The school you have mentioned are not the only schools in Canada that they service. Im not even going to any of those schools.

Timothyphillips:



Hello @sillysassysally, I checked through the ProdigyFinance website you talked about and noticed they are more into schools in the US and was able to only find University of British Columbia and University of Toronto (the only two Canadian Universities) on the site.
Can you please give a roadmap on securing the Loan. Thanks and nice profile

Hi Dear,

Tbh I cannot really say much on this as i am clearly not a guru. Nevertheless, if I were a VO, I would seriously doubt the availability of your declared funds if you are seen to be using different sponsors within a short period. What i would advise is this;

1. Find a way to show commitment from the sponsor that you would be using. One way you can do this is to get them to transfer your living expenses to your account (even if you'll transfer it back once you've gotten your visa)... You can also get them to pay part of your tuition.

2. To be safe, I'd advise that the said sponsor has at least 2x of the amount they've declared to use to sponsor you. That way, it shows that they are not "starving" to sponsor you

3. I would not advise you to use multiple sponsors. It is always better to be as conservative as possible

Mudicua:
Hello guys,

Hope we all had a good weekend.

Please I have a question. Can I change my sponsor? One of my sponsors from my last application is barely reachable these days, and I am thinking if it s a good thing to change him from being my sponsor.
I wanted to update my application with new SOA and proof of financial resource given that the one i had submitted with my application is now old.
Now my dilemma is:
If I do change my sponsor, will it put me in a bad light with CIC? Will leaving him as my sponsor with an old SOA also be an issue?
If I do not change and add some other person as co-sponsor making it 3 sponsors, will that be a bad thing as well?
Though CIC has not requested for a newer SOA, i was thinking of doing it anyways.

Please everyone your contributions will be most appreciated.

@frankrobben @sillysassysally @austacus @bracha @justmellow

Thank you.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!

Kez911:
PASSPORT REQUEST!!!!!! CHAI!!!!!! 8 freaking months of waiting.... Finally I can breath well...Wat a wait!!!

WOOOSHHH!
Congratulations!!!

Omonoba1981:
I finally got request for my passport after 8months. But , not sure why they have requested. I though have a valid TRV (visitor visa) they would need to request for my passport.

Wow i am so sorry for about the outcome of your application... Do you mind sharing the reasons for your denial so that the gurus on this thread could rub minds together to get a sense of things you may need to work on against your next application... Also, please order your GCMS notes as soon as possible so that you can quickly get feedback and re-apply.

What date did you get the notice?

harveygordon:


Resumption date: 13 May
TRV: Denied

Admission deferred till 4 Sep

1. Whether your application is a new one or a re-application
2. Your school resuption date
3. date you did your biometrics

This information is to help populate our timeline. Thanks.

NuelNuelTT:


Many thanks Sillysassysally,
Please let me know the complete info to provide to help my situation. Like, I had my BSc 2005 and worked for 11 years.

TRV UPDATE for the week ending May 11th

CIC woke up from their inertia this week as lots of people finally got updates on their application. Congratulations to everyone that got approval alerts. For those that got SP outcomes that they weren't hoping for, I pray for God's guidance through this short-term setback and that he perfects everything in the end.

Complete information is still needed from Seatea, Oni2019, Promise147, docsaj, Cutieflaky, Klem28, Boe19, Ancy 26, Omarzx, Hiambenson, Wealthmiq, Teslimot01, Pelumi12, Harveygordon, NuelNuelTT, and Abusmanlouis).

Finally, if you guys have any ideas on how we can present this information better or what else we can add to it or remove from it, I am always open any adjustment that'll make this better.

To be honest, i am not the best person to give this kinda advise as i am not well informed regarding this. You could ask this question on quora or canada visa... Or better still, you could send your inquiry and/or call/mail Immigration Qubec or IRCC.

Anamekele:

Thanks for your response.
However, is advisable to send the new admission letter to CIC immediately? Or should wait until decision is made?
Also must attach together CAQ and new admission letter together before sending or can I send only the new admission letter while waiting for CAQ to come then send it.

