lonelydude:
Hello All,

Please, if there's anyone coming to London, ON or knows anyone who's coming; kindly reach out to me as I have an affordable accommodation for you. The first month comes with a discount of $100 specially from me.

This unit has 6 appliances: 2 fridges, stove, microwave, washer and dryer.

There are 1.5 bathrooms.

Church and a Central Mosque very close as well.

Kindly reach out to me if interested.

Is this still available boss? I land in London 16th August

TheCongo2:


Hotstepper, sorry to overstep as this has been addressed before on nairaland.
The catholic school boards accross Canada have different rules. Take the case of London, Ontario for instance. You have a French Catholic school board and an English catholic school board in this city. Each one of those school boards has its own set of rules.
Anyone can enroll their child in a French catholic school in London. A baptismal certificate isn't required by the French Catholic school board. However, to enroll a child in an English catholic school in London, the parent will need to provide a baptismal certificate.

In short, there isn't one set of rules for all Catholic schools even within the same city. Also, Keep in mind that there can be more than 1 English Catholic school board or French Catholic school board in a given city.

So, the best thing to do would be to identify all the catholic school boards in a city and then to call each one of them to inquire if a baptismal certificate is needed

Cc: salford , Adunnee

Are you in London?

mroyato:
Can anyone from Nigeria currently studying at fanshawe college quote me?

Hello, are you attending fanshawe this fall?

Vesment:

i applied to fanshawe for fall but not gotten approval yet but i know i will, should i pm?

Sure PM me and be hopeful.

Any fanshawe college student travelling for fall? If you need an accomodation we can get a 2 bedroom apartment, it's cheaper. Contact me pls.

Bleuocean:
guys pls what is 'my bank statement ticket' and how can one request for it? is it now becoming a requirement before visa is granted?

This is for Gt Bank. You have to do it yourself using the mobile app or the internet banking.

hadigun:
Please what does this means? I just linked my application.

Your eligibility review has started

Qudkom:
@richcasey congratulations to you. You really pushed the limit. I wish you all the best in Canada.

Thanks Qudkom

dimaxy:
PLEASE MY PEOPLE.WHAT CAN I DO IF DONT MEET UP WITH THE REQUIRED GPA FOR GRADUATE ADMISSION.
I INTEND TO APPLY AT UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA ND THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENT IS 3.O GPA WHICH I DON'T HAVE UP TO THAT.PLEASE WHAT CAN I DO..

You can opt for post graduate diploma/ certificate from the colleges

Very Long Post Alert

"It's outrageous you had to go through that, did you record it on video so you could report them?" was what my fiancee asked me over a call at 20:47 hrs on Tuesday 11 June, 2019.

We were speaking over a whatsapp video call, the power in my area was out as usual, I had my phone on my left hand and with my right hand I held a flashlight over my head so she could see my face.

Earlier that day I had been to the bank to make payment into my domiciliary account for my tuition fees, the deadline for the first term fees was looming and I hadn't heard anything concrete from the embassy since my medical was updated to 'passed'. The bank was crowded and the air freshener was either not working or they mopped the floor with body odour because it stank, I had to stand for four hours whilst dealing with unpertubed bank staffs whose response to customers with special request was "the server is down".

Four hours later, I had completed my objective. I drove out of the bank's car park exhausted and hungry, I just wanted to go home eat and sleep.

Suddenly some men in casual clothing jumped in front of my vehicle and ordered me to stop, is this a robbery? I thought to myself. They had no guns on them but they looked raggedy, I was perplexed, what is happening? They were all trying to speak at the same time and it was difficult to hear them, in the multitude of words being spoken i picked out a sentence "Why you pass one way?" Their claim was i just drove against traffic, I looked behind me to be sure it was me they were referring to, Ah! me, drive against traffic ke" did this happen In a parallel universe and I'm being picked up in this one or was this a case of mistaken identity? I could not comprehend. Before I could say CIC, one of them had hopped into the passenger seat and was screaming "ooya drive to our office". Ah! Office kill you there. Just like a veil removed from the face of a bride, hunger cleared from my eyes. I switched attitude on them, they must be taking my gentleness for foolishness. I try to avoid confrontation as much as possible, call me a phlegmatic yes! na me be that but this one was beyond me, I didn't drive against traffic, I detest people who do that so where is this accusation coming from? We screamed at the top of our voices, sprayed each other's faces with saliva, today's war is a battle of the most hydrated. How can you arrest me for an offence I didn't commit? I will not be taken advantage of, never going to happen.

