₦airaland Forum

salford1:
The amount always looks good on paper before deductions i.e. mandatory: Federal & provincial taxes, EI, CPP & non-mandatory depending on employer (union dues, ReSp, life/dental&health/disability etc).

In addition, it's not just OT, when you earn big wages either from single or combined earnings, you pay huge taxes too. As a result, the child benefit, GST/HST credit and all other credits tends to zero . Hence, it is advisable for any one not currently making much to get all eligible credits from the government because once the income starts crossing a certain threshold, no more government support again or the support starts approaching zero.

On the bright side, we can see where some of the tax and other deductions are being spent e.g. universal healthcare, child benefits, infrastructure spending, CERB, CEWS, and all other safety net programs. In Nigeria my fatherland, I don't even think we see the use or benefits of the shikini tax dem dey collect sef except for the fat wages of political office holders.

Absolutely! That’s why I feel this system does not encourage hard work most times.

Scandinavian02:
I got one with BMO but they expected someone like me who has spent 12 years in all aspects of Banking in Nigeria to begin afresh as a Customer Service Rep working just 25hours a week a family of four to provide for. I just continued with my Customer Service survival job where I do an average of 65 hours weekly including OT.

The tax system just makes nonsense of working OT. How can one be paying $330 out of every $1,0000 worked? 33 freaking percent. This is where I miss Naija sha.

godG:
Hahaha, thank you. But Ottawa is 4hrs+ drive from Toronto na.

I know but I was recommending a small city outside Toronto. No qualms

godG:
Oga Salford1 and other elders, please I need recommendations on cities or towns that are within 50 minutes drive from the GTA. I am looking for somewhere not too crowded (Very important, I’m not a fan of big cities. ) and quite safe. I have done quite a great deal of research myself but thought it won’t be a bad idea to seek further insights from elders who know this place more than I do. Thank you!

The ideal city for you would be Ottawa then.

adesbaba:
How about Banking jobs in Calgary.... How easy is it getting in either as a relationship manager or their customer service role based on previous experience as a teller,fund transfer officer,Accountant and Marketer sir

I got one with BMO but they expected someone like me who has spent 12 years in all aspects of Banking in Nigeria to begin afresh as a Customer Service Rep working just 25hours a week a family of four to provide for. I just continued with my Customer Service survival job where I do an average of 65 hours weekly including OT.

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Teni14:
Congratulations. May you find God's a favour in your new country.

Please can you share contact of the Musibau that sells the light weight bags.
Thank you.

+234 703 465 2303
Musibau

Dear all,

I am looking at renting a one room in a two bedroom apartment on Baseline/Navaho in Ottawa. It is a spacious suite with several shopping mall within the neighbourhood, 5 minutes trekking distance to Algonquin college. The details are as follows:

Price: $700 (All inclusive)
Amenities: bath, fridge and stove
Duration: short term (3 months subject to renewal)
Move in date: May 01, 2020.

Kindly send a pm if you’re interested.

NB: I have taken this one year lease in anticipation of my family coming in May. However, they won’t be coming till September hence the reason to sublet.

Larryndelaw:
Let me tell you. The case is the guy against cross River and not against the fed govt. Go and read the case very well. Also it was the chief Justice of cross river that initiated the case. If the case is against the federal government while trying him in cross River? Why is federal government name not mentioned in the case.
Think bro. The governor is a fool

This one spoke boldly from an ignorant position. A case that is clearly between FGN vs Agba Jalingo on the court papers is what you are whining about? Shameful!

Dear all,

Please who does anything about RPM group here in Ottawa, Canada?

I was invited for an interview by call and later sms and I’m thinking it’s like GNLD scam in Nigeria.

Teni14:
Congratulations. May you find God's a favour in your new country.

Please can you share contact of the Musibau that sells the light weight bags.
Thank you.

+234 703 465 2303

lanregal:
congratulations to you and yours. Did you do your landing at Montreal as express entry PR or you got PR for Quebec? Thought one couldn't land there as a first PR. Please she'd more light on this.

