Idowu3080:
Hi everyone,

I want to ask if this is normal. I received a refusal notification on my portal June 1 and when I rechecked now I saw that the final decision segment has been changed. Please see this attachment.

Please i need an urgent reply.

oluwaCanny:
Updated on June 5, 2017. Please update the house as much as possible and to the silent readers and followers you are also included thanks
@Rocorleone please add your School. thanks

tobyharwe:
For those who wish to link their paper apps online....This is a step by step approach; i ve asked how to do this severally but no one cared to answer...here it is.

I ave followed this step again without luck. it highlighted the expiry date and country of issue. I filled it but no application found

(1) Go to this below listed link
http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/e-services/mycic.asp
(2) Click on continue to Gckey
(3) If You've already account created, login with your Username and Password otherwise Click on Sign up to go on next page and create your username, password and security questions.
(4) After creating my CIC account, click link application to this account.
(5) Then select category as Temporary residence and subcategory as Study Permit and extension.
(6) Then select Family name, given name and date of birth option.
(7) Fill your family name(surname), given name and date of birth as per Passport or Application form.
(8.) Next in applicant personal info panel fill Passport information only and DO NOT FILL CITY AND COUNTRY OF BIRTH.
(9) Enter your course start date given on your offer letter exact same as that.
(10) Enter course end date as on offer letter only month and year is given so enter that only don't select the date.
(11) Enter your DLI no. same as given on the offer letter.
(12) Next search for your application.
(13) Your application will be found and can be linked.
(14) You can get real time updates on your paper application online.

I was getting errors and tried the same with mine and it worked so hopefully it ll work for everyone.

Note : In 24 hours you can try only 5 times to link your application and if you exceed that then you have to wait for 24 hours, so be careful about that.


Cheers and Good Luck.



***got this from canadavisa.com***

kalohenic:
Once again I want to say a big thank you to @mrsirdam @thesoj and @justwise for their specific contributions to my successful TRV approval, and also a big thank you to the founding members of this thread from part 1 to date for unravelling the Dos and Dont's in the visa application process. I am indeed grateful.

as is the tradition here, I would like to share my profile and documents submitted:

I am self-sponsored

Admission offer from University of Alberta Fall 2017 (M.ENG Control Systems)

I am a first class graduate of Elect/Elect 2012

Got a certificate in Automation 2012 during my NYSC (Self-sponsored, I stated this in my SOP)

I have worked with two multinational manufacturing companies here in Nigeria (Household names) as Automation and Instrumentation Engineer.

I represented my current company in Switzerland, France and Germany in 2016 for a workshop at a Renowned Instrumentation Company Endress + Hauser (cited in my SOP)

Below are the documents I submitted:

Reference letter for Bank (current account)

Five months SOA (savings/salary account) 7.2M

Nine months SOA (savings account) 2.4M

Reference letter Pension Managers.

Pension SOA 2.1M

Land documents valued at 3.5M (Land belongs to my late father, but used an affidavit to transfer it to me. also submitted Land survey doc and evaluation done in my name).

Employment History (Employment letter; Confirmation letter; Bonuses; Salary reviews from current employer)
 (Past employment: Employment letter; Promotion letter; Resignation letter)


Statement of Purpose

Letter of Explanation (Explaining some recent financial transactions on my accounts and also my plan to commercialize my car before leaving for the program)

Financial expense analysis (breakdown of the study cost for two years, versus the breakdown in cash of all my assets and my account balance)

Evidence of cleared condition of admission offer

Letter of introduction from Current Employer

Current company identification card.

Five month pay-slip.

Certificates ( both professional and academic)

Letters of Recommendations (From my current Line Manger, My undergraduate Project supervisor who is now the H.O.D, and from a future business partner/Potential Employer)

Curriculum Vitae

Memorandum of Understanding for business investment. Valued at 2M

Certificate of incorporation of the Business I invested in above.

Car documents. Valued at 1.5M (Value justified by my comprehensive insurance certificate)

Police character certificate

Birth Certificate (NPC)

IMM5645E
IMM5257B
IMM1294

Upfront Medical
I applied March 28, 2017
Biometrics done March 29, 2017
Request for Original Passport May 31st 2017
Passport Submitted June 1st 2017
Approval Update June 6th 2017.


