Yesterday, one potential study visa client reached out to me. He has been talking to me about Canada immigration for the most part of this quarter of the year. In fact, he was opportune to get his family inheritance worth more than 20 million naira ($40,000+) each for both him and his sister. His sibling just got admitted into a university in Canada, they have paid more than 8 million naira already for her tuition fees and now they want to process her study permit and temporary resident visa to Canada. I was so elated hearing that wonderful news but at the same time scared for what was to come for them…
Yesterday, one potential study visa client reached out to me. He has been talking to me about Canada immigration for the most part of this quarter of the year. In fact, he was opportune to get his family inheritance worth more than 20 million naira ($40,000+) each for both him and his sister. His sibling just got admitted into a university in Canada, they have paid more than 8 million naira already for her tuition fees and now they want to process her study permit and temporary resident visa to Canada. I was so elated hearing that wonderful news but at the same time scared for what was to come for them…
My Own Reasoning
Don’t get me wrong, nothing is bad in seeking for admission, paying for the tuition almost immediately and showing the readiness to move as soon as possible. Many schools would assume that they are good candidates for their education but visa officers necessarily do not think the same way. I always fail to be the bearer of bad news; I don’t want to seem like the opposite of well-wisher to such applicants especially when they are pumped up towards their actions already. Come to think of it, I earn from helping such clientele to get that visa approved and JAPA as soon as possible out of the country.
How Immigrants Think
As I keep thinking about their particular scenario, I keep seeing counter-intuitive ways by which their application could get rejected. Call me pessimistic but I think that way of cognitive thinking has assisted me in developing that fail-proof documentations for immigrants over the years which have won not just me but others that temporary and permanent resident statuses time and time again. Sometimes, we applicants get so carried away with the euphoria of school admission or even Notification of Interest issued to us by provinces or territories in Canada that we forget to answer upfront all necessary questions in the grey areas of our applications.Thought-Provoking Ideas
Before a visa officer issues you that permit, they ask themselves series of questions as regards your particular application. If you don’t already have valid responses to those queries, you could as well either get the approval of your application delayed or worse still get it rejected and even possibly banned from applying for visa within the next 3- or 5-years’ time. Therefore, ask and answer these questions yourself before you lose that chance for an initial good impression of you by the visa officer;
Several Questions Running
How did you – a girl of 26 get that 40 million naira of inheritance; who gave it to you and why?
How do you intend to cater for your daily expenses in Canada for your studies?
How well would you use the remaining funds for other affairs?
Since your application is for temporary residence, how will that money be used to establish you in your home country after your studies?
What do you plan to achieve after your studies with your completed degree and the inheritance money?
Even if you don’t want or need to tender a sponsor for your study permit application, how can you take up the position of both a sponsor and a wise spender of your inheritance during and after your foreign education?My own queries
Do you see the big picture now? It is not about just having the money necessary for your JAPA process. It is more about being committed to leading a good Canada study life and work life after your international academia. Beyond the temporary visa, the officer do not want miscreants or embezzlers in their country and they would want to make sure that the money was gotten legitimately, your criminal record is truly clean above even what the police character certificate portrays and that you would be an asset and not a criminal in their nation.
Immigrants Answer Them
My own questions to her brother for a successful application goes thus;
Have you heard of the gift deed document?
Which documents do you have or can you develop to back up the inheritance?
How well would you manage your finances during your studies abroad?
Would you pre-inform the officer of your future money plans?
Can you still have money after your sojourn overseas?Never-Ending Whys
A lot of parents who also want to process their immigration process to Canada, Australia, UK among other first world countries always relate their moves to greener pastures. More specifically, they link their relocation decision to helping their offspring to get a better shot in life than theirs. Let me be frank with you all, I am weak towards immigrants who tell me that they just want to JAPA (relocate) because of their children. And, I think it is now time that children themselves become wiser about their choice of life and financial insurance more than ever. An inheritance spent solely on further studies abroad may not necessarily guarantee what their parents want for them at the long run.
That $1 Advice
You probably will come hard on me for stating that. However, hear me out first well enough. What good will it be to a youth who spent all his or her inheritance in a strange land seeking a probably 1990 education, looking for a high-paying job after, making money for the school without using his or her own money to make money for himself or herself before, during and even after the international studies? Perhaps, I am saying this because I am an entrepreneur and have been able to use just 60,000 naira to start a business even in the third world country of Nigeria and made in excess of 6 million naira of net income within a span of 5 years still making monthly hundreds of thousands of naira.Their Own Intentions
I know for a fact that such parent who kept that amount of money would like their children to make good use of the money and pass onto their own next generation even higher financial inheritance to their children’s wards when the time is right. So, it would not be a bad advice for them to at least split the money into half, use just part to pursue their foreign education and the other to set up a business or investment that keeps on making money for them even if they spend the other half completely in a foreign land.
The Webinar Input
For those who were like me, a Nigerian who got no huge sums of inheritance from his or her parent, had to struggle through academia by doing menial jobs and taking up volunteerism to keep body, mind and soul together, know this; inheritance is not needed before you can make a huge meaning out of life. You can and would possibly also make it if you know how well to first of all use money to make money, earn while you learn, profit from your JAPA (migration) process and still come out victorious and successful in a strange land. That is basically what the JAPA (relocate) to Canada in 2023 webinar will help you accomplish. So, register fully for the online event via this link right away and join us tomorrow LIVE.