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nitrogen:


I think you can renew one year before expiry, but not more than.

https://nigeriahcottawa.ca/2022/12/07/you-can-renew-your-port-a-year-before-the-expiry-date-h-e-adeyinka-asekun/

thanks bro.

REDBULL1:


Okay, thank you. I'll asknthem for a quote then.

don't ask them. they can over charge you. just visit https://www.tdinsurance.com/ and get an instant quote and if you're ok with the quote you can proceed to confirming your insurance and make payment.

REDBULL1:
Hello guys,

Please how do I get low insurance rates in Ontario? I'm a g2 driver living in Cambridge. I'm getting quotes of 300+.

Please any tips, advice? Help a brother.

td is affordable and if you're a student you get a certain discount.

Hi everyone, my Nigerian port will expire in 17 months, and i will be renewing my visa in may 2023 for a 3 years owp extension. Is it possible to apply for port renewal now?
I've ed the Nigerian high commission but no response yet.

Afolavid:
Hello house, good day.

Please, what's the best way/route to get to London, Ontario..? My flight is from Lagos-Toronto but my final destination is London.

Also, anyone that has potential/available accommodation in London.?

Thanks

Book a flight from Lagos to Toronto and pre-book a taxi pick up https://robertq.com/ or https://driverseatinc.com/. They’re less than $125.

If you’re a Fanshawe student, Fanshawe will only cover the cost for the student’s shuttle service from Toronto’s Pearson Airport or London’s International Airport to a London or regional campus address (St. Thomas, Woodstock, Simcoe). Assistance is provided with accessing booking services for family (which Fanshawe doesn’t cover)

tracy0803409:
Good day Family, please can i get infomation/ideas for the cost of daycare centres precisely in London,Ontario,does the Canadian Government help in subsiding the cost for international students.

Please kindly help a first time mum, is all about me planning well to succeed


God bless you all, thanks for your responses Family.

In London, Ontario daycare is free, when my wife arrived Canada with our 4month old she was given free child care Monday to Friday at any day care of her choice even tho she didn’t have a Job at the time.

Child care case workers in London respond fast. The process took a week….the most important thing is securing a day care facility where your child will be enrolled in.

: [email protected]
For further assistance goto LUSO community service they’ll assist you.

cochtrane:


What you are defending is a lie of convenience. A lie that helps to avoid other possibly difficult questions. It’s okay if that’s something you also do, but it’s untenable to claim that it’s not a big deal. It is in fact a big deal. We may not have been able to choose where we all come from, but we owe it to our future generations or our children to stand tall and accept our identities. I hate to make the comparison, but if you can make excuses for this, who is to say you won’t make excuses for a visibly white, but genetically black person who claims to be white just to escape the travails his race is going through when they could instead the campaign to right the wrong in society? I’m not making this up. There have been cases and they make for stunning stories of years of lies. Would you perhaps even go further to change your skin color if the chance presented itself because it will save you even more trouble and/or more stares? Think about that!

Some people think they are comionate or that they are good people, but they have hardly ed a true test such as this where they have to it who they truly are, or to which group they belong in the face of whatever disadvantages it may bring. But is it even truly disadvantageous to say you are Nigerian? If you are good people, shouldn’t you care to let those who deride Nigerians see an exception in you? I think the question you should ask yourself is if you want to continuously be the example that will make others see Nigerians in better light or if you just want to run away from your identity because it is inconvenient.

Perhaps you are a Christian. If you are, also ask yourself, “what would Jesus do?”

NB: I am no Christian

Singapore a simple, peaceful, lovely and friendly country the number one most powerful port in the world was visa-free to Nigerians, till Nigerians took it for granted due to drug trafficking and crime, there was no week without a Nigerian caught doing a criminal act. In 2014/2015 the privilege was taken away, visa-free was cancelled, and my PR application was denied. Communities with a lot of Nigerians were required to vacate. Malaysia the closest country became the hotspot. I almost lost my job, my work visa was limited to 12 months to be renewed yearly. My ex-boss was a big help to me, if not I would have been kicked out for just being a Nigerian. Till I left that country every time I receive my salary I get a call from my bank to the payment that was made. Almost got my locked & closed because I wired money to Nigeria. So so many ill-treatment for just being a Nigerian. So if you’re comparing race and denying a country then you’re mistaken. These are just a few things I experienced due to the reputation and the stigma attached to the name Nigeria. So when you ask me “Where are you from” don’t expect Nigeria from me.
Like I said if you haven’t LIVED outside North America or UK you can't understand how the name Nigeria is costing people. Canada did a great job curbing and limiting the influx of migrants that’s why there’s limited discrimination and you can easily see Nigerians working in Banks or financial institutions in Canada.
The talk about our future generation, I choose not to discuss that, my honest truth: the future generation of Nigeria is Fked.

oluayebenz:
I met someone today who clearly denied his nationality... When your accent, looks clearly shows Nigerian.

