olajide21:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER……………. (MY EXPEREINCE)

Alhamdullilah; its PPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! To Allah belongs all praise!

Say He is Allah; The One,
Allah; The Eternal,
Allah begets none and was never begotten,
We; the entire universe and what is within it need Him, while He in His majesty needs no one!
He is The First without a beginning and He shall be The Last without an End; The Inheritor of all.
The Creator of All and The One who appoints everything in its appropriate time, I am full of gratitude for your Rahma.

I testify that there is indeed NO deity worthy of being worshiped except Allah and that Mohammad is His last and Final Messenger to all Mankind. May Peace Be Upon the Prophet of Allah; Mohammad, his household, his companions and all those follow his teachings and ways till the end of time.

AS TO WHAT FOLLOWS......................................... IT'S MY TIME!!! VETERAN'S TIME TO PICK UP THE MIC!!!

HELLO, PEEPS GATHER AROUND, PAY UNDIVIDED ATTENTION!... The Time has come!
Alhamdullilah for the time has come and PPR is here! It took a while, probably one of the longest ever posted on this thread but not the longest application, even in the slightest of thoughts. Most delayed applicants would rather receive their belated PPR and move on. No excitement, but I decided to do otherwise as in time, we are all same. Hopefully, my post would give strength to the weak and hope to the one who is almost losing it. We are quick to express frustration and disappointments if our timelines aren’t aligning with our plans/dreams, we need to learn to keep calm as The One who is greater than everything else is in charge. We should learn to be thankful and appreciate every opportunity God gives us. We should realize that for some reasons some can’t even apply for the Canadian FSW EE program. That being said, let me take through my Journey to PPR. It took 12 months, 0 Week, 6days, to get to this stage. I am still filled with gratitude that it came. So whatever stage/level you are in the process, be calm and let God lead.

HOW IT ALL STARTED

Leaving abroad was never part of my plans. I remember being confident of my life in Lagos and telling myself I would never trade life in Lag to a life anywhere else in the country. I love the hustle and bustle, the noise of Eko Idumota, Eko Idumota, Apongbon! from my bedroom in Surulere. I moved to Abuja and everything changed. Less noise, ease of hustling, neat street (way back late 90s and early 2000s) and above all peaceful leaving. Since then, I can count how many days I have stayed in Lag. I was comfortable leaving in Abj, no real interest in leaving anywhere else in the world.
In 2012, had the opportunity to travel to Germany, Luxembourg, France and Austria (Project trip) all in 7days. This trip changed everything else. The serenity of life I felt in my short stay in these countries changed a whole lot. I returned to Nigeria with thoughts of going back to Europe (relocate) with my family. Wifey did not show particular interest until she travelled to Egypt same year thereafter, both of us wanted to leave. HOW and WHERE became our major hurdle. We kept the plan on the shelve never to be forgotten though.


AND DAVID COHEN CAME ALONG!
In 2013, I stumbled on David through my seldom search online on how to leave the country. He got my details and we spoke on telephone few times (I still have his telephone number sha). Unfortunately, he informed me that he would not be able to help at that time unless I am willing to go through school route, he also promised to get back when things change. We moved on.
Fast track 2015, I had the chance by the mercies of God to visit Dubai, UAE to attend the BIG 5 Exhibition. My dream of relocating outside Nigeria was immediately rekindled. In fact, I began applying for Architectural jobs in Dubai before I left. I spent a total of 6-7days in Dubai and returned to the country after completing my assignment without landing a Job. I got back home and narrated to Wifey how beautify Dubai is and together we dusted our relocation plan and started researching on WHERE and HOW again. At this time Canadian Express Entry has started but I did not give it any reasonable thought as I thought the process would be too difficult to overcome. At this time Zandora, Dupyshoo were the go-to person on the part one of the EE thread. Wifey’s friend who leaves in Canada out of no where just contacted her to ask if she was interested to migrate to Canada to which she answered in affirmative, this was in December, 2015 (Coincidence?). Mid 2016 i had another opportunity to travel to Turkey (Istanbul and Kayseri) for about 10days on project trip. I returned to Nigeria and again my interest to relocate outside the country became fresh, at this time I was more determined than ever. We began to look at the Australian thread and the Canadian thread closely. Late 2016, my younger brother told me he has already started the process and probably in the Canadian EE pool. He got ITA sometime in February 2017. We started our process in March 2017 with our ECA from FUT Minna and LAUTECH.


