You should apply for a new PR card.

Go to Service Canada in person.

lga23:
Hi guys, please anyone with an idea how to go about getting PRTD. I want to go to Nigeria early October and I don’t have my pr card yet. Lost as to what to do. Thanks

If you have a British passport, you don't even need a visa to come to Canada so...

If you have a visa via the Nigerian passport, I don't see how it matters.

It's a good idea to travel with expired passports anyways.

weaseloo:
Has anyone experienced travel to Canada with a valid British passport but an expired Nigerian passport?

I could not renew my passport in time for my trip due to NIN issues. It is either I travel or cancel the whole thing.

UK citizens don't need a visa to visit Canada, however, they won't be able to work.

maziude:


Which passport was your visa issued with?

I reckon if you are a PR already, you already have your PR card, so no issues here.

However, if you aren’t a PR and your visa is not issued on the British passport—— Na to Dey your Dey.

I don’t know if Canada has any special arrangements for UK passport holders, you probably need to find that out.

Oh.

You need a visa to visit Nigeria, even with a British passport.

So, quickly go and renew your Nigerian passport. Alternatively, you could apply for a visa...

weaseloo:


Doesn’t the travel certificate apply to someone who is entering Nigeria? With respect to entering Nigeria, I understand that that is not a problem - we can enter with an expired passport.

They tend to always allow spices.

They also usually allow properly dried fish, especially if stored in ziploc or vacuum sealed bags.

Powdered milk is banned. Canada is very strict with her dairy industry.

I haven't travelled during covid so I don't know the process. However, previously, it was random chance.

llionaire:
Hi guys, this is urgent please. I'm going with dried fish, powdered milk, some food spices and ingredients. What should my answers be?

cooooooks:
They tend to always allow spices.

They also usually allow properly dried fish, especially if stored in ziploc or vacuum sealed bags.

Powdered milk is banned. Canada is very strict with her dairy industry.

I haven't travelled during covid so I don't know the process. However, previously, it was random chance.

Really? Didn’t know this. I brought my Dano powdered milk when I landed

cooooooks:
You should apply for a new PR card.

Go to Service Canada in person.

Service Canada do not issue PR cards, only IRCC does.

He already applied, he should send a webform or contact his MP to see if they can reach out to IRCC

Service Canada helps people, and is efficient.

Someone I know was shown how to re-request a new PR card when they went to Service Canada.

maziude:


Service Canada do not issue PR cards, only IRCC does.

He already applied, he should send a webform or contact his MP to see if they can reach out to IRCC

Were you searched?

I think if you bring above a certain worth (should be less than $40), you may be asked to pay duty.

starrez:


Really? Didn’t know this. I brought my Dano powdered milk when I landed

cooooooks:
Service Canada helps people, and is efficient.

Someone I know was shown how to re-request a new PR card when they went to Service Canada.

So, what are we saying here?

There are many service Canada outlets. The fact that one showed your friend what to do, does not mean others would.

Op should submit a webform or contact their MP.

Moreover, all the information OP needs is on IRCC website.

Service Canada helps everyone. That is the point. This is not NIS.

Not everyone is computer savvy or can find information by themselves easily (and be sure of the information).

I now tend to advise people to go to these services. Sometimes, there are free programs to help people (francisation, free immigration consulting, free tax work.

Benefit from the good services of the new country.

maziude:


So, what are we saying here?

There are many service Canada outlets. The fact that one showed your friend what to do, does not mean others would.

Op should submit a webform or contact their MP.

Moreover, all the information OP needs is on IRCC website.

cooooooks:
Were you searched?

I think if you bring above a certain worth (should be less than $40), you may be asked to pay duty.

No I wasn’t.

Hello All,

I'm on a study permit and at the process of bringing my family,

I'm confused whether to apply for work permit directly for my hubby or apply for visit visa and then flagpole when he arrives.

Who should show the POF? Him or me?