We met at a wear store in Toronto, we interacted and ask him his background and he denied his nationality straight up and said 'he's from the caribbean, which his actually from Nigeria.
I told him I'm a Nigerian and we exchanged number

Initially I knew this guy is a Nigerian and his whatsapp picture gave me double assurance.

But the issue is why are Nigerians in diaspora denying their origin?

Majority of Nigerian living oversea has messed up and tarnished the issue of Nigeria. This people misused precious opportunities giving to them by the oyinbos.

Now we will be lamenting on the government back home, is the govt the problem here again? People will hardly give you regards here as a Nigerian. Nigerians are known for cheap scams.
The girls will never wanna date you as a Nigerian.

In Italy, landlords will never want to rent you their house once they discover you are a Nigerian.
In dubai, no job for Nigerians, its hard to get one
In SA, they are known for drugs and all sort of rubbish.
Infact all the country in the world won't want to associate once they knew you are a Nigerian, even some African countries

Yet we kept on blaming the government.

Even the ones back home has spoiled the country image internationally.
Calling her Zoo and all sort.

Are Nigerians abroad doing any better? NO

These people need to change their ways.
It's not few Nigerians, but Majority.

I respect your opinion but honestly, it’s not a big deal and I understand why the dude denied being Nigerian. I respect and his decision and I won’t judge him based on that. Idk if you’ve “LIVED” outside Canada & Nigeria and I don’t mean "visit" other countries but “lived”…. If you have then this shouldn’t be a surprise to you. I have lived in southeast Asia since 2016 and had my Master's and Ph.D. there and I can tell you I always claimed to be from Cape Town…when they ask where is that located I’ll say South Africa. I don’t associate with Nigerians there only coworkers, or church , and neither do I live in a neighbourhood where there are lotta Nigerians. I was the only black dude in a Chinese-dominated estate that’s how strict I lived my life, never to be judged based on my country and I live with that rule to date. That’s why I love visiting Japan and South Korea they don’t ask the sentence “where you from”. I deny being Nigerian when I have to, it’s the stigma attached to the name Nigeria!. That’s why I hate the sentence “where are you from” it’s a trigger to some of the things I lost just by claiming to be Nigerian. So don’t judge anyone because he denied being Nigerian they have their reasons.

olasubomy:


If you have tried your best and it still gives you beyond 2MB, exclude those you feel are a lesser priority. Send those documents by web form with a letter of explanation; the letter should notify the officer you are sending across to supplement the submitted documents.
These additional documents could not be submitted via the regular channel of the IRCC portal due to limitations on the allowable file size of 2MB.

It is a better option than forcing all into 2MB mb or less, and some documents look blurry and hard to read, but if you can fix it without looking blurry and hard to read, you are good to go.

thanks olasubomy cheers

For VV application is it safe to send extra document via webform with an explanation, since some of my documents ed the 2mb limit?

For VV application is it safe to send extra document via webform with an explanation, since some of my documents ed the 2mb limit?

Hi, i just want to be sure I'm on the right track. IRCC Visit Visa new portal document Add file is now limited 5 and restricted to 2mb. Right?

1. port/ Travel Document
2. Funds Proof
3. Consent Personal information
4. Employer Letter
5. Additional Documents

I applied last year December on the new portal and there was Add file for invitation letter, proof of family member.

sam4774:
wow thats terrible, in the GCMS note it didnt record the MPs that reached out? so you can now tell which of them you can ask to do the urgent processing

It showed those specific MPs that ed IRCC and got a response, one of the MP in Alberta called to inform her of a follow up and said Nairobi is overwhelmed. I sent you an email. I cant post their responses here.

elizyous:
It has ended in praise oh!!!! PPR alert for my husband's SOWP application!!!

Oh Thank you JESUS!! WHAT GOD CANNOT DO DOES NOT EXIST OH!!!

I will come back to testify. Make I close work first. Please me to thank this Mighty God!!! This testimony will reach everyone waiting on God for their testimony! Amen!!!

big congrats

megastu:
How come you are able to MPs in all these regions? you live in and pay taxes in all these regions? my understanding is that your local MP is responsible for your welfare including immigration issues.

