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ednut1:
lol. You dey find canny wife ba

Guyyyy

AirBay:
@whizqueen I Sent you some messages on Twitter about tax. Kindly respond when you're free. Thanks

I did. Hope you find them helpful

Apiness111:
Hi family.
Please I have an inquiry about cash salaries.

In my first job, I was paid in cash. I didn't bother to put the monthly salary in my bank account because it was really small money.

I have a letter of reference and a letter of cash salary from my previous boss. But I do not have any bank statement to attach to the cash salary letter as a confirmation of the salary payment.

Please should this be a source of concern? Thank you so much for your time and assistance all.

@ Apiness111 @lomis29

Pay stubs/slips, letter of reference and a letter of cash salary from your previous employer would work for cash salaries.

Just be careful tho Cos they will likely check the internet presence of such companies and your LinkedIn as well

larteephart:
Hi guys. Please I have a question. Does the $200 payment for wes cover two certificates as I want to evaluate two??

Yes it does. Just make sure to add both certificate in your profile. Once the evaluation is completed and you try to add the second one, you may have to pay

crownchika:
Good evening all, plz will I be ask to show proof of relationship with someone I've not seen for ages but leaves in canada

Ofcourse. They need to be a close family member. Sibling, spouse or children

Extended relatives are not recognized

Thank you everyone reading my diary and my fellow/future Canadians! I pray we have a better 2021

Happy New Year!!

AyoitsMub:
Whizqueen!!!
When I firstly saw the moniker I thought "Oh I know someone" then I found out it was the real Whizqueen. Honestly, it's good to see you've done well for yourself and your sis. God will continue to strengthen you.
Stay safe, Your YT subscriber (btw your "Landing in Canada" vlog is the realest i've seen so far! )

This quote long like nairabet slip


Thanks my guy!! Happy New year

Goodbetterbest:
Yesterday someone who my hubby helped years back and have even forgotten sef came back with the biggest cow I've ever seen to say thank you to him. Gave my kids 10k each in 200 naira mint.

Thank you for what you did for your sister. Your children will never lack help. Merry Christmas

Amen! Thank you and Merry Christmas to you as well

bidemialade43:
The Lord is your strength oh... so we still have good people out there who are willing to help at all cost....
My own Aunty Dey Germany and all she keeps saying is, that young girl has turn biggy girl oh...: I was present when my sister gave birth to you oh so respect me....
I think I’ll need to copy and paste this your write up on our family group on Whatsapp..... if family go spoil make he spoil....

Lol thanks.. abeg no cos trouble for family group oo new year don almost reach

Kinzeerichy:
Please, about the Bank Statement (POF) that was asked by immigration in Canada, did you tender the one you used to apply or a recent and updated one?? Also, is the sum in it thesame with the one you used to apply?

A more recent one. Btw it was the applicants’ bank statement not sponsor

The gods will not be pleased with me if I don't post an update.
STUDY PERMIT APPROVAL TIMELINE AND APPLICATION DETAILS

TL SUMMARY
First-time applicant for Fall 2020, undergraduate (17 yr old at application date), the program is Bachelors of Comm, Institution is MUN.
School admission applied - Dec 20th, 2019
Admission letter received - Feb 10th, 2020
Applications Submitted - May 22th
Biometrics Request - May 23rd
Upfront medicals at IOM Lagos - May 26th
Medicals passed - June 16
AIP - Aug 6th
Registered for online courses - Aug 15th
Biometrics completed - Aug 25th
Started classes online in Nigeria - Sept 9th
Ordered GCMS - Sept 9th
Delivered - Oct 9th
BVL - Nov 2nd
PPR - Nov 3rd
Passport sent thru VFS Lagos - Nov 4th
Passport delivered - Dec 16th
Counterfoil and LOI - Dec 18th
Applicant traveled Dec 21st (LOS - YYZ) arrived Dec 22nd.
Study permit & co-op work permit issued Dec 22nd

DETAILED TIMELINE **Warning Super long post ahead**

After arriving in Canada as a PR in Sept 2019, I remember promising my kid sister at the airport on my departure not to worry that she would join me in a year. It was my 2020 mission to secure a study permit for her. Thankfully it happened.