Here is a piece of advise for all yet to submit their application, you need to go through the pain of reading up early parts of this thread. do not be lazy and hoping to get all the info you need in a single post, read and learn.

Also, I created a table of content listing all the documents I have attached for my application and I ensured that I linked all the items in the table of content to their respective pages on the single document (Thanks to @thesoj for the idea). this makes it very easy for the VO to navigate to the specific documents he/she is interested in seamlessly.

Use google to answer most of your questions, read the past threads, do it yourself and above all have faith in God.

yamen21:
congrats bro. i am happy for u

kalohenic:
Once again I want to say a big thank you to @mrsirdam @thesoj and @justwise for their specific contributions to my successful TRV approval, and also a big thank you to the founding members of this thread from part 1 to date for unravelling the Dos and Dont's in the visa application process. I am indeed grateful.

as is the tradition here, I would like to share my profile and documents submitted:

I am self-sponsored and an Orphan (you have no excuse to settle for less)

Admission offer from University of Alberta Fall 2017 (M.ENG Control Systems)

I am a first class graduate of Elect/Elect 2012

Got a certificate in Automation 2012 during my NYSC (Self-sponsored, I stated this in my SOP)

I have worked with two multinational manufacturing companies here in Nigeria (Household names) as Automation and Instrumentation Engineer.

I represented my current company in Switzerland, France and Germany in 2016 for a workshop at a Renowned Instrumentation Company Endress + Hauser (cited in my SOP)

Below are the documents I submitted:

Reference letter for Bank (current account)

Five months SOA (savings/salary account) 7.2M

Nine months SOA (savings account) 2.4M

Reference letter Pension Managers.

Pension SOA 2.1M

Land documents valued at 3.5M (Land belongs to my late father, but used an affidavit to transfer it to me. also submitted Land survey doc and evaluation done in my name).

Employment History (Employment letter; Confirmation letter; Bonuses; Salary reviews from current employer)
 (Past employment: Employment letter; Promotion letter; Resignation letter)


Statement of Purpose

Letter of Explanation (Explaining some recent financial transactions on my accounts and also my plan to commercialize my car before leaving for the program)

Financial expense analysis (breakdown of the study cost for two years, versus the breakdown in cash of all my assets and my account balance)

Evidence of cleared condition of admission offer

Letter of introduction from Current Employer

Current company identification card.

Five month pay-slip.

Certificates ( both professional and academic)

Letters of Recommendations (From my current Line Manger, My undergraduate Project supervisor who is now the H.O.D, and from a future business partner/Potential Employer)

Curriculum Vitae

Memorandum of Understanding for business investment. Valued at 2M

Certificate of incorporation of the Business I invested in, entioned above.

Car documents. Valued at 1.5M (Value justified by my comprehensive insurance certificate)

Police character certificate

Birth Certificate (NPC)

IMM5645E
IMM5257B
IMM1294

Upfront Medical
I applied March 28, 2017
Biometrics done March 29, 2017
Request for Original Passport May 31st 2017
Passport Submitted June 1st 2017
Approval Update June 6th 2017.


Here is a piece of advise for all yet to submit their application, you need to go through the pain of reading up early parts of this thread. do not be lazy and hoping to get all the info you need in a single post, read and learn.

Also, I created a table of content listing all the documents I have attached for my application and I ensured that I linked all the items in the table of content to their respective pages on the single document (Thanks to @thesoj for the idea). this makes it very easy for the VO to navigate to the specific documents he/she is interested in seamlessly.

Use google to answer most of your questions, read the past threads, do it yourself and above all have faith in God.

kalohenic:


As in the tradition here I would like to share my profile and documents submitted.
Upfront Medical
I applied March 28, 2017
Approval Update June 6th 2017.

Hello NairaSand,
It is a requirement that a potential student should secure an academic advisor to be accepted into the Department of Mechanical Engineering programs (Ph.D., M.Sc., or M.Eng.). If you don’t have an advisor you will not be recommended to our programs. Therefore it is important to secure an academic advisor for you to be accepted into our programs.

