Please seniors in the house, i am confused regarding the passport data page and pages with stamps to submit for my kids.

Two of them have Canadian passport and one America passport. They equally have Nigeria passport.

Both passport have stamps on them.

Do i have to scan both or just stick with one?

If it is the later, which do i stick with?

Also regarding visa fees, do i have to pay for the two canadian citizen.

Thank you.

Yes you have to pay for the one with American passport but I don't think you need to pay for the ones with Canadian passports. Those ones are already Canadians and I don't think they need to be included in the application even. They don't need the PR and the payment is for PR application.
I stand to be corrected though.

Yes also, you have to scan all their passports and all the pages with stamps on them.

The only difference between theirs and yours is that they won't be be needing the temporary visa for landing

ozzy2:

Please seniors in the house, i am confused regarding the passport data page and pages with stamps to submit for my kids.

Two of them have Canadian passport and one America passport. They equally have Nigeria passport.

Both passport have stamps on them.

Do i have to scan both or just stick with one?

If it is the later, which do i stick with?

Also regarding visa fees, do i have to pay for the two canadian citizen.

Thank you.

.

nivlek000:
Hello Chief,
Sent you DM regarding this.

Hi, did you get the FRSC contact from @40manlappy?
Please I need the contact urgently

im just excited reading this.. Congratulations. Will definitely share mine

jholarharde:
dear landed seniors, pls I need your help with this contemplation. we are considering leaving our kids(2boys 5 and 3) behind with my mom, so we can integrate and hustle easily when we land. then come back for them once we've settled, and before their medical expires. pls what are your thoughts. it will be highly appreciated.

Is a very great idea..

Ask here https://www.nairaland.com/4472519/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/543

jonsnow92:
Good morning all. i'm just discovering this thread and i have few questions please.

1) I have bsc geology here in Nigeria but graduated with a 2.2? am i eligible for masters? like will i be picked for mac geology in canada?

2) I'm currently working and the plan is to start processing next year so ill have close to 18 months work experience come next year. is it an added advantage as regards the masters?

please answers would be greatly appreciated.

myelims:



Is a very great idea..

thanks boss

jhoci:
Ask here https://www.nairaland.com/4472519/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/543

thanks.

For people in the Oakville area interested in becoming PSWs.

I must say that this thread is one of the most resourceful platforms.
so much info that covers almost everything, thank you all, keep up the good work! I'll be landing in Ontario with hubby and 2 kids in September.

please, I have some questions:
1. I want to switch to nursing on arrival but I graduated as an industrial chemist here, has anyone made this career switch and what can I expect? is it better to take a full time college diploma program or university?

2. Does anyone have a contact with FRSC that can help us get the letter of good standing for my driver's license?

3. I'm thinking of just changing about USD2000 cash for a family of 4 from POF while the rest will be shown on the a/c statement upon landing, is this a good idea as we don't want to carry plenty cash while travelling.

4. Has anyone booked with Ethiopian airline through their website? Do they accept naira debit card for payment? if not how were you able to make payment?

please seniors make una help a sister
thanks in advance

Otnias:
I must say that this thread is one of the most resourceful platforms.
so much info that covers almost everything, thank you all, keep up the good work! I'll be landing in Ontario with hubby and 2 kids in September.

please, I have some questions:
1. I want to switch to nursing on arrival but I graduated as an industrial chemist here, has anyone made this career switch and what can I expect? is it better to take a full time college diploma program or university?

2. Does anyone have a contact with FRSC that can help us get the letter of good standing for my driver's license?

3. I'm thinking of just changing about USD2000 cash for a family of 4 from POF while the rest will be shown on the a/c statement upon landing, is this a good idea as we don't want to carry plenty cash while travelling.

4. Has anyone booked with Ethiopian airline through their website? Do they accept naira debit card for payment? if not how were you able to make payment?

please seniors make una help a sister
thanks in advance

I can answer question 1 and 3.
Q1: It is better to go for a RN program instead of LPN. The wages for LPN is quite low if you do not get an health region or health service job. With RN, you would be guaranteed atleast $30/hr. It could go as high as over $40/hr. Much depends on location. For cuture career movement, RN is also better.