I applied for admissions to 3 schools in Ontario (UOttawa, Carleton, and Uwindsor), my mistake at this point was not confirming the tuition fees first before applying. Applied on Oct 7th, 2019 on OUAC to all 3 schools and paid 323.25 CAD. About 2 weeks later we got an admission letter from UOttawa, she didn't get the french Immersion program which means she would have to pay full tuition as an international student. Tuition was over 18k per term whaaaaaaaat!!!! Who's gonna pay that? Defintely not me Windsor sent admission and Tuition per term was equally high. Never heard from Carleton and didn't follow up either.

Mission two was to find a more affordable institution. Research started and landed on Memorial University. I connected with a friend schooling there and he assured me it was a good institution. I later found that the school was subsidized by their provincial govt hence the cheap tuition. About 12k per year which was fine by me. The admission requirements were IELTS, WAEC transcript, and identification docs. We sent an email stating she was a Nigerian student and the medium of instruction was English requesting to waive the English assessment requirement. We were offered two options, write the test now and get admission or push the test to your first year in school and do an English prerequisite course. We chose the former. So she registered for IELTS academic Nov 23rd, results came out 11 days later and uploaded to the MUN admissions portal. Went to WAEC office where my bro was nicely scammed 20k by touts outside the building , this was cos it was almost Christmas of 2019 and all the offices were about to be closed. We waited till 2020 and paid again to get the confirmation of results sent to MUN in January. Gained admission for B-comm a 5 yr program Feb 10th, 2020.

I wanted a University and not a college for two reasons. 1. She was a teenager, never had a post-secondary education at the time (she eventually got admitted to unilorin tho) 2. I wanted a professional course, she sole aim wasn't just to Japa. Also ensured to find a program with co-op so that she can get work experience while schooling.

She was still in that dead school (unilorin) even tho I'm an alumnae of that institution, the fact that they joined ASUU makes it dead to me. So we couldn't apply for her Visa as she needed to be home for biometrics.

Shortly after she returned home for inter-semester break we applied. The number one of frustration was getting my bank to do their freaaaaking job SMH . I wanted to pay tuition from my Nigerian bank and was to send the funds using Form A. Emailed my account officer severally, no response. I finally got in touch with a friend from the bank who told me in all honesty that form A may never work. So I had to pay the tuition from Canada. Also sent 2M to applicants bank as proof of living expenses.

We were to use two sponsors. A parent and sister.

POF documents included sponsor bank statement, fully paid proof of Tuition, applicant proof of living expenses, Sponsor biz account statement, Biz registration docs, Sponsor Money market fund statement, co-sponsor salary bank statement, co-sponsor PFA, and letter of sponsorship from both. All documents were merged for FINANCIAL DOC

Statement of purpose took almost 3 weeks to complete (2 pages). I got about 5 people to review with me via google docs **yeah, I'm extra like that** Note we never mentioned she was enrolled in a school in Naija. Please ensure you take your SOP very seriously. TBH If everything else about your application is perfect, if your SOP is crappy you may get a refusal. I wonder how people even consider submitting a visa application without SOP sef.

CLIENT INFO included - SOP, Birth cert, Int'l PP, WAEC result, applicant bank statement, IELTS results (not needed but since we had it, why not), NIN slip. All docs compressed and merged.

My number one fear was ties to Canada. In the family info, we had mentioned myself as a PR living in Canada, I was concerned about providing bank and biz docs for Nigeria whilst living in Canada. Also paid Tuition from there so my bank statement never reflected an outflow of Tuition payment. But none of that mattered I guess or maybe we got lucky. I didn't add my PR card as proof of relationship for this reason. I used my Passport instead. No further ADR was requested so I guess that was okay.

The application was submitted May 23rd and medicals done May 26th. Bio requested (next day after application was submitted) but due to lockdown could not go for Bio till Aug 25th, Biometrics was completed on profile same date.

Another wait started. I just had a strong conviction that she was gonna get approved so I encouraged online school against Sept. So we registered for the fall 2020 courses. Got AIP Aug 4th.

I requested GCMS even tho we had received AIP, I just needed assurance I guess GCMS was delivered Oct 9th (exactly a month later) No much details on the notes except "Elig Passed. Pending Biometics".

