all your documents (not to talk of when we now know these VOs are impatient to review documents anymore) and also too much documents can raise a red flag when the VO notice any contradictions in some of the documents you have submitted most people dont know this can also lead to refusal. Austinpee can testify to this, in the past, we have so many people that kept their applications simple and tight with all necessary documents and they still got an approval while we that overloaded our application took forever to be approved/many was refused. Some people will include all the academic credentials of their 5 siblings starting from primary school to the highest level attained and other funny documents (I have seen an app like this).

I applied for my study visa in October 2016 against winter 2017 term, when I noticed my app wasn't approved in the last week of December, I contacted my school to defer my admission till summer, I waited till last week of april 2017 still no show from cic, I contacted my school again to defer till fall, around early june 2017, cic requested for a new admission letter in other to proceed with my app, I sent the fall admission letter and after 2 weeks, my app was approved. One of my colleagues who also had same funding package and same supervisor as me got his 1st admission letter 3weeks to resumption for fall term, he applied 2weeks to resumption and his application was approved 4days to the R-day, the guy booked his flight asap. since then, I realized everything is by grace of God. it also depends on the mood of the VO at the point of reviewing your app this is where much prayer comes in. We cant say they have reached their quota for the year, how about people from other countries? The rate at which they approve these people ehn even when their resumption date is close, they will still be approved, most times I doubt if they actually checked their documents.

For everyone still waiting for approval, be optimistic, there is nothing impossible under the sky, it has happened before and it will still happen, your case is different and God hasn't forgotten about you. I wish one day, Nigerian application would be treated with priority like all.other countries, this people even trust ghanaians more than us. More approval coming by his grace grin

PS: for those that asked me questions in the previous pages and via my email, am highly sorry I haven't responded, please kindly forgive me, i cant intentionally ignore your questions, it hasn't been easy tho but I.promise to respond asap cry.

Greetings Ma'am, congratulations on your graduation
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by mcobex: 7:51am On Aug 21, 2019
Austinpee4:
@waynee2baba and Frankrobbn1, both of you have very valid points. I just want to add to both views.

While it is always advisable to apply early for study permits due to various reasons one being 'pressure' on the officers to conclude on these applications by applicants as well as meeting their stipulated processing time, it is also not completely detrimental to apply later or close to resumption date especially if one has a very good reason(application) and can convince through with such application.
Applications as we all know are processsed all through the year irrespective of the resumption date. Each application are concluded based on it's individual merit and uniqueness.

Also, there are other factors that must be considered too. These applications go through different stages(security, background, eligibility checks etc)and some may completely not be at the discretion or instance of the officer untill maybe the final stage(decision making) considering the numbers of application to be concluded on to meet resumption dates. During these peak periods, the stages may not take or go through a particualr order as it would during the less application period which may lead to an officer not carefully considering all evidenced documentation presented before him/her .

Applications from our part of the world go through rigorous scruitnity to determine essentially 'INTENT'. So rather than considering the academic purposes of these applications alone as it should be, officers largerly would also consider the intent behind these applications hence different factors would be considered. (Age,year of previous study, recent activities, strong home ties etc). All these during the peak periods i would assume may not be well establised by an officer hence you see a very good application refused on a rather ridiculous reason(s).

However, it still isn't enough to say applications during these peak periods stand a high chance to be refused or that the government have reached it's quota for the year. Statistics have shown that Nigeria has about the lowest positive issuance of the study permit all round the year in recent time. This ofcourse are from obvious reasons. We are not even close to our counterparts from Asia and other part of the world who usually would stand better chance.

Having mentioned these, it is highly advisable to apply months before resumption dates. However, this does not guarentee an approval or mean that such application would be delayed or refused. The only thing i feel is that it would give an applicant sufficient time to readdress an issue in a case of a refusal or respond to a correspondence from the processing office.

So yes, both of you have made good points and they are valid. An application is processes and assesed based on it's merit but there is always and 'unknown' extra when Nigerians are involved, more so when there is an influx of applications that sometimes do not even pass the eligibility stage. It becomes difficult to see through the good ones.

