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Please has anyone paid visa fee online in the past one week. I paid last week and the money was reversed to my account and it's not been going since then. Want to know if it's a general issue or my card or bank.

Davash222:
No CCTV means it will only take the grace of God for Kasali to come out of this.
One of the disadvantages of fornication and adultery.
That's why I decide to abstain for over 10 years.

sure but it is sad that wives many times push their husbands into it when they deny their husbands sex.
This is not to make excuse for the man.

kapelvej:
This story is not true. However if it is true, then what is really your problem. A woman cheating on you endlessly and you come here to complain. Please get out from here, go and divorce her, then come back to tell us the good news.

very funny but true talk. I doubt if the guy will leave long with this kind of issues

lonelydora:
They might have killed El-Zakzaky

that would be terrible. these folks forget power is transient. what goes around comes around

CarGuideNG:
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GAZZUZZ:
Report showed a blue car at sale in the USA and a Black car in Nigeria, with same vin...

Seems the Mexicans were involved

I sent the report to the client, and told him what might have transpired.
Vehicle came blue, and was painted black in nigeria.

am enjoying this. Please what is the process and cost to check vin

[quote author=Cosplay post=79019496][/quote]please how did you get the odometer reading

saintobi009:
lol US visa is hard at the moment,everyone is looking for a new way out lol

lol

flourishing247:
Are you in the US or Nigeria? If in Nigeria they won't ask for it. If this is their first interview then they should go with marriage certificate, birth certificate, a couple of progressing family pictures. Maybe statement of account

thanks a million. I'm in Nigeria. A family friend who will receive and host them is sending letter of invitation. please is there any other document required/expected outside the letter. He is a citizen through green card.

Interview for my wife and kids is close. I am the sponsor. Please I need a sample of sponsor letter or any required document by a sponsor. Thanks a million. isifavour123@gmail.com

Joan011:
He should try the school route. There are some cheap regional schools he can apply to and after that source for PR.

please do you have names of some schools with cheap fees

where is everyone. this house is so quiet

extraterestrial:
Yes I have a work visa. It is assumed the company offering you a job is willing to sponsor you thus they apply to sponsor you alongside a visa application for you and if approved you are issued the visa so technically you don't apply for the visa

Please can you share your experience. How many years visa and what are the chances of conversion to PR. Are you entitled to register with centerlink, medicare etc.

extraterestrial:
Yes I have a work visa. It is assumed the company offering you a job is willing to sponsor you thus they apply to sponsor you alongside a visa application for you and if approved you are issued the visa so technically you don't apply for the visa

thanks for the info.

so excited about this thread. please is anyone in the house that is staying with work visa. someone told me about getting a job offer and using the offer to apply for two years work visa

GozyNA:
Having issues with that email so haven't even received your mail. You can call Inspector Moshood on zero eight zero three four seven four seven eight zero two. It won't take you up to an hour to get it done.

God bless you bro

please does anyone have a contact I can reach for PCC preferably at Alagbon

GozyNA:
You're welcome. Well I did mine in Lagos for 5k. 40k is ridiculously expensive. I know people who have even paid 4k for same in Lagos.

please reply my mail. I don't mind dashing in to Lagos to get process it if I can get a contact there to confirm the most appropriate time to come

GozyNA:
Long PPR Gist Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timeline

Decision to travel: Second half of 2017 (but still was not 100% decided)

Final decision to travel: May 2018

IELTS: April 21, 2018

WES: August 24, 2018

ITA: October 15, 2018

AOR: November 10, 2018

MEP/BIL: December 11, 2018

Biometrics: December 12, 2018

ADR: February 27, 2019 (submitted same day)

Ghost Update: April 16, 2019 (Additional documents moved from “We are reviewing…” to “Not Applicable”)

PPR: 2:07am of April 17, 2019 (dated April 16, 2019)

Main Gist
I have always been the “whether Nigeria likes it or not I must prosper here” kind of person. I had never seen myself living outside the country. My own plan was just to make money and go for vacations. That was how I sat here with a postgraduate degree, working like an elephant and eating like an ant. Chai, I suffered in Lagos, what!!!
Sometime in 2014, a friend who lives in Canada started talking to me about moving over. She painted a great picture so I checked out the occupation list and mine was not there so with that excuse I was able to make her stop disturbing my life.
In May 2017, a dear friend and sister called to tell me she was making the move to Canada with her young family. She told me things I already knew, about how tough things are and how the future looks bleak here. She asked me to join her on the journey so we can leave together as she was getting set for IELTS then but I was not so convinced. Not long after, a close friend started talking about moving too, in fact at that time he had started his PEBC evaluation. That was when I started thinking about it passively and then all of a sudden it seemed like everyone I knew was either in the process or knew people in the process of leaving to Canada. Towards the end of 2017 I decided to give it a shot but because of the NASUU strike I could not get my transcripts so I waited. Early 2018, I decided to do IELTS first since I had been seeing people take it over and over. I made a silent bargain with God that I would sit for it just once and if I flunked it then my destiny was not to go to Canada. I also decided I would not start ECA until I saw the IELTS result to know whether my destiny was in Canada or not.