Q3: With your family size. $2k US is low. That amount would hardly take care of one adult for 2 months in Canada. For your family size, that amount could be gone in maximum one month. e.g a rental deposit on an apartment alone could gulp $1k of that amount.Except you would be transferring funds from naija every month.

salford:

I can answer question 1 and 3.
Q1: It is better to go for a RN program instead of LPN. The wages for LPN is quite low if you do not get an health region or health service job. With RN, you would be guaranteed atleast $30/hr. It could go as high as over $40/hr. Much depends on location. For cuture career movement, RN is also better.

Q3: With your family size. $2k US is low. That amount would hardly take care of one adult for 2 months in Canada. For your family size, that amount could be gone in maximum one month. e.g a rental deposit on an apartment alone could gulp $1k of that amount.

thanks @salford for the quick response. for Q3, we can carry all the pof in cash If need be, lol, but we have phobia for carrying so much cash around, the plan however is to wire the money from our naija acc after opening an acc in Canada as soon as we land. maybe with what you said i think we should make it up to at least USD4k

for Q1, I'm a confused a bit, is RN the program that lasts for 2yrs and LPN the one that lasts for about a year? The terms are a bit confusing.

Otnias:


thanks @salford for the quick response. for Q3, we can carry all the pof in cash If need be, lol, but we have phobia for carrying so much cash around, the plan however is to wire the money from our naija acc after opening an acc in Canada as soon as we land. maybe with what you said i think we should make it up to at least USD4k

for Q1, I'm a confused a bit, is RN the program that lasts for 2yrs and LPN the one that lasts for about a year? The terms are bit confusing.

U can land with like $5k. Then transfer the rest in bits if that would be better.

Registered Nurse is usually 4 years i.e Degree in Nursing, but some Universities offer programs that lets you complete it in 2 years if you have a degree. You would be required to pass some biological sciences courses before class starts.

Licensed Practical Nurse is 2 years. Offered in some colleges.

Personal Support Worker/Health Care Aid: 4 to 6 months

Some smaller cities or provinces would employ and train people to become psw without the certificates e.g this is common in Winnipeg. Previously common in Calgary too, but now competition is fiece for psw jobs in Calgary and employers often ask for the certificate.

You can also try apply for chemistry/chemist jobs when you land. There are a few around on jobsites. My organization (a Provincial Government) for example has a vacancy for an Entry Level Chemist currently posted on our internal job site. If no one applies by the 15th of next month, it would be thrown to the street. Starting wage is $39 an hr with lots of benefits and healthy pension plan. Requirement is just a Bachelor in Chemistry or a diploma in Chemical Technology. If it's thrown out to the street, I would send you a pm.

RN (Registered Nurse) - 4year degree programme or 2year accelerated degree if you already have a degree in a relevant field. You might also need to take some prerequisite courses before you can register for the accelerated programme. Qualification is a BSN, Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) - 2 year programme. More like a diploma.

Google the programmes and check the requirements for your preferred school.

Otnias:


thanks @salford for the quick response. for Q3, we can carry all the pof in cash If need be, lol, but we have phobia for carrying so much cash around, the plan however is to wire the money from our naija acc after opening an acc in Canada as soon as we land. maybe with what you said i think we should make it up to at least USD4k

for Q1, I'm a confused a bit, is RN the program that lasts for 2yrs and LPN the one that lasts for about a year? The terms are a bit confusing.

Akingsqueen:
Yes you have to pay for the one with American passport but I don't think you need to pay for the ones with Canadian passports. Those ones are already Canadians and I don't think they need to be included in the application even. They don't need the PR and the payment is for PR application.
I stand to be corrected though.

Yes also, you have to scan all their passports and all the pages with stamps on them.

The only difference between theirs and yours is that they won't be be needing the temporary visa for landing

Thank you

salford:

U can land with like $5k. Then transfer the rest in bits if that would be better.

