ABBREVIATIONS/ACRONYMS THAT ARE CONSTANTLY USED FOR EXPRESS ENTRY AND CANADA VISA APPLICATION

SOME EXPRESS ENTRY ABBREVIATIONS

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It may consist of a group of letters or words taken from the full version of the word phrase.
They can be seen in every area of our daily lives, because it's an easy way of shortening and pronouncing words.

We will be stating some of the abbreviations and acronyms related to Canadian Express Entry..


ACRONYMS:

AVO   -  Accra Visa Office

PCC   -  Police Clearance Certificate

FSW   -  Federal Skill Worker

EE      -  Express Entry

ITA      -  Invitation To Apply

PPR   -   Passport Requirement

MR     -   Medical Request

POF   -   Proof of Fund

CRS   -   Comprehensive Ranking System

NOC   -   National Occupation Clarification

AOR    -  Acknowledgement of Receipt

PER    -  Positive Eligibility Review

COPR -  Confirmation of Permanent Residence

PEI      -  Preliminary Evaluation for Immigration

AOR    -  Acknowledgement of receipt letter.

BDEC  -  Background Decision

CC       -  Credit Card

CHC     -  Canadian High Commission –  Refers to the Canadian embassies, Visa offices, and Consulates.

CIC      -   Citizenship and Immigration, Canada – the umbrella body which governs both CIOand local CHC offices.

CIO      -   Centralized Intake Office in Sydney Nova Scotia – where you sent your application.
Sometimes it is mentioned as CIU (Centralized Intake Unit).

DD       -   Demand Draft (Bank Draft / Certified
Cheque / Money Order)

ECA     -   Educational Credential Assessment

ECAS  -   Client Application Status, an official CIC service which allows to view the status of your application on-line

FD       -    Fixed Deposit

SLU     -    Second Level Update

FILE BF'D TO - File Brought Forward date

FINDEC -   Financial Decision

FOSS     -   is a central database of applications

GCMS    -   Global Case Management System

IMMCAT -   Immigration Category

JD          -   Job Description

M01-M07 -   level of Medical assessment. M01 means perfect

MEDDEC - Medical Decision

MI           -  Ministerial Instructions

MR         -  Medical Examination Request

NCR       -   No Criminal Record

NOC       -   National Occupation Classification

OREQ     -  Other Requirement

PCC        -  Police Clearance Certificate

PER        -  Confirmation of Positive Eligibility Review from CIO

PI            -   Principal Immigrant

POF        -   Proof of Funds

PPR        -   Passport Request

PPS        -   point at paper screening stage

PS           -   Prescreen (another explanation is Paper selection)

PSDEC   -   Paper Selection Decision

RPRF     -    Right of Permanent Residence Fees

SEC CRIM - Security criminal

SELDEC -    Selection Decision

SS          -    This spreadsheet

SW1       -    Skill Worker 1

UCI         -    Unique Client Identifier, an 8-digit identification number. People usually get it from CIC in a PER confirmation

VO          -    Visa Office

RBVO     -    Received by Visa Office

XREF      -    Cross referenced applicant

PR         -     Permanent Residency

NA          -     Not Applicable

IP           -     In Progress (1 or 2) and refers to the status of your background check

NBG       -     Next Step is to Conduct a Background Check

BOWP    -     Bridging Open Work Permit

PGWP    -     Post Graduation Work Permit

CSIS      -     Canadian Security Intelligence Service

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AIR PEACE TO EVACUATE NIGERIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja
__________ 
PRESS RELEASE
No: MFA/PR/2019/42

AIR PEACE TO EVACUATE NIGERIANS FROM SOUTH AFRICA

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform the general public that following the recent unfortunate xenophobic attacks on foreign nationals, including Nigerians in South Africa, the Proprietor of Air Peace Airlines Chief Allen Onyema, has volunteered to send an aircraft from Friday 6th September 2019 to evacuate Nigerians who wish to return to Nigeria free of charge.

The general public is hereby advised to inform their relatives in South Africa to take advantage of this laudable gesture. Interested Nigerians are therefore advised to liaise with the High Commission of Nigeria in Pretoria and the Consulate General of Nigeria in Johannesburg for further necessary arrangement. 

Signed

Ferdinand Nwonye
Spokesperson
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abuja

Wednesday, 4 September, 2019

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REGIONAL IMMIGRATION STRATEGY IN TORONTO

Ontario to Encourage Immigration Outside the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.

Ontario working on encouraging and ensuring immigration outside the Greater Toronto Area.

Regional Immigration Strategy would assist existing efforts and set targets for growing immigration around Ontario.

Ontario must identify new ways of ensuring more immigrants settle outside the Greater Toronto Area in order to guarantee more balanced population growth across the province and maintain a “high quality of life” for all its residents in the coming years, a new Conference
Board of Canada study shows.

The Greater Toronto Area, or GTA, currently welcomes 77 percent of new immigrants to Ontario, which translated to 106,000 newcomers to the GTA in 2018.

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Tips on proof of funds and different ways you can prove your funds

By Nneka Odilichukwu

Before deciding to apply for express entry, work and study visa. visit visa or just for tourism, you must be able to show that  you can take care of yourself , when you get to your host country.

You need to have the right amount of money in your account, for adequate living expenses. 

It's one of their requirements and among the documents you'll asked to upload, during filling of form.

For example, the proof of funds for the Canadian student visa is CA$10,000 at present, for every year of your stay.

But in Quebec the amount of funds required per year of your stay is CA$11,000

YOU CAN PROVE YOUR FUNDS BY

• Proof of a Canadian bank account in your name, if you have transferred the money to Canada.
• Investment Certificate (GIC), from a participating financial institution.
• Your bank statement for the past 4 months
• Proof you paid tuition and housing fees
• Proof a student education loan from a bank.
• A letter from school or person giving you money
• A bank draft that can converted  to Canadian .
• Proof of funding paid from within Canada, if you have scholarship or in a Canadian educational funded program. 

PROOF OF FUND FOR EXPRESS ENTRY

To meet the minimum requirements for express entry, proof of funds is also needed. All candidates are required to show proof of funds and this proof of finds must be readily available.

The Government of Canada has introduced a slight increase to its settlement funds requirement and is urging Express Entry candidates to ensure their profiles reflect the change. 

The increase raises the required minimum settlement funds by just over 1.5 per cent for each family level.

For a single person arriving unaccompanied in Canada, this translates to an increase from $12,474 to $12,669.

All Federal Skilled Worker Class and
the Federal Skilled Trades Class
candidates must show proof of funds, which are required to ensure the principal applicant and her/his accompanying family members have the means to support themselves financially upon landing in Canada as permanent residents.

Canadian Experience Class candidates who are working in Canada on an eligible work permit are exempt from having to prove
they have the minimum settlement funds.

However, Canadian Experience Class candidates invited to apply for Canadian permanent residence through the Federal Skilled Worker Class will have to show proof of funds.

The total amount of money needed to support your family, depends on the number of family members, which includes

• Yourself
• Your spouse or Partner
• Your dependent Children

The total amount of money needed as proof of funds, required for express entry and the amount for each accompanying family member are HERE.

The  total cost depends on the number of family members.

We can guide you through your Express Entry process.

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