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So I’ve been thinking about my application and it seems I’ve made some silly errors mostly financial. First, I applied way too long ahead of my travel date (4moths) which I was told it’s fine given the recent increase in processing times. Second, there was a transaction of 2.2m which I haven’t declared it alongside a few others. 3rd, I used wrong conversion rates for Naira to GBP. Btw I had tier 4 visa which expired 2019. Kindly advise.
@giselle237
@cashmadam

Is this your first time applying?

surplusbaba:
Got this refusal just now. Although it self explanatory but Can someone please advice the way forward? I need to know the best time to reapply. Thanks

Good day everyone.
Just a quick question. I applied for UK Visit visa and my planned travel date is Dec.23.2022, which makes it almost 4 months before travel date, is that going to affect my chances? I just saw it on the UKVI website that one can apply up to 3 months before their travel date.
Thank You.

I'm facing the same thing here. Are you able to fix it yet ?

Nicejo:
I have been able to all the required documents, I went to summary only to realise that my date of birth changed to 01/01/1970. All attempt to correct and save proved abortive as it still returned back to the same date. Did anyone experience thesame problem? What can I do to correct this?

Is your date of birth the same or it changed ? mine keeps changing. Is anyone having the same issue?

EngrOsas:
I have completed mine.
But no print out

[email protected] Thank you so much.

Faloh:
For petroleum questions, you can drop your mail.

Any Petroleum Eng that wrote today pls I have a question. Thanks

No invite or regret mail as yet ..... anybody with similar case?

u must be one hell of a genius ..... so you are saying the portal is the only means of communication? interesting. Those guys that were asked to update their profiles, how did they know about the update thing you damn well know it wasn't stated or displayed on their portal to make update but instead EMAIL and SMS was sent to each of them .... God bless u

babagy82:
I dont want to sound mean, but if your portal is closed you are out of the race tbh. because if you guys can recall during aptitude test many guys didnt recieve the invitation mail but learnt about their shortlisting from their profile. Likewise if you will be invited for interview i believe ur profile status will be your guide. Is just like somebody waiting for alert when he dont even have a bank . But its just my opinion though

Looks like I'm not the only one ...... Received the exact the same thing

Alantobie:
Hi guys. My visa was delayed. Financial reasons but I showed statement of with lots of money plus treasury bills. Anyways I'm gonna defer my ission, pay the school fees and open a Dom in my name to tackle the reasons. I pray you guys get yours

What text? what are you talking about?

chivylif:
I heard that the on going text is for engineering people... How true is that?

PET. ENGR - GT ...

GIGATT9:


PET. ENGRG - GT

GT 27 ABJ ... I sent u mail ... reply pls .... I gt something I wanna ask u pls

chukzy4u:

Holla... EH for 24th

Petroleum Engineers pls holla

Hello people.
Pls anyone in the house shortlisted for Petroleum Engineer GT?
Thanks

Pls how long does it take for the background check for both of you to be completed?
Thanks

Adunni222:


Ok I saw the same thing too and I thought I was hallucinating. I am curious please, what did your review of eligibility say initially? Please

Hi bro .... I would like to PM u to help me clear something pls

Austinpee4:
For those of us complaining about not recieving notification email to check their for updates, make sure you ticked the check box in your dashboard to recieve email notifications and also input a valid email address in the space provided.

Once you do this, you will get the notification email to check you once there is an update.

When did you applied? is it paper or online route?
thanks

tysaxmalomo:




Tysaxmalomo, Medical ed June 29.....

Review of eligibility started

"Unlawfully present in a country after the issued visa has expired" does that apply only to Canada or if you overstayed in any other country?

bluegirl080115:

Okay here's my opinion
There's many reasons for in eligibility it solely depends on the visa officer but here are some few reasons, there are others though
Unlawfully present in a country after the issued visa has expired
Previously removed from a country
Documentations
Misrepresentation
Terrorism (security related grounds)
Health related grounds
Immigration Acts of the country
It all boils down to how convincing, truthful your application is to the visa officer

Thanks

likeababygirl:

It is very normal. Your profile won't be updated until it is attended to by the VO. so just be calm.