Some MP's don't ask for address or postal code, some do and some don't.

sam4774:
why is it that you guys keep asking them to inquire on your file and not request for urgent processing? especially candidates that have opted to do visiting visa as a supplementary action. granted when i attempted to do SOWP urgent processing through the MPs IRCC ignored me but visit visa under reuniting with your spouse or immediate family member that works. please lets be more aggressive and less meek guys! God will grant us all this thing in Jesus name.

The MPs in my wife’s city are very annoying, they claim to have ed IRCC but they didn't, she went to their office with baby asking for assistance, they got my information but no update till today. The only MPs that opened a case file for me was from Alberta, Mississauga and Montreal the rest kept insisting they would inquire. One from Ottawa even hung up on my wife sef.

mymzo48:


Please can you give a guide to on how to apply for GCMS note, as me no understand the stuff ooo. Can we apply through IRCC portal or how ? Thank you in advance

https://www.getgcms.com/order-now

cannyonyi:
Hello Everyone!
This is the mail I got from my mp:
Dear Bleep
I was able to IRCC on your behalf. The current status for your husband and children's application is that the criminality and biometrics have been ed. Medicals were received on December 29th 2021. Eligibility is still in progress.
I will IRCC in a month to check on the status of your application.

Has anyone received this kind of mail from an mp before? Please gurus in the house what do you think? How can one interpret this? Especially that last part that the would in a month to check on the status...

A little throwback. On Feb 2021, we applied for sowp and study visa for my spouse and kids to me here in canada (I am on study visa). When we didn't here form them we applied for visitor visa for the whole family under the new visitor visa platform on October 2021. Still no word... we then started with webforms telling them that they've exceeded the normal processing time (more than 50 business days now). All we got is the usual generic emails until we ed the mps office who sent us the email above.
Don't even know what to think with this reply. The anxiety is something else.
Wetin una think...Is their hope of or nothing in at least a month time?

Tbh they are not working on your file or MAYBE they’re tho, only the gcms note can tell. For me i ed several MPs in different provinces I was told eligibility is in progress. I have applied for GCMS notes twice. First Gcms, my file was not touched, Second Gcms same thing my file wasn’t touched eligibility was not in progress, the only changes I saw was the messages all the MP sent IRCC enquiring about my file. IRCC told the MPs eligibility is in progress which in the Gcms notes it wasn’t.

So maybe you apply for a GCMS and know exactly what’s going on with your file.

sam4774:
LANDING GIST

I booked Ethiopian Airlines for the 5th because it was the cheapest flight that i could buy the day before as i had just received my port back.
the long and short of this is that all the documents i printed na only the Ethiopian airlines people in Lagos ask for am. they asked for enrollment letter, photocopy of my wife's study permit, my covid result and asked how long she had been there. the flights were all calm but the addis ababa to Toronto was long as Bleep.
the flight was
LAGOS
ADDIS ABABA
TORONTO
VANCOUVER.

all the stop-overs were 2 hours that later would come back to haunt me as in Toronto it is near impossible to go through the immigration screening, random covid test (it says random but all the people that came from Nigeria were picked "randomly" and baggage claim. and also you must check-in 45 minutes to a domestic flight so they had to rebook me for a later flight, depends on how you talk and who you meet you may end up paying for the flight change charge, me sha i didnt.

The flight to Vancouver that i was rebooked for got further delayed so i had time to go and change money and reply emails and do some work. if you use Ethiopian airlines try to book with the app and their rewards it will make you eligible to ignore up to 5kg excess luggage when leaving from Nigeria. In Toronto they only asked for a copy of my wife’s study permit and told me to go, i wasted soooo much money printing all the rubbish in the world in Naija.

Anyways long and short, its less stressful for SOWP clearing immigration than students.

goodluck to those still awaiting and please keep disturbing them. God will bring your own day soon in Jesus name

Congratulations once again bro.

Jaybakky:


No, I applied with my son. His visitors visa got approved too.

wow Cheers bro.

Jaybakky:
Alhamdullilah!
It’s PPR, just to encourage someone to keep the hope alive.

Congratulations Bro. It's a stand alone SOWP right?....May PPR smile come my side ooo.

Stonehenge83:
It's PPR guys. God be praised. It shall get to all of us in Jesus name. Amen.

