A Canadian visitor refusal arrives as a short letter with boxes ticked — purpose of visit, ties, funds. It never explains itself. But the officer wrote reasons you are entitled to request, and those notes are the only honest brief for a second application.
What should I do after a Canadian visitor visa refusal in Nigeria?
Request the officer’s notes, then rebuild the file against what they actually say. Canadian visitor applications are decided on documents alone with no interview, so the written file is the entire case — and the refusal letter only names broad categories such as purpose of visit, ties to your home country, or ability to fund the trip. Opaige works from those grounds, rebuilds the evidence and re-files. Flat $199, with an 81% approval rate on re-applications after a previous refusal. There is no waiting period, and no agent can guarantee an IRCC decision.
What the refusal actually meant
These are the grounds that appear again and again on Nigerian refusals. Almost all of them are documentary — decisions about the evidence you supplied, not verdicts on you as a person. That is precisely why a second application can succeed where the first did not.
Where these numbers come from. We do not publish a Nigeria-specific Canadian TRV refusal rate because we have not verified one we would stand behind. For scale, Canadian TRV refusal from South Africa runs at roughly 15–20%, and West African refusal rates are materially higher. The absence of an interview is the structural point: there is no stage at which a weak file can be explained.
How it works
The refusal letter names categories; the notes explain the decision. We tell you how to obtain them and what they mean once you have them.
Broad grounds like "ties" translate into specific missing documents. Those are what we reconstruct.
With no interview, everything the officer might wonder has to be pre-empted in writing. That is the whole discipline of a Canadian file.
A second application that differs only in wording is the most common wasted fee in this corridor.
Flat fees. The service guarantee is included — if we make a review error, your service fee is refunded in full.
Paperwork only · 10 business days
Your plan, our application · 7 business days
We take responsibility for the plan · 3 business days
Dedicated specialist · 6–12 hours
Flat fee, agreed before we start. Consulate, embassy and application-centre fees are paid separately at exact cost — we never mark them up, and we never take a share of them.
Yes. The refusal letter gives only broad grounds, but the officer’s notes record the actual assessment and can be requested. Re-applying without reading them means guessing at what went wrong.
There is no mandatory wait. The meaningful test is whether the evidence behind the cited grounds has genuinely changed — if it has not, the outcome will not either.
Normally no. The application is assessed on the documents alone, which is exactly why the written file has to be complete: there is no second chance to explain it.
Other countries may ask whether you have previously been refused a visa, and you must answer honestly. A declared refusal that you have visibly addressed is far less damaging than an undeclared one that later surfaces.
No. IRCC decides, and nobody outside it can promise an outcome. Our published record is 81% approval on re-applications after a refusal and 94% on first submissions.
We read the grounds before you commit to anything. If your file cannot honestly be fixed, we will tell you that too — that answer is worth more to you than a second lost fee. Nigerian applicants, flat $199.
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