Hello everyone. Good to see that the thread is progressing.
@ehrnie, there is no need for you to commence the process for obtaining a Canadian drivers license since you are only going to do a short landing. Reason being that it's illegal to hold 2 operator licenses at the same time in most of not all the provinces. The UK license can be exchanged for a Canadian one when you eventually move as long a it's valid at the time.
I do not know what province you intend to land in but I can speak for Alberta based on my personal experience. Your pr card app is done at the airport. It would help if you provide an address for it to be mailed to at that time.
Your SIN can be obtained form the service canada office within a few minutes. Take your international passport and copr along.
Your health card....you apply at the nearest license and registry to you and the card gets mailed to you within 7 days.
A bank account can be opened in one day. I'll recommend Scotia bank. Call beforehand to schedule an appointment and take along your ID - international passport and copr. You'll need a proof of address. Easiest way to do that is to purchase a phone line and use the bill processed for that as proof of address. (Ensure you cancel your cell phone plan after the first month).

dammysanmi:
@vcole...Hailment o
I think everyone on this list has COPR/received their passports back, except for our Arabian Doctor...the rest of us are expecting PPR.It will end in praise

boldinc:
Hey Vcole... Been a while... How's baby (I can ask now right?)? Lol...

Which notable events you dey talk about? U mean for hia? Just loads of PPRs, AORs and ITAs...

atigro:

Greetings Vcole

Wow. Congrats!! to everyone who have made progress in this Canny journey.
Baby is fine, thanks.

Hello everyone. Can't believe the thread is over 700 pages long. @40manlappy, @ugoiyke, @esosa4real @boldinc @onlineise @dupyshoo and others my brain fit Don forget to mention, how market? I fit beg for small summary of notable "events" from una?

@deeore, technically your application was not refused. I think they explain about what fees are refunded based on what happens. I think you fall into the incomplete application stage....during the preliminary checks where they check the documents to be sure everything was submitted. This usually means that you should get both your app fee and rprf refunded. Pls confirm this as well as timeline expected for refund.
This has happened to quite a number of applicants in the past.
Just as a bit of advice, during the eAPR process, its important to scan all documents, merge and convert to pdf and then save each file to be uploaded under the names for the place holders. Ensure your adobe acrobat reader is up to date. Then even after uploading, you can click on each one uploaded already, it sorta downloads again and you can view it again to be sure nothing was lost in transmission. I did this a lot during mine because I had read of glitches like this online. Also, sometimes uploaded documents just "vanish" from that app oh!
Also did you read the message that was sent to your cic profile when it gave you a status of "further action required"? Usually, you see a little arrow beside any message you get on your profile which you click and it downloads the letter or message. They may have given you 7 days to upload a valid passport and you may have missed that message.
All the same, its all good. There would be no prejudice for any future applications, just note your old UCI and or application number and ensure that you fill it in your next eAPR and explain in a detailed LOE what happened.
It is a delay but nothing you should be too worried about.

@beckyhopeful, the VO can request a schedule A for any reason. No hard rules on these. Most people say that you are asked for a schedule A if you answer yes to any statutory questions. Well, I did have a uk visa refusal which i disclosed during my eAPR and I never got a schedule A request and did not upload one upfront, so you see, its neither here nor there.

Someone mentioned something about FD tenure ending, there is nothing to worry about. In fact, that should be a plus in my opinion, because that means that the funds would be available in your account, lol! As long as you maintain the funds requirement between now and your PPR you should be fine if the VO requests for an updated POF.

Congrats to all on the progress of their respective PR journeys.

@babachi, you may wanna hold off on registering for any exams until you land. There is a possibility of a review which would reduce the exams to 2 instead of 3 starting from next year. Well, as I am sure you already know, no license means no doctor job. There are physician assistant/clinical assistant jobs but you need a certification for that which you would pay for and in the grand scheme of things you may not wanna do that. There are also medical assistant jobs....like office assistant for a clinic, pays well but you need certification too. Bottom line is to get any job that pays okay and then work on your licensing exams or going back to school, etc etc. Please bear in mind that it may take you anywhere between 12-24 months to get licensed....