Express Entry-FSW

We don’t have Quebec PR.

Kekereekun123:
not true. A pnp can land anywhere and use bus or rail

Thank you.

Landing Gist!
Lagos-Cassabalanca- Montreal - Ottawa 18-01-2019

We decided to use this route because the Royal Air Maroc to Cassablanca was relatively cheap and we can also get to Ottawa in 2 hours by bus. The flight itinerary was:
Lagos to Cassablanca - 6:30 to 11am
Cassablanca to Montreal - 5pm to 7pm (Montreal time )

Since my wife was doing soft landing we decided to take the children to my parent’s house after school on Friday and also show one of my boys where to bring the car after dropping us at the Airport on Saturday 18/01 but my mum would not hear anything like she not coming to the airport since we are going to leave by 2.am. I tried to prevail to her that I have already made arrangements for who would drop us off and come back to drop the car and all that. She insisted she would follow us and that’s her tradition for all her children. We left to complete our packing at home, do our scaling and worship and at past 1am mum drove into our home so we can all leave by 2am.

We arrived MMIA at about 3am with 4 Nos 23kg Musibau’s bags, 2 hand luggage and one laptop bag which was fully stuffed. We had a total of 7 bags, my wife bought a big travelling bag she called hand luggage and they refused to accept it cos it won’t go into the upper compartment, so we had to buy a small GMG for #700 and moved her things there.

Once the Agric guys sighted us at MMIA, they requested we moved our bags to their section and since I was travelling with a lot of foodstuff, I paid #2000 and got receipt.

We proceeded to weigh our bags and noticed some even weighing as much as 26kg sef Mogbeee. This woman has killed me with load! Na so we start permutations and combinations and finally arrived at:
First Musibau’s bag: 23.8kg
Second: 23.6kg
Third: 23.8kg
Last: 23.4kg
Hand luggage 1: 10.2kg
Hand luggage 2: 10.4kg
Backpack that had our laptops wasn’t weighed. We sha checked them in and squared the woman 1k. When I turned to leave, one of them asked why I had hand luggage and backpack and called the woman I already squared 1k, she just told me in case of next time, don’t do it ooooo.

Gave customs #200 and immigration #400. Wifey already changed plenty #200 for them sef.

Boarded at about 5am and you can’t be in Naija without any sort of drama at all, we noticed that the upper compartment was full to the brim and this man was seated at 13C had his luggage in the compartment of a woman on 16B, she say she no go gree oo and kassala bursted cos there was no where for her hand luggage. The man and woman begin fight and abuse each other till crew enter come separate them. The flight to Cassablanca was uneventful as plane was an old one and the food was crappy. Thank God we had our snacks although I enjoyed their yogurt sha. We landed Cassablanca at about 11am and the weather was so nice at 18degrees+sunshine.
We stayed at the lounge with WIFI till 4pm when we boarded our 8-hour flight to Montreal.

We took off at about 5.45pm and touched down Montreal at 7.45pm (Montreal Time). The plane was newer bigger and more comfortable. It was a boing 747 or so with a screen for each person, I watched BODYGUARD, SALT then blasted jams from my village sister Celina Odiong (Celine Dion) and slept off. The food was just there but I enjoyed the snacks and drinks. In Montreal, I loved the English and French interplay, almost every official could speak both, once they speak French and you respond in English, they switch to English. We joined the queue and uses the self service point to scan our passports and complete the declaration, got our printout and moved to Immigration. They officer then beckoned us to Border service but we missed that and rather went to the carousel for our luggage, after getting our luggage, we went through other checks and saw ourselves facing exit from airport, na so I shout madam, dem never sign our COPR and see us going out of the airport, village people cannot win me when I don reach Canada, We made a U-turn and guys, these people are very helpful, everyone wants to assist you. We explained to an officer who was so shocked to see us get to that point without our passport stamped in or our COpr signed. She took us back to the Immigration, customs and border services and did the explanation, they searched us and took us back to where we missed it but kept out luggage at their office.