Congrats Stonehenge. I tap into your good news

sam4774:
I will be a big ingrate if i dont give back to where i collected and shared so much vital information on.

ok so basically guys the honest truth is SOWP is still dragging, I dont want to give you false hope. this situation that has happened to me is like when a duck is gracefully swimming above water but the legs are paddling like crazy under.

first of all if you can get a reasonable MP that is patient and will request an urgent processing. when i gave up on my SOWP was when i processed an urgent processing from my MP and IRCC indirectly told him that it will be ignored. that was the straw that broke the camels back. the MP told me to him in 4 months to attempt again, meanwhile i was already on my 6th month in October then. I proceeded to apply for visit visa on October 27th and did an exemption webform. 30 working days ed and still nothing, at this point i started sending webforms again up and down.

frustration set in for me as my 8 months SOWP was totally off the table and i had put it on the back-burner and was chasing the Visit visa under reuniting with immediate family.i reached out to the MP again to do an inquiry on my Visit visa and it came back with their usual rubbish, so i decided to do an urgent request on that one where i attached screenshots of numerous application timelines of people in my similar situation getting their visit visa in mere days meanwhile i was on my 39th working day.

i used the gc key to apply for both applications I was getting desperate and wanted to do another visit visa application with the fast portal, i came to find out on nairaland that it was generally October applications that were being ignored. the use of gc key came to be my saving grace as they must have treated both my applications as one general eligibilty test and then gave me my PPR.

guys my long and short is sending webforms indiscriminately is not enough please be strategic, if your own MP for your area is being difficult, claim you are from another postcode and email the MP there and test your luck. also it is very worthy to note that as usual stand alone SOWP are still not being prioritised, so if you can apply for a visit visa.

God will make it easy for us all in Jesus name

cheers bro.

sam4774:
Please do! Its because they were considering it thats why they visited my SOWP cos on a normal day na next year dem for even clear the dust for my application

I will work on it.

sam4774:
Guys i had PPR for both my visit visa and my work permit just now now oo!!! Ahhhh pleaseeee!! Ask me all you can ask me ooo!!! I will answer as soon as possible just after my running up and down

haha for wow, you finally decided to apply for visitor visa. wow congrats. I think i will apply for visit visa myself.

Stonehenge83:
Thanks a lot. Amen o. I've been checking like almost every minute.

haha

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Stonehenge83:
Good morning all, PPR news must drop here before Xmas in Jesus name.

My wife ordered our second GCMS notes since September and it came in this month. Here's one of the notes. Abeg does this mean they are about to send PPR for my application?

The special “do not reply” on the way. Congrats bro.

Reseptie:
@lightwitch007 @sam4774 @babybless44 @Anon123

Hello peeps ,how is your application going? Any positive news yet ,I pray you all get sorted soon.

Just checking on you and wishing you a beautiful Christmas.

Keep the hope alive ,it will end in the bestest of good news.

No positive news so far. I think there's a bias against Nigerians and some Indians so far that I know of from other immigration groups that I am. I can say for a fact that SOLO SOWP applications are being processed within 2-4 month MAX!. A friend of mine who's from the Philippines not married but a common-law partner same-sex applied months after me (SOLO OWP) got his visa last month. I wonder is there discrimination? or family reunification and priority applications are limited to a few. I hope to see some PPR news for SOLO SOWP applicants on the forum soon.

Thanks Reseptie for your concern, very much appreciated.

folla:
Hi everyone,

My SOWP application and SP applications for my 3 children were refused sometime in September 2021. I applied for GCMS notes on October 1st and received the notes today (December 11th). It took about 71 days for the notes to arrive.

The VO's main reasons for refusal have been quoted below:

“Adult male and 3 children intending to spouse/parent in Cda, currently in status studying a Masters. I note that spouse’s application was submitted.

On that application, husband and 3 children were listed as non-accompanying.

No guarantee that either will find work to themselves and 3 children. Given that all deps were listed as non-accompanying and that SP adult recently arrived in Cda, I question the truthfulness of that original statement. Entire family travelling together reduces socio-economic ties to Nigeria. On balance, reviewing all documents before me including information available in the original SP application for adult female, I am not satisfied that PA would respect T&C of entry and leave Cda by the end of an authorized stay.”

Please, GURUS in the house should suggest how I can tackle the refusal reasons.

Please, if you have found yourself in a similar situation, how did you come out?

Thank you in advance of your useful comments.

(Pls note: Wifey travelled to Canny since early Septemer 2021)

Just sharing my opinion.

I guess SP used you and the kids has ties to Nigeria. A lot of us do that but I think you need to explain in your SOP a sudden change of decision on why you and the kids need to be with your wife.

Secondly you need some strong ties to Nigeria like properties, Job promotion In your office a “juicy offer” that will proof you will return to Nigeria, or a company commitment, family commitment like grand parents and so on.

Gurus in the house please advise.