Thank you.

nixymax:
Hello All,

I'm on a study permit and at the process of bringing my family,

I'm confused whether to apply for work permit directly for my hubby or apply for visit visa and then flagpole when he arrives.

Who should show the POF? Him or me?

Thank you.

You should apply for a spousal work permit directly.

Why you wan complicate things?

maziude:


You should apply for a spousal work permit directly.

Why you wan complicate things?

Ok. Thank you.

So who is best to show POF? My hubby or me?

Same here.

starrez:


Really? Didn’t know this. I brought my Dano powdered milk when I landed

Please does the driving extract letter have to be addressed to DriveTest or is it addressed to me?

starrez:
Please does the driving extract letter have to be addressed to DriveTest or is it addressed to me?

doesn't matter. Mine was addressed to me

At work, HRs have been decrying what they say is a very challenging time to find Engineers to hire. According to them, the record low unemployment rate (in Engineering) is not helping and most Engineers snob recruiters who reach out to them on Linkedin. So, if you are an immigrant engineer trying to land your foot in the door, this might be the best time for you to try.

A colleague at work, is trying to make the switch from Structural Designer to Structural Engineer. She asked me for some help with the technical exams PEO(Professional Engineers Ontario) assigned her. After looking at the courses, I came up with what I think are the best courses to take as an immigrant structural engineer. Since most Nigerian Civil Engineers are heavily focused on structures, this course selection might be the wiser choice for a Nigerian Civil Engineer who finds his/herself in my colleague's shoe.

Two group A courses:
Elementary Structural Analysis
Elementary Structural Design

One group B course:
Advanced Structural Design

I selected these courses because they involve less reading, since their knowledge areas overlap. They are also what I use everyday at work. That way, you are not just trying to pass an exam but brushing up on skills that you would need to land and keep a structural engineer job in Canada.

The only knowledge area in those courses that would be alien to Nigerian trained engineers is Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Design. The good thing is that the focus here is earthquake loads rather than the engineering design itself, that should not be difficult to learn. Even if it were the engineering, I would rather study that than have to do courses like Hydraulics or Geotechnical Engineering lol.

I have included a google drive link to reference textbooks and a draft of the required Canadian code. One thing to note, design manuals cover the same topics as textbooks. At work, we use Design manuals more often than textbooks but when you are trying to learn something for the first time, focus on textbooks.

Do not overload yourself, you are not trying to read every text from cover to cover. Focus on the topics listed by PEO, I also included a pdf of this.

If all of this seems too much for you, exhale and remember that life doesn't begin nor end in Engineering. There are several other rewarding careers in Canada and probably with less than half the stress. Even I remind myself of this. If you insist this is for you but you need an easier way out, consider applying to other provincial engineering regulators like APEGA.

One last tip:
If applying to PEO, you should make sure that you include a course description for at least all undergraduate courses. This is especially important if you don't have a Canadian post graduate Engineering degree (Masters or PhD). Even though I have that, I still included a course description, better safe than sorry. In the absence of course descriptions for a foreign undergrad degree, PEO is more likely to ask you to sit exams because they have no way to tell what topics your education covered.


Link to reference materials for the exam:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I5aIWtjp9LCbe__4CKwMp0_Htfxt0zjP?usp=sharing

If you have not practiced structural engineering in a consulting environment, and you have been out of school for a long while, I advise you consider your alternatives. Structural Engineering here is very very academic in nature. I literally spend all day long doing detailed hand calcs (in MathCAD) for anything I engineer. The calcs have to be well put together, properly illustrated, and well prefaced like a textbook. On top of that I also have to write memos with the precision of a lawyer. These hand calcs and Memo/drawings go through 2 or 3 other senior Engineers who check it line by line and come back with comments and corrections. All of which have to be addressed and updated before anything is Issued For Construction. In summary, there is an emphasis on knowing things from first principle although we do automate a couple design.

