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Comprehensive List of Requirements For Study Visa Application
Comprehensive List of Requirements For Study Visa Application
Educational documents:
- Waec/Neco.
- B.sc certificate/HND/Masters certificate as the case may be.
- Transcripts.
- NYSC certificate.
- Intending school admission letter & invoice and school fees receipt as the case may be.
- Relevant professional certification(s) if applicable.
Identification documents/others:
- Birth cert. and sibling(s) birth Cert.
- International passport and its photocopies of data page only
- Passport photograph
- police report
- previous visa(s) to satisfy travel history if applicable. If you don't have don't necessarily worry.
N.B: the 2 listed above are the substantial and convincing proves. For example if my sister is
married and her husband is sponsoring me. To prove relationship, my birth cert. and my sister's
birth cert. come to play. since the in-law is my sponsor, to prove that, my sister's hubby has to
get (their/his) marriage certificate and his birth cert./affidavit of age. So the key factor in proving
any relationship is marriage cert. and birth cert/affidavit of age. Anyone if applicable I didn't
mention is entertained.
In addition, detail sponsorship letter written by the sponsor or by your aid, then signed by the
sponsor and affidavit of sponsorship which would be taken to and signed in a High court.
If you are unemployed for more than 1 year and for many years but have tangible productive
activity and which may have connection to your intended program and background, you should
endeavour to explicitly explain this on your LOE/SOP and provide evidence by means of
documents available. But if you don't, you can ask others for a positive solution.
For mature applicants of at least 28 years old and are employed, home ties may be of
employment/assets/family/stock and bond etc.
Mature Single applicants that are employed; at least land documents to serve as home tie
which the VO assumes would compel you to come back when you can't legally stay in Canada.
stock & bond which worth reasonable value may play if any.
Married men/women; your wife/husband and kid(s) are already strong home tie(s).Addition of
land documents, car particulars if available is to strengthen the financial/economic ties.
NB: Home ties vary and the VO may assess yours depending on your profile and case, so
the above stated especially for Single(marital status) may vary.
In addition it doesn't mean that some documents required for TRV application and was
unintentionally omitted and which may be irrelevant would lead to refusal. It won't as long as
the relevant ones and ''a must'' is there.
More so, carefully choose your programs especially PGC(d)/dipoma applicants. Very soon, the
mistake you made by choosing the wrong program and assuming that it's related when the
COURSE MODULES of your intending program don't clearly correlate with your employment or
its activities/previous studies, would amount to PURPOSE OF VISIT & CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
SITUATION refusals and other refusal factors if other areas ain't taken care of.
Meanwhile those that have wider gap-year (4/5/6yrs more) and intend pursuing studies with
diploma/UG afterwards. This style adopted by some is always complex in dealing with such
applications and I find it difficult speaking on this aspect.
And Finally put more effort on your SOPs. Make it comprehensive, detailed and free from
grammatical errors. Paragraph, structure it and make it professional. Avoid plagiarism, It spoils
so many things. It has denied so many even the competitive masters admission in Canada.
I give kudos to baba @Thesoj. I silently followed his posts in part 4 or so upwards when he was
HOTCAKE on this thread. I finally give back to this forum and may this very post serve as
reference/guide.
Congrats to everyone anticipating approval and yet to apply. Faith and prayers without hard-
work is waste.