Hey dear,

This is so tricky and im not sure i can give good counsel as i have not seen or heard of any of such experience. But if i remember correctly, one of the things that was stated in my CAQ was "Your certificate remains valid for obtaining your study permit in the event that your admission is postponed from the fall session to the following winter session. However, if you postpone your admission from the winter session to a later session or the following year, you will need to obtain a new certificate, regardless of the expiry date of your current certificate. Once you have obtained your study permit, your certificate will remain valid even if you change your educational institution or program of study, provided it is a program of the same duration, level or same cycle in a designated educational institution. For any other changes, you will need to obtain a new certificate".

Hence, you may need to get a new CAQ, depending on when your new admission date was postponed to.

Anamekele:
Please house I need your advice.
I just got a new admission letter this is my resumption date was on the 6th may and no news from CIC apart from BCM.
So I requested for deferment but was turned down I then applied for a new admission and God made that one happen sooner than expected.
My question is can I upload this new admission letter to my application since my province is Quebec and am yet to get another CAQ.
Also how can I upload it
Or should I wait until the outcome of my visa application
Please Qudkum, makano Frank and Sally your candid advice is highly solicited.
Thanks

Dead

CptCharlesVane:
Mister top school b school MBA is also in the IT sector and even knows the person who posted on linkedin Wawu! Surely, this has to be the same guy that personally managed Jeff Bezos divorce. Yes, the one that organized the historic Kim Jon Un - Trump meeting. We truly have legends on our little nairaland, no joke. What a privilege!

I was honestly scared of sharing some information with you cos i was like "what if this guy is spying". I Couldn't believe how selfless one could be when they weren't gaining any monetary benefit...

Frankrobbn1:


Hello Sillysassysally,

Hahahahahaha @ the word Spy. You really made good use of the advices that was given to you. I can recall brilliantly how nervous you were about the prodigy loan you secured (the chances of securing a visa with loans), your school resumption date that was getting too close and the upfront medical report (that was yet to be updated on your MyCIC account) etc.... I am so so happy for you that it worked out positively in the long run. Congratulations once again on your crowning achievement. I am extremely delighted to be in the context of your TRV success story.

Congratulations to all those that have gotten their TRV and to those that were rejected, don't give up, restrategize and refire.

Thanks to the ABLE GENTS AND LADIES that have taken their precious time despite their busy schedules in answering and proferring solutions to questions pasted on this honourable platform. God bless you all for the awesome and selfless works you guys have been doing here. I shall be here from time to time to contribute my quota for the benefit of others.

It shall end in praises for everyone viewing this topic.

Frankrobben1

Hi Dear,

I'm not sure what you mean by temporary residence form. The three forms i filled includes;
1. Application for Study Permit Made Outside of Canada (IMM1294)
2. Family Information (IMM5645)
3. Schedule 1 - Application for a Temporary Resident Visa Made Outside Canada (IMM 5257)

obainojazz:
Hi, did you fill any temporary residence form

I mentioned what i did about mine in the write-up you quoted

tunnybabsmed:
Hi Sillysassysally.
Congrats on your success. Please i have same issue of CIC requesting for medicals after i had submitted an upfront medicals. Please what is your advise regarding this?

Can you share your application timeline?

Teslimot01:
Pls guys I applied via online route and I just tracked my application and my back check and eligibility review are running together. Should I expect a final decision from them soon and I have not done medical test.

The said candidates should give us a comprehensive summary of their profile. Its not all about having money and travel history...

Qudkom:
It's worrying that 5 applicants I know got rejected based on the same reasons. Even the ones with funds and travel history.

●travel history
●Personal funds and asset
● Purpose of Visit

Something isn't right about this. To think they all got their biometric validity correspondence the same day is also confusing.

Or can someone explain how a mature applicant that recently travelled to usa with his family got refused for the reasons I stated above travel history included

Or how another that traveled to Canada earlier this year on vacation got refused on travel history! !!! And the other two reasons I stated. This is a Man with a fledging career travels for fun and they even ticked personal asset and finance.