Regards guys.
Good to see you here again bro, welcome back
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Vesment: 7:55am On Aug 21, 2019
asin nigerians or in general? cos i can still see indians getting accepted even from 25th july

Frankrobbn1:


Believe it or not. IRCC has reached their quota for the fall term 2019. Any pending Application that hasn't received a medical invite/update since June is likely to be turned down with flimsy/generic reasons. I'm giving my points based on the vast experience I have enjoyed in this process.
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Ayoola03(f): 8:22am On Aug 21, 2019
Thanks boss!


mcobex:
Greetings Ma'am, congratulations on your graduation

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Blema111: 8:39am On Aug 21, 2019
Vesment:
asin nigerians or in general? cos i can still see indians getting accepted even from 25th july


As in those people’s own they fear me...I’m June 14, still waiting. I can’t defer yet until 17th Sept.
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by jesudaughter(f): 8:43am On Aug 21, 2019
Hello,

Please have you heard from. UNBC?

Bella25:




Hello good afternoon...please how long will it takes before UNBC can grant someone admission? It’s been a month now and haven’t heard from them about my admission status
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Urielbam: 8:56am On Aug 21, 2019
Thebushboy:

How do I check that?I just linked my account yesterday
What's your medical status saying?
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Piecoco: 8:58am On Aug 21, 2019
Frankrobbn1:


Congratulations on your approval. This isn't something you should worry about.

For those that are currently facing this or in future will encounter this simply send a CSE to Kenya, Nairobi Immigration office and you will receive the introduction letter updated on your MyCIC Account within 24 hours.

I HAVE BEEN APPROVED OF MY VISA, BUT I AM YET TO RECEIVE AN INTRODUCTION LETTER ON MYCIC ACCOUNT

Below is a drafted sample mail by me that you can send to the Kenya Immigration office;

Hello Respected Sir/Ma,

I hope this mail meets you well. My name is XXXXXXXX , I am a successful Canadian study visa applicant. I write to inform you that my application was approved on DD/MM/YYYY and my visa has also been appended on my passport. However, I haven't received an official introduction letter from your office which I am to submit to the immigration officer at the point of entry into Canada and that troubles me a lot as my course intake is drawing near, and my flight has already been booked for DD/MM/YYYY.

Kindly assist me with this issue and expedite the processing of my introduction letter. I do not want to miss classes and the orientation week as that would make it difficult for me to adjust later, putting into account the difficulty of settling down in a new country as an international student.

I am looking to getting your immediate and positive response.

High Regards,


XXXXXXXXXX

Contact info via Webform : https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/case-cas-eng.aspx?mission=Nairobi

Contact the Nairobi Immigration office via this email: nrobi-immigration@international.gc.ca

The subject of the mail should bear URGENT, along side the applicant's FULL NAME, UCI NUMBER, APPLICATION NUMBER AND DATE OF BIRTH.


I hope this helps
Frankrobben1

Good morning bro, please I really need your help. Have gotten an offer letter from memorial University, I need you to put me through on the visa process. I just sent you an email �. Thanks �
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by waynee2baba: 9:02am On Aug 21, 2019
Vesment:
asin nigerians or in general? cos i can still see indians getting accepted even from 25th july

Blema111:


As in those people’s own they fear me...I’m June 14, still waiting. I can’t defer yet until 17th Sept.

Indians usually apply via a newly launched programme called SDS (Student Direct Stream)

They need to meet three rules:

1. The students are required to obtain 6 bands in each module in IELTS test to apply visa under SDS program.

2. The students are required to deposit entire tuition fee of the first year at the Canadian institution instead of semester fee. The institution either college or university should possess valid Designated Learning Institution (DLI) number.

3. The student should obtain GIC (Guaranteed Investment Certificate) of $10,000.

It generally speeds up the processing time for them. Other nationals that are eligible include China, Philippines and Vietnam.

Others that do not meet the aforementioned rules apply via Non-SDS. The average processing time for Non-SDS is usually lengthy.