Babachi:

Alright thanks guys. Wud start preparing for the Mccee

@40manlappy and @babachi congrats. @emiye, don't worry ppr is coming. It's just paper work. If you look through your gcms carefully you'll see a part during the copr section that will probably say "print queue"
I submitted my app Nov 6th and was approved Dec 29th but took about 4 weeks before ppr came.
Someone asked about pof being in forex or local currency. I think it's all up to you really. Ircc won't mind either or both as long as you meet the funds requirement and can show proof of source of funds.

@optionese, my sister I follow you exclaim oh. It's a hilarious marra

sly4reall:
Hello All,

University of Benin (Uniben) sent my spouse Transcript to WES. WES is requesting for institution confirmation.

Who knows how Uniben carry out confirmation to WES. Is it by hard copy mail or they use email to respond to WES.

I need the information so that I can follow up. Will appreciate any assistance.

Thank you.

I think they respond by email now but you'll still have to go to exams and records or main aud to get them to do it and pay like 1k or sumn ridiculous

Congrats @slowlybtsurely, as your moniker goes, it has all worked out in the end. Super happy for you.

@jolao, you mentioned that your spouse is working in a non clinical role, that is what I referred to as his other job. It's pretty simple, fill his work experience as it is. If Mr X worked as a gardener from 2010-2011, then janitor from 2012-2013, then chef from 2014-2015, that is how Mr X should fill his work experience. I got your pm but I'm not responding to pms from new members as all questions are best asked and answered on the thread for maximum benefit to all.

@nekypalo, I recently contacted iqas as someone I know had a similar issue. Iqas would not send you any mail acknowledging receipt of your transcript until they have received your application form and proof of ID and copy of certificate. So they would have your transcript but would not have a file opened for you because they didn't receive your application form. The person I spoke to informed me of this and also said that if you send your documents by fax, you have to call immediately you send it to confirm that they have received it otherwise most times it just gets lost in transmission. She also mentioned that most of the applications sent via fax come out as illegible and blurry on their end and so sending the application forms via mail is their preferred option. So, I'll advise that you resend your application form n other documents asap.

@40manlappy, @boldinc, @onlineise, @ugoiyke, @esosa4real, how mar-kate?

@joala, fill this work experience as is. 1yr under NOC as a medical doctor and the other years under whatever his current job function is. Ref letters should be obtained accordingly.
However his degree has to be evaluated by mcc irrespective of his current job function.

@wunmi, you need to prioritize your immediate desires and ultimate goal. Your decision to get separated or divorced is a long term one that only you can decide. You are married at the moment and cannot at any point now or in the future apply as single. You would either apply as married, or legally separated or divorced. Unless you have a divorce settlement, you would be unable to apply under the category of divorced.
As long as you have a spouse, whether accompanying or not, he is required by IRCC to obtain a medical report and police clearance as part of your application process.
In my opinion, I think that if you do intend to migrate in the near future, it is easier to find a way around your domestic situation and get your spouse to get his medicals and pcc. I assume that if he intended to "illegally migrate" to the states then he really should have no squabbles supporting a Canadian pr app unless you are the one insisting that you would not list him as an accompanying spouse....In that case, he is sure to dig his heels in.
So you need to decide if you wanna compromise now and get your ducks in a row and migrate or if you wanna wait until you obtain a divorce before you go ahead. Nothing stops you from getting separated or divorced after you have migrated.

what is included in your reference letter under job description? your job title is not as important as the job function. your NOC is decided by the work responsibilities listed in your letter which should match about 70% of the NOC job functions listed for the category you choose to select.

mokaz:
Hello house,
I salute everyone here contributing towards a better and successful application process for all the readers. Please I have a question about NOC, I have 3 years of experience as a bank Teller. I was recruited by an HR company as a contract staff and seconded to Ecobank till when I resigned last year. I am really confused as to whether my NOC will fall under Banking officer(Class B) or Bank clerk(class C). I proceeded last week to collect a reference letter from my former employer which is the HR company. They wrote on the letter that I was a staff of their company and was seconded to Ecobank as a Universal Teller till March last year when I resigned. Please what class of NOC can I apply to as a Universal Teller? As I read that the NOC class must be O,A or B to qualify under the FWS program. I thank you all in advance to your helpful contributions.
Note: I have another work experience of 1 year which is under class B category. Is 1 year experience of class B NOC sufficient to qualify to PR application?

