This may be helpful to someone as I got tips from this post too.

My mum just got her visitor visa today. My husband and I live in Canada and we invited her to visit us as i'm having a baby soon

I stated in my invitation letter that hubby and I will be fully responsible for her financial obligations for the entire trip including flight tickets, accommodation, expenses in Canada etc

Applied - Sept 12 (paper route)
Got Visa - Oct 5

Supporting docs from my end

Invitation letter
copy of my PR card and hubby's PR card
my birth certificate
our house document (to show she has a place to stay)
my most recent tax returns
my most recent 2 months payslip
hubby's most recent 2 months payslip
employment confirmation from my manager
letter from my doctor confirming pregnancy

Supporting docs my mum added
statement of purpose (well I wrote it...telling them purpose is just to be there for the delivery and see her first grandchild)
tax receipt for her shop
her marriage certificate and my dad's passport page
my two younger brothers' birth certificate
consent letter from my dad

AND some prayers

What we used to prove ties?
Her husband and my two younger brothers (lastborn is a teenager) are still back in Nigeria
Shop tax receipt ....proving she has a business to come back to.


We didn't use any bank statement, none from her side, none from mine. I think if you have close-tie family member in canada who can provide payslips and tax returns, that seems to be acceptable with them. Last year, my younger sis had applied for study visa using my dad's bank statement with over 7M closing balance and they refused the visa stating financial blablabla. She re-applied the second time with just my payslips and tax returns and the study visa was approved.

Hello Everyone,

I need help regarding PPR. One of the listed supporting document to send with passport to Accra is : IMM008 and Additional Family Information forms

IMM008 that I see here is the application form. Please are we filling this form again and sending with passport

Please someone help

Thank you.

VEIL1234:
Congrats on your ITA, when one door closes another opens max dec, jan you are done with PR, Congrats in advance...

Thanks Veil1234. I wasn't even too bothered about the refusal because of the ITA. It's interesting when my husband was still in UK studying, I would apply for UK visit visa to go see him and within a week or two, my passport gets posted back with visa but turn the table around and CIC just comes up with useless reasons. I think looking at UK, Australia and Canada, it is mostly Canada that frustrates spouses of students/temp workers.

I really pray everyone waiting for monday get approvals IJN. My husband applied 17th May and I was finally able to link his app online just last week. I got his refusal letter today dated yesterday and they had ticked employement prospect in country of residence, travel history (he had studied in UK and visited Italy once, so i'm not sure if they need him to visit the moon before they are satisfied with travel history) and they ticked he did not meet exemption for C41(I am on Postgrad openwork permit and working fulltime in a skilled job. We attached my employment contract stating my job duties, hours per week, salary and NOC code and also attached my payslip, so I don't know their problem).

He did not do medicals because he just got back from UK in May and they said he doesn't need one. This is the third refusal for OWP, the other two my husband applied while in Uk, in the notes they had stated his immigration status in UK, that he was on study permit bla bla bla which was why we decided he return to Nigeria to apply for it and now they came up with another story.....End of Rant

Anyway on the positive side, we got ITA for express entry last week, I had already filled out the forms and waiting to attach proof of medicals, my husband had called the medical centers in Lagos and they said they collect only passport as proof of ID, so good thing we got the decision yesterday so he can get his passport and go for the medicals and we can face express entry. IT IS WELL. Sorry for the long story

Hello everyone,

I recently found this thread and really thankful for the many info here.

Please can anyone help with the format for statement of purpose to apply for SOWP.
My email address is jidefrank@yahoo.com

Please help. Thanks.