The link below will help you to search for an advisor whose research areas you are interested in. Once you have identified the professor, make a personal contact to the professor by email or phone. I advise potential students to attach a copy of an academic transcript to the email.
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/engineering/departments/mechanical/staff/acadstatic.html

Regards,

MeinKampf:
To the gurus, I know in some states in the US, once you can work for 20 hours a week as a student, your tuition will either be halved or waved completely. I want to find out if this is also applicable in Canada.
Thanks

Oluwatomisin121:
All,

I have dire need of help here. My fiancee who got admitted to Uni of Sask for M.Sc will be making her app next week. Had to wait till now cos we are getting married this weekend and Sponsor has been the issue until we got a distant uncle to fill in. He has good balance and good job.
The help part is : please can anyone who has used an uncle as sponsor successfully be kind enough to share his/her individual and uncle SOP so we can adapt it to our situation.
Please I could use all the help I can get now... Thanks everyone.

kalohenic:
Once again I want to say a big thank you to @mrsirdam @thesoj and @justwise for their specific contributions to my successful TRV approval, and also a big thank you to the founding members of this thread from part 1 to date for unravelling the Dos and Dont's in the visa application process. I am indeed grateful.

as is the tradition here, I would like to share my profile and documents submitted:

I am self-sponsored and an Orphan (you have no excuse to settle for less)

Admission offer from University of Alberta Fall 2017 (M.ENG Control Systems)

I am a first class graduate of Elect/Elect 2012

Got a certificate in Automation 2012 during my NYSC (Self-sponsored, I stated this in my SOP)

I have worked with two multinational manufacturing companies here in Nigeria (Household names) as Automation and Instrumentation Engineer.

I represented my current company in Switzerland, France and Germany in 2016 for a workshop at a Renowned Instrumentation Company Endress + Hauser (cited in my SOP)

Below are the documents I submitted:

Reference letter for Bank (current account)

Five months SOA (savings/salary account) 7.2M

Nine months SOA (savings account) 2.4M

Reference letter Pension Managers.

Pension SOA 2.1M

Land documents valued at 3.5M (Land belongs to my late father, but used an affidavit to transfer it to me. also submitted Land survey doc and evaluation done in my name).

Employment History (Employment letter; Confirmation letter; Bonuses; Salary reviews from current employer)
 (Past employment: Employment letter; Promotion letter; Resignation letter)


Statement of Purpose

Letter of Explanation (Explaining some recent financial transactions on my accounts and also my plan to commercialize my car before leaving for the program)

Financial expense analysis (breakdown of the study cost for two years, versus the breakdown in cash of all my assets and my account balance)

Evidence of cleared condition of admission offer

Letter of introduction from Current Employer

Current company identification card.

Five month pay-slip.

Certificates ( both professional and academic)

Letters of Recommendations (From my current Line Manger, My undergraduate Project supervisor who is now the H.O.D, and from a future business partner/Potential Employer)

Curriculum Vitae

Memorandum of Understanding for business investment. Valued at 2M

Certificate of incorporation of the Business I invested in, entioned above.

Car documents. Valued at 1.5M (Value justified by my comprehensive insurance certificate)

Police character certificate

Birth Certificate (NPC)

IMM5645E
IMM5257B
IMM1294

Upfront Medical
I applied March 28, 2017
Biometrics done March 29, 2017
Request for Original Passport May 31st 2017
Passport Submitted June 1st 2017
Approval Update June 6th 2017.


Here is a piece of advise for all yet to submit their application, you need to go through the pain of reading up early parts of this thread. do not be lazy and hoping to get all the info you need in a single post, read and learn.

Also, I created a table of content listing all the documents I have attached for my application and I ensured that I linked all the items in the table of content to their respective pages on the single document (Thanks to @thesoj for the idea). this makes it very easy for the VO to navigate to the specific documents he/she is interested in seamlessly.

Use google to answer most of your questions, read the past threads, do it yourself and above all have faith in God.

mesh2003:

I can only comment on your 2nd question. There are jobs in every country including Nigeria. You have to prove that you are the most qualified and the best candidate each time you apply for a job. The truth is that each hiring manager is different. I finished in December, moved to Vancouver on January 15th and by the 18th I had a job offer letter. I did a PGD in global business management also. I still have friends that did masters but have not found a good full time job. So my dear, it all depends on what you are looking for after school. In the cause of my job search, I hardly saw any job Ad that asked for a Masters degree. If you have previous work experience from Nigeria, it helps a lot. The course I did gave me an opportunity of doing a 4 months internship which helped me secure the job I have today. So my dear, the job prospects are level. Most people use their previous experience to secure jobs here and not even PGD or masters qualification.