IELTS: Registered a month ahead because the cost for next available dates after April 21 would be 75k and I was on a very tight budget so I jumped on the 68k date. I practiced with the Barron practice book and some videos I got off youtube. I kept getting 35 and above in the listening practices I took. I practiced for reading using the Barron practice book also. For speaking, I did not practice as I was told it would just be a conversation I just needed to speak with confidence. For writing, I only practiced the night before I wrote the exam. I am quite imaginative so I knew I could always come up with stuff to write down. Results came out 5th May, LRSW: 9, 9, 7, 7.5.

ECA: Having sorted out IELTS, I quickly paid for my ECA with WES. This was before the WAEC brouhaha. My cousin in NAU helped me process my transcript. That process should not have taken more than a day because I had processed it years before. Guess what? NAU said they did not have records of my former transcript so they needed to type afresh and there was just one lady in exams and records who types transcripts. Long story short, transcript came out, was sent to me in Lagos and I sent via courier to WES along with a copies of my degree certificate. In fact I also helped a friend send his spouse’s certificate along with my documents. I just made sure hers was in a separate envelope with her ECA number boldly written on it then put that and my own well labeled documents into a bigger envelope before sending. Doing that saved us 18k. Was processing transcript form CMUL at the same time and they got to WES some days apart. WES notified me after some time that verification requests had been sent to my schools. NAU surprised me as they verified as soon as they got it without asking for any payment. CMUL however kept saying they had not received the request. I was later to discover that correspondence from WES to CMUL goes to Unilag, Akoka first and sits there till they have a sizable number of mails to move to CMUL before they dispatch. My verification request must have sat there for over two weeks before I finally got a call from CMUL that it had come and I had to pay 3k for the verification. I paid and we got that sorted. WES told me exactly when to expect my final report and on that very day in August 2018, I got the soft copy while the hardcopy came a while later.

ITA: Created my profile after my ECA was ready in August but I was not quite ready to get into the pool because POF was not yet complete. On Sunday 14th October 2018, I do not know exactly what it was but something pushed me to sit with my computer and complete my profile. Next day I was minding my business at work when a friend who had also been in the pool called to say congratulations. I asked him what the occasion was and he said it's ITA. I quickly went online and discovered for myself that a surprise draw held that Monday and I was going to get ITA as my score was well above the cut off. Long story short, I left the job by the end of that month so I took submitting my application more seriously as I was unwilling to look for another job and I also believed my processing would be fast so I can just get out of here fast.

Medicals: A friend told me he walked into the Children’s Practice about two months before I was ready and was able to get his medicals done without an appointment. Na so I carry myself go there. At the gate they told me they no longer attend to applicants for Canada. I immediately called Q-life and they told me that the earliest I could get was sometime in January (this was first week in November). I called IOM, when they finally picked up I was able to go through the process of getting an appointment for 9:30am the next day. I walked into IOM the next day at about 9:15am thinking since I had an appointment for 9:30am all would be smooth. Long story short, I left IOM at about 6:30pm in the evening.

POF: I have money market fund accounts with Cordros Asset Management and FBN Quest. I submitted letters from them along with account statements. The Cordros account was about four months old and there was a bulk deposit (about 70% of the POF) in it about one month prior to printing (I did not explain this). In addition, I got a letter from Stanbic IBTC along with account statement. The purpose of this was to show salary deposits of my most recent job and to also add a little buffer as I had a cash balance in the account of about 300k.

PCC: A friend gave me a contact at Alagbon. I walked in there at some minutes to 4 and by 4:30pm I walked out with my PCC after parting with 5k.

Proof of Employment: I was able to get a reference letter in IRCC format from my former place of work where I put in 3years. It was prepared on the company’s letterhead paper and signed by the general manager and I also attached his call card. This company does not have an online presence so no website or official email addresses. The unique thing about my case was that I was not on a salary rather I was paid commissions for businesses I initiated and completed (aside a weekly stipend for transport). As there were no paystubs, to prove I was getting paid by the company, I got my account statement and highlighted transfers made to my account covering the last 8 months that I was with them. I also added the offer letter from my most recent employer along with paystubs, account statement highlighting pay and contact details for the head of the Nigerian office.

