NewStats: 3,263,571 , 8,180,576 topics. Date: Friday, 06 June 2025 at 02:44 PM 2y1j20

Rez86:
I submitted my port in Lagos and got it back in 4 days

True. Submitted on Wednesday, ready to pick up on Monday.

techgen:
I submitted via dhl to Abuja vac and it took just 3days…submitted on Wednesday via DHL in warri and received message from VFS Abuja that it has been returned to DHL and It was delivered to me on Monday.

Thank you.

Hi all,

Reading back on the thread, I saw that you got your PPR recently. Please I'll like to know if you submitted your port to Lagos, Abuja or Kenya and how long did it take for you to receive your port back?

cc:
Greyworld
tobe1997
techgen
Vankayyyyy
Rez86
damyzel
sammiy
Roseroyce

Greyworld:

Depends on where he did his biometrics, if lagos then he can go and submit it there, though I used a courier(DHL) it took about 14 days for me to get mine back.

That is awesome.
I was reading stories about Lagos VAC taking up to a month.

We were considering sending to Kenya VFS. What do you think?

Good day, everyone,

Some of us may recall when I came here to ask questions regarding a study permit for my brother.
We applied the first time and got refused. Then we made some improvements and applied again. He was denied, but it didn't sit well with us because we fulfilled all the requirements.

We decided to opt for a judicial review, and everyone was praying. The court told us (through our lawyer) that IRCC had agreed to settle, and another officer would determine the case. We then got an email from IRCC asking for updated documents. Our lawyer was kind enough to stick with us through it all. He even provided us a cover letter which we submitted alongside the additional documents. Ordinarily, our contract with him expired when we got the settlement outcome, and he wasn't legally obligated to help us any further. But he did and guided us till we got the PPR!

Now, my little challenge is where to tell my brother to submit his port. When I got PR back then, we used to get news of which VAC was faster. But I am not sure what is obtainable these days.

Please, between Lagos VAC and Abuja VAC, which is the best one to submit a port after getting PPR for a Canada study permit?

If you submitted your port recently, how long did it take to get back your port? School starts in January, so we hope to conclude this part as soon as possible. Also, I have seen the documents to bring along for the port submission, but I would appreciate your help with the list of documents as well, just to ensure we are not missing anything.

Thanks so much in advance.

uchman:

One of the oldest Nairaland member, nice hearing from you

Thank you🙂
Hope you are well.

Ajebogirl:
It's PPR

This can only be God.

Application submitted May 11
I did upfront medicals April 23
Biometrics has been done since last year.
PPR June 12

Honestly, this can only be God helping me, because the documents I submitted were too simple.

Thank you to everyone that gave insights and ideas here too. I am grateful for your help

Congratulations!

I hope your journey here is fruitful and massively successful.
I wanted to ask, about upfront medical, can one do it after submitting an application?
Did you raise a webform to submit it or it automatically reflected in your ?

I searched for this thread on Google using the term "the middle path sarassin" and this thread came up as the number one result.

Perhaps, the realization that I am neither here nor there made me seek out this thread again. It didn't quite fulfil my search intent, but it's a great read. Seven years later and I still struggle to grasp some of the content OP posted.

Seven years later, it feels nostalgic going through the thread again. I am grateful for where we all are now. Super grateful for my experience those days. Perhaps, someday, I will share how Nairaland (the people I met here) became my past, present and future.

Dear LoJ,
Dear OP, I hope you are alive and well and thriving. I am. Thank you two for everything, more for those I am/was unaware.

JMG12:
IRCC has its own rate but I prefer to use the black market rate

Thank you.
Is there a GIC option for people doing regular stream, not Nigerian student express? Which bank, please.
I called Scotiabank, but they said they don't do for Nigerians.

zubizareta:


Sorry for the refusal. Yes you can use property sale deposited as lump sum. However, be ready to demonstrate the availability of the funds by making a school expenses either paying tuition or doing GIC. Also, it's important to note that you must be careful and package your sop to be detailed and convincing that you will return. That's where your economic and home ties comes in because selling an asset off to fund your education could be interpreted as you selling off your stuffs with no intention of leaving Canada especially if your economic ties are weak and you have no much other assets left after selling off one.

