winter:
hello everyone. Please i would like 2 ask if any recently landed person is having problems changing/inputing their address to receive their PR cards. the link given to me @ d airport doesn't seem do that. it gives an error report when i try to register saying theres a problem. Kindly assist if you v had this problem and how u sorted it out. thanks

You can change your address and phone number using the web form, this is what I did in November, because the change address link never worked. Hope this helps.

https://secure.cic.gc.ca/enquiries-renseignements/canada-case-cas-eng.aspx?_ga=2.139417139.185010103.1520552709-1406495142.1516025743

Anyone interested in a shared apartment (townhouse) in Mississauga for short term should pls PM me. Thanks

QSola:


When are you hosting us.

_{Even though i am saying it with faith}

Soon, it’s in d works

Favoredme:
Hello all, please what is public school education like when compared to the Catholic school system? In terms of quality of education, moral system etc. Is there any much difference? Thank you.

Check out this link
http://forums.canadiancontent.net/ontario/61252-catholic-vs-public-schools-ontario.html

EmmyToluwa:
LONG POST ALERT!!!

Hello all!!! I have been a silent follower of this thread though I have posted a few times in the past. I just felt it is important I share my landing experience so far so that people can learn from our experience. my time line follows:

As we got back home, my phone rang and it was the HR recruiter with her nice voice. She asked me what I tot about the interviews and I how tot I performed. My heart wan cut, i tot this is it, maybe they have rejected me. I told her I learnt alot and also that I am confident my skills and experience are well aligned with the role. And then I heard, WELL I AM HAPPY TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE OFFERING YOU A CONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT!! I shouted!!! The thing just be like say I dey dream. I was like I neva even get house, I don get job. All the things the woman dey talk I no even hear, I was just too happy.

So my peeps, na so our tory be so far so. Na so God show say Na HIM be the REAL GOD oooo. Much as this is an entry level job, I am happy I can quickly have my CV updated with a Canadian Experience.

I pray we all have good stories to tell in this Canadian dream!!!

Congratulations!!!

KayVann:
[I am honestly so excited for you and encouraged by your story, we landed on Tuesday last week and we landed in London Ontario as well!! So you can imagine how excited I was to read your post. It would be great if we could connect and share notes. Gracia's!! quote author=EmmyToluwa post=65541092]LONG

All these London people. Didn’t know we were so many. Where are you guys?

Canadianfly:


Which crew? Have you ever seen Canadianfly roll with anyone on here? I'm not about that clique life my dear. What I am telling you is you are PARANOID. NO one is coming after you or shutting you down. Except you are reading something different from what everyone else is reading.

And you must've misunderstood my post, I am not shutting you down. Matter of fact, I don't care for anyone's struggles on here. Yours and anyone else included. I only care for MY struggles. And that's the point I was making in my post. DO YOU and forget about everybody else's struggle. Their struggle won't make yours harder or easier. Focus on you! And it is not by force for people to share their struggles either. Lamenting that you don't see much of that post, is your problem. Nairaland is not your manual to life. If you want a pity party of "strugglers in Canada" open a thread for it and y'all can post all your struggles on there. It's redundant that you keep coming back and saying people are coming for you, when the truth is no one really cares, at least I don't.

In love with the bolded.......

Lmao. Mclarry sef

Please stop spamming us with nonsense poem abi movie. How does that help us

Justwise oh. Please clean up

Please, how do you stop a bus when you are running to the bus stop but not yet there. Can you flag it down? I've missed my connecting bus because Google maps 4 mins walk is faster than my walk. I get there just as the bus is pulling away or not even stopping at all.

you know everything according to you.

Canadianfly:
Lmao. Mclarry sef

Please stop spamming us with nonsense poem abi movie. How does that help us

XX01:
Please, how do you stop a bus when you are running to the bus stop but not yet there. Can you flag it down? I've missed my connecting bus because Google maps 4 mins walk is faster than my walk. I get there just as the bus is pulling away or not even stopping at all.

Hi, unfortunately because of strict SLAs that transit operators have, they wont stop for you once the doors are shut and/or they are in drive procedure to the next scheduled stop, operative word being 'scheduled'. Even if the bus is empty, the driver is obligated to stick to schedule/procedure or risk work demerits points on his record for stopping for you. The exceptions are trafiic incidents which they have to radio in to their base. Some busybody around who is not even on the bus may report him to his transit service for stopping outside schedule so, we learn to always arrive at the bus stop earlier than we need to be and retain some of our old Oshodi Oke bus jogging/hopping skills to catch up

Good day people,

Just to give an update which may be beneficial to anyone on passport expiry less than 6 months before travelling.