Justhelping:
None that I've heard of. Except you have a scholarship agreement or sth but working doesn't grant one that automatically

yamen21:
congrats bro. i am happy for u

Osemigho:
I feel obligated to inform those asking for help to pay for their application to thread gently. Twice I have asked for such and got it, but i at the end I got an email that the transaction was cancelled as unauthorized. Meaning - credit card theft. I usually get my money back but the trauma of the accusation is unbearable. Trust me, You don't want to have it.

My advise to anyone trying to make any international payment is to open domiciliary account and fund with aboki dollar or look for people with dollar card in your family or physically around you and pay with theirs.

Be warned. God bless us all.

wealth360:
@maziude I gbadun your style boss. Ever since you got your trv you have been so active and helpful on this thread nevertheless you need to be very careful with how you share your sop. Am not saying or assuming that if in case your sop is copied for application of any sort your visa will be affected oooo. No. What am particular about is that try and teach these men to write good sop. Plagiarism is an offence hope you know. Make them write something and help them build it. I do that on daily bases and it has helped them a lot. @darrey and yemmdogg taught me and now am good. So train them boss.

Greetings. @yemmdogg, osemigho can't stop praying for you guys. I will rejoice with you guys and all trv hopeful soon. Bon voyage

Oluwatomisin121:
All,

I have dire need of help here. My fiancee who got admitted to Uni of Sask for M.Sc will be making her app next week. Had to wait till now cos we are getting married this weekend and Sponsor has been the issue until we got a distant uncle to fill in. He has good balance and good job.
The help part is : please can anyone who has used an uncle as sponsor successfully be kind enough to share his/her individual and uncle SOP so we can adapt it to our situation.
Please I could use all the help I can get now... Thanks everyone.

jnyuwa02:
Thanks for your very thorough, well researched and intelligent response. You indicated not wanting to apply from Nigeria yourself. Why is that?
I did my undergraduate studies in the United States and returned to Nigeria only a year ago to see my ailing mother. I am still Nigerian with an expired student visa. While in the United States, I saw many people apply for study permit while on a U.S. visitor's visa. So it is totally possible to do. Heck, I have seen people even without status, apply for a Canadian study permit in the U.S.. Those that came to the United States with a visa and overstayed it. I think the requirement in the United States for Canadian visa applicants that overstayed their visa in the United States, is that you must prove you have not been out of status in the United States for more than one year, at the time you are applying for Canada visa.

You mentioned those in Canada on a tourist visa sending their applications to the Canadian embassy in LA? Do you mean Los Angeles by LA? If so, why Los Angeles instead of any American embassy in the U.S. I remember a Canadian embassy been present in the city I lived: Seattle.

That said, thanks for all your recommendation. I will be checking Canadianvisa.com and doing the painstaking work of reading up. If I do decide to apply from Cameroun due to time factor, you can put your money down on the fact that I would be supporting my application with the best SOP possible. Yes history and God is on our side on this lonesome road less travelled. It's not a shortcut route and I am not trying to hide anything as some have suggested here. Just that my application will be late if I apply from Nigeria. I was awarded full scholarship on the recommendation of the academic unit, just waiting now for final approval papers from the college of graduate studies to apply for my permit. I cannot apply with just a recommendation, I need the official thing. Am I right here? Can take another two weeks just to get that to me. And assembling documents to prove my ties to Nigeria and buying a land and getting a deed made out in my name is going to take time too. I am not married and have not lived in Nigeria for many years. Hence the need to establish ties to Nigeria so I am not rejected. By the time I apply, it's gonna be in late July. So time is not on my side as you can see.

Sure thing, I would have my police report.

Any further knowledge and advice is most certainly welcome and appreciated in anticipation.


[b][/b]

duchesstyo:
Hello Osemigho,

I don't need anyone to pay for me. What I'm asking is to know how people paid on CIC website. I have used both Naira and Dollar card but none worked. Should I pay at VFS office? I want to submit online and not paper.