Two gallons of saliva later, their argument was I drove against traffic because I used the wrong exit from the bank, ah! See me see wahala, how is my driving on a private property (inside somebody's compound) a government matter. I no gree ooo, they wasted my time and threatened me with towing and impounding my vehicle, I told them I was waiting and they should hasten the process, they realised I wasn't falling for their tactics so they switched up on me and said they were going to call their boss and it's going to be very bad for me, I asked them to add the governor to the list because I was sure he will be reasonable enough to know I didn't drive against traffic. Oh! they raged even harder, saying I called them dumb but I wasn't moved.

Thirty minutes and six additional threats later, they realised "this one na Lagos boy o" they then asked politely that i "sort them out as per boys boys level" and they'll be on their way. Ehn! Thunder Sort you there ಠ_ಠ . I looked at them and shook my head, look what my beloved country has become. I was just done with all the nonsense, I had reached my peak. Bully, extortion, unchecked crime, lack of electricity, noise pollution, bad roads.

CIC has to answer me by fire or by force, and.... then it happened;


Visa Approval after 19 weeks of application

Online route
Applied February 18, 2019
Biometrics wasn't required as I had previously applied in 2015
Background completed February 18, 2019
Eligibility started May 6, 2019
Eligibility passed May 6, 2019
Medical request mail May 6, 2019
Medical done May 28, 2019
(I was in the Netherlands when the mail dropped, I had the option to go for my medical examination in Amsterdam but the Ijebu in me will not let me, when I called Amsterdam I was told it will cost me 300euros. The price made me humbly call IOM in Ikeja and I booked for 42k approximately 100euros)
Medical Passed May 31, 2019
I sent Kenya an email @7am June 11, 2019
to inquire about my application, I complained that i passed my medicals 2 weeks ago and I hadn't gotten an update since.
"Application approved, Passport request" @10am June 11, 2019
submitted passport same day June 11, 2019
Passport delivered & stamped June 27, 2019

My story began in 2013, in the then 'travelling to Canada' part 5 thread. I had just graduated and my plan was to go to canada the next fall 2014. I obviously wasn't ready at that time as I didnt even know what documents to submit. Two years on and I had read the thread from part 1, it was enlightening and I had learnt so many things in that period. I was very confident and ready to apply or so I thought, I was active on the thread, confident of my preparation and documents, I was cocky. I applied in June, 2015 and the wait started, I was on the thread running my mouth up and down and in August I was denied. It was a huge blow "i never experred it" (This CIC people know how to humble persin), there was no motivation anymore, and I couldn't even contribute to the thread.

I ordered my gcms note, it came a month later and the reasons were lame but I already had other commitments at that time so I didn't reapply but I stayed on the thread to keep myself updated.

2019 was going to be my year, I was ready. I had done my homework, I worked harder on the arrangement of my documents. I made my application easier to understand, I labelled documents when they weren't clear enough or if it was going to make my application complicated, my SOP was 2 pages long but it was detailed.


My profile;
Bachelor of Architecture
Applied for construction project management
Fanshawe College fall 2019

Documents submitted
CIC Documents
- IMM 5257B (Application for Temporary Residence)
- IMM 1294E (Application for Study Permit Made Outside Of Canada)
- IMM 5645E (Family Information)

2 page detailed and precise SOP explaining purpose of visit, and home ties

Academic Documents 
1. Admission letter
2. Degree certificate,  
3. Academic transcript 
4. WAEC Certificate
5. Publication on housing deficit in Nigeria

Employment Documents
1. Employment letter 
2. Payslips
3. Letter of Introduction
4. Letter of promotion
5. Updated resume


Home ties
1. Proof as a board member of a company.
2. Proof as a first son and what it means for my family's business.


Sponsor's documents
Sponsor; My dad
1, International Passport
2. Statement of account
3. Letter of sponsorship
4. CAC of his business
5. Landed documents


Personal documents 
1. Data page of international passport & visa pages for travel history 
2. Birth Certificate
3. Statement of purpose (although 2 pages, I addressed the vagueness of my first application by being precise and straight forward)


Fanshawe college students or London, Ontario residents link up abeg I need to sort out my accommodation.