No further updates on the application whole of Sept and oct but online school was going just fine. In fact we registered for Jan 2021 winter courses without approval yet. Lo and Behold... Nov 2nd, got donotreply email... BVL . Nov 3rd got PPR. Finaallly!!! We sent passport the next day to VFS Lagos thru DHL. Included return label (which they never used, they claimed they couldn't find it)

Everything in Nigeria is somehow made to frustrate you for some reasons. Imagine how VFS Stressed us before we could get back the passport. It took over 6 weeks. Even tho we called and did several follow ups. To connect to that their useless phone line you may have to dial about 30 times. A lot of instances I had to wake up at midnight EST to connect to an agent. They didn't find the return label so we had to pay for UPS delivery which took another 3 days plus for them to confirm payment and an additional one week to send the passport after receiving payment. OMG!!! These guys have just one job and they never did it right.

We hoped she could come to Canada to do her exams due to power and internet situation in Nigeria but no thanks to VFS that never happened.

Eventually, she did the exams in Nigeria and managed all thru.

We had booked several flights and had to cancel hoping passport would come but it never did and we gave up traveling this yr. The passport was finally delivered Dec 16th . I saw how people had waited for several weeks for LOI so we took the bull by the horn and headed for Canada High commission Lagos, day after to request for LOI. Meanwhile, I had sent several emails 2 weeks even before passport came to no avail. LOI was sent same day we went to HC lagos, Dec 18th.

We booked one-way trip via Ethiopian airlines finally for Dec 21st *didn't have to cancel this time* Tho her school is in NL, she landed in Toronto. It was her first time traveling by air and also by herself. I told her to always ask questions if she ever got confused. Travel wasn't' so bad. The immigration checks was a breeze.

Docs asked the airport in Lagos were Passport, proof of tuition, admission letter. Immigration in Canada asked for Enrolment letter, Bank statement (POF), Passport and ArriveCAN code. Officer asked "your school is in NL, why are you here" she responded, "my sister lives here and has made provision for my Quarantine plans". He asked when she resumes for winter term and she responded. That was it.

I picked her up at the airport and finallyyyy, yeeeeeeyyyy I have a family in Canada Halleluyaaaaah!!!

Dreams really come true, if you want something. Go for it, fight for it. Don't give up for whatever reasons. It never occurred to me that this whole thing took over a year till now. Some people advised me to just give up and have her focus on her school in Nigeria. Others asked me to not pressure myself to bring a sibling less than one yr after my arrival and focus on settling but I just wanted a better opportunity for my sis. One I never had. The thought that I have to pay so much in tuition yearly whilst getting still getting my shiitss together in this country, freaks me out sometimes. But I know in 5-10 yrs time, (God's willing) I will look back and be glad I made that decision.

End of story
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awys:
Is it when you must have received your stamped passport
back with your visa in it that you can go to the Canada high commission to effect the LOI and counterfoil

I don’t think you need to wait to get the passport back. They only asked for the passport number, once they ring it up it should show in their system you have a visa or approval

Quick update

If you’ve been waiting for your LOI and Counterfoil and yet to get it. Take your self down to Canada high commission in Lagos or abj they will ask for your passport number, email and tracking number (we didn’t provide this) if you like you can also write your application or UCI number.

Few minutes after leaving their office ‘do not reply’ email came in and we saw the document in the profile.

I sent several emails to all visa offices including this office since 3 weeks but they didn’t respond. By the way they also claim to close by 12pm, I wonder if it’s only on Fridays.

NiklauseFred:
Someone may need ur help Mrs C143
Whizqueen


Hadam pson do you have any idea?

I’ve never seen this or heard of it before. Looks like it was a paper application?

Anonime1105:
Where is whizqueen, I saw your video on twitter during the endears episode.

GOD don bring person

Abeg oo it’s all cruise

skull4eva:
@faterma thy, vibrant 99 everyone

Please as regards my issue am still looking for phd funding but as a plan B i will like to ask that if my sponsor pays my tuition fee of 10kcad ahead before the winter and i attach the receipt of payment with new application and also raise my account balance from 4million to 8million curtesy of parents good deed gifts of additional 4m to support studies parents pay slips for 6months promotion letters and assets as well as sponsors bank statement pay slips and employment letter. A good LOE showing the changes as well as using my wife and son as home ties will the application stand a chance then?

I believe you should stand a better chance if you address the POF issue & ties to home country. What you’ve stated above should work perfectly fine

Also touch on everything else you think will raise a concern in your SOP.

Goodluck this time

ednut1:
get a new clipper from Amazon.

chairman where you dey?

For people having troubles scheduling biometrics appointment, try a different browser or use incognito. I was able to get in through Microsoft edge after several failed attempts via chrome.

Monday is no longer available the last time I checked.

I hope this helps someone.