emmy4Gold:
Good afternoon to everyone, @ Osemigho and other gurus in the house, my application at UBC is under review, i uploaded my transcript while submitting my documents. According to the school's website, uploaded transcript are regarded as unofficial. it is advisable for me to send official transcript ( i.e send by mailing it directly from my previous school to UBC) when the admission decision has not been made. . And i could read this on the school's website that official transcript has to be submitted before admission offer will be made. Do you advice me to send my official transcript to them when admission decision is yet to be made. Thanks, ur reply will be highly appreciated

joeadex:
Good day fellow nairalanders, please I'm planning of traveling abroad (UK or Canada) after my services year which I'll be through with by October 2017 for my Master Degree.
I graduated with second class lower (2.62 cgpa) from Architecture.......I had already consult a traveling agent and he said I should do English proficiency test (TOEFL), that after doing the test that my Cgpa doesn't matter again but I'm going to use the score from my TOEFL to process the admission. Please I want to confirm how true is this.
I'll also like you guyz to advise me on how to go about this and with the schools with less tuition fee in this two countries. Thanks.

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tysaxmalomo:



As you have rightly answered your question I will just reiterate it for you, while your unofficial/student transcript is okay in some schools for CONDITIONAL acceptance UBC has rightly informed you that no admission decision will be taken without your official copy, therefore to get admission, your official transcript has to be given

stelids007:
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Congratulations ma'am @lovetrumps. I smell approval of your child's app . Did you apply for your child while still in Nigeria? If you don't mind, i will be needing your help to apply for my 18 months old daughter(the docs you submitted)

CarpricornPratt:


Yes the UMI of your medical the hospital sent.. the email is Accra.immigration@international.gc.ca

vvvvvvvvvvvvvvv:


Try University of Saskatchewan

ebimila:
hi guys, pls does bow valley college require ielts as proof for test of English
for international students?

ebimila:
Pls guys, who can offer information on this?

elimsme:



It depends on the program u are applying for, be sure such rules exist in you department before u start sending transcript...

stelids007:
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Congratulations ma'am @lovetrumps. I smell approval of your child's app . Did you apply for your child while still in Nigeria? If you don't mind, i will be needing your help to apply for my 18 months old daughter(the docs you submitted)

Sevenody:


Ive responded to you in a mail.

Oyemat123:

Good evening house, please i want some clarification as i am scared. I applied since october 2 but no medicals yet so i messaged the embassy about the delay only for them to reply me that i should confirm that i ticked my youngest sister accompanying me and if true i shpould give reasons why; i was shocked , only for me to check the imm file and confirmed it was true i did that in error.
i sent a mail apologizing for the error.
i want to ask would that count against me . Thanks

Soulsister:
A big congrats on your approval! i need your help please. Just like @lovetrumps I will be taking my child along. The cic website information is a bit confusing, that minor whose parents have been issued a work/study permit doesn't need a study permit IF they are in Canada already. I'm really confused. Should I fill a study permit form or just merely indicating we will be going together when filling the form will suffice?

lovetrumps:
Yes I just got his passport request mail.

Austinpee4:

Congratulation ma'am. Thank God everthing finally turned out well.

ladyFola:
Good evening house! Please, help a confused student.
Initially, I applied for Critical Care Nursing as a course to study, of which I was given an admission & to resume by Jan'17. But I was surprised when I got a mail from the school that if I get my VISA, I will be shifted to either Palliative Care or Community Mental Health which I refused because I have no passion whatsoever for either of the courses .I later sent a mail back to them that I'll wait till May'17 For the same course I chose initially, but to my greatest surprise again,I was told the course has been filled up .( tho I maid part payment of the tuition fee). Someone later told me from Canada to take the Community Mental Health which I reluctantly told the school thru.mail.[color=#990000][/color]
Now,another friend told me to apply for Masters of Nursing For Sept '17 intake ,that it pays more than a year course that I intend to go for.My own intention is to finish d specialized course first, then go for Masters straight ( if dem give me admission) before applying for work permit but she advised me to get to Canada first,then tell the school to give me back my money after being given admission for MN.
Now pls,is it advisable to get to Canada and get back my money without been reported to CIC by d school?
2) the Specialized course,is it gonna help me in any way as a nurse ( Community Mental Health,make person nor come waste money)?I think whether person do am or not,exam will still be written to be qualified as a Registered Canadian nurse Or I should kuku go straight for Masters)
(Note pls,I just went to submit my passport at the Embassy , praying for positive final approval ) and School resumes by May'17. I need to plan everything cos school do call me to know if I've been given VISA.Please,advice a confused student ooo

ladyFola:

The issue now is I applied online on 24th Sept,had biometrics done on 28th September'16 and since then, till now,nothing has been heard from CIC but just " Thanks for being patient" of which I sent a mail to Accra and I was told my application was on queue pending processing.
I discussed with an agent today, though, I applied online by myself.

