On applying to study in Canada, see these discussions : https://www.nairaland.com/6415850/after-7-million-naira-savings/3#99088562
https://www.nairaland.com/6321900/canadian-student-visa-thread-part/216#98757591

On EE eligibily with your work experience, according to IRCC, you'll need to aim for a PNP https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/find-national-occupation-code.html

You did not indicate your french language abilities. A french language test is a good way to boost your score and attract more provinces to your profile.

BP291296:
Hi everybody in the house!!! I’m new on this platform, I don’t know how it works here. I have read through different immigration parts and I am very impressed. Albeit I still need advice on my case. I have B. Sc in Tourism Studies and currently rounding off my master’s in Business Administration here in Nigeria. I am a flight attendant with almost 4years experience in the same organization and about 3 years experience in customer service / sales from previous jobs. But these skills fall under the skill level C of the NOC Canadian system.

Without further ado, Below are my details.

1. Age: 32 years old.

2. Educational background
B.Sc Tourism Studies Second Class Upper 3.87
M.Sc Business Administration (in view)


3. Professional certificate:
HSE (1-3)

4. Marital Status : Single

5. Current account balance is NGN1m, 4500usd

6. Job Experience:
Flight attendant - more than 3 years
Customer service/sales rep from previous jobs - more than 3 years

7. I currently have a South African visa on my passport.


8. Sponsorship: myself

9. Family ties: father’s property and my current job

I’m in a fix currently, which immigration options would favor me more (EE or via study visa)? I hope I’m asking the right questions. And could you suggest universities or colleges I can apply to if I’m favor of study visa, I’m open to better ideas and advise too. Thanks I’m anticipation.

Hello house,

Please I want to confirm. Can I use my ND + Bsc has two certificates or it has to be ND + HND or Bsc + PGD

Thanks

confidential20:
I have some questions to ask you regarding sinp. What is the minimum CRS score required to be eligible for their nomination and also can one add spouse Post ITA. In addition, does one pof have to be in his account months before applying or you can use gifts deed. Thank you

You need at least 60 points to apply https://www.saskatchewan.ca/residents/moving-to-saskatchewan/live-in-saskatchewan/by-immigrating/saskatchewan-immigrant-nominee-program/browse-sinp-programs/applicants-international-skilled-workers/assess-your-eligibility

I don't know about adding spouse after ITA

Fund statements must show a detailed transaction history for at least three months before the date your SINP application is sent. And be in the name of the principal applicant and/or spouse only.

Theyolu:
I just got SINP ITA. Apart from reference letter, they've asked for 3 supporting docs. I can get pay slips, offer letter, bank statement but one must be govt issued such as tax or pension. In my 10yrs work experience, I don't have pension. It was only in one of my workplaces that taxes were deducted, salary was paid in cash and even that company is now defunct.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and how were you able to solve it?

Thanks

Disclaimer: I am not a SINP nominee & have no personal experience with this.

....regarding government issued proof.......

Did your employer ever make any government deductions e.g. NSITF Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund? See this link, someone suggested using the company's tax certificate.....don't know if it'll work. What about the company's CAC (corporate affairs) documents e.g. certificate of incorporation or articles of association....this will at least prove that the company exists legally and proves your job by extension....just a thought.

https://www.nairaland.com/6081746/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/7#93365948

Mmamaroon:


Disclaimer: I am not a SINP nominee & have no personal experience with this.

....regarding government issued proof.......

Did your employer ever make any government deductions e.g. NSITF Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund? See this link, someone suggested using the company's tax certificate.....don't know if it'll work. What about the company's CAC (corporate affairs) documents e.g. certificate of incorporation or articles of association....this will at least prove that the company exists legally and proves your job by extension....just a thought.

https://www.nairaland.com/6081746/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/7#93365948

No govt deductions were made except in the one which has now folded up. I'll look into CAC certificate also.

Thanks for the insight.

hillony:

From people with similar experience, it takes about 9 to 10 days after creation of the profile for it to lose its pending status.

Got mails today to check my profile. Upon checking my profile, I saw that I have gotten into the pool today. My profile was created on the 23rd of February.

If your EE profile is still showing pending, don’t worry, it will be resolved in a couple of days. Just make sure your crs score and score break down is showing. You can do that by just editing any info in your profile and re-submit. Your crs score will display just after.


Question: To those who have had their IELTS report form re-issued after EOR. How long did you get another one after change in result? Does the report number and the date of the result change? If so, does the new date on the report correspond to the date on the letter informing you of your new grade?