Order for Gcms notes. But before then, what exactly was the content of the sponsorship letter? Were they to cover the full sponsorship? What documents did the company submit? Did you submit your statement of acct, payslips etc? Was your statement of acct holding unexplained lump sums and were the funds there sufficient to cover your living expenses, Miscellaneous cost??

Please this GIC, is it for regular stream or for NSE.
Also, can I send you a DM?

Frankrobbn1:


"With the current exchange rate, it's hard to believe that 8M can cover your study visa expenses for Canada." 🌍💸. I will recommend increasing your budget.


It will end in praise

Please which exchange rate do the visa officers use, the Canada one or the black market one? Really need clarification on this.

joanna13:


Telling them you sell one of your land to finance the POF, is an indication that you won't come back to Nigeria. Might be wrong.

I feel like this makes sense. Perhaps, a better option would have been to show other properties and assets too?

JMG12:
Good morning,
What is the duration of his program, and how much is the tuition fee?
A 16-month course is equivalent to 2 years.
Yes, he could've done a deed of gift on the family property.

Ohhh
I see.
So we should have made the amount up to two years.
The course duration is 16 months.
The tuition was 21,225 CAD, but that was paid in full.
But just to confirm, if we have the full POF for two years, we don't need to show how much salary he earns, right?

JMG12:
I understand your pain; visa refusal can have some temporary effect.
1. Did you say 4.5M? That is insufficient funds. you might want to work on your POF and assets.
2. Your home ties should outweigh the foreign ties you have
3. This might suggest the information you submitted did not indicate your intention to study temporarily in Canada. Emphasize on your return and show sufficient POF to cover your temporary stay, work on the sponsor's aspect

Thank you for this.
My bro was also denied for the same reasons.
1. He may not leave Canada at the end of the study due to no strong ties.
2. The money is insufficient without working
3. The money is won't be enough to transport him to and fro Canada.

He had 11 million in the , with full school fees paid. We showed evidence of land sale for the bulk money.

My question is, for a single person like him, what else can he show that will prove strong ties.
We included a letter from his employer, but we did not include anything about the payment he gets because it is too small (about 70k). Should we have included it like that?

Please, experienced people in the house, advise on what we can do better.

Can he include our family properties even though they are not in his name? Is the 11 million too small for a 16 months course? Please help.

zubizareta:


Some do before submission of application. That's upfront medical. With this they attach the medical sheet with the application before submission. I did this type. Some do after submission of application and later send the medical sheet via webform to ircc. This is another form of upfront. While some submit application and wait till when ircc sends a medical request. People not having luxury of time before their school resumption usually go for the first 2 options due to the difficulty and delay these days in booking appointment for medicals.

So you can choose anyone you want

Thank you so much

zubizareta:


I think the first page of this thread will direct you to the necessary docs you will be needing.

Yes you can pay his tuition from there. All he needs is to attach his evidence of payment to his application

For time-frame, recently decisions have been coming quick. Time frame btw 2- 6 weeks. Some have gotten less than 2 weeks sef.

Thank you so much.

It didn't even occur to me to check the first page. I came here from Google.

What about medicals? When do they usually go for it? After or before applying?

Please let me know.

Good morning,

Hope your day goes well and thank you to everyone who contributes here.

I know I have to read past posts to get the answers I need, but please help this new mom with quick answers.

My brother got itted to the University of Calgary and we are looking to start the study permit application. Please can you help me list what we need to submit or point me to any post that will help. We intend to do regular application.

Secondly, since I'm already in Canada, can I pay his school fees from here and send him the evidence of payment? Is it allowed to show evidence of school fees payment from a Canadian bank to the University's ? Will IRCC acknowledge it?

Thirdly, what is the typical time frame from application to PPR and port collection?

Also, I have forgotten the medicals process. Does he need to book one after applying for his permit or before.

nlfpmod:


https://thenationonlineng.net/reactions-as-customs-plans-to-ban-second-hand-clothes/

Even abroad, there are thrift shops, really big ones where people go to buy gently used (second hand) items. Visit these places and you'll find that people from all walks of life patronize them.

@ifenes,

I sent you an email.
Please, respond.