The lumpsum i had was from the liquidation of investments so all i did was to show proof of investment before liquidation...

Stonecoldsteve:
Please how did you tackle item 5, lump sum with proof?

My application was a new application.

wealthmiq:

Is it a first application that took 25days or a reapplication?

Hey Bracha are you also a female??

Bracha:
Hey sillysassysally congratulations on your visa once again, and thanks for the mention. May God help us to continue to be of help here.
I didn't know AAO7 was female, it's really good to know.

Us women are fewer than the men here, so we need to help each other out as much as we can.

May the Lord give us good success in the careers we've chosen to pursue. Amen!

Cheers.

3 pages

wealthmiq:

How many pages was your SOP?

By the way, there's some happy news, processing time is 9 weeks.

Nairaland Fam!
Thank you all for the congratulatory messages
The past couple of weeks has been an emotional rollercoaster! But knowing that we were all on a similar journey - each one at a different stage - was some sort of comfort.

My Timeline
Applied with upfront medicals – April 14th
Medical Request – May 6th (I was surprised when I got this medical request because I did upfront medicals, so I was wondering why they were still telling me to do medicals). I sent a web form with my e-medical slip attached and I also sent emails to Lagos, London, and Kenya. On May 7th (the day after receiving medical request), I went to the hospital to see the doctor who attended to me and doctor told me that he sent IRCC a message to link my upfront medical ID to my medical request ID.
Medicals passed – May 8th
Correspondence letter and Passport request – May 9th
Overall, my study permit took less than a month to be approved! Specifically, it took 25 days!

Things I believe that worked in my favour
1. The Grace of God that covered all my errors and colored all my efforts.
2. My resumption date (June 17th). I sort of feel that they give priority to people with nearer resumption dates. If you look at the timeline we have, you’d all notice that people resuming closer tend to get their decisions quickly – this does not mean that you should intentionally delay your application. At the end of the day, no one really knows the minds of these VO’s.
3. I have a strong international travel history (USA, UK, Brazil, South Africa, etc)
4. I made my submissions as organized as possible. Infact, I did a table of content for each pdf I merged so that whoever was working on my application would easily understand it.
5. I explained all lump sums with proof… (Sometimes, I see people saying things like “they’ll increase the money in their account from 5 million to 10 million” and I feel this raises eyebrows as it would question whether those funds are really available to the applicant.
6. I wrote a banging SOP… details below
7. I was truthful in my application. I have like 5 half-siblings (one living in the US and one living in the UK). I mentioned all of them in my family information form even though I was scared that it could potentially weaken my home ties.

Things I believe were the weak points of my application and how I addressed them
1. This was what I perceived to be the main weakness of my application. I was using student loans as proof of funds for my tuition. Mind you, these loans were from a reputable and internationally recognized company called Prodigy Finance. I addressed this perceived weakness by using a sponsor who was financially capable of paying off all my loans (even though most of her asset were illiquid (land and truck). Also, I believe I was able to show a strong academic and professional track record that indicated that I was financially capable of personally paying off the loans on an installment basis.
2. The name of my sponsor across all her documents was not consistent because she is a divorcee. I addressed this by submitting an affidavit of change of name with a newspaper publication

My advice to prospective PO’s
The truth is that you have to do the hard work yourself... Even though you can easily get guidance here, you still have a lot of homework to do yourself... Understand your profile – its weakness and its strengths and address them.