Thanks to God Almighty for the gift of life
@Thesoj it's my time now bro.
Thank you everyone here.

henry15 do send your PM again.

henry15:
Good morning. Please, is it possible to delegate someone to drop my passport at VFS.

Yes you can delegate someone to drop off your passport on your behalf. Kindly note that you are the only one who can pick up your passport when it is ready. In a situation where you won't be available to pick up your passport you'll have to select and pay for the courier delivery option on the drop off day to have your passport delivered directly to you.

nija4us:
Please house, how does one route a cheaper flight to St Johns, Newfoundland, Thanks

www.skyscanner.net
www.momondo.com
www.wakanow.com
www.travel.jumia.com
www.expedia.com

Ethiopian airline mobile app
Egypt air mobile app
Brussels airlines

Search these websites aggressively in incognito mode, you'll eventually find one that drops in price but I must warn you to book quickly as the prices will go up, this season till September is a high season therefore the days of 295k Ethiopian airline for Muritala to Pearson is 'gone till November'


Do not, I repeat do not visit travelstart as the lowest now on that site starts from 500k

Claire18:
I also searched for his number the day I was at Yaba. Couldnt buy anything cos they were all looking dead. So, one day at Ikotun market, I stumbled on a small shop, n got good winter jackets from there though not Canadian winter, but good for starters. And I think I got it cheap. Winter Jackets @ 3k each, Sweater @ 2k, and one cardigan @1k. Good thing is that I can switch back for another. See pictures attached...
Don't mind me...I just like off white. There are other colours.
I will still try out Yaba.

Where in ikotun? I stay in Ikotun, I'll need some for my August trip.

mzjokky16:
If someone has been blacklisted for a loan here in Nigeria, will canada background check see that. Will they even go to that, what do they check during background verifications.

Criminality and Security are part of background check.


Background check is done by processing application where your education and experience credentials are from - this task verifies your claims and authenticity of documents.

Security check is done by Canadian intelligence and security agencies, with or without cooperation of proper authorities in countries you lived/stayed in, and it is done completely independently from IRCC - IRCC only gets result, which will be positive or negative, without any explanation (as it is classified). This task looks deep into your life(LinkedIn Facebook), activities and associations to find out if you are/were involved or are/were associated in any way with anyone who is/was involved in espionage, terrorism, organized crime, radical movements, crimes against humanity, war crimes, etc..

Criminal check looks into your police certificates and verifies with relevant countries to see if you have a criminal record that may make you inadmissible to Canada.

Tlontin
OptimusPrime21

Any update on your passport guys?

The ones at egbeda and Ikotun roundabout are in trouble. I'm calling to report them on Monday

Hey guys, for those who booked with Ethiopian airline, how did you do it? Every effort to book directly on their site or mobile app doesn't work, it rejects my Gt card, both naira and dollar card.

oriazowan:
Hello house, please I want to inquire if the Children’s practice clinic still does upfront medicals? It’s very urgent thank you.

These are the 2 approved clinics at this moment

A. Q-Life Family clinic,
Plot 155a Prince Ade Odedina Street,
off Sinari Daranijo, Victoria Island Annexe.

B. IOM Migration Health Assessment Centre
No. 1 Isaac John Street,,
GRA Ikeja.

Tlontin:
18 days...yet no passport or update!!!

Your passport might be at vfs. They have a backlog because i was there on Thursday and there were so many people waiting to collect their passport and as at 4pm some people who claimed to have been there at 10am still didn't have their passport which isn't normal.

There were so many many passports in their " storage baskets" and I was surprised a company like VFS had no system to automatically tell in which basket and section a person's passport was in. They had to manually flip through every passport in every basket to find one passport and then they rinse and repeated this over and over again for every search, it was time consuming, people were impatient and aggressive and it smelled like dirty armpit everywhere.

Adelola94:
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I was issued letter of acceptance which is the pre-admission letter with no missing requirements and not conditional admission. The college instructed me to pay my tution deposit which is via flywire before the issuance of full admission letter but now the problem is with my bank,UBA they declined and insisted on seeing the full offer of admission before the commencement of transaction. Thank for your reply.

If as you said you were instructed to make payment through flywire, you can do that on your own if your bank won't do it for you.

1. Make payment with your master or visa card (expensive option)
2. You can make a bank transfer if you have a domiciliary account (cheaper option)

I don't know about UBA, I know this options are easier with a GTB account.