Registered Nurse is usually 4 years i.e Degree in Nursing, but some Universities offer programs that lets you complete it in 2 years if you have a degree. You would be required to pass some biological sciences courses before class starts.

Licensed Practical Nurse is 2 years. Offered in some colleges.

Personal Support Worker/Health Care Aid: 4 to 6 months

Some smaller cities or provinces would employ and train people to become psw without the certificates e.g this is common in Winnipeg. Previously common in Calgary too, but now competition is fiece for psw jobs in Calgary and employers often ask for the certificate.

You can also try apply for chemistry/chemist jobs when you land. There are a few around on jobsites. My organization (a Provincial Government) for example has a vacancy for an Entry Level Chemist currently posted on our internal job site. If no one applies by the 15th of next month, it would be thrown to the street. Starting wage is $39 an hr with lots of benefits and healthy pension plan. Requirement is just a Bachelor in Chemistry or a diploma in Chemical Technology. If it's thrown out to the street, I would send you a pm.

ok thanks a lot. you've been very helpful.

salford:

U can land with like $5k. Then transfer the rest in bits if that would be better.

Registered Nurse is usually 4 years i.e Degree in Nursing, but some Universities offer programs that lets you complete it in 2 years if you have a degree. You would be required to pass some biological sciences courses before class starts.

Licensed Practical Nurse is 2 years. Offered in some colleges.

Personal Support Worker/Health Care Aid: 4 to 6 months

Some smaller cities or provinces would employ and train people to become psw without the certificates e.g this is common in Winnipeg. Previously common in Calgary too, but now competition is fiece for psw jobs in Calgary and employers often ask for the certificate.

You can also try apply for chemistry/chemist jobs when you land. There are a few around on jobsites. My organization (a Provincial Government) for example has a vacancy for an Entry Level Chemist currently posted on our internal job site. If no one applies by the 15th of next month, it would be thrown to the street. Starting wage is $39 an hr with lots of benefits and healthy pension plan. Requirement is just a Bachelor in Chemistry or a diploma in Chemical Technology. If it's thrown out to the street, I would send you a pm.

Wow if you don't mind abeg PM me too.

jhoci:
RN (Registered Nurse) - 4year degree programme or 2year accelerated degree if you already have a degree in a relevant field. You might also need to take some prerequisite courses before you can register for the accelerated programme. Qualification is a BSN, Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse) - 2 year programme. More like a diploma.

Google the programmes and check the requirements for your preferred school.

thank you @jhoci.

you can send me a pm if you are yet to get it.

Saintp:


Hi, did you get the FRSC contact from @40manlappy?

Please I need the contact urgently

salford:

U can land with like $5k. Then transfer the rest in bits if that would be better.

Registered Nurse is usually 4 years i.e Degree in Nursing, but some Universities offer programs that lets you complete it in 2 years if you have a degree. You would be required to pass some biological sciences courses before class starts.

Licensed Practical Nurse is 2 years. Offered in some colleges.

Personal Support Worker/Health Care Aid: 4 to 6 months

Some smaller cities or provinces would employ and train people to become psw without the certificates e.g this is common in Winnipeg. Previously common in Calgary too, but now competition is fiece for psw jobs in Calgary and employers often ask for the certificate.

You can also try apply for chemistry/chemist jobs when you land. There are a few around on jobsites. My organization (a Provincial Government) for example has a vacancy for an Entry Level Chemist currently posted on our internal job site. If no one applies by the 15th of next month, it would be thrown to the street. Starting wage is $39 an hr with lots of benefits and healthy pension plan. Requirement is just a Bachelor in Chemistry or a diploma in Chemical Technology. If it's thrown out to the street, I would send you a pm.

Hi sir, can I send you a pm ?
I need your input on something
Thank you.

Fortissimo502:


Wow if you don't mind abeg PM me too.

sure.

tintedniggz:

Hi sir, can I send you a pm ?
I need your input on something
Thank you.

pm to salford1. I don't remember the password or email I used for salford. Note that it would be beneficial to others and to you when you ask your question here. You could receive more than one answer if your questions are posted here.

koonlay5:
you can send me a pm if you are yet to get it.