it must be a first bank thing. debit cards work just fine for mcc payments as long as its a foreign currency denominated card. try contacting your bank.

sweetrie:
I have oo. But MCC is insisting on credit card. Thank you

optionese:
Please those that have name change (read as married women) what documents did you upload for name change place holder considering there is already a space for marriage certificate and passport. Is the person suppose to upload the marriage certificate again in that space? @vcole @dupyshoo

Hi dear. I uploaded my marriage certificate under the slot for that and uploaded an affidavit of change of names and newspaper publication under the slot for legal name change because I already had those documents. If you don't, I think you can just upload the marriage certificate in both slots.

@ persons with concerns about the recent ruling on LGA marriage certificates. I believe someone had mentioned here that laws are not retroactive. Go to the registry and attempt to get a replacement for it as the news article stated, otherwise use it like that. The ruling addressed LGA certificates that were customised and did not conform with the Form E.

@ymummy, my wait was barely weeks but felt like years. I requested for gcms notes twice. Lol! I logged into my cic account severally. Just hang in there.

Thank you @optionese.
@boss13 stop trying to shove a pill down people's throats. You are not IRCC or a VO. No one here makes the guidelines, only IRCC does. The guideline clearly states that the account should bear the name of the PA.
If my spouse has the funds and is willing to put them towards pof, then why can't he/she send the funds to my account? A VO is at liberty to think this way or not. Neither you nor I can say.
There is a rule on pof and I posted the screen shot from the cic website in my previous post. Stop trying to be an authority when you are not.

There was a time during student visa applications to the UK and other countries from Nigeria, embassies would very willingly grant visas to intending students with their sponsors bank statements, proof of source of income and letter of sponsorship. There was also a time when the same UK embassy would require that the funds for the student MUST be available in the students account prior to visa application. Even if the sponsor of said student is the parent.

We must at all times remember that Nigerians are always treated with special scrutiny during visa applications, no thanks to our fellow citizens who have knowingly and unknowingly broken the rules before. Also our reputation as a "fraudulent" country does not help.

Sticking to IRCC rules is the way to go. In addition, if you read my timeline you'll see that my pof was accompanied by a long LOE. My spouse transferred some of the required funds to my account and my loe as well as his clearly stated to the VO that it was done so as to comply with the rules as stated in the IRCC guideline regarding POF. All bank transfers for said purpose had documentary evidence as well as his source of income via documentary evidence of his current job. I had no issues with my application. In fact, I submitted my app on Nov 7th or so and gcms shows PR was approved on Dec 30th.

I have no personal experience of any Nigerian who has successfully used a spouse's account as pof. I have only read of other nationalities.

Enough talk on this issue. Let each applicant do as he/she seems fit.

optionese:
On the POF, it's like everyone wants to talk but no one wants to listen.

1.If you are the Principal applicant, the POF must be uploaded by you from your account. This is the RULE as stated by CIC.

2.If the money is coming from your spouse via a transfer of funds, the logical thing to do is to write a LOE to explain the transfer and you can also add the spouse bank statement and a gift deed . Why do I say it's logical this is because you have to put your self in the position of the VO and try to play out the scenario. I don't know anyone personally who has gone to canada so I don't have first hand information.

3.if you also want to leave the money in the accompanying spouse account and submit the statement together with yours adding a LOE all well and good.
4.you see no 1is the approved method, any other method is at your peril. Let's try not to say these things as if it's the set rules. If I were to be in this position I would follow the rules as stated by CIC.

Below is a screenshot of the IRCC's latest guideline for POF as regards eAPR applications submitted from January 2016 and beyond. Please let ALL persons take note of what it says. I am quite uncomfortable with the recent notion that your required funds can be in a name other than yours. While it may be "acceptable" for the pof to be in a spouse's account, that is a discretionary decision that the VO chooses to take. It is NOT the guideline.

