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FSW 2014 applicants from Nigeria - Let's network

DeeBruv

Hero Member
Aug 27, 2014
627
37
Lagos, Nigeria
Category........
Visa Office......
Accra, Ghana AVO
NOC Code......
4011
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
18-08-2014
Doc's Request.
WES FSW Platform update 12-12-2014
Nomination.....
17-12-2014
AOR Received.
17-12-2014
IELTS Request
Sent with Application
Med's Request
29th June 2016
Med's Done....
06-07-2015, Updated forms req and RPRF 17-07-2015, Medicals Received 20-05-2016
Interview........
Waived
Passport Req..
08-06-2016 Pick Up Mail 20-06-2016 ECAS Updated to DECISION MADE 23-06-2016
VISA ISSUED...
20-06-2016
LANDED..........
04-07-2016
Mum T. I am so sorry for the late response. see your pm
 

Lolesky

Star Member
Aug 7, 2014
89
4
Category........
Visa Office......
Accra
NOC Code......
2234
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
09 Oct. 2014
Nomination.....
04-02-2014
Interview........
9th March, 2016
Aroms said:
It's well!!!
Good news dropping soon for everyone of us is the waiting list.
Just relax end enjoy your weekend.




Even though it may tarry, I surely believe it well end in praise. Just passing by.
 

BigDon

Star Member
Jun 11, 2015
64
2
Category........
Visa Office......
AVO
NOC Code......
1212
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
1/12/2014
Doc's Request.
14/09/15
Nomination.....
19 febuary,2015
IELTS Request
Sent with App
File Transfer...
19/02/2015
Med's Request
14/09/15
Med's Done....
21/09/15
LANDED..........
2016 By GOD's grace
Greetings,Friends.The processing of FSW applications has gotten really slow but i know that God will complete this good that he started in our lives.Amen!
My medicals expired on 22 September,2016 while still waiting for PPR.Do we have similar cases in this group and what is the way forward?
Greetings to everybody.
 

Aroms

Hero Member
May 19, 2016
569
15
Logos
Category........
Visa Office......
AVO
NOC Code......
**21
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
Lolesky said:
Even though it may tarry, I surely believe it well end in praise. Just passing by.
Thanks for stopping by Lolsky.. We appreciate the gesture..
 

kuskus

Champion Member
Jun 17, 2014
1,174
149
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
BigDon said:
Greetings,Friends.The processing of FSW applications has gotten really slow but i know that God will complete this good that he started in our lives.Amen!
My medicals expired on 22 September,2016 while still waiting for PPR.Do we have similar cases in this group and what is the way forward?
Greetings to everybody.
So sorry to hear this, that'd be re-medicals when processing starts.
 

Anointed

Full Member
Apr 1, 2015
31
4
Hello House,

@BigDon you are not alone o! My medicals also expired on Sept. 29th and i know someone who also suffered same. I am a Dec 1, 2014 applicant.

It will end in praise in the mighty name of Jesus.

Kind regards.
 

dguru

Full Member
Oct 4, 2012
33
0
Category........
Visa Office......
AVO
NOC Code......
2172
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
24-11-2015
AOR Received.
12-02-2015
Med's Request
17-08-2015
Med's Done....
21-08-2015
Passport Req..
08-03-2016
VISA ISSUED...
21-03-2016
LANDED..........
29-06-2016 (1st Landing)
Hello House!!!

From experiences, when do you think is the best month/period to land in Canada. We have landed before now and done all our landing documentations. We are currently planning to relocate finally to Canada but would want to know the best period to Land.

Please Landed seniors, your inputs would be most welcomed.

Best regards,
 

GENTLEANDREW

Champion Member
Sep 13, 2012
1,529
20
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
dguru said:
Hello House!!!

From experiences, when do you think is the best month/period to land in Canada. We have landed before now and done all our landing documentations. We are currently planning to relocate finally to Canada but would want to know the best period to Land.

Please Landed seniors, your inputs would be most welcomed.

Best regards,






For myself and my family, we landed just before summer; spring - precisely May. We decided not landing around the winter because of the cold. We felt that it will be better to prepare for the cold than to just enter the cold. Some landed during the cold. It is currently cold but not snowy. As we progress around this period (October to December), the atmospheric temperature is expected to drop increasing the level of cold. So, October/November can be in some ways fair but still cold with slight chances of snow. December is a guaranteed period for snow fall. I overheard people discussing that it is going to be intense this year. It may not be.

Naturally, it is expected to snow from December to February, spring is from March to May, Summer is from June to August/september, and Fall from September to November.