Pls house, is it normal if my medical exam status hasn't been updated even though the IOM notified me that i'm all cleared? submitted on the 6th june (upfront medical via paper route)?

Thanks

Hi there, which school is the? have u ed supervisor prior to you app? which major u got itted into?
Thanks.

jnyuwa02:


Okay got it last night!! Just when I had started to get concerned and posting questions on this forum. I didn't even call or email them. Took exactly three weeks. Officially approved by the school and offer of ission and full funding issued to me last night via email. God is good. Now I turn my eyes towards applying for a TRV. It shall end in praise. Thanks bro!!

Hi. I applied for study permit on 8th June 2017 via VFS with upfront medicals. No updated as yet not even on medicals, is this normal?

- Application status We are processing your application. We will send you a message when there is an update or if we need more information from you. Help
- Review of eligibility Your application is in progress. We will send you a message when we start reviewing your eligibility.
- Review of medical results You do not need a medical exam. We will send you a message if this changes.
- Biometrics We do not need your fingerprints. We will send you a message if this changes

Thanks.

U included police certificate with your application?

HarveySpecter1:


Yeah.same day I submitted

mine is showing the exact same thing as yours, u applied online or paper route?

HarveySpecter1:
Hey guys,

Please can anyone help me explain what stage the CIC guys are in my application. See screenshot below..I did upfront medical.

Ohh cool. Have you applied for visa? when did u and have u received any update from CIC? thanks

Rubbies22:

MEng civil-
You can pay by other means, email the school and ask them for other ways..... I hv a cousin there so he helped me pay from Canada.

Hi there. what program you got accepted into? I also got itted MEng Petroleum Eng UofA Fall 2017 but thinking of deferring to winter 2018 incase i didn't get my study permit on time. how did pay the tuition so early? I thought they made mention on bear tracks that fees assessment will be available 3rd july. anyways I applied on the 8th June, paper route with an upfront, no police report and no update as yet. Good luck

Rubbies22:
Hi
I am applying for study visa on Monday for my ission to fall 2017 U of A MEng...
I am planning on submitting online
- recently got laid off from work -in march, ---ission can in may
-New job( unrelated) in same month
-Got recommended from both old and new job
- paid my tuition - hv receipt
-Conditions offer( transcript)
-Sponsor myself (1.6m)plus uncle as co sponsor (10m with 2 - working)
-Police report (getting it on Monday, paid 10k btw Abj)
Pls any thing to help and can I get my visa before sept
School start sept 1

Hi there, congrats on the TRV. Also, I have all the documents that you have listed with the exception of police certificate, do you think that'll be a problem for me?

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 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)

ission 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, and in 2016 for a workshop at a Renowned Instrumentation Company Endress + Ha (cited in my SOP)

Below are the documents I submitted:

Reference letter for Bank (current )

Five months SOA (savings/salary ) 7.2M

Nine months SOA (savings ) 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 s 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 balance)

Evidence of cleared condition of ission 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)
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IMM5645E
IMM5257B
IMM1294

Upfront Medical
I applied March 28, 2017
Biometrics done March 29, 2017
Request for Original port May 31st 2017
port 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.

Hi there, I have all the documents that you have listed with the exception of police certificate, do you think that'll be a problem for me?

yamen21:
congrats bro. i am happy for u

I PREVIOUSLY worked but CURRENTLY not working ..... So I entered previous job detail but like I said i'm currently not working.

Hello House, I've tried validating my IMM1294 but it refused to saying I have to insert details of current employment and unfortunately i'm unemployed, anybody has similar issue? How do I go about that pls? Its urgent pls

mostblackroad:
You mean request for medicals??
Biometrics are done at the VFS centre when you submit your application.

No not medical request .... I mean Biometrics at the VFS centre, If for instance I submitted my application today, will I receive invitation email immediately after submission or it takes some time to get it?