Also find below the IRCC guideline for lock in date for age. Someone brought this up earlier and it may not have been noted by ITA hopefuls and recipients. Worthy of mention is that your age is locked in at eAPR SUBMISSION and not ITA receipt. So if you have a birthday after receiving ITA and before eAPR submission, you would lose 5 points for age and should re-calculate your CRS to be sure it doesn't fall below the cut off for your draw before submission.

timeline from genesis to revelation shared and over shared. sigh. click on my moniker.

ymummy234:


Congrats vcole, you have been very helpful. Can you please share your timeline especially after receiving AOR

I didn't upload schedule A. toyogirl can click on my moniker and read old posts. This statutory question and schedule A has been discussed before by me, esosa4real and a few other people.

optionese:


Schedule A for those who have been refused visa. I think @vcole uploaded it upfront. If you don't you will get request

The eAPR, PCC slot always has multiple in brackets in the upload section for ALL applicants unless that system recently changed. If you are required to submit 10 pccs, you'll merge all into one pdf file and upload in that single slot. the eAPR process does not generate multiple slots for PCC upload.

Your occupation in your NOC used for the purpose of FSW does not have to match that on your marriage certificate if the period of employment is not synchronous. Simple reason being that it is at the applicant's discretion to choose which occupation he or she desires to migrate under as well as the number of years of employment he/she desires to claim points for.

For example, if an applicant studied microbiology in school and worked as a laboratory scientist for 2011-2013 and got married in 2012 and the marriage certificate bears lab scientist and then same applicant changed jobs and became a sales manager for 2014-2017, the applicant can choose to claim only 3yrs for work experience as a sales manager and there would be nothing wrong with that application.

There is the portion of the eAPR where the applicant is required to fill appropriately their activities over the past 10 yrs or since they turned 18 yrs. This is where you fill in all your info as regards employment or unemployment, schooling, etc. Basically what you have been doing with your life. Lol! Things like previous jobs or roles feature here.

As with ALL applications, if you have areas of discrepancy, like the case of a poster a few months ago who noticed that he had a wrong occupation filled on his marriage certificate, the applicant should make moves to apply for a correction and also wrote a letter of explanation to that effect including any documentary evidence available to support.

Nobody's application is set in stone and there is no need for unnecessary panic as there is no one size fits all approach. Follow the IRCC rules and where you have genuine concerns about any areas that you feel may appear ambiguous to a VO, utilize your LOE to explain alongside supporting documentation.

It is your insistence on the spouse's account being submitted as pof that is the issue here.
The guideline to any PR application is what IRCC has clearly specified in their section under mandatory documentation. It is clearly written that the proof of funds should bear the name of the principal applicant. IRCC does not and has not stated on any official correspondence that the POF should bear the name of the spouse.
Personal experiences from applicants all over the world have led to individual interpretations of this rule based on their individual experiences with the VO who manages their individual cases. I use the word individual so many times in the above sentence because every application is individualized. The guideline is the IRCC recommendation. Based on this, if a PR applicant intends to follow the rules, said applicant should POF that bears his/her name. In this case a joint account bears the applicant's name and complies with the rules. A spouse's account does not bear the applicant's name and according to the IRCC rules does not comply. That VOs choose to accept a spouse's account based on their discretion does not make it the guideline.

A spouse can at any time he or she desires willingly give funds to his or her partner. It makes sense to any VO that a gainfully employed spouse or one with a source of income for instance from a business can provide funds in bulk sums to his/her partner for whatever reason he/she so desires. Whatever investment said spouse chooses to engage himself in is actually irrelevant to the VO in this case seeing as the spouse is a dependent on this application. The funds invested in a cooperative did not fall from the sky, it came from somewhere. A letter of explanation more than suffices because it EXPLAINS why the funds were transferred, when they were, where they were sourced from and can include evidence of the transfer instruction as well as evidence of gainful employment or business.