Universities:
Good morning everybody.

My name is James.

That being said, I'm 34 years and married with the intention of going for my PhD in Canada next year.

However, will my age stand as a factor in giving visa as i learnt Canadians do put AGE as a criteria in giving out visas?

Secondly. I have published two books on website design and development including using open source (WordPress). What are the criteria for admitting students?

God bless you all.

kalohenic:
Once again I want to say a big thank you to @mrsirdam @thesoj and @justwise for their specific contributions to my successful TRV approval, and also a big thank you to the founding members of this thread from part 1 to date for unravelling the Dos and Dont's in the visa application process. I am indeed grateful.

as is the tradition here, I would like to share my profile and documents submitted:

I am self-sponsored and an Orphan (you have no excuse to settle for less)

Admission offer from University of Alberta Fall 2017 (M.ENG Control Systems)

I am a first class graduate of Elect/Elect 2012

Got a certificate in Automation 2012 during my NYSC (Self-sponsored, I stated this in my SOP)

I have worked with two multinational manufacturing companies here in Nigeria (Household names) as Automation and Instrumentation Engineer.

I represented my current company in Switzerland, France and Germany in 2016 for a workshop at a Renowned Instrumentation Company Endress + Hauser (cited in my SOP)

Below are the documents I submitted:

Reference letter for Bank (current account)

Five months SOA (savings/salary account) 7.2M

Nine months SOA (savings account) 2.4M

Reference letter Pension Managers.

Pension SOA 2.1M

Land documents valued at 3.5M (Land belongs to my late father, but used an affidavit to transfer it to me. also submitted Land survey doc and evaluation done in my name).

Employment History (Employment letter; Confirmation letter; Bonuses; Salary reviews from current employer)
 (Past employment: Employment letter; Promotion letter; Resignation letter)


Statement of Purpose

Letter of Explanation (Explaining some recent financial transactions on my accounts and also my plan to commercialize my car before leaving for the program)

Financial expense analysis (breakdown of the study cost for two years, versus the breakdown in cash of all my assets and my account balance)

Evidence of cleared condition of admission offer

Letter of introduction from Current Employer

Current company identification card.

Five month pay-slip.

Certificates ( both professional and academic)

Letters of Recommendations (From my current Line Manger, My undergraduate Project supervisor who is now the H.O.D, and from a future business partner/Potential Employer)

Curriculum Vitae

Memorandum of Understanding for business investment. Valued at 2M

Certificate of incorporation of the Business I invested in, entioned above.

Car documents. Valued at 1.5M (Value justified by my comprehensive insurance certificate)

Police character certificate

Birth Certificate (NPC)

IMM5645E
IMM5257B
IMM1294

Upfront Medical
I applied March 28, 2017
Biometrics done March 29, 2017
Request for Original Passport May 31st 2017
Passport Submitted June 1st 2017
Approval Update June 6th 2017.


Here is a piece of advise for all yet to submit their application, you need to go through the pain of reading up early parts of this thread. do not be lazy and hoping to get all the info you need in a single post, read and learn.

Also, I created a table of content listing all the documents I have attached for my application and I ensured that I linked all the items in the table of content to their respective pages on the single document (Thanks to @thesoj for the idea). this makes it very easy for the VO to navigate to the specific documents he/she is interested in seamlessly.

Use google to answer most of your questions, read the past threads, do it yourself and above all have faith in God.

BRANDYAK:
Boss some of us are not asking to plagiarize, its just to get some tips. With a bachelors degree you don't expect me to plagiarize, I can just get some tip's while writing. I don't think we wake up one day and know how to write a good sop, it takes experience. I have learned much from you and others in the house and I want to continue learning. Bro chill up.

kalohenic:


I applied March 28, 2017
Biometrics done March 29, 2017
Request for Original Passport May 31st 2017
Passport Submitted June 1st 2017
Approval Update June 6th 2017.

Austinpee4:

A big congratulation brother. Your application was well "in reasonable light" . All the best!

ibbravura:


Congratulations bruv.
U did upfront medical?

Judgepelumi:
Hello house
Please a quick question
Does CIC confirm employment of applicants from their respective place of work? Cos my Boss is an arrogant fellow & would ignore such mail instead.
Thanks