BumyImagination:
Hello all,

Pls I will appreciate answers to the following concerns of mine. Thanks

1. Affordable airlines from Lagos to Canada

2. Where I can take the required photos for passport submission in Abuja

3. Which Vfs is currently advisable to send Passports and how do I send to them?

4. A Nigerian post PPR group that I can join.

Thanks once again.

GraciousWords:


If you are in a hurry, maybe try other states where demand for booklet is not so high....Lagos, Abuja and PH might be inundated.

If you don't mind the delay then send the receipt of your passport application and an LOE of the passport backlog situation in the new passport ADR placeholder to IRCC then send a webform and email to VO whenever you get the new passport

I would advise you try the first option though even if it means paying again.

greenverte:
To all that think the Bill C-19 might not be passed soon, this is the timeline. Already passed the third reading at the senate.

www .parl.ca/LegisInfo/en/bill/44-1/c-19

teebullion1:
I did for NOUN recently, whole process took roughly 6weeks without paying any extra fee.

greenverte:


Please don't make the mistake of asking ETX to request your transcript for you.
IT WILL BE A BITTER EXPERIENCE.

Redkay:


COPR TIMELINES

April 22nd - PPR
April 26th - submission to Lagos VFS
May 4th - VFS reached out to us that we needed to pay transmission fee for our daughter because we didn’t Do biometrics for her
May 4th - Transmission fee of N9,410 paid. No response
May 6th - We went to VFS Lagos and the UPS shop besides them told us how to courier the receipt to them. So we did
May 6th - We got email that passport is being has been dispatched to IRCC Office
May 24th - Passport received at Canada VO Ghana, and in transit to IRCC Ghana
May 24th - Passport received at IRCC Ghana and is processing
June 14th - Checked portal and saw Counterfoil
June 15th - Counterfoil email sent
June 15th - Decision envelope sent from IRCC to Canada VO Ghana
June 15th - DeVision envelope received at Canada VO Ghana
June 20th - Decision envelope received at VFS Lagos
June 20th - Decision envelope collected by DHL
June 23rd - DHL delivered passports into our hands

Note if you decide to use VFS Lagos, go into it with a lot of patience because they take a lot of time. Our journey took 8 weeks. Some people’s own are shorter, others longer. So be prepared.

GraciousWords:


Pls read this section of page 1, some universities in Benin Republic are not recognised. If your university is not recognised then the ECA is useless. If you can afford it, you could decide to try evaluating with the other 4 ECA bodies to see if any will come out positive; but check their websites first in case they have already indicated that they won't.

https://www.nairaland.com/6829885/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled#107239683

Also use the search bar on NL to see the experience of others, try "ECA Houdegbe"

Allegory:

I think they reviewed the POF upward again recently but just a few extra dollars as usual. Google POF family of two and it will bring out their POF link. Also use the Oanda currency conversion site to confirm current exchange rate. You can’t be guessing any exchange rate before someone denies your application over one cent lol. Oh and congrats too, any movement is movement. We’re inching closer to Canada

5454Darese:


Please just sent it directly to Accra. If you send it through Lagos that might add additional 2-3 weeks to your processing time. You could get your passport back within 2.5 - 5 weeks if you send to Accra directly while Lagos 5.5-10 weeks.

saskatoonguy:


Stop giving yourself unnecessary headache

Except IRCC decide to give us a shocker, the implementation cannot come in July

Based on the immigration clause in the bill, category must be rolled out and discussed with the stakeholders first before its implementation. Stakeholders have not discussed (except we are not in the know if the meeting and discussion with the stakeholders have been done).
After the necessary stakeholders have discussed and have accepted the categories to be used for the whole year, then the immigration must announce the category at the beginning of the year.

I don't think all these have been done yet.

So no hullabaloo yet, The bill is not only immigration bill, It is a complete Government Financial Bill, With a bit of immigration snipet, Hence the need for its FastTrack. The speedy nature of its passage has nothing to do with the proposed changes in the express entry draw but because of the urgency to implement some things in the Financial appropriation of the government in the fiscal year 2022.

Meanwhile, the new bill according to the immigration Minister Sean Fraser is to complement the existing system not to do away with the entire system completely. Sean Fraser said the high scoring candidate in the pool would still get invitation.

Kolizomanizo:
You have said it all


The Express Entry reforms found in Bill C-19 won’t become law until it is given royal assent by the governor general of Canada.

Rapture07:
Omo is it true that pcc is now 30k in Abuja? My plug at Louis edet house told me it's now 30k

Mikeyoliver247:
If Edmonton is your destination and you are going for the first time, you may want to consider Darelogistics.

Goodnew13:
Hello @Maplechick and other gurus in the house, please help.

So, I have been able to pay for WES, and now need to request and send my credentials. I learned it can be fast if I used ETX.NG so I contacted them, and here is what I was told. Please advise:

1. That I would need to pay N57,650 for each transcript (ND, HND, PGD) = N172,950
2. Once the credentials get to WES (even through ETX.NG), WES would still send mail to my school for second-level verification, now I think this is where schools ask for money again before responding to WES. Is this correct?
3. Now, calculating this together, it will be about N200,000 + $250CAD paid to WES = ~N320,000

Please what can I do?
Who had gotten transcripts from Open University to WES before, how was the experience?
Who had sent transcripts from Moshood Abiola Polytechnic to WES before, how long did it take you in total?

NB, if I am to try to get the credentials myself, it will cost, ~N70,000 for MAPOLY (ND + HND + courier + email verification), and N25,000 for NOUN, given ~N100,000, but I am kind of feeling somehow about the timeline it might take for the credentials to get to WES eventually.

Please advise.

Thank you.