Boss13:


There is absolutely nothing wrong with my opinion and yours is also okay. The primary applicant which is the wife is saying - look we have the money but some is coming from my husband and he liquidated his Cooperative investment, this is a letter to prove he actually had a cooperative investment.

She is also saying - I have a cooperative investment and I have liquidated it, please see evidence from my Cooperative society. Review my statement of account and the date of inflow and narration on the statement, it will confirm that the inflow is actually from the cooperative investment.

Why I want the spouse, who is the OP requiring explanation, to submit his own statement is because if he credits his wife account with the huge inflow and just explain with letter of explanation. The VO might raise eyebrow and ask why is the husband crediting the wife's account and where did he get the money from - these are possible questions. The aim of the application is to clearly satisfy the VO objectively that even if she/he takes the applicant application to a superior officer that same decision can be reached.

Letter of explanation is not a end to a means and is subjective. The VO does not need to rely on it to reach a decision. Your documents should satisfy such requirements. Rather why can't the LOE state I got this large sum from my Cooperative investment. Attached is the Cooperative certificate. My husband also have a fixed deposit for 6 months, attached the fixed deposit certificate or TBills certificate - simply or my husband also liquidated his Cooperative investment, see the certificate and his statement of account. The money is there. The VO reviewing these documents can trace where the monies are coming from.

C'mon two large sum credit entry in a statement of account and close to date of submission. That's enough room for someone to want to know more about the source.

What you are also saying is that someone's spouse can go borrow money, credit his partner with the amount and submit reference letter to say - hey guys it came from my salary. If VOs are that dumb - great idea for people struggling with POF

Hi everyone. @post ITA thread, anyone can create a thread. You simply moderate it and hope that people contribute meaningfully. As regards the entire eAPR process post ITA, i find it funny that anyone who has bothered to read this thread and bothered to click on dupyshoo's posts or on mine would mention that they have no post ITA info. Major problem is that we do not like to read, we want easy fixes, quick answers, etc etc etc. It amazes me that an individual who intends to make a move as serious as relocating to another country and intends to utilize funds for this process cannot read every single info available on the said process. Anyway like they say "we are all different.......personal circumstances may not allow mr x or mrs y read....yadi yadi ya"
If we all on this thread take time to drop our posts when we hit a snag and find a solution and so on, there would be loads of info. Canadavisaforum has a lotta info mostly because its populated with Asians who freely and liberally share their experiences.
Bottom line, read, learn, share.
Asking questions repeatedly over issues that have already died and been buried is quite annoying. This thread is currently over 490 pages and yet my fellow naija bro or sis will still ask "how can i register for ielts......what is the wes timeline.....i have 2 degrees, which should i evaluate......etc etc etc" Simple questions that you can ask google and it will answer you. Wes and Iqas sef have provided explanations as regards the different statuses on your evaluation, IRCC has clearly explained what degree to evaluate. CRS tool, simple q&a gives your score estimate.......like really, why can't a prospective applicant just read. Okay, okay if all this fails, what happened to using the search bar

Anyway, i don rant finish. Congrats to the latest ITA recipients. Kindly do your best to submit as soon as you can. Remember its summer and applications generally are processed for longer.
@dupyshoo, how market? @onlineise @esosa4real @40manlappy and all those that are habakkuk-ing, una wan use laugh tear my belle!!!!

So many things wrong with this response in my opinion. The spouse can and i advise should transfer the funds to his wife who is the PA. He ony needs to write a letter of explanation that he did so to assist in meeting the funds requirement for their family size. To further support this,
he can opt to include his work history and reference letter under the employment section of his own form during eAPR just to show that he earns an income however this is not compulsory. The PA should submit her 6 months' bank account statement and any evidence the cooperative can provide to show how long the funds she invested with them were held for and so on. The spouse does not need to provide any evidence from the cooperative.
The PA should use her international passport as it is and should not use any 'new name' or fill any other name anywhere else as there is no evidence of such a name on any of her documents. A marriage certificate suffices to show prooof of relationship to her spouse.

Boss13:


POF can either be in the name of the primary applicant or in the name of the spouse. Nothing wrong in POF being in your name. No need to transfer to your wife.