I can't remember both the email and password for this account. please send to emmyppp@yahoo.com

Thanks

Hello everyone, been silently following and learning from this thread and would like to share my landing story ( hoping it would help someone else):

PPR was gotten in March and we searched for flights through skyscanner.net, We booked our flight in May for a family of four going to Toronto in July via Egypt airways (it costed about 1m plus). We initially wanted to go for Emirates but the 600k price difference was thought to be better spent on cargoing foodstuff (to avoid Egypt air wahala) and for the kids to do some summer camp outings with their cousins in Toronto.
We cargoed the food items and some other personal effects the day before the trip(82kg for N115k,... for those who intend to cargo it makes more sense if you have 100kg or more in weight)

Also, after much back and forth, we finally decided to split our full POF between my husband and I and carry cash to Toronto. We changed our monies to 100USD bills and they were very handy to carry with our carry ons. We had not issue with safety or harassments at the airports.

Day of departure: Got to the airport around 11am on Friday (Lagos traffic), had a smooth check-in (we had weighed our 8 baggages at home before leaving and our hand luggages were also pretty light). Had meetups at the airport with family and friends but we couldn't hang out for long... took a lot of pics though. Went to the boarding area, and we were asked to identify our luggage before sitting down to wait to board. Boarded plane in time. Flight to Cairo was on a small plane, no personal IFE, but food was okay and the kids (6 and 4yrs) slept most of the way. Landed in Cairo after about 6hrs and had a 5 hr wait,... which the kids spent running around. We got a bite to eat (I could pay in dollars at the airport) and finally the boarding process began, with only one really slow officer trying painstakingly to match the faces of passengers to their passport photos...(lol)ridiculous. finally someone joined him and the queue was a lot faster. From the number of people queued up to board, one could tell that the plane would be a much bigger one and it was.

The 12hr flight was pretty comfortable with personal IFE, okay feeding and darkened cabins to help get used to the timezone change and we all got to sleep. The cabin crew weren't the friendliest but they were helpful and the pilot had the softest takeoff and landing I had ever experienced! We landed Toronto around 7.50am Saturday, did the expected check ins and landing procedures. There practically wasn't any queue at the time we landed so our wait wasn't tedious and we got a cheerful "welcome to Canada you are now Permanent Residents of Canada". However, because we had goods to follow, we had to go to customs to prep for them. After all the waka, we finally went out to meet our expectant relatives who had come to receive us with 2 cars. We did the 30mins drive to Milton, where they reside, ate ,gisted , went out for some grocery shopping and finally got to sleep around 7pm.

Been up and about town since Monday getting our bank accounts opened (we did a joint account in Scotia with separate credit cards, for now), gotten our SINs, got a mobile sim-freedom ( on my Samsung S7 double sim that I had brought from Naija) just for me for now though... my husband just intends to do a soft landing. Found out the Halton district has new program for IMGs,... so we're hoping that works for us and we're also prepping for driving tests (having a car is not a luxury in a small town like Milton). The kids have started summer camp at a church with their cousins and are having a blast and that also frees our days for us to do waka.

Canadians have been very helpful and Milton in particular is very family oriented with lots of public and low cost programs available to engage the kids this summer. I will try to update as I see needful, but I can say that if you have a family and you are looking to save some money Egypt air isn't a bad option.

done

Saintp:


I can't remember both the email and password for this account. please send to emmyppp@yahoo.com

Thanks

@deni83

congrats on your landing and thanks for sharing... may the land favour you.
I have some questions:
1. are there some foodstuff that are not acceptable on Egyptair?
2. how did you book with them, cos we have been trying but their website is not working well?

koonlay5:
done

Thank you

@deni83
Thanks for sharing your experience
Please did they inspect your food stuff before it was cargoed ?

Otnias:
@deni83

congrats on your landing and thanks for sharing... may the land favour you.
I have some questions:
1. are there some foodstuff that are not acceptable on Egyptair?
2. how did you book with them, cos we have been trying but their website is not working well?