You can read the following for more :




Most Canadians live in the southern parts of the country within 250 km of the United States border. Here is a general idea of what you can expect if you settle in one of these areas.

Spring—March to May

This is the season when the winter snow begins to melt. Often, there is a lot of rain during this period as the days become warmer and longer and the nights remain cool. Plants begin to grow in spring. In most parts of Canada, trees remain bare until April or May. You will need a warm coat and possibly a hat, mittens and boots during this season.

Summer—June to August/September

Temperatures can reach 30 degrees Celsius or higher during summer as the weather becomes hot and dry. Some areas, especially near the Great Lakes in Ontario, experience humid air and thunderstorms. Most regions experience mosquitoes in late spring or early summer. In many areas, especially rural ones, black fly season begins during same period and lasts a few weeks. Make sure you arrive with clothing for warm weather. But also have a coat or sweater on hand for cooler days.

Autumn—September to November

In autumn, days become noticeably shorter and the first frosts appear. Leaves in many parts of the country turn from green to red, yellow and brown before they fall from the trees. The weather during autumn can be rainy or dry; this is an unpredictable time of year. You can expect the first snows in November, but sometimes they come earlier. You will need a coat, mittens, hat and boots as the end of autumn arrives.
Winter—December to February or later

You must dress warmly to protect yourself from the cold when you are outside in winter. You will need a warm coat, mittens, hat and boots most days.

You could see snow as early as October and as late as April in some areas, with daytime temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius from December to mid-March and very cold nights. Winds can make temperatures feel even colder. This is known as the wind-chill factor. The east and west coasts have milder winters with warmer temperatures and rainy weather.

As you travel farther north in Canada, it will be colder and the days will be shorter in winter.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/before-seasons-typical.asp
 

BORNCANADIAN

Full Member
Oct 28, 2015
37
0
Hello good people, long time no see. It will end in praise IJN. Please a quick clarification, if ones ECAS Is showing medicals have been received, does it means that one has passed medicals and what next? Your urgent response will be highly appreciated. Thanks
 

dguru

Full Member
Oct 4, 2012
33
0
Category........
Visa Office......
AVO
NOC Code......
2172
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
24-11-2015
AOR Received.
12-02-2015
Med's Request
17-08-2015
Med's Done....
21-08-2015
Passport Req..
08-03-2016
VISA ISSUED...
21-03-2016
LANDED..........
29-06-2016 (1st Landing)
GENTLEANDREW said:
For myself and my family, we landed just before summer; spring - precisely May. We decided not landing around the winter because of the cold. We felt that it will be better to prepare for the cold than to just enter the cold. Some landed during the cold. It is currently cold but not snowy. As we progress around this period (October to December), the atmospheric temperature is expected to drop increasing the level of cold. So, October/November can be in some ways fair but still cold with slight chances of snow. December is a guaranteed period for snow fall. I overheard people discussing that it is going to be intense this year. It may not be.

Naturally, it is expected to snow from December to February, spring is from March to May, Summer is from June to August/september, and Fall from September to November.

You can read the following for more :




Most Canadians live in the southern parts of the country within 250 km of the United States border. Here is a general idea of what you can expect if you settle in one of these areas.

Spring—March to May

This is the season when the winter snow begins to melt. Often, there is a lot of rain during this period as the days become warmer and longer and the nights remain cool. Plants begin to grow in spring. In most parts of Canada, trees remain bare until April or May. You will need a warm coat and possibly a hat, mittens and boots during this season.

Summer—June to August/September

Temperatures can reach 30 degrees Celsius or higher during summer as the weather becomes hot and dry. Some areas, especially near the Great Lakes in Ontario, experience humid air and thunderstorms. Most regions experience mosquitoes in late spring or early summer. In many areas, especially rural ones, black fly season begins during same period and lasts a few weeks. Make sure you arrive with clothing for warm weather. But also have a coat or sweater on hand for cooler days.

Autumn—September to November

In autumn, days become noticeably shorter and the first frosts appear. Leaves in many parts of the country turn from green to red, yellow and brown before they fall from the trees. The weather during autumn can be rainy or dry; this is an unpredictable time of year. You can expect the first snows in November, but sometimes they come earlier. You will need a coat, mittens, hat and boots as the end of autumn arrives.
Winter—December to February or later

You must dress warmly to protect yourself from the cold when you are outside in winter. You will need a warm coat, mittens, hat and boots most days.