Biometrics: I had always seen on this forum that Biometrics does not take over an hour. On the day I went for mine, village people struck. Network was down at VFS and it took me 5hours to get mine done

The Wait: Let me just say that in my entire life, I have not wanted anything more than I wanted to get this Canadian PR. The suffer I suffered in this Lagos was just too much so every time I felt like getting discouraged, I remembered the goal of all this and stayed in line. After AOR, I checked my profile daily (I was on IP2 from AOR). Somehow I kept hoping my application would be one of those superfast ones. Well with time I was checking once a week and then once in two weeks. Early January I raised a CSE to find out my visa office. Got a generic reply from Agent Mathew without an answer to my enquiry. I was active on the November AOR group and it was excitement and anticipation galore when we had a couple of PPRs in January but being a single applicant I just accepted that the families were mostly going to go first so I decided I would only start panicking if I do not get PPR by May 10 (day I clock 6months).
Raised another CSE 2 weeks after the first to enquire again about visa office, eligibility and background checks. This time I got a reply to say my application was being processed in Ottawa and that eligibility was on.
Passport was to expire July 2019 so on the 25th of January I rushed to Abeokuta and renewed. Decided not to update via CSE but to wait till whenever they ask so I can know for sure that my file is being handled.
On the day Tojued shared her PPR story (Feb 27), I remember reading in it that she had typed it since November 2018. Now, even though I had always wanted to type my story ahead, there was zero ginger since I was not seeing any movement in my account but after reading that part of her story I made a mental note to start typing that day. Got back that evening, checked my account for the first time in a while and there was nothing. I put on my laptop to start typing and I had barely finished the first line when I looked at my phone and noticed there was a mail from ‘do not reply’ wow!!! It was an ADR for new passport. I quickly scanned with my phone and uploaded via the new placeholder. Checked my account the next day February 28 and the message still read “we need additional documents….” I left the matter and faced other things. At noon on the 1st of March, I decided to check again and I saw that the message had changed to “we are reviewing the additional document….”
On the 20th of March I called CIC. The call lasted 32minutes but I got to know that I had recommended pass for eligibility and that background checks were on. The agent told me everything looks good and that my application should be wrapped up before I hit the 6 month date. Exactly two weeks after the first call (3rd April), I called CIC again. The agent noted that nothing much had changed since my last call. She repeated to me that eligibility was recommended passed, criminality passed and that other background checks had not started. She assured me that that everything was looking good and that she sees no reason why my application would not be completed before the 6 month mark.
On the 16th of April, I checked my account and noticed it had been updated. Additional Documents was now reading "Not Applicable", I smiled and knew deep down the visa officer had finally looked through my file for a final review. That was when I put finishing touches to this story and started making mental plans to go to VFS the next day (today). Turned off my phone and tried to sleep off at past 1am but could not. Turned on my phone at exactly 2:01am and 6 minutes later I saw the beautiful mail drop (actually dropped twice sef).

Passport Transmission: Even though it took me almost three hours to go from Surulere to Lekki this morning (no thanks to the trucks on Western Avenue/Eko bridge), I simply followed the steps joo2018 laid out yesterday and I was out of VFS in an hour.

Conclusion: No two applications are the same. Make your application as detailed as you can bearing in mind the peculiarity of your case. Knowing what I know now, I would package my application differently if I were to do it over as there were a number of things I felt I did not really do right. However, rather than have sleepless nights and raise unnecessary CSEs, I handed it all to God and he came through for me.

Benediction: My prayer for everyone reading this is that no matter what stage you are in on this journey, the eternal one would do for you what he has done for me at the perfect time. God bless us all. Ire akari o. We shall all meet in our new home, Canada.

this is really inspiring. thanks for sharing. please how did you go about getting police report. was told 40k in Asaba

please has anyone idea the process and cost of police clearance for embassy purpose. thanks for your feedback

AfonjaBoston:
What you see is what you get. No be only you wan travel

you funny

Good morning house. please has anyone booked a date for interview recently. I want to know what is the earliest period I can get. September is what am seeing at the moment

Misstakes:
Hello guys
Did my biometrics on the 31/12/2018
Application transferred to ukvi on 31/12/2018
Application received at ukvi on 9/01/2019
“Your application has not been straightforward “ mail on the 17/2/2019
Not heard anything from them ever since
Guys what should I do?

just hold they will respond soon. it may take a week or two. they are most likely verifying some documents you submitted

smsalert1:
good morning justwise and gurus in the house. I have a friend who did biometrics on 8th Jan and up till date has not received any other message. please what could be the challenge and how can he track it. thanks for the usual support

please still expecting feedback

please is there anyone in this forum who has applied to Gisma Business school or who is presently running a course with them. campus in Berlin

good morning justwise and gurus in the house. I have a friend who did biometrics on 8th Jan and up till date has not received any other message. please what could be the challenge and how can he track it. thanks for the usual support

justwise:
You can write it in form of a letter or any other way you like. There is no standard format

thanks. you are the best

tasho105:
Good...just do a cover letter to explain the source of the irregular deposits.if u have documents for it, provide them.
Cover letter is a of letter addressed to the ECO explaining all other info you cannot supply on the form.I could help with a sample of mine that I used recently...

i appreciate. please check your box

tasho105:
I had a similar issue of irregular deposits in my salary account but with a straight explanation and docs it was fine.
Let know the nature of your job and salary...

thanks. a banker with annual net of about 5.5 but not evenly spread over 12 months period. how do I go about the deposits

justwise:
You need to explain that in the form.

thanks bros. I have read in this forum of cover note explaining any deposit that may raise questions by ECO. Iike to know if it's in a form of letter. if it is I will appreciate a sample. thanks