The stress of using your brain all day; and the pressure to be on schedule and within budget, error free and the liability, is something no one warned me about. If you are indeed passionate about engineering infrastructures but have not done "actual" engineering in a long long while, you might want to do construction rather than structural engineering itself. In either, you still get to work on very interesting and complex structures.

Canadian "Embassy" (Canada has a High Commission in Nigeria, not an Embassy) will send you a TEXT, not an EMAIL??

They've scammed you.

Please, go to https://www.canada.ca/en/services/immigration-citizenship.html for all things Canadian Immigration.

Corner corner no dey work for there. And if it works the first time, them go catch you when you try to renew.

Skale007:
Hello everyone,

Please I will appreciate an assistance with a matter that I have been pondering on all day.

I am still here in Nigeria tho and there is this agent who a friend introduced me to. My friend happens to know someone in the UK who he chatted with that he is interested in relocating and she shared a contact with him. She told my friend that she got to the UK through the same agent. She said he doesn’t process UK for now tho that he can help with Canadian Sponsorship Visa and all he has to do is get a form from him first and then follow the steps.

Since I have my passport ready, I decided to reach out to the agent too. I paid for my form and did a lot which includes a statement of account for funds confirmation.

Now since everything was accepted, a text was sent to me from Canada Emb on an appointment date at Abuja which will be in about 2 weeks time from now.

I was scheduled so I decided to ask the agent for things I am meant to bring along with and he then immediately, he sent a text to me. I will paste it here so maybe someone with more experience can help me out because I have not done this before and I don’t know how true it is.

For better explanation, I will paste the message I got from the agent after I received a text from Canada Emb.

I have my doubts tho but please how real is this NON APPEARANCE thing?

“Good morning, I will advise you do non apperance, For non apperance you will not be interview before your visa will be issue, I can direct you to our office in Lagos if you prefer or you can visit our office in Abuja. You will do your biometric and then submit your international passport and your Sponsorship visa will be issue without interview.
Then with DHL, we will send it to you
NON APPEARANCE fee is fifty thousand naira only.

Thanks.”

I got this and I have been thinking how real it is to travel without going to the Embassy.

Someone should please help me here with an opinion.

Thanks in anticipation.

Did you eventually get to Montreal??

My best advice is Airbnb or Kijiji. (I've lived in Montreal).

tempzi:
l.

Daycare isn't free in Canada.

Ranges from $5 to $25 a day usually.

Experience4u:
Please I have a question??
Do dependents (less than 5 years old,) of a student access free education ( daycare ) in Canada??

You mean fly in with indomie and goat meat?

Yes for indomie, unsure for goat meat.

HOWEVER, I strongly suggest that you buy the noodles in Canada. They go for $0.17 to $0.50 each depending on location.

Legacyedition:
Who knows if Canada allow indomie Chicken and Goatmeat from Nigeria into Canada for personal consumption.

If he already has a visa, no.

However, one might be a positive touch at the port of entry.

jayifeanyi1234:
Good morning, Everyone,

Does a spouse, who has a visiting visa, need an invitation letter to be sent to immigration to visit his family in Canada?

If yes, pls, which email address is it sent to? What is the procedure like?

Thanks.

Bishop Billy Airport Toronto.

Thank you, she reapplied and got an offer for the winter semester in the same school.

cooooooks:
Also, please note that study permits are issued at the port of entry.

Your admission letter should be enough to pass through (please ask around about this). However, if the office somehow finds out that the admission was cancelled, they won't issue the study permit and will likely cancel the visa as well, while asking you to use your return ticket to return.

ednut1:
doesn't matter. Mine was addressed to me

Pls can you help with the contact that did yours?

Hi everyone, I'm looking for a short term accommodation arrangement in Nova Scotia - a basement or room in a house, for 3 months (Nov - Feb 2023), please point me in the right direction.

starrez:


Pls can you help with the contact that did yours?

the person no long works there. Search through the thread one contact was shared about a month or two months ago

If someone doesn't want a 9-5 office job, what can they do? Are there blue collar jobs that are lucrative?