Last year Egyptair binned my dry fish and stock fish. Dunno about now though. They random pick people to check their luggages.

Please can we enter Canada with beans?

deni83:
Hello everyone,

Canadians have been very helpful and Milton in particular is very family oriented with lots of public and low cost programs available to engage the kids this summer. I will try to update as I see needful, but I can say that if you have a family and you are looking to save some money Egypt air isn't a bad option.

Really enjoyed reading your landing story. We are still waiting for our passports to be returned from VFS. We intend landing early next year and will be staying in Milton. Hubby will also be doing soft landing. Would be nice to meet up with you when we land. Enjoy maple land and post more info when you can. Cheers.

You are such a great writer. i guess your IELTS would only attest to that. I love your story, its so inspiring and i tap into your grace for my family and I. Hoping to see soon in Canada. Thanks a lot and God bless you.

deni83:
Hello everyone, been silently following and learning from this thread and would like to share my landing story ( hoping it would help someone else):

PPR was gotten in March and we searched for flights through skyscanner.net, We booked our flight in May for a family of four going to Toronto in July via Egypt airways (it costed about 1m plus). We initially wanted to go for Emirates but the 600k price difference was thought to be better spent on cargoing foodstuff (to avoid Egypt air wahala) and for the kids to do some summer camp outings with their cousins in Toronto.
We cargoed the food items and some other personal effects the day before the trip(82kg for N115k,... for those who intend to cargo it makes more sense if you have 100kg or more in weight)

Also, after much back and forth, we finally decided to split our full POF between my husband and I and carry cash to Toronto. We changed our monies to 100USD bills and they were very handy to carry with our carry ons. We had not issue with safety or harassments at the airports.

Day of departure: Got to the airport around 11am on Friday (Lagos traffic), had a smooth check-in (we had weighed our 8 baggages at home before leaving and our hand luggages were also pretty light). Had meetups at the airport with family and friends but we couldn't hang out for long... took a lot of pics though. Went to the boarding area, and we were asked to identify our luggage before sitting down to wait to board. Boarded plane in time. Flight to Cairo was on a small plane, no personal IFE, but food was okay and the kids (6 and 4yrs) slept most of the way. Landed in Cairo after about 6hrs and had a 5 hr wait,... which the kids spent running around. We got a bite to eat (I could pay in dollars at the airport) and finally the boarding process began, with only one really slow officer trying painstakingly to match the faces of passengers to their passport photos...(lol)ridiculous. finally someone joined him and the queue was a lot faster. From the number of people queued up to board, one could tell that the plane would be a much bigger one and it was.

The 12hr flight was pretty comfortable with personal IFE, okay feeding and darkened cabins to help get used to the timezone change and we all got to sleep. The cabin crew weren't the friendliest but they were helpful and the pilot had the softest takeoff and landing I had ever experienced! We landed Toronto around 7.50am Saturday, did the expected check ins and landing procedures. There practically wasn't any queue at the time we landed so our wait wasn't tedious and we got a cheerful "welcome to Canada you are now Permanent Residents of Canada". However, because we had goods to follow, we had to go to customs to prep for them. After all the waka, we finally went out to meet our expectant relatives who had come to receive us with 2 cars. We did the 30mins drive to Milton, where they reside, ate ,gisted , went out for some grocery shopping and finally got to sleep around 7pm.

Been up and about town since Monday getting our bank accounts opened (we did a joint account in Scotia with separate credit cards, for now), gotten our SINs, got a mobile sim-freedom ( on my Samsung S7 double sim that I had brought from Naija) just for me for now though... my husband just intends to do a soft landing. Found out the Halton district has new program for IMGs,... so we're hoping that works for us and we're also prepping for driving tests (having a car is not a luxury in a small town like Milton). The kids have started summer camp at a church with their cousins and are having a blast and that also frees our days for us to do waka.

Canadians have been very helpful and Milton in particular is very family oriented with lots of public and low cost programs available to engage the kids this summer. I will try to update as I see needful, but I can say that if you have a family and you are looking to save some money Egypt air isn't a bad option.