You could see snow as early as October and as late as April in some areas, with daytime temperatures below 0 degrees Celsius from December to mid-March and very cold nights. Winds can make temperatures feel even colder. This is known as the wind-chill factor. The east and west coasts have milder winters with warmer temperatures and rainy weather.

As you travel farther north in Canada, it will be colder and the days will be shorter in winter.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/before-seasons-typical.asp
Thanks Gentleandrew for your insights..
 

GENTLEANDREW

Champion Member
Sep 13, 2012
1,529
20
Category........
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
BORNCANADIAN said:
Hello good people, long time no see. It will end in praise IJN. Please a quick clarification, if ones ECAS Is showing medicals have been received, does it means that one has passed medicals and what next? Your urgent response will be highly appreciated. Thanks




No, it does not mean that it is passed yet. Once they have verified your medical information and it is as expected, your status will change to medical "passed".
 

Pastor Daniel

Star Member
Oct 30, 2015
121
1
124
Category........
Visa Office......
Accra
NOC Code......
2232
Job Offer........
Pre-Assessed..
App. Filed.......
05-12-2014
Hello All, try as much as possible to use the right personal information about yourself in the quest of your Canadian dream. Abhor any form of misrepresentation, even when you discover that your name is wrongly spelt on any of your documents or a wrong date of birth is used for you, please and please as soon as discovered make necessary corrections. A stitch in time saves nine.

Read a Nigerian lady's ordeal below claiming refugee status how a typo in her first name as she claimed is almost ending her Canada dream.


Woman stripped of refugee status after questions raised over identity

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/canada/woman-stripped-of-refugee-status-after-questions-raised-over-identity/ar-BBxhgZS?li=AAggNb9&ocid=iehp


A typo could be costly, especially when it’s in the name on the ID of a refugee claimant.

In a rare appeal case, Ottawa has overturned a decision to grant refugee status to a Nigerian woman, in part because of a misspelling of her name in a government birth document from Lagos.

Gift Daniel, 32, now faces deportation from Canada at any time.

What was unusual with the government’s appeal is immigration officials did not challenge Daniel’s claim that she was a victim of female genital mutilation and domestic abuse, but contested her credibility on the grounds that she is not who she claims to be.

“I have never seen or heard of a positive decision overturned completely by the refugee appeal division, where the pressing concern was on the identity and not on the merits of the decision,” said Daniel’s lawyer, Richard Wazana. “They did not question the forced marriage, abuse and violence.”

Daniel, a hairstylist from Benin, arrived in Canada in February 2015 using a false Canadian passport under the name of Desiree Dobson and filed an asylum claim upon landing at Pearson International Airport. She was also in possession of a Social Insurance Number card, birth certificate and driver’s licence under the same name, according to federal government officials.

Daniel claimed she was forced to undergo female circumcision in 2012 and was sold by her father a year later to an older man who sexually, physically and psychologically abused her before she fled Nigeria with the help of a smuggler. The refugee board confirmed there was documented evidence of genital mutilation.

Upon her arrival in Canada, Daniel said she declared her real identity to officials as “Gift Daniel” and provided a birth document and driver’s licence issued by the Nigerian government as proof.

However, a border enforcement official quickly noticed her birth document spelled her name as “Gife” while her licence spelled it “Gift” — setting off questions by Canadian officials over her identity.

She was detained at the Rexdale immigration holding centre for three months until her release on May 13, 2015, when she was granted refugee status.

Despite concerns over Daniel’s identity, refugee judge Shamshuddin Alidina, in granting her asylum, wrote the tribunal “believes, on a balance of probability, that the claimant has persuasively established her identity as Gift Daniel from Nigeria.”

While Daniel has insisted she only became aware of the typo after it was spotted by the border official, the different spellings of her name in her identity documents triggered the government’s challenge to the refugee appeal tribunal to overturn the asylum decision, Wazana said.


Gift Daniel, 32, faces deportation from Canada after she was stripped of her refugee status, because questions over her identity were raised by federal officials.© Rene Johnston Gift Daniel, 32, faces deportation from Canada after she was stripped of her refugee status, because questions over her identity were raised by federal officials.
“Identity is clearly an important fact, so important, that if not established, there is no need to further analyze the evidence and the claim must fail,” the government said in its appeal.

“Absent a properly established identity, a matter of utmost importance to refugee determination, the claimant cannot be considered to be a credible witness on the material aspects of her claim for refugee protection.”

In its appeal application, border enforcement officials also noted Daniel could not provide them with details on who helped her obtain the false passport she used to come to Canada and argued that her claim was “assessed on the basis of one facet of the respondent’s alleged identity: survivor of forced female genital mutilation and gendered violence.”