Immigration and Border service asked if we have ever been convicted or refused entry into Canada. Asked when our children are coming. Talked on when and how to apply for child benefit for my children. Advised me not to courier the PR card but should send it through a trusted person so it doesn’t get missing. Requested for an estimate of what we brought into Canada. Asked if we have GTF and would bring other items. Cancelled our immigrants visa and explained that henceforth, it is PR Card or PR visa. We signed our COPR and uttered those nice and scintillating words “ Congratulations, you are now permanent residents of Canada. Welcome to Canada and have fun.” She didn’t take my sister’s address for the PR card but advised that I fill it online, I asked why and she said some people don’t have addresses when they land so they decided PRs should go to the cic site and do it themselves. They Customs/Agric asked again if we had foodstuff and I said No, but herbs and spices. He asked specifically if I had fish? I said yes, dried fish but nothing was searched.

By the time we were done, it was 10pm and our Grey hound bus to Ottawa for 9pm has already left, thank God say we never pay. The next was to be by 12midnight so we waited. We made our first friend, Paschal who just arrived from Gabon with a study visa for an undergraduate programme in UOttawa but speaks French and a smattering English. He was almost refused entry and was delayed but was later cleared and missed his bus to Ottawa too, so we all chilled together in the Airport. We got talking and realized we were on the same flight from Cassablanca. Our 12 midnight bus was cancelled due to weather and have to wait till 4am for the next bus to Ottawa. We were later to understand that that bus won’t show up till 11am cos the weather is really bad. So this same black guy who gave us this info asked if we are willing to go downtown with his truck and just give him something for gas. Three of us jumped at the offer and moved our luggage to the truck. He gisted us how he’s been here for 21 years and still not used to the weather. Asked us our country and when he heard Nigeria and Gabon switched the Jams to Davido, Olamide etc. We got to Downtown and gave him CAD30 for his troubles. At 7.30 we got a greyhound bust to Ottawa and my sister was at the bus station to pick us while pascal waited for his friend to pick him to Gatineau.

Canada at last! This country will favour us.

emmatrack:
Congratulations on landing in your new home. Can a PR (pnp nominee) also land in Montreal and then take bus or train to their final destination? Hope it wouldn't raise any issue?

A PNP nominee cannot land anywhere except the Province that nominated him.

I am a FSW and can land anywhere in Canada.

Landing Gist!
Lagos-Cassabalanca- Montreal - Ottawa 18-01-2019

We decided to use this route because the Royal Air Maroc to Cassablanca was relatively cheap and we can also get to Ottawa in 2 hours by bus. The flight itinerary was:
Lagos to Cassablanca - 6:30 to 11am
Cassablanca to Montreal - 5pm to 7pm (Montreal time )

Since my wife was doing soft landing we decided to take the children to my parent’s house after school on Friday and also show one of my boys where to bring the car after dropping us at the Airport on Saturday 18/01 but my mum would not hear anything like she not coming to the airport since we are going to leave by 2.am. I tried to prevail to her that I have already made arrangements for who would drop us off and come back to drop the car and all that. She insisted she would follow us and that’s her tradition for all her children. We left to complete our packing at home, do our scaling and worship and at past 1am mum drove into our home so we can all leave by 2am.

We arrived MMIA at about 3am with 4 Nos 23kg Musibau’s bags, 2 hand luggage and one laptop bag which was fully stuffed. We had a total of 7 bags, my wife bought a big travelling bag she called hand luggage and they refused to accept it cos it won’t go into the upper compartment, so we had to buy a small GMG for #700 and moved her things there.

Once the Agric guys sighted us at MMIA, they requested we moved our bags to their section and since I was travelling with a lot of foodstuff, I paid #2000 and got receipt.

We proceeded to weigh our bags and noticed some even weighing as much as 26kg sef Mogbeee. This woman has killed me with load! Na so we start permutations and combinations and finally arrived at:
First Musibau’s bag: 23.8kg
Second: 23.6kg
Third: 23.8kg
Last: 23.4kg
Hand luggage 1: 10.2kg
Hand luggage 2: 10.4kg
Backpack that had our laptops wasn’t weighed. We sha checked them in and squared the woman 1k. When I turned to leave, one of them asked why I had hand luggage and backpack and called the woman I already squared 1k, she just told me in case of next time, don’t do it ooooo.