Good evening house.
Please I have a quick question regarding NOC code for anyone who is a Data/Business/BI Analyst (someone who doesnt deal with databases or ETL, just analytics) who's gone a bit far with their PR application or gotten PR preferably. By the role description,I know the closest is NOC 1122 but I've seen one or two provinces quoting 2172 as Data Analytics. (Forgetting 2172 is DataBASE Analysts sth sth sth)
Please which are you people using o.

Hi everyone. Is there anyone here who moved from the US to canada recently or knows someone who did?

Jenolyfavour:
It took me about 10 days. I guess maybe the volume applications.

What could be pushing up the volume at this time of no ITA’s and travel restrictions

Theyolu:
I just got SINP ITA. Apart from reference letter, they've asked for 3 supporting docs. I can get pay slips, offer letter, bank statement but one must be govt issued such as tax or pension. In my 10yrs work experience, I don't have pension. It was only in one of my workplaces that taxes were deducted, salary was paid in cash and even that company is now defunct.

Has anyone been in a similar situation and how were you able to solve it?

Thanks

I was in a similar situation. If your company has a tax document, use it. If you can get access to the company registration document, that would be fine. For cash payment, get a salary certificate which is on official letter head and stamped. If there was email correspondence between you and your employers, attach it as evidence.
Write a LOE, and if possible, indicate the website of the organisation if they have an online presence.
The main thing is for you to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have the work experience you are claiming.

Akby:
Hello house,

Please I want to confirm. Can I use my ND + Bsc has two certificates or it has to be ND + HND or Bsc + PGD

Thanks

Don't air me biko

Salary certificate? Could you please expantiate further on this? I also have a job experience in which I was paid in cash.

Queenmaker:

I was in a similar situation. If your company has a tax document, use it. If you can get access to the company registration document, that would be fine. For cash payment, get a salary certificate which is on official letter head and stamped. If there was email correspondence between you and your employers, attach it as evidence.
Write a LOE, and if possible, indicate the website of the organisation if they have an online presence.
The main thing is for you to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you have the work experience you are claiming.

Akby:


Don't air me biko

Yes you can. Please go through the entire thread to understand to whole process. Questions like this have been answered over and over again, and people may not be interested in answering repetitive questions

Hello everyone,

Based on experience and considering duration and cost, please which of the following short courses to boost crs score would you advice for a bsc chemistry graduate with 3 years work experience in banking operations?

BCS,
CIPM,
ACCA,
ICAN ATS,
CIMA,
UNILAG HRDC,
NOUN,
More recently, CIIN

ABSTRUSE:


Please send me a message on Telegram via counselor_Eze

Hello, can you add me to the telegram group too

Pls I need help, I'm on the cic website to create my new profile but I can't find the "continue to GCKey" . How else do I start?

Copy from Rhodaogunpeju

Very educated post✅

I relocated to Canada through the express entry mode 2 years ago, one major advice I give everyone is follow all the steps laid down by Canada and you’ll be fine. When they say come with proof of fund of 6million naira for a family of 3, please try to get at least more than half of that money when landing, it’ll make life easier for you. I’ll be honest with my story by sharing breakdown of life and how we survived.


One important thing to note when relocating is give yourself one year to build your foundation, I can assure you that you’ll be fine. Another is not to be lazy or proud to do any odd job, as there is dignity of labour here.


This is my story from the day I landed:

We came with more than three-quarter of the recommended POF for a family of 3. From that money, we got an Airbnb where we stayed for 2 weeks, started house hunting, found something we liked and paid 3 months rent upfront (this is to reduce the tension of looking for job to pay bills).


In Canada, most times your experience is disregarded, so people go back to school, do certifications or anything to make your credentials equivalent to Canada’s. So we knew this and gave ourselves one year to work on that while we take up minimum wage jobs. We landed in October, my husband got a job at a warehouse In November, I’m lazy and didn’t have strength for all those tasking jobs of standing especially for cashiers in Walmart and malls, so I was searching for customer service job, and luckily I got a clerk job. My husband made 2,500 while I made 2,200. Together we brought in $4,700 monthly.

This is a breakdown of our expenses:

Rent – 1250

Home internet – 65

Power (NEPA) – 59

Phone bill for both of us – 110

Insurance for our car – 145

Total – 1,629.

We budgeted 1000 for groceries (this is a lot, but it was our budget). Our total expense came to 2,629. From the $2,071 left, we saved 1500 monthly and left the rest for miscellaneous (mostly for bulk purchase or to send money home to our folks, hang out with friends, shop once in a while etc.). By the way, there’ll hardly be any emergency where you have to spend your money on hospital bills etc. as medical is free here, education is free up till secondary school except for daycare.