Documents I submitted
CAQ (Mandatory for students schooling in Quebec)
CIC Forms
Digital Photo
My passport showing all previous visas and stamps
Proof of upfront medical exam
Evidence of work requirement in study (my program comes with co-op)
Letter of Acceptance (Unconditional – though I sent the conditional one via a web form. I also begged them to process my application speedily considering my close resumption. However, my web form was never acknowledged). The other documents I merged with my Letter of Acceptance includes; acceptance deposit receipt, academic qualification documents (such as my certificate, transcript, WAEC certificate and TOEFL results), professional qualification documents (such as my CFA level 1 badge, letter of introduction from current employer, my bio page on my company’s website, work ID, and letters of employment from internships I had done in the past), then other documents (such as my NYSC certificate and my birth certificate).
Proof of financial support – Prodigy Finance loan of about CAD 36k (30K for school fees and 6k for living expenses), Paid acceptance deposit of CAD 5K, Scholarship of CAD 8.5K, Dorm account statement with living expenses of CAD 11K… These were the funds that were budgeted for my studies. Apart from the aforementioned, I had about NGN 1m in stocks, NGN 100k naira in T-bills, NGN 250k in RSA, and NGN 70K in my salary account – all of which I showed. In addition, my sponsor (who was my mother) also had NGN 1.9m in her account, NGN 5m in T-bills and NGN 4 m in RSA. I also showed my sponsors illiquid assets such as landed property with valuation worth NGN 40m and sponsors business asset ownership (trucks) worth NGN 20m. The essence of all of these other funds and documents was just to show that my sponsor could actually pay off my loan. Someone (an Indian) told me that if I was using loans as proof of funds, it was important to use a sponsor whose financial situation showed that they could handle the loan.
Finally, under client information, I included the birth certificates of my siblings, as well as the international passport data page of my sponsor (mother). I also included a letter and affidavit of sponsorship, Sponsors business certificate of incorporation and memorandum of association, and sponsors affidavit of change of name with newspaper publication. Finally, my “banging” SOP was in this section.

SOP
Unfortunately, I cannot share my SOP on this forum because I don’t want a case of copy and paste. My SOP also contains personal information… Nonetheless, I can share the structure.
- I started out with an Intro about myself, as well as my academic and professional trajectory.
- Then I moved to another paragraph I called “my purpose” where I spoke about my motivation for the course I wanted to do
- Then I moved to another paragraph I called “Why I chose McGill University” where I spoke about why I decided to opt for Mcgill as opposed to other options in Nigeria and in other countries.
- Then I moved to another paragraph called “Justifying the cost of my program”. This was important for me to do because – as I mentioned earlier, I was using student loans to finance my education and my school fees is freaking expensive (CAD $ 47,500) so it was important for me to “justify” the cost of my studies to the VO.
- Then I moved to another paragraph called “Family & Economic ties to Nigeria” where I spoke about my home ties being all my family in Nigeria. I also explained things that would make me return to my home country such as the amazing career I had started in Nigeria (evidenced by all the documents I submitted in my Letter of acceptance). I also spoke about specific things I wanted to use the Msc to achieve in Nigeria.
- Then I moved to another paragraph called “Funds available” where I showed a table of funds I had available.
- Finally, I finished with a section called “My responsibilities as a student” where I explained that I fully understood my responsibilities as an international student in Canada – bounded by the conditions of my student visa and by McGill University. I also wholeheartedly committed to abiding by all the rules and responsibilities that would apply to me as an International student in Canada and at McGill University.
- Then I ended SOP by telling them that their support is very essential to my dreams. I also humbly requested for the issuance of a study permit that was effective on or before the 1st of June 2019, as I wanted to travel to Canada by the 10th of June 2019 to acclimatize and get ready for my schools’ orientation on the 17th of June.

I have gotten so many emails today alone and I’m afraid that I may not be able to reply all in due time, but I would encourage us to share the questions here. There are so many amazing people on this forum that are committed to helping people! Special shout out to all the people doing this! Cc JustMellow, Bracha, etc. I can’t mention you all, but it gives me great joy when I see how selfless you all are to helping out willingly! Only God can reward you all!
On this note, I want to especially thank Frankrobbn1 - this guy is so amazing! He was so interested and committed to helping me that I started to think he was working for IRCC as a spy… I want to also specially thank AAO7 – amazing person! First time I sent her an email, we moved to WhatsApp and chatted all through the night to about 1 am. It was nice having someone to gist with and to both share all the frustrations we faced with the entire process.