So my application was approved and i got all our passports and COPRs in January 2018. My passport was due to expire in May 2018. My spouse however, insisted i renew my passport before we travel because we did not know if we would be allowed to travel with less than six moths validity on my passport. I called Lufthansa and they do not seem to have a fulfilling response as they do not understand what an immigrant visa was and that it is better to have a validity above 6 months so as to avoid any hassles. I renewed my passport and wrote an email to Ottawa, Accra and LVO to inform them i would be renewing my visa. My thinking was that the visa would still be valid as with other visas i have experienced. The next day our CIC/Express Entry profile changed from Approved to "We are awaiting a decision....." and all the counterfoil information removed.

To my great surprise i received an email from LVO that all previously issued COPRs were cancelled and invalid, and we should send all documents (including all family members) back to Accra and wait for further instructions. We were all worried. We sent all the documents through DHL back to Accra and waited for further instructions. 2 days after i received the email requesting for us to pay $120CAD through the online platform for visa re-issue which i did immediately. Then the sudden silence from LVO starts; and we have 5 more weeks until our validity expires, no update on our account profile and no information from them for about 3 weeks and until today that our application on the profile now shows approved. New counterfoil issued and the old ones shown as invalid.

I am new here,wish I came across this site sooner, I have an issue and I need advise on the best action to take,I putting my application for PR on the 5th of December 2017, I got my PR through the CEC on the 18th of February 2018 but before that, I went back to Nigeria and I did a court wedding Dec 26, 2017 thinking after application, status change won't matter and I can sponsor my wife (grave mistake)whenever I get my PR. Got PPR request on the 3rd and out of fear of what might happen, I did not declare my status has changed (dumb move) .

Now I am thinking of sponsoring my wife to come but I am skeptical cos of the date on the marriage certificate (Dec 26) wont tally with my status as at when I got my PR (Feb 18), so am thinking if its a good idea to go ahead and sponsor her without minding the date or see if she can get in with student visa or if there is another way to change the date at the registry in Nigeria, bottom line is I need advise on whats best for me cos its giving me sleepless nights. I should have declared when I had the chance but that's past now I just need a solution, please help a brother out...

Yaaaaay! Another London fellow! Too excited!! We are at summerside, where are you guys? . Please we need a whatsapp group

Bsbabe:


All these London people. Didn’t know we were so many. Where are you guys?

Blackbuddy:


Hi, unfortunately because of strict SLAs that transit operators have, they wont stop for you once the doors are shut and/or they are in drive procedure to the next scheduled stop, operative word being 'scheduled'. Even if the bus is empty, the driver is obligated to stick to schedule/procedure or risk work demerits points on his record for stopping for you. The exceptions are trafiic incidents which they have to radio in to their base. Some busybody around who is not even on the bus may report him to his transit service for stopping outside schedule so, we learn to always arrive at the bus stop earlier than we need to be and retain some of our old Oshodi Oke bus jogging/hopping skills to catch up

Wow. O boy no be small matter be this. Even if I'm running to the bus stop and the bus didn't stop at the bus stop because no one on the bus requested a stop? Found out that I had to wait 20 to 30 mins for the next bus out in the cold. Today was hellish. Kept arriving just as the bus was pulling out and I was with my toddler. The wind today was something else.

@amindondee, that must have been some BP raising wiat period. I may ne wrong but you could have landed with your old passport. The validity period is intended for the point of submission of your PR app and point of issuing the visa. As long as your passport was valid for travel as at when you intended to land, you would not have had any issues.

XX01:

Wow. O boy no be small matter be this. Even if I'm running to the bus stop and the bus didn't stop at the bus stop because no one on the bus requested a stop? Found out that I had to wait 20 to 30 mins for the next bus out in the cold. Today was hellish. Kept arriving just as the bus was pulling out and I was with my toddler. The wind today was something else.

Pele oh. Well, the bus has stopped for me before when the driver saw me approaching after he just exited the stop. I was pregnant at the time so that may be why.

EglintonWest:
I am new here,wish I came across this site sooner, I have an issue and I need advise on the best action to take,I putting my application for PR on the 5th of December 2017, I got my PR through the CEC on the 18th of February 2018 but before that, I went back to Nigeria and I did a court wedding Dec 26, 2017 thinking after application, status change won't matter and I can sponsor my wife (grave mistake)whenever I get my PR. Got PPR request on the 3rd and out of fear of what might happen, I did not declare my status has changed (dumb move) .

Now I am thinking of sponsoring my wife to come but I am skeptical cos of the date on the marriage certificate (Dec 26) wont tally with my status as at when I got my PR (Feb 18), so am thinking if its a good idea to go ahead and sponsor her without minding the date or see if she can get in with student visa or if there is another way to change the date at the registry in Nigeria, bottom line is I need advise on whats best for me cos its giving me sleepless nights. I should have declared when I had the chance but that's past now I just need a solution, please help a brother out...