We enrolled our daughter in a daycare that cost almost $1000 monthly. Govt of Canada pays kids up till 18years depending on household income something called child benefit. Our daughter got 560 monthly and another quarterly payment. The govt also pays daycare subsidy for each eligible child for 640 monthly. So since the govt paid 640 to the daycare on behalf of my daughter, I only paid the balance of 360. This was funded from her child benefit of 560. She had change of 200 which was paid into an account we opened for her.


Now this is our life as newly landed immigrants, while we were doing this, I was working on my HR certifications (I’m a HR professional), while my husband was studying online for his diploma. We were both studying and working.

While in naija, we earned well, we had savings of more than 300k monthly which we put away, in a year that gave us 3.6million. After house rent of almost 700k, hospital bills, (my daughter was a regular hospital visitor, sometimes we spent 50k, 100k in hospital bills). At the end of the year, we may have about 2m left in savings. Now go back to my monthly savings in Canada of 1500 per month which is about 18,000 Canadian dollars in a year, converted to naira, that’s almost 6million naira.



This is from people doing minimum wage jobs that included overtime o. it’ll be hard and stressful, combining studies and working is stressful. The stress from a physically demanding job can get to you, my husband was stressed for the first 3 months, back pain, neck and muscle strain etc. but we persevered, he was taken care of, he had regular massages, pain killers and ointment for joint pain but overtime he got used to it, he even moved from that role to a less demanding role.

Today, we’ve completed our studies, we’ve transitioned to professional jobs, and we have more than 4k monthly in savings from our income. You can actually have same expenditure every month as most bills are fixed, you can plan well, medical is free, nothing like emergency money for hospital bills. Unlike in naija, where we bought fuel everyday as per minister of power in our house, had 2 gens, repaired gen almost every 2 weeks, spent money on mechanics due to bad road and crazy drivers etc.


I have a friend earning more than a million per month in naija, he had an accident, had to be flown to Germany for surgery, sold some of his properties as the bill was mad, he lost that job because he was away for more than 2 years, his life never remained the same, he took the money left and relocated with his family (this is for people that keep saying if they earn millions, they won’t go anywhere), remember that in naija, an emergency can send you from grace to grass. If he were in Canada, his bills would have been free, he would have had employment insurance and be able to return to work.



The reason for this post is, please if you have the means and are eligible for express entry, please don’t be discouraged, I had friends that did security work, cleaning jobs while they were writing their bank certifications exams, to Nigerians, the jobs are degrading, but here nobody send you, our cleaner for office de drive range rover sef.


Today my friends have all transitioned to professional jobs. By the way I stay in Alberta where minimum wage is $15 per hour, so anyhow anyhow you must see like 2k take home job every month, and these minimum wage jobs are not hard to find, Walmart recruits everyday, stores, customer service jobs plenty just keep at it you’ll get one.

People are losing their jobs because of covid bla bla, very true, but like I said, are you lazy? My friend in HR was laid off in April, he jejely went to get a warehouse job and in September he got another HR role. Plenty things to do if you don’t get a job easily. My husband was doing something like uber, but this was like for food, you get to deliver online orders to people, he made like $200 every week (he didn’t do it full time, only on his off days). The money we got from selling our car in naija was kept differently for a car here, when we landed in winter we didn’t want to be carrying our then 1+ daughter up and down in the cold, so we got a car immediately (a small car of about $3,000).


Today we live in our home, doing far better, infact while on minimum wage we did far better than naija sef. Baby number two is on the way, everything is free, I’m getting the best medical attention, lots of freebies for pregnant mum lol.


To conclude, don’t let anyone discourage you from relocating, but do so legally, forget pride and take on minimum wage jobs while you look for professional jobs in your field. Don’t just sit around to wait for it to come, it took some people more than a year to get one, get busy, get certified and you’ll land one. Good thing is to be eligible for express entry, you must have relevant qualifications and experience so it’s easier to search for jobs with your certificate when you land.

By the way, a lot of people live comfortably on minimum wage jobs and never transitioned to professional jobs.

chebyshev:
Hello everyone,

Based on experience and considering duration and cost, please which of the following short courses to boost crs score would you advice for a bsc chemistry graduate with 3 years work experience in banking operations?

BCS,
CIPM,
ACCA,
ICAN ATS,
CIMA,
UNILAG HRDC,
NOUN,
More recently, CIIN

Any advice on this ?

Over inspired. Thank you for the honest, blunt breakdown. We are coming soon..