Adelola94:
I recieved letter of acceptance from Cambrian College in studying "Pre-health Science Pathway to Advance Diploma and Degree". However, the college instructed me to pay my tution deposit before the issuance of full admission.
I went to bank to make my transaction which eventually I got declined that I can't pay me tution fee deposit of 7962.16 as a result of no full offer of admission.
What do I do please, bank declined payment because of no full acceptance letter while college refused to grant full letter of acceptance without tution deposit.

Find out if you can make payment to your school through flywire, do you have a conditional admission letter? You should try Diamond bank, they help better with the school fees FORM A stuff.

holllowu:
Hello guys,
Does getting an accommodation improves your chances of getting a visa?

No, getting an accommodation will not improve your chances of getting a visa but submitting the right documents and writing a very good and convincing statement of purpose can improve your chances of getting a study visa.

LET THIS GUIDE YOU ON DOCUMENTS TO SUBMIT

Gamma007:
Greetings gurus in the house.

Please I need info regarding my medicals,just got the medical invitation form since I submitted my application.
I contacted IOM but they said the earliest available date is June 24, and qlife clinic are not equally responding as expected.
I will appreciate suggestions on how best to go about this, as I don't want to entertain any delay.

You can still get an appointment for this month at IOM Abuja but you must be willing to fly to Abuja to do that. Someone posted about this 1 or 2 pages back.

Anamekele:
Please gurus in the House
Is it OK to use the soft copy of statement of account that is not signed and stamped.
This is because my bank sent to me the bank statement to my mail. They said it only be signed if it hard copy.
I also discovered the the soft copy is clearer that the scanned hard copy.

I know if you have a current account at GT bank, you can log into your internet banking portal and print a stamped statement from there. You can present this at the embassy.

Purplestorm:
Thank you for the response, can I travel while my application is being processed?

Yes you can travel. If you get a medical request while you're away, you can go to any CIC approved panel physician closest to where you are for the medical examination.

Use this LINK to find a physician close to you.

Shadypoza:
After waiting for 1 year plus (13months) i finally received my medical request. God be praised!!! Delay is truly not denial.
Pls house, which of d medical location is most advisable (between V.i and Ikeja)

I remember you said you'll withdraw your application in mid June. A few more days and it's mid June. Congrats!

holllowu:
have been offered admission to Algonquin College, i was told to make payment via Flywire, but the charge is too much is there any other way i can go about it ??

@Austacus and any other Algonquin Student, please help

Flywire gives some options to choose from,
- Payment by Visa or Mastercard which is expensive,
- Payment by bank transfer which is relatively cheaper to the master or visa card option. This bank transfer option can be done on your own with internet banking but you'll need a domiciliary account to try this and flywire should receive your payment in 6hrs.
- Another option is using the form A, it is the cheapest option I know. Diamond bank gives the best service for this option but I stand to be corrected.

You'll need to do the maths before you make a choice. At one instance, I found the difference between the card option and the bank transfer to be as much as 250usd for half a tuition payment. The form A will sell the dollars to you at about 358usd less or more but better than an aboki will offer.

sillysassysally:
I used Royal Air Maroc for my trip. Personally, I had no complaints apart from the fact that the wifi in that their airport wasn’t working. There was also this Nigerian man whose mother needed a wheelchair to get out of the air bus and they just kept posting the guy...

Apart from the above, I think they’re one of the cheapest. I spent like 190k for my trip.

No landing gist?

Mykaelolalekan:
.

But I guess what might have gone wrong is that my school included my previous academic qualifications on my offer letter which I submitted as part of my application to include :
BSc Economics MBA and MSc Risk management and insurance while am now pursuing MA Economics.
Although I took time to tackle the reason for the MA having obtained MSc previously in my Sop.

You have you masters bro, is there any reason why you're not rather going through the Express entry option instead of stressing through study visa?

ebi12:
Male or Female?

Any sex, no preference really

dayo23:
Pls Sir! I have 4Million on personal account and I have a sponsor my elder brother's Company with over 15Million, I want to do masters next year in Canada, but I graduated with 3rd Class from a Federal University. Do I stand a chance or are there a pre masters programme i can before applying for Masters. I need your advice guys

A postgraduate certificate or a post graduate diploma course is your best bet.