Gave customs #200 and immigration #400. Wifey already changed plenty #200 for them sef.

Boarded at about 5am and you can’t be in Naija without any sort of drama at all, we noticed that the upper compartment was full to the brim and this man was seated at 13C had his luggage in the compartment of a woman on 16B, she say she no go gree oo and kassala bursted cos there was no where for her hand luggage. The man and woman begin fight and abuse each other till crew enter come separate them. The flight to Cassablanca was uneventful as plane was an old one and the food was crappy. Thank God we had our snacks although I enjoyed their yogurt sha. We landed Cassablanca at about 11am and the weather was so nice at 18degrees+sunshine.
We stayed at the lounge with WIFI till 4pm when we boarded our 8-hour flight to Montreal.

We took off at about 5.45pm and touched down Montreal at 7.45pm (Montreal Time). The plane was newer bigger and more comfortable. It was a boing 747 or so with a screen for each person, I watched BODYGUARD, SALT then blasted jams from my village sister Celina Odiong (Celine Dion) and slept off. The food was just there but I enjoyed the snacks and drinks. In Montreal, I loved the English and French interplay, almost every official could speak both, once they speak French and you respond in English, they switch to English. We joined the queue and uses the self service point to scan our passports and complete the declaration, got our printout and moved to Immigration. They officer then beckoned us to Border service but we missed that and rather went to the carousel for our luggage, after getting our luggage, we went through other checks and saw ourselves facing exit from airport, na so I shout madam, dem never sign our COPR and see us going out of the airport, village people cannot win me when I don reach Canada, We made a U-turn and guys, these people are very helpful, everyone wants to assist you. We explained to an officer who was so shocked to see us get to that point without our passport stamped in or our COpr signed. She took us back to the Immigration, customs and border services and did the explanation, they searched us and took us back to where we missed it but kept out luggage at their office.

Immigration and Border service asked if we have ever been convicted or refused entry into Canada. Asked when our children are coming. Talked on when and how to apply for child benefit for my children. Advised me not to courier the PR card but should send it through a trusted person so it doesn’t get missing. Requested for an estimate of what we brought into Canada. Asked if we have GTF and would bring other items. Cancelled our immigrants visa and explained that henceforth, it is PR Card or PR visa. We signed our COPR and uttered those nice and scintillating words “ Congratulations, you are now permanent residents of Canada. Welcome to Canada and have fun.” She didn’t take my sister’s address for the PR card but advised that I fill it online, I asked why and she said some people don’t have addresses when they land so they decided PRs should go to the cic site and do it themselves. They Customs/Agric asked again if we had foodstuff and I said No, but herbs and spices. He asked specifically if I had fish? I said yes, dried fish but nothing was searched.

By the time we were done, it was 10pm and our Grey hound bus to Ottawa for 9pm has already left, thank God say we never pay. The next was to be by 12midnight so we waited. We made our first friend, Paschal who just arrived from Gabon with a study visa for an undergraduate programme in UOttawa but speaks French and a smattering English. He was almost refused entry and was delayed but was later cleared and missed his bus to Ottawa too, so we all chilled together in the Airport. We got talking and realized we were on the same flight from Cassablanca. Our 12 midnight bus was cancelled due to weather and have to wait till 4am for the next bus to Ottawa. We were later to understand that that bus won’t show up till 11am cos the weather is really bad. So this same black guy who gave us this info asked if we are willing to go downtown with his truck and just give him something for gas. Three of us jumped at the offer and moved our luggage to the truck. He gisted us how he’s been here for 21 years and still not used to the weather. Asked us our country and when he heard Nigeria and Gabon switched the Jams to Davido, Olamide etc. We got to Downtown and gave him CAD30 for his troubles. At 7.30 we got a greyhound bust to Ottawa and my sister was at the bus station to pick us while pascal waited for his friend to pick him to Gatineau.