In addition to the error in her name on her birth document, they said her other ID, including two additional driver’s licences she later produced and a voter’s card, were not acceptable proof of identity.

Immigration officials argued the driver’s licences — two expired and one current — that Daniel submitted bear different signatures and that one expired licence has a picture that does not look like her. The identity issue was further compounded by a new birth document Daniel later submitted with the correct spelling of her first name.

The refugee appeal division (RAD) rejected Daniel’s explanation that a friend forged her signature on her first driver’s licence because she forgot to sign it on her application.

“The RAD finds that the forged document was obtained improperly outside of the normal issuing process and cannot be relied upon for the truth of its content,” wrote adjudicator Leonard Favreau.

“Regardless, even if the respondent’s friend was able to bypass the process required to obtain a driver’s licence, it is clear that the licence cannot be relied upon for the truth of its content, and as such, cannot be relied upon as reliable evidence of the respondent’s identity.”

The appeal tribunal also noted the features on one of the licences “were faded with muted colours” and its “webbing” security features were barely visible.

“Fraudulent documents from Nigeria are available in and outside of Nigeria . . . any printed document can be forged. Genuine official documents such as birth, marriage, divorce, death certificates, ID cards, driving licences and passports can be obtained,” Favreau noted in his decision to rescind Daniel’s asylum.

“In traveling to Canada in possession of a false passport and other false identity documents, the respondent has demonstrated that she has the ability to obtain and the willingness to use fraudulent documents.”

In challenging the appeal tribunal’s decision against Daniel, Wazana argued at the federal court that the assessment of his client’s identity was unreasonable and the adjudicator could not make a decision solely on identity without considering the credibility of her claims for asylum — arguments dismissed by Federal Court Justice Ann Marie McDonald.

“The RAD was not unreasonable in rejecting (Daniel’s) evidence and explanations for the irregular manner in which she obtained the licences. Therefore, the RAD was not unreasonable in concluding that the applicant’s identity had not been established,” McDonald said in her ruling last month.

Daniel, who has been studying at an adult learning centre toward a high school diploma, said she was disappointed with the decision and frustrated at what more she could do to prove she is Gift Daniel.

“I was so happy when my (refugee) claim was granted. I was ready to move on and start a new life,” said Daniel, sobbing. “It all started with the typo. Tell me if you never make any error in life, in typing and speaking. This is a huge price for me to pay.”

Immigration Minister John McCallum’s office declined to comment on Daniel’s case. The Federal Court said a media protocol prevents Justice McDonald from commenting.
 

blacky

Hero Member
Nov 14, 2014
652
26
Category........
FSW
Visa Office......
Accra
NOC Code......
0712
Pre-Assessed..
Yes
App. Filed.......
12-11-2014
Doc's Request.
03-08-15 comp.reg. docs & salary acc stmt
Nomination.....
03-02-15
AOR Received.
03-03-15
IELTS Request
sent with Apps
File Transfer...
16-7-16 bank statement verification
Med's Request
23-02-17
Med's Done....
06-03-17
Interview........
2-5-17 RPRF+Pcc+pof+updated forms
Passport Req..
7-08-17
VISA ISSUED...
21-8-17
LANDED..........
october 2017
@yemide free up some space,your inbox is full cos i tried to reply ur pm
 

kaycanny

Full Member
Mar 12, 2016
32
0
@ Pastor Daniels story, that is serious. .. I am an Aug applicant still waiting for medicals. I last got a correspondence from AVO last year July requesting for POF, SALARY PAYMENT STATEMENT OF ACCT, PICTURES OF THE OFFICE etc which were all provided.

Lets just be hopeful and positive in what God has started, we will hear good news soon.

Just using my case to encourage all those stating they are Dec. All is well.
 

blacky

Hero Member
Nov 14, 2014
652
26
Category........
FSW
Visa Office......
Accra
NOC Code......
0712
Pre-Assessed..
Yes
App. Filed.......
12-11-2014
Doc's Request.
03-08-15 comp.reg. docs & salary acc stmt
Nomination.....
03-02-15
AOR Received.
03-03-15
IELTS Request
sent with Apps
File Transfer...
16-7-16 bank statement verification
Med's Request
23-02-17
Med's Done....
06-03-17
Interview........
2-5-17 RPRF+Pcc+pof+updated forms
Passport Req..
7-08-17
VISA ISSUED...
21-8-17
LANDED..........
october 2017
Nov 2014 applicant
same request as yours since August 2015...
MR dey come for road...