This SDS scheme will ensure they have good English skills, no stress of earning and paying first year fees (GIC) It generally brings better prepared students to Canada and eliminates the pool of low-skilled workers.

If this kind of programme is introduced in Nigeria, not everyone can meet the strict rules. Now you see why some of their applications are processed faster smiley

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Frankrobbn1: 9:13am On Aug 21, 2019
Austinpee4:
@waynee2baba and Frankrobbn1, both of you have very valid points. I just want to add to both views.

While it is always advisable to apply early for study permits due to various reasons one being 'pressure' on the officers to conclude on these applications by applicants as well as meeting their stipulated processing time, it is also not completely detrimental to apply later or close to resumption date especially if one has a very good reason(application) and can convince through with such application.
Applications as we all know are processsed all through the year irrespective of the resumption date. Each application are concluded based on it's individual merit and uniqueness.

Also, there are other factors that must be considered too. These applications go through different stages(security, background, eligibility checks etc)and some may completely not be at the discretion or instance of the officer untill maybe the final stage(decision making) considering the numbers of application to be concluded on to meet resumption dates. During these peak periods, the stages may not take or go through a particualr order as it would during the less application period which may lead to an officer not carefully considering all evidenced documentation presented before him/her .

Applications from our part of the world go through rigorous scruitnity to determine essentially 'INTENT'. So rather than considering the academic purposes of these applications alone as it should be, officers largerly would also consider the intent behind these applications hence different factors would be considered. (Age,year of previous study, recent activities, strong home ties etc). All these during the peak periods i would assume may not be well establised by an officer hence you see a very good application refused on a rather ridiculous reason(s).

However, it still isn't enough to say applications during these peak periods stand a high chance to be refused or that the government have reached it's quota for the year. Statistics have shown that Nigeria has about the lowest positive issuance of the study permit all round the year in recent time. This ofcourse are from obvious reasons. We are not even close to our counterparts from Asia and other part of the world who usually would stand better chance.

Having mentioned these, it is highly advisable to apply months before resumption dates. However, this does not guarentee an approval or mean that such application would be delayed or refused. The only thing i feel is that it would give an applicant sufficient time to readdress an issue in a case of a refusal or respond to a correspondence from the processing office.

So yes, both of you have made good points and they are valid. An application is processes and assesed based on it's merit but there is always and 'unknown' extra when Nigerians are involved, more so when there is an influx of applications that sometimes do not even pass the eligibility stage. It becomes difficult to see through the good ones.

Regards guys.

Your viewpoints are well appreciated! Thanks for coming through today! Your presence is highly respected
Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by Frankrobbn1: 9:18am On Aug 21, 2019
Ayoola03:
@Austinpee4, nice to hear from you again, longest time bro grin.

You have said it all but to add to your point and in my own opinion, this visa approval stuff is just by luck it's not a matter of how perfect your application is and another thing I would advise people to.always take note is do not overload your application, screen and remove all unnecessary documents, the more garbage documents you submit, the more time it takes for the VO to verify all your documents (not to talk of when we now know these VOs are impatient to review documents anymore) and also too much documents can raise a red flag when the VO notice any contradictions in some of the documents you have submitted most people dont know this can also lead to refusal. Austinpee can testify to this, in the past, we have so many people that kept their applications simple and tight with all necessary documents and they still got an approval while we that overloaded our application took forever to be approved/many was refused. Some people will include all the academic credentials of their 5 siblings starting from primary school to the highest level attained and other funny documents (I have seen an app like this).

I applied for my study visa in October 2016 against winter 2017 term, when I noticed my app wasn't approved in the last week of December, I contacted my school to defer my admission till summer, I waited till last week of april 2017 still no show from cic, I contacted my school again to defer till fall, around early june 2017, cic requested for a new admission letter in other to proceed with my app, I sent the fall admission letter and after 2 weeks, my app was approved. One of my colleagues who also had same funding package and same supervisor as me got his 1st admission letter 3weeks to resumption for fall term, he applied 2weeks to resumption and his application was approved 4days to the R-day, the guy booked his flight asap. since then, I realized everything is by grace of God. it also depends on the mood of the VO at the point of reviewing your app this is where much prayer comes in. We cant say they have reached their quota for the year, how about people from other countries? The rate at which they approve these people ehn even when their resumption date is close, they will still be approved, most times I doubt if they actually checked their documents.