Please note that this is just my opinion. The supposed problem with your POF is your cooperative, because the VO will need to confirm objectively that you have the money you claimed in your application and I do not know how your cooperative will satisfy that. You can either get a certificate from your cooperative after you liquidate the funds to show when the investment was made and when it was liquidated. This can assist the VO to form an opinion that the money in your statement of account is actually from your cooperative. Also, like I said previously, no need transferring the money again to your wife. It may appear you are trying to conceal something. Please note that I said, it may appear. Then you can explain your proof of funds in your letter of explanation. And if you can liquidate this cooperatives investment today, please do, but get the certificate and letter from them and also hope your cooperative is registered.

On your wife's international passport, she has two choice - wait next year to get a new one or apply with the old one. Also, the name on her passport must be the same on her application. There is a section for applicants who have other names - she can then put her new name there. Then support with marriage certificate, affidavit and newspaper column for change of name.

Someone asked about moving around with kids n school age.....can't remember who.
Well, you need your kid(s) with you for most of your documentation like for landing, SIN, health card, etc.
However if you do not intend to take your kid(s) along for other things such as opening a bank account for yourself, you would have to make proper arrangements for care for them unless you have family or friends to do so.

Compulsory schooling starts at 5yrs for kindergarten and 6yrs for grade one. 3-4yrs is preschool age and is optional and not part of the public school system. You can opt to keep your child at home till 5yrs or enrol in a daycare, dayhome or preschool all of which are privately owned and therefore you get to pay.
Your child has to have attained the age for the class by Dec 31st of the school year. So for instance, if your child is to start grade one by Sept 2017, he or she should turn 6 on or before Dec 31st 2017.

Thanks y'all. -

Hello everyone. I landed last month in Calgary. Its been a struggle trying to post because I've been quite busy but i'll try to share my experience thus far.
I have a toddler and I am currently pregnant so we decided not to take a direct flight from Nigeria. We flew medview to London and spent a couple of days there then flew air canada to Calgary. Medview........let's just say that would be the first and last time we would fly them. They were totally disorganized at the Lagos airport in terms of checking in passengers and there was so much uproar which ended up in the flight being delayed by over an hour. However, the aircraft we used was quite large and the leg room in economy was quite spacious and they made up for all the drama with the food which was quite savoury especially if you have a taste for Nigerian cuisine....they had fried and jollof rice (fried rice wasn't great at all, jollof was nice), pounded yam and egusi, amala and ewedu. The pilot more than made up for the delayed departure by landing us in Gatwick only 5 mins later than schedule. Down sides - no in flight entertainment.

Air Canada was good. Aircraft was lovely, in flight entertainment, cabin crew and meals were lovely as well. They are also kid friendly and leg room was good. Flight was smooth until landing which became quite turbulent due to the weather. Flight duration was 8.5 hrs.

At YYC, it took about 20-30 mins to get from the aircraft, go through immigration and pick up our baggage. Then we headed to the department that handles landing and had to wait for about 2hrs before it got to our turn. We landed on a Sunday so I don't know if that was the reason for the long wait. However, I realized that if one of us went to that department and took a number while the other picked up the bags, it would have accelerated things a bit as that was what some people did. Landing took about 5-10 mins.

We had booked a hotel nearby to stay for the first night and they sent us a pick up at the airport. We had found an apartment 2 months earlier on rentfaster.ca and a friend had helped view it and pay a deposit on our behalf and we were to sign the lease which was to start the day after our arrival. We had intended to rent a car the next day, go to meet with the landlord at our apartment, inspect and sign the lease then go get a few necessities since the apartment was unfurnished. However, come morning we realized that we couldn't rent a car because we required a credit card which we did not have. Let's just say things started getting a bit frustrating from that point on..........mostly because moving around is expensive by uber or cabs and although where we live has a good transit system, moving around with a toddler and a bump ism't exactly a glass of wine but oh well, so far so good. Lesson to be learnt - land with a functional credit card and plan to rent a car or buy one as soon as you can especially if you have a family. Then proceed to commence the process for obtaining a drivers license for the province in which you reside.