Oboy i no go lie you. You have a massive mountain ahead of you. Strictly speaking, your wife is not eligible to be sponsored by you because she isnt going to be considered as a member of the family class. It's Canadian immigration law. If a family member is undeclared, they are forever excluded from the family class except in some very rare H&C cases.

You have two choices.

1. Give up your PR and reapply but include her this time. You can put her as non accompanying if it will help your scores

2. Get her to apply for express entry herself. If she can get in as a student it will make it easier.

Doctoring your marriage certificate can make an already bad situation completely untenable.

Wow no response for me o. seems like everyone here is all about 'the white collar'. It is well. there's always a way out.lol. It will definitely end in praise. Cheers!

lacreamAB:
Hello great people........ please is there anyone on this thread who is into importation from Nigeria OR who knows anyone who is PLEASE HELP, I need some information. All I've seen so far is about getting jobs, resumes, interviews and stuff. Some of us wanna explore the business world.

XX01:
Please, how do you stop a bus when you are running to the bus stop but not yet there. Can you flag it down? I've missed my connecting bus because Google maps 4 mins walk is faster than my walk. I get there just as the bus is pulling away or not even stopping at all.

It depends on the driver and location also, I have seen several instances where bus drivers wait for people running to catch the bus and instances where some don’t. With google maps, what I do is try to leave home 5 or 10 mins earlier than what the map advise, that way you are at the bus stop at least 5 mins earlier, so you don’t miss the bus even if it’s early. Hope this helps.

@Winter, when you have the issue of the disappearing submit button, rotate the screen to landscape. It should bring the button back to view.

Hi AZed1

I just wanna find out if landing in Quebec is allowed cos i've heard they have their own immigration nomination process.
We already booked a flight to land in Toronto but we are actually headed to Montreal, so we'd like to change flights here in Nigeria. would that be a problem?

AZeD1:

One of the reasons for this was because the officer who attended to you, didn't finish the "check in" process. (it was what happened to me because I landed in Quebec). You should call CIC and they'll help you.

Have you gotten your SIN number?

In my case, I called, was told to wait 7 days, after 7 days I called and was transferred to immigrations. The person I spoke with took the officer's who attended to me numbers (it's on your COPR) and made a note for the officer.
The officer called me like a day later to tell me he had completed the process.

Fam, please I need clarity on this

rainazoe:
My people how una dey? I got COPR with maiden name but want to get a new passport in my married name because it expires in July. Do I wait until till I land CA or process it now? How do I get my PR card to bear my married name?

kachikapor:



Hi AZed1

I just wanna find out if landing in Quebec is allowed cos i've heard they have their own immigration nomination process.
We already booked a flight to land in Toronto but we are actually headed to Montreal, so we'd like to change flights here in Nigeria. would that be a problem?

I landed in Montreal so the answer is yes. I'm not sure if you are allowed to actually stay there though.

My good God. I was about to renew my passport because it expires in July. Lemme go and do my short landing jeje

amindondee:
Good day people,

Just to give an update which may be beneficial to anyone on passport expiry less than 6 months before travelling.

So my application was approved and i got all our passports and COPRs in January 2018. My passport was due to expire in May 2018. My spouse however, insisted i renew my passport before we travel because we did not know if we would be allowed to travel with less than six moths validity on my passport. I called Lufthansa and they do not seem to have a fulfilling response as they do not understand what an immigrant visa was and that it is better to have a validity above 6 months so as to avoid any hassles. I renewed my passport and wrote an email to Ottawa, Accra and LVO to inform them i would be renewing my visa. My thinking was that the visa would still be valid as with other visas i have experienced. The next day our CIC/Express Entry profile changed from Approved to "We are awaiting a decision....." and all the counterfoil information removed.

To my great surprise i received an email from LVO that all previously issued COPRs were cancelled and invalid, and we should send all documents (including all family members) back to Accra and wait for further instructions. We were all worried. We sent all the documents through DHL back to Accra and waited for further instructions. 2 days after i received the email requesting for us to pay $120CAD through the online platform for visa re-issue which i did immediately. Then the sudden silence from LVO starts; and we have 5 more weeks until our validity expires, no update on our account profile and no information from them for about 3 weeks and until today that our application on the profile now shows approved. New counterfoil issued and the old ones shown as invalid.

rainazoe:
Fam, please I need clarity on this

when do you intend to land? My advice is to land before passport expiry. Your pr card would bear the name on your copr regardless of a change in passport name.

Thanks vcole. Landing is June.

vcole:
when do you intend to land? My advice is to land before passport expiry. Your pr card would bear the name on your copr regardless of a change in passport name.

Thank you.

Pamperme:


Check out this link
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