@kobojunkie

Thank you for your input.

ifenes:


Understand that you are Gods. Rather than prey, make AFFIRMATIONS. MAKE THE ENERGY WORK FOR YOU! Stop bowing to gods/ spirits you do not know. You are like a radio that has the ability to pick up radio station based on the frequency you tune to. Worshiping, praising, Prey-ing is selling your soul to someone else. Be wise !

It's how this post makes more sense in in 2023 than it did five years ago. I'm also reminded how it was a journey of spiritual awakening for many of us that period.

I hope we are all good. Sending love and light your ways🙂

MizMyColi:
There is something about prayer, or better put, begging, that shows your level of spirituality.

There is something about decreeing or sending forth your word that shows how high up you are up there.

The state of the mind needs to be in constant touch with source energy. This energy is not something you pray into you, it is already within you. It is who you are. From personal experience, it is when you begin to lose touch with this energy that you experience depression and anger in forms that feel even alien to you.

For sometime now, I struggled with fear and doubt.
It then occurred to me that I have been depending too much on some being out there to bring my desire to . So I began again to unlearn, and unslip myself out of religion. Religion inspires fear. It is not for me anymore.

Now I know that all I need to be is at rest. Real rest. There is nothing I worry of, or conceive, no need or desire that hasn't been amply taken care of. It is all taken care of, it is all given to me.

What I am more concerned about now is how to unearth more pure energies of light and love, and channel it through my body into this world. Even then, I should not worry about that. As I go on in life, I fulfil my truest, realest nature in every experience(s) of my journey.

@LoJ
You mentioned binding declarations. How do you do that? Please explain. Thank you

To the person that liked this post today.
Thank you.
I am grateful.

It is timely.

nairamaniac:


I hail you madammm.

Kai! I leart a lot from you.
I hope we would all get it right this time

All the best

Thank you

nairamaniac:


Same here. I don't still regret kicking Goodluck out though.

Meanwhile where is obiageli?

U her?

Also mizmycoli?


These were strong players during those period.

Kai! How time flies.

Beremx:
the obiageli moniker has been deactivated. Probably the person who owns it is using a another moniker. Mizmycoli should be around probably ive now.
Of course I don't regret campaigning against Goodluck Jonathan but Buhari seems worse than him

Peter Obi for President.

Lanrelagboi:
In response to the questions asking for pictures of Bola Tinubu's Project commissions, I have done a compilation for naysayers.
Here: https://nairaland.unblockandhide.com/7311983/need-see-photos-tinubu-commissioning

These are projects commissioned. Not project initiated or policies (these are not even things like paying for WAEC fees or releasing money to solve something). Just projects.

This is 199-2003 because I am tired and will do for his second term later.

Please me on this beautiful thread of verification.

This is the original "Go and "

Please note that these are just the ones I personally found by using just one string of search letters. These are not all the projects in his first term, just the ones my search threw up from an archive site.

There are lots more and I will bring them as time goes.

I will also do a part 2 (his second term) tomorrow.

These are verifiable projects as seen on documents. If anyone of you tries to tell me another thing, it makes you a hypocrite

None of what you posted has any links to the actual posts on Google.

How did you come about these screenshots?

Where are the source links?

Kindly repost them on the original post if you've already posted them.

Jman06:
Labor party has no structure! No rural presence. Even in the cities, the party is not a force to reckon with.

I wonder how Peter Obi intends to defeat the two major parties who are eminently present in all local government areas of the 36 states and FCT. That would be miracle of the century! Elections are not won on social media but at the grassroots!

Don't underestimate the human spirit, the human structure. We can do and undo.

PDJT:


-Sure. Keep the evangelism going. The African youths must wake-up and save the African children from the current existential threats posed by those heartless looters.

-If na by landmass, Borno for dey do father Christmas give Lagos.

Agwotulumbe:
hmmmm
longest time.

Welcome back dear
how's family.

Very well.

Hope you're good?

What my Twitter feed delivered just now.

helinues:


Endsars protest don't require PVC..

Do you get it now.?

Okay.

OkoroBufo:
You are a PDP die hard but primordial & ethnic sentiments have blinded you now.
What has Obi ever rescued in his life?. Nothing! He refused to conduct LG elections as a Governor despite ionate appeals and he acted like an emperor.
Fake people packaging a Pandora fraud as a saint.

-Okoro bufo

Same old tirade.
Try again.