Hi guys,
Please who should my company address the employment reference letter to?
I currently have this:

The Visa Officer,
Citizenship and Immigration Canada,
4 Anifowoshe Street,
Victoria Island,Lagos,
Nigeria.

warrikid:
as soon as u submit online,u get an email acknowledging d receipt of ur application. To be followed by a request of ur biometrics wit a downloadable biometric slip. U get these usually dsame day after ur online submission. And I think its ur choice how soon u wanna do ur biometrics,buh u shud knw its d earlier d better as always. I hope dis helps.

@warrikid. Thanks for the information. Very helpful.

For those who have applied using the online process: after one submits the application online, can one go to the VAC at any time (that day, next day or any day) to submit passport and biometrics or will you be given a date when you must come?

Please, I need this info to plan properly for a day-off from work and I have been unable to find a precise answer on the CIC website. Thanks.

P.S.: I'll appreciate if you can also elaborate on what that day will look like in terms of how many hours it could take, how early I should arrive, etc.

jaylinaaa:
Hi,

1.) I am curious to know who requested for an employee reference letter. Are you applying for a student visa? Personally, I used just my employment letter and then I scanned my work ID card. If you can get leave letter, better but not everyone wants to let their employers know. In whatever case, the employment letter should be enough.

2.) I did not add payslips to mine. I however included my staff account statement with my application so the VO can tell through the monthly inflows my pay structure. If you can get it though, great. I actually forgot to include it.

3.) I don't know what you're applying for but if its a student visa, on the checklist under Proof of Financial Support, employment letter is right there. You can include your employment letter, your sponsor's employment letter, however it applies.

4.) Okay now I think you are not applying for a Study visa, yes? There was no place that required certifications, etc except of course in the Letter of Explanation part where people just add their certificates and qualifications just to serve as a proof of whatever it is they stated on their application.

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Thank you very much your helpful response. Yeah, you're right, I am applying for a work permit not study.(I think I mentioned that in my last post)

If I can't come up with any grand plan to get the employee reference letter, I'll go with your suggestion of employment letter and id card. and also probably use my account statement in place of pay slip. I just hope it doesn't carry any severe implications for my application.

Thanks again.

Bellniki1:
Hello,
If you can't tell your employer you are leaving, you may have someone who you are close too at the office to help you get the letter. Maybe some in HR or Admin dept

You can always make a payslip for yourself, Most private firm don't issue that. Make one and get it stamped

You will have to include you bank Statement just so the payslip and statement do not contradit.

This is my opinion. Other's in the house will give there's

Thanks for the advice. Unfortunately, asking the guys in HR/Admin is tantamount to asking the Boss. They are all part of the ruling 'cabal'.

I'm thinking of using my bank statement in place of the pay slip as someone else advised here.

twAYz:
Hello all, please av asked ds question b4 but no response from d house. I graduated from a school that has no institutional mailing addy (email e.g. ...@unilag.edu.ng) and its part of d requirement by d sch I wanna apply to in terms of reference (referees), what can I do to get past ds stage? Am sure some people in d house would have experience similar issue, pls kindly assist a brother 'n' respond. Rgds

Here are some suggestions based on my experience:
1. Your professor can use his company email address if he owns or works with another establishment. then in the 'title' field while completing the recommendation should put: professor at xyz university and director at abc company.

2. this may be your more likely bet. the university you're applying to may allow other means for verifying the referee. one way may be for the referee to scan his university id card or provide a link to one of his papers online (if he's a professor or PhD holder, he should have atleast one paper that is accessible online)

I suggest you write to the department you are applying to find out more about option 2

Guys, it's great to be here.

I will be applying by the end of this month for a temporary work permit in Canada (I am participating in a one-year program there). This is my first post on this thread and I have a few questions:

1) Aside an Appointment Letter from my current employer (in Nigeria), I am also requested to provide an Employment Reference Letter, i.e., a recently-dated letter from my current employer giving details of my work history with them (duration, job specs, etc). The problem is I can't tell my current employer that I am leaving. How do I get this letter? Any alternative?

2) The company also doesn't issue pay slips. How do I deal with that requirement too?

3) My bank statement may have helped to address the pay slip matter since the Salary credit will be seen at the end of every month's statement. Unfortunately, it was not in the checklist of documents that I need to submit. I am surprised. Is this the norm? Do I attach it in some other way? or just ignore?

4) If my occupation is not a regulated one like medical jobs, what do I upload in place of the required license/certification?

Thanks in advance.

Hi, Does anyone here know a reliable testing center where one can take TOEFL within Portharcourt?

omogidi234: I have used quickteller before payments but not PHCN. Please try and see if it can work.

Do you mean for bills other than PHCN bill? cos I have been to both first bank and fidelity's ATMs and the option for paying PHCN bill is there but seems to be disabled.

Does anyone know if there's any other more convenient means of reloading the prepaid meter card without having to go to the PHCN office?

At portharcourt, I hear it's only at the Trans-Amadi PHCN office that one can do this.

Hi guyz,
I am planning towards my masters programme, hopefully in about one year from now and am trying to decide which is a better choice between the US and UK. My most important factors for consideration are scholarship opportunities and an environment that provides for exciting learning. I am also open to other factors that you think should also take precedence in making this decision. But most importantly, I hope to get experience-based opinions.
Thanks in advance.

Thanks a lot! I really appreciate. The bus-to-law-school option seem the best for me since the road will be free when I am moving.
Thank you.

Hello, please Can someone help me with directions to Walter Carrington Crescent (ie where most Countries have their embassies/high commissions); I am going to the Indian High Commission
I know the way up to Marina or TBS,

Aberle:

India is the biggest country. It is the very nice country. In India many places are there. In India all of the god temples are available and it's very nice and it is the peaceful places. There atmosphere is also well and there people is very good.