Holyfield1:
Please i will advice you stop waiting because it has exceeded the supposed processing time, I submitted Nov 14 as well, checking my mail always thinking I'll be sent a mail when my application is dispatched to Nigeris,You won't believe my documents had been sent since Dec 29 kindly go to google and type "Track Nigerian Canada Visa" and clickbon their official website vfsglobal.co you'll be asked to input your Tracking number and date of birth. Do that and you will know your status instantly....i got my documents today tho.... Refusal

lovetrumps:
Thank you God
Thank You Jesus
Thanks nairaland

Praise be to God. I woke up to a new mail from cic. My childs passport has been requested.
It has been a long journey and a long wait.

I want to thank everyone on this forum who actually take out their time to answer questions and share their experience.
I hope sharing mine would also help other mothers who intend applying for their kids.

yorex2011:
MEng or MSc. Can someone give me the pros and cons of each as to how it affects one's admission and visa chances. I seem to be in a little fix.

Cos I'm tending towards Msc because of funding....

Please I need some clarifications, anyone..??

unclet97:
hi have been trying to fill the application form but after am done it doesn't show me "validate" and i tried uploading it saying error that its not validated. pls help

thesoj:

I suggest you discontinue using your agent, because his advice is patently and glaringly incorrect. While your CGPA is very low, some Canadian masters programs admit students with a 2:2, but you will need to do all the necessary legwork to see which architecture graduate programs do so. Email the admissions coordinators (and/or professors in research or practice areas that you are passionate about) of as many architecture grad programs as you can to find out. I suggest you not use an agent; do all the investigation yourself. All the information is on the internet. Start with Google, and view my next post.

yemdogg:


Depends on your financial profile.

lovetrumps:
Thank you God
Thank You Jesus
Thanks nairaland

Praise be to God. I woke up to a new mail from cic. My childs passport has been requested.
It has been a long journey and a long wait.

For all mother's in the house if you intend going with your child please apply together with your child. It saves you from terrible tension,and depression. Your husband is still your tie to your home country. There is no joy getting yours first and having your child's own denied after. It is emotionally and psychologically draining.

I applied for mine first and my application was approved(online)

Then I applied for my 4 year old child to accompany me and his was denied.it took only 5 days for cic to make the decision (online)
Reason- purpose of visit, ties to home country

I was terribly heartbroken. I could not imagine travelling without him. So I decided to reapply (online), but this time around my husband wrote a statement of purpose too for the application and we tried our possible best to use my husband as proof of ties and we made sure to outline all the proof we had in our sop.

This second application passed the processing time (I had to send an enquiry email to them) and I have had to defer my admission to May because of it.

Here is the list of documents submitted.(these are the same documents I submitted during the first application the only two different things we did are that

1. We decided to list out all the documents we used as our proofs in our statement of purpose, we outlined them properly and thank you to this forum, that is where I found that format of writing the sop
2. My husband also wrote a different statement of purpose


Application for visiting visa made outside canada
My child's birth certificate
My child's passport
My marraige certificate
My passport data page
My passport page with my canada visa(put in the place where his letter of invitation is required)
My study permit aproval paper(put in the place where his letter of invitaion is required)
My husband's passport data page
My husband's letter of employment
My Cv (I am currently a small scale agricultural entrepreneur(not yet registered), so the only thing which I have and included was my cv.)
Title deed of Two properties in my husband name(a commercialized house and land)
Agreement of lease between my husband and his tenant
Title deed of a third property (our residential house) held in Trust for my child and so my child's name is appearing on the title deed
My car paper
My husband's bank statement
My bank statement
My husband and I are his sponsors
My sop (The same one I used when applying for my own but with addition of My child accompanying me) and explaing WHO WOULD LOOK AFTER THE CHILD WHILE I STUDY. I tried to tackle that by mentioning that my classes are during the day which is same as my childs day care classes.
My husband's sop (explaining who he is,what he does,his hope and dream for me, his relationship to us, his expectations, how much he is sponsoring our child with, re assuring that all preparations have been made for the child to be looked after by the daycare while his mum studies with pròof of finance to cater for this and finally professing his undying love for us and how he expects us back)


I did not do upfront medical initially because I was hoping a medical request by cic would let us know if he was going to be approved or not but When I saw his application process was taking too long (I was trying to meet up with school resumption date) I decided to try to beat the time when they would request for medical and the 5 days it would take to upload the result, so in the middle of his application processing I did upfront medical for him. I never notified cic about that, It just changed to passed in his account about 10 days later. 8 days ago I got a request for his father's authorization letter (using the cic format) for the child to travel with me which I uploaded in his account the next day. Today I got his passport request.

I want to thank everyone on this forum who actually take out their time to answer questions and share their experience.
I hope sharing mine would also help other mothers who intend applying for their kids.