As regards documentation, we got everything done in the first week...health cards, social insurance numbers, etc. It isn't a complicated process at all.

My impression of Canada (through the eyes of Calgary) thus far........Its a diverse community and most people are pleasant. They make eye contact with you and converse easily. No one has a problem understanding you if you speak proper English with your Nigerian accent. Everyone we have met or spoken to on the phone always always ask you how to correctly pronounce your name and usually get it on the first or second try. Calgary seems lovely to me, the kind of place I would like to raise my kids in.

A few things I have learnt thus far......mobile data plans zap at the speed of light here. Getting a home internet is a huge help in that regard. The weather is actually good this time of year. Child care is expensive so for families with preschoolers, factor that in as a top priority.

Hello everyone. Its been a minute. Been busy settling in, landed last month. Congrats to all new ITA recipients and best wishes to all PPR hopefuls.
@zandora, thanks for coming back to contribute to the thread. warm e-hugs sent your way from mine. Most of the info I gathered as regards EE and fsw pr came from this thread and I can't thank you enough for starting it.
There is a thread for landed migrants to share their individual experiences. If you don't mind, you could check it out here https://www.nairaland.com/3617393/living-canada-life-canadian-immigrant
@dupyshoo hola!
@slowlybtsurely, ugoiyke, onlineise, boldinc et al, how is the post eAPR waiting game going?

@ladobet, when it comes to immigration, more is better. Simply get an affidavit declaring that your old passport with passport number xyz and bearing name xyz was lost at xyz date.
In your application, under the statutory question that asks if you have been refused a visa or entry into any country, indicate yes and explain the country that refused you a visa and the reasons given at the time and when. Upload any evidence such as rejection letters if available
Also when submitting your application, explain in detail about your old passport and the travel history on it as well as the previous visa rejection and attach the affidavit of lost passport.
This should more than clarify any grey areas to your visa officer.

@epudome, yes you can request for a remark within 6 weeks of your ielts exam.

Someone asked about submitting fd without bank statement. I'll advise against that. Remember ircc is not only interested in your bank balance but is interested in your financial history.

Hi y'all. My mom's visa was issued and passport collected today. Applied via paper route @ vfs Lagos on March 14th.

I'm also up for any good info as regards getting affordable furniture. I was/am hoping for a warehouse or auction kinda store with really good furniture cos the prices I can see online for new sofas and stuff are a bit pricey. @fusion23, I wouldn't buy a used mattress though, I don't think you should.
Also, what would you recommend for a bank account? taking into consideration monthly fees, credit card annual fees and limits, etc etc. What bank would work best for a newcomer?
cc: maternal, fusion23, shinarambo1, salford, dogice, et al

It's obvious thepiidgin does not understand what the child care benefit is and has not even bothered to read about it....just as I said in my earlier response. First of all it is not for low income earners alone. Whatever income the family earns is put into a scale and whatever you are eligible for, you get. So I wonder where the "I know for a fact that if you're getting benefit you are a low income earner" came from. The information is readily available online and there is even a calculator to estimate what you are eligible for based on your annual income from the previous year after filing your taxes.
That being said, you don't have to apply for any form of benefit if you don't want it. However if you do give birth to a Canadian child it's automatically applied for and as long as you continue to meet conditions for residency within Canada, you would get it.

This is a living in Canada thread for Nigerians who are moving, have moved or plan to move to Canada. It follows that conversations about government support would be carried out here. It is not a "how not to live in Canada" thread.
Like I said in my earlier post, the brilliant minds who sat down and laid down those policies are not dumb.

As regards maternal's response, I think only someone who cannot comprehend the use of sarcasm would take offense. When the phrase that referred to welfare ....free housing, etc. It was actually meant that the Canadian benefit is not welfare.

I don't know if TheCongo2 has existing beef with maternal but it sure came across as such. Attacking and using capital letters doesn't exactly convey the sharing of an opinion with the intent to contribute useful information.

In my personal opinion, thepidgin was brash and her comment was quite off putting especially as it was not value adding to the thread.