Thanks for the little Indian Eulogy, but I am not going there to start a family, lol

Hi, I sent you a mail.

Ok, thank you. The price is just fine. I noticed you're a travel agent so I believe that I can book through you; there are actually six (6) of us. I mail you very soon (via the one i see here if its ok).

A Return: March 6 -11.

how can I get the cheapest price to travel to India by March this year? I have an event to attend there.

it is 2am on the 9th of January, 2012.

Tears flow freely from my eyes,
for the first time in a very long while.

My mind is occupied with thoughts of you,
I guess i cry for a number of reasons,
not just one.

I cry because I miss you,
though its not been long since we last saw,
and though i know i'll see you again, soon,
I miss you even more,
cos i feel we're falling apart.

I feel like you are drawing farther,
farther from me than the physical distance seems,
and even though we talk occasionaly,
I still miss your voice,
you still seem so distant.

don't get me wrong,
I'm in no way trying to blame you,
there are Circumstances known to both of us,
and its responsible for the wall between us,
more tears,

I cry most especially because I love you,
I have never meant those words this much in my life,
in fact i have hardly ever said it,
but with you it seems natural to speak it, to feel it,
I cry for what life without you might be, (more and more tears).

I cry because i have tried to think,
think of falling in love again,
Ive tried to think of what she would look like,
but, *tears*, all I see is you,
knowing that I must, how can i separate myself from your love.

i always dreamed of a friend,
when i was younger I wrote of a confidante,
one i would have in future,
who would be the best thing ever to happen to me,
i even told of you of her.

I told you i expected this person to be a she,
when i eventually find her,
that is if I eventually found her.
Heaven knows i eventually found her,
I found her but didn't realize.

I found her in a fair maiden with a large heart.

i always thought what true love would be like,
how i would know the exact right feeling,
but you defined it,
True love is someone you can be yourself with,
and share literally anything.

NOBODY knows as much of my life, my past, of me as you do.

True love is when you cant imagine a life,
a life without that person,
You try but you cant imagine it,
she pops up everywhere in your imaginations,
words don't come close to how your heart really feels about her.

despite all the words i have used at this hour,
i still feel insufficient,
these words do my heart a disservice.
but for the love i have for you,
I must bring this to a halt.

my heart's ramblings will soon begin to bore you,
its time to walk away and take this especially painful decision,
Loving you was bliss,
I wonder if time would ever take it away,
you are NEVER GONE from me,
you are NEVER FAR from my heart,

my tears have stopped,
but my heart still throbs,
i just smiled, you usually say i talk a lot about my heart,
I know that i am guilty of it again,
but is the human HEART not at the center of LOVE and LIFE?
it is impossible to separate it from the life i have,
or the immense feeling that burdens my chest,

i evaded sleep this morning,
to find words to let you know that i love you,
but more importantly,
that i'll always love you,
You are always in my heart.

signed in your own words: TCCIC

Hi guys, I am working on something presently and was hoping that somebody could tell me more ways in which websites that offer services (like nairaland) make money, beyond the use of Google ads.

Hi guyz, thanks for your support; it was amazing.
The finalists have been selected. I wasn't.
But am not deterred.
Thanks again.

Hi Guys!
Voting ends tomorrow. So if you've not done so yet, please now is the time. click on the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRE0bgAvP_o to access the video page, then click on "Like" to vote.
Support a brother!

you'll see it as the number of 'Likes' beneath the video; it's 170 likes presently.
I still need more votes so I'm trying to find more options.

^^^ Thanks man!

Hello guyz, I really appreciate your efforts so far. Frankly Its been incredible.
But voting is still on, so please watch my video and vote (by clicking on 'Like') if you have not yet done so. You can also share the link on your social networks.
Here is it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRE0bgAvP_o.
Thanks.

@toluxal. Yeah, true. Some people would have inferred correctly. But, not all, i guess.
@kiki. please no fighting on the thread, lol. Check your mail also.

Hi Kiki, well u can say i am somewhere between the lines. I completed my project work and defence last month, which is essentially my last academic commitment towards a 1st degree. We are yet to convocate and even see our final results, so in essence also, we've not graduated.
But I applied for this competition a few months back, as a 500level(final year) student, ofcourse.

@toluxal. Thanks, I'll to as many of them as I can.
@unclenna. Greatest FUTOite! Thank you for your support.
@kukus01. yeah! I worked at DBI last year for 3 months. Where you there too?

@toluxal. please give me names of some of these fora, if you have them.

@toluxal. it only permits one "Like" per google account.
I thank you all for Liking and sharing my entry.

Wow! When I saw 75 votes, I knew this thread had gotten to the home page. Thank you Seun/Moderator.

@bomly.
This work arose from extensive medical research that shows that infants especially at the early stage of birth primarily communicate through the cry sounds they produce. Thus most conditions or pathologies in newly born infants such as asphyxia, hearing difficulties usually reflect in the cry which is essentially sound waves.
Thus, from the IT perspective, the wave patterns unique to a particular condition can be studied and learnt using a pattern classification model. This learning process then makes it possible to be able to identify babies whose cry wave patterns matches any of the 'learnt' ones.

It is possible to do this pattern classification models such as support vector machine(svm), connectionist models(neural networks) or even Genetic programming as some have proposed.

I am using Artificial Neural Networks with MATLAB for the initial stage of the work.
My final goal is to launch the App on a mobile platform, preferably Android.
I hope I was able to summarise it well enough.

Keep the votes coming guyz.

Thank you! Bakenda.