For everyone still waiting for approval, be optimistic, there is nothing impossible under the sky, it has happened before and it will still happen, your case is different and God hasn't forgotten about you. I wish one day, Nigerian application would be treated with priority like all.other countries, this people even trust ghanaians more than us. More approval coming by his grace grin

PS: for those that asked me questions in the previous pages and via my email, am highly sorry I haven't responded, please kindly forgive me, i cant intentionally ignore your questions, it hasn't been easy tho but I.promise to respond asap cry.


Thanks for your insightful information. I am delighted to see you as well the pioneer members of this great forum.

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Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by ebby29: 9:20am On Aug 21, 2019
Thank you so much Mr Frank, I already shared my details last night sir.
Frankrobbn1:

Hello ebby29,

I can really understand how disheartened and depressed you're at this point after been rejected for the third time.

However, I would like you know that few people have achieved success by trying once and most people who have achieved success in their various applications is because they have tried multiple times. The more you try, the more chances you give yourself of succeeding. Even Rome itself, wasn’t built in a day. Giving up signifies that you no longer believe in your capabilities and strengths. Giving up means that you are not ready to learn from your mistakes. Giving up means that you have accepted defeat. Instead, carry on with the struggle, put more effort, avoid the wrong turns that you made before and appreciate the fact that no Application, absolutely no Application, is perfect!

Always remember, that for you to be successful, you must believe in yourself even when things are not working out as planned!

Share me your profile here. Let's see how it goes in your next Application! My sincere apologies to those that were recently refused of their Visas.

It shall end in praises for everyone.

Re: Canadian Student Visa Thread Part 16 by beverlyd: 9:22am On Aug 21, 2019
waynee2baba:
How does Writer, Graphics Artist, Website Designer relate to Psychology? sad Purpose of visit and your SOP has grammatical issues

Sorry Wayne, i think i might have posted this under your name and not under the intended person who posted his letter.

Hello House,

Quite a very long time. I have observed that most rejection letters now come with ties in Canada and in home country and this gives me a bit of concern because i have not been able to establish what they could mean by ties in Canada and it seems we also do overlook that in our contributions. Two different people i saw their rejection reason as tie in Canada, one had a sibling studying in Canada and the other does not have anyone in Canada but what i noticed they have in common was employment situation....(not currently employed at the time or just had internships as experience. What do we think about this ties in Canada house? any contribution to help others would be great. The last time i visited this thread was sometime in 2017 when i got my study visa and moved to Canada. I will also encourage others who received their visas to share detailed information on what they applied in their application, how they tackled their letters of explanation, their previous courses and courses they went for. If it is a one year or two year program etc. It makes more sense for people to connect with that than just coming to share your time line and receive congrats. It would be helpful if you can present them the same way people who are rejected present their cases.

-----with respect to your Letter of explanation....It could have contributed to your rejection. I like the way you were detailed or documented things you used for anyone to see at a glance as well as detailing equivalent value in dollars. Still retain that on your next application. I think you probably missed it trying to tie graphic writing, web designing etc with psychology. It is not very convincing. It doesn't make a lot of sense how a knowledge in psychology will help boost your business in graphic design or the likes you have mentioned. It would make more sense if you were using knowledge of psychology for organization management. In essence, your aim would rather be to obtain that knowledge to help you improve staff relations, customer relation, team building, your entire organization to boost growth and get it to an international standard you may be seeking. To help your business or organization stand out among its competitors.

Viewing this from the angle you have tackled it, I would probably have chosen a different course that is not psychology.Perhaps, something like business analytics, business analysis, even strategic management would be more suitable in this case. So consider re-writing your letter to fit into the previous suggestion or choose a different course that aligns more with your intentions.

Goodluck

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