Finally, I want to say a word of prayer to all TRV hopefuls…
Dear God,
You are in control of every situation of our lives and you know every one of our needs, as well as the dear desires of our heart.
I pray that in your grace, mercy, favour, and love, you would allow the application of the hopefuls of this thread to be approved quickly and without delay.
Thank You because you are a God who hears and answers the prayers of your children when we come to You with open hands and a humble heart.
I pray in Jesus name, Amen.

IT SHALL END IN PRAISE!

I'm still typing my gist oh...

hurricanesgrace:

Madam, u just said pppppppprrrr, u didn't tell us if your application have being approved, no b so na.

Lagos

SeriaBravo:

Please which Application Processing Center should I choose?

i dont think submitting a cv is a mistake. I think it boils down to how you prepared it...

AgroNACT:


All Glory to God.
I made mistake of submitting a CV and i stated that I would complete my NYSC by July, 2019. Plus, i didnt state how my wife would survive.
How best do you think i can address the Employment situation, given the information i have submitted earlier?

Im sorry about the outcome of your SP application. Can you share your application timeline?

boe19:
Hello everyone,

Please i need help and suggestions. from my refusal correspondence letter, i was refused based on
1) personal Assets
2) travel history
3) purpose of my visit.

Though, while i was submitting my application, i did not find the option to upload all the documents i prepared for my application, i only uploaded my admission letter, IRCC's forms, bank statement (First and last page) and personal letter.

i did not find any option to upload all these CIC certificate, police CCC, receipt of fees payment etc.

Guy you're hot oh! see all the funding youve gotten! Congratulations!!!
I am no guru but apart from getting a co-sponsor, i think you should address your employment situation. Did you submit your resume with your application?

AgroNACT:
URGENT!
HELLO GOOD PEOPLE PLEASE ADVICE ME

I was recently refused (2 years Study Permit) based on Purpose of Visit, Travel history, Current employment situation, and Personal asset and Financial situation for fall term.

I applied earlier (without a co-sponsor) with just 1.2M NAIRA in my personal account (For flight) cus i got full funding of $23,400. Yesterday i won another funding, Saskatchewan Government scholarship of $16000.

The person i got as third party co-sponsor (If the "co" is ok in my case) just called me this morning that i should send him all what i need from him!

Please in order to keep it tight and simple this time...

1) How much is the "minimum" reasonable amount i should ask him to state to co-sponsor me, given the scholarship of $23400 + $16,000 i won. And his pledge should be toward what? (Flight, Tuition, Living expenses?).

2) Apart from the letter of sponsorship, what other less complicated documents should i ask him to send? He has a company and he is not someone i can demand too much from.

3) And please, is it ok if i get letter of future employment upon return from a company with official role similar to my MSc degree
4) How can i proof my wife will be fine financially when i leave her in Nigeria for two years?

I want to get things on ground while i await the GCMS note.

Thanks.

@ JustMellow Frankrobbn1 and other GURUS.

Wow, i am so sorry about the outcome of your study permit application. I really hope that it works out for you in the end. Do you mind sharing your timeline? also, what school did you apply to?

wealthmiq:
Just got a refusal email.

Use a webform

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/contacts/web-form.asp

SeriaBravo:
Guys, I just received my unconditional admission letter, please can someone advise on how to submit this to CIC ?

I submitted my application with conditional admission letter earlier.

All the best bro!
It shall end in praise!

Nonso16:
Good afternoon House and Congratulations to those who got their Visa applications Approved.
Yeah, A big shoutout to Qudkom for his support and genuine love..... A true hero I STAN


Re-Application
Application date: 6/05/2019
Online Route
Up front Medical at IOM
NO BIOMETRIC

Resumption Date: 9th September 2019


God bless you guys

done.
I sent it yesterday sef

Bracha:
Send that email and case specific enquiry today. So the medical result update will reflect ASAP.