Canada at last! This country will favour us.

klexycole:
Congratulations, I wish you all the best.

By the way, where's your landing gist?

Let me exhume it from the whatsapp group.

Ginomel:
It seems the stress in Canada is comparable to that of Nigeria, though in a different way.

It looks like a case of one stress, relocated to another type of stress considering what I am reading here.

Does it worth it coming to Canada.

Someone should tell me the truth

It is not worth it.

Nigeria and Buhari are the best things that ever happened to humanity after toast bread.

Enjoy.

I just got here in Ottawa less than a week ago and I must confess that I have wasted a chunk of my life in Nigeria. Life is actually very easy and not as hard as we see it in Lagos.

Although, I haven’t started job hunting but I believe I’d find something once I begin next week.

I worked in a Bank in Nigeria and thought I was enjoying until I came here.

Thank you Canada for opening your doors.

One of these days while at the University, I dozed off with my door wide open only to wake up at 3am to discover my door wasn’t locked. Chai

tolfa:
A JOURNEY OF A THOUSAND MILES BEGIN WITH A STEP…
ITA – 12/06/19
AOR- 25/06/19
BIL- 25/07/19
MEP 1- 25/07/19
Biometrics – 05/08/19
GU1- 05/08/19
GU2- 07/08/19
MEP 2- 16/09/19
GU3- 17/09/19
ADR(for RPRF) – 18/11/19 (submitted same day)
ADR changed to NA – 02/12/19
PPR – 02/12/19
VO- Ottawa
Family of 2
COPR: 23/12/19
NOC – 2212(primary) and 4031 (secondary) ECA: WES was used for the evaluation in 2018.

Congrats once again to your family. Go and prosper in our new country.

hotmomma:
Hello, pls what can I do?

Sometime in 2009/2010, I was to go for an educational conference in Canada as i was still an undergraduate, sometime later, dad returned my passport and told me the visa was denied because I didn't have proof of attendance of any local conference, I did not appear for interview and nothing was stamped on my passport too. I do not have any letter of visa denial, although days ago, I found a slip confirming visa payment to Canadian embassy. Please my people, how do I go about this when I get ITA as this is the only aspect of the application that bothers me. How do I declare this? Is there a way I can confirm and get letter of denial or what? Really confused pls help.

Inform CIC that you have been refused visa and put this story in an LOE.

bankyh1905:
My people, it's PPR!!!

Timeline
IELTS - July 28, 2018: LRSW 8, 8, 7.5, 7
ECA - WES: Feb 14, 2019
CRS - 470
ITA - May 29, 2019
NOCs - 2123 & 4162
AOR - July 20, 2019
MEP/BIL - August 7, 2019
First Ghost Update (GU) - August 9, 2019
Second GU - December 11, 2019
PPR - December 13, 2019 @ 10:58pm [146 days Post-AOR]

Single Applicant
Visa Office - Ottawa

Kindly wait for my epistle

Congratulations and wishing you the best in your new country.

careytommy37:
I doubt you have a brain if not, you would have known that story was fake

Come on keep quiet! Arianna Egwu is fake?

A known prostitute who ran a prostitution gang in the US, was convicted and deported and you come here to say it’s fake?

You all cannot read. CRS has a prevalent rate of 2% which is one of the lowest and the state is concerned about the influx of people from very high prevalent areas bordering the state.

Nigerian youths are really lazy.

Lawlar1:
Congratulations Bro, very happy for you

Thanks and God bless

Dkberen:
Wow, Ottawa is on fire o... congratulations to you and your family. May Canada favor you

Thanks

Austinbani:
Congrats @Stephanie09 and @Scandinavian02, All the best.

Thanks

Eraytee:
congrats to you and fam on your PPR, many the land be fruitful for you and yours.



massive congrats to you, what a sweet story, go and prosper in your new home.

Thanks and God bless

bankyh1905:
Congratulations! I've been looking forward to your PPR announcement.
Your script is quite scant of details though.
You score 4/10.

Thank you very much.