Ruben225571:
Copy from Rhodaogunpeju

Very educated post✅

I relocated to Canada through the express entry mode 2 years ago, one major advice I give everyone is follow all the steps laid down by Canada and you’ll be fine. When they say come with proof of fund of 6million naira for a family of 3, please try to get at least more than half of that money when landing, it’ll make life easier for you. I’ll be honest with my story by sharing breakdown of life and how we survived.

To conclude, don’t let anyone discourage you from relocating, but do so legally, forget pride and take on minimum wage jobs while you look for professional jobs in your field. Don’t just sit around to wait for it to come, it took some people more than a year to get one, get busy, get certified and you’ll land one. Good thing is to be eligible for express entry, you must have relevant qualifications and experience so it’s easier to search for jobs with your certificate when you land.

By the way, a lot of people live comfortably on minimum wage jobs and never transitioned to professional jobs.

Ruben225571:
Copy from Rhodaogunpeju



In Canada, most times your experience is disregarded, so people go back to school, do certifications or anything to make your credentials equivalent to Canada’s. So we knew this and gave ourselves one year to work on that while we take up minimum wage jobs. We landed in October, my husband got a job at a warehouse In November, I’m lazy and didn’t have strength for all those tasking jobs of standing especially for cashiers in Walmart and malls, so I was searching for customer service job, and luckily I got a clerk job. My husband made 2,500 while I made 2,200. Together we brought in $4,700 monthly.

By the way, a lot of people live comfortably on minimum wage jobs and never transitioned to professional jobs.

hello thanks for this post it was really helpful especially with the case of job which caught my attention. Do you know if IT related jobs needs canada certification also my case is abit complicated i work in IT field for more than 4 years in Germany but due to the racial profiling I want to move my family over to canada as i have two kids also. Do you know what i need to do i dont care taking up all the minimum wage job I have done it before getting into IT and i know how it can be but I dont care it that is what i need to keep my family. Pls kindly reply me if you have any idea about this certification and again I didn't study computer science also I am more of a self taught developer

Pls is it compulsory that you state that you own a registered company in your application? Saw this online today.

Igethope:
Pls is it compulsory that you state that you own a registered company in your application? Saw this online today.

what does it cost you stating it At most 5 words. This should not even be a question to be honest.

Goodskills:


hello thanks for this post it was really helpful especially with the case of job which caught my attention. Do you know if IT related jobs needs canada certification also my case is abit complicated i work in IT field for more than 4 years in Germany but due to the racial profiling I want to move my family over to canada as i have two kids also. Do you know what i need to do i dont care taking up all the minimum wage job I have done it before getting into IT and i know how it can be but I dont care it that is what i need to keep my family. Pls kindly reply me if you have any idea about this certification and again I didn't study computer science also I am more of a self taught developer

this does not apply to everyone. IT guys get jobs easily more than anyone. A lot of people that got jobs in canada used their Nigerian experience. A friend who is also a nairalander got a job before completing 14 days isolation. Only issue is you may have to apply for hundreds of jobs before hitting the jackpot

ednut1:
this does not apply to everyone. IT guys get jobs easily more than anyone. A lot of people that got jobs in canada used their Nigerian experience. A friend who is also a nairalander got a job before completing 14 days isolation. Only issue is you may have to apply for hundreds of jobs before hitting the jackpot

Yah thanks for this...

When is the next FSW draw?

ednut1:
what does it cost you stating it At most 5 words. This should not even be a question to be honest.

It’s a 4 months old company ; totally forgot about it since have not started running it. Thank God someone shared his own experience about this. Will raise a web form immediately.

Clear history or change the browser.

oty1993:
Pls I need help, I'm on the cic website to create my new profile but I can't find the "continue to GCKey" . How else do I start?

Good evening all, pls i need a medical of family of 3 to swap within 8-12 of march . The date i have is 15th march . its urgent please help a brother . thanks [color=#990000][/color]

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ednut1:
what does it cost you stating it At most 5 words. This should not even be a question to be honest.

Igethope:
Pls is it compulsory that you state that you own a registered company in your application? Saw this online today.

Pls at what point or where do you state you have a registered company? I have one, not yet running and I’m already in the EE pool. I didn’t see anywhere to fill this details except something similar in work history (I.e self employed)

Anikulapu:
Good evening all, pls i need a medical of family of 3 to swap within 8-12 of march . The date i have is 15th march . its urgent please help a brother . thanks

If this is a remedicals request from IRCC, I think you can try calling Qife/IOM or just showing up at their premises with the IRCC request letter......... grovel and beg until they allow you...rumour has it that swaps don't work anymore...don't know if this is true.