ECA: WES/LAUTECH/FUTMX
Our Qualifications:
Wifey (B.Tech and MBA), Schools (FUT MX + LAUTECH)
Mine (B.Tech and M.Tech). Schools (FUT MX + FUT MX)
Our plan was to make Wifey the PA for obvious reasons but LAUTECH refused to cooperate. The school collected my money for transcript but never sent anything to WES, consequently we settled for myself as the PA. Alhamdullilah, as the PA, we landed a CRS of 433!
We started ECA in March 2017 and Finalized in June 2017. Alhamdullilah!

IELTS
Dear Wifey and myself sat for the exams on August 19th 2017 and we passed it once, Alhamdullilah. The cost of the exams was around 62k per person. I hustle for the money and God blessed my hustle and 124k for the exams came through a commission I was about to get. In my account was about 50k or so then. I was aware I needed over 7m for family of 5 as PoF as at 2017, but kept faith with The One who never disappoints. Exam came and we passed!. Alhamdulillah.
My result LSRW: 8.0,7.5,7,7.5
Wifey’s LSRW: 9.0,7.5,8.5,7.5



THE POOL AND ITA
We entered the EE pool on the 5th of September, 2017 and got ITA on the 20th of September, 2017 with a CRS of 433. When God be for you, wetin fit be against you…… nada!!!! The Cumulative Ranking Score has not gone that low since our round till date! We got ITA and the real hustle began! To even think I toyed with the idea of rejecting the ITA at some point.

PoF hustle and its struggle
As at ITA, my account balance was about 50K (home and abroad). But as Allah would have it, I got 3 interesting projects whose payment begin to come in shortly after ITA. If ITA has come earlier, there wouldn’t have been PoF. so these three projects came, sold one of ours cars, borrowed small here and there and we got over the required PoF. The next question was how do lodge this money in my zenith bank account without issues of six months average balance and lump sum deposit. Well, we did what we can and God came to our rescue. Something miraculous happened, our bank letter came out “over perfect”.

AoR
We submitted our application on the 13th of December, 2017 a week before expiration of our 90days. We submitted with high hopes that our application would be processed in Ottawa so that PPR would come in record time. Well, our prayers were accepted and Ottawa did what they had to do.

The wait BEGINS……..
The first contact post AoR came through Med Passed on the 21st of December, 2017 (IP 1). Morale became very high and we were hopeful of an early completion of our application. We got NA2 on the 3rd of January, 2017 and I remember telling DW that come April 2018, I am out of Nigeria (No time to wait). IP2 came on the 23rd of January, 2018 with ADR for 6months pay slips. IP2 means PPR is knocking at the door, right? Well, that wasn’t the case here.

Security Screening (What did I do? Wetin be my offence?)
As PPR no show, we began to have an impression that something might be wrong somewhere. My first thought was my Bank letter. We joined numerous whatsapp groups, Telegram, canadavisa.com, etc. We began to hear about the possibility of us being under Extended Security Screening. We watched closely and got idea of how long it could take but then we thought our case would be different.

GCMS, CBSA, CSIS, RALPGH GOODALE, CSE, E-MAIL etc
In February 2018, we decided to order our first GCMS to see whats up. It came a month later and a whole full page was redacted!!!!!...... That was a key pointer for SS applicants. We begin to accept our faith and keep everything in the hands of God. We ordered CBSA and CSIS, while CSIS came a month later, CBSA came 90days later!. They confirmed our fears. Anyway, we still kept faith.

February – no contact from IRCC
March – No contact
April – No contact
May – No contact
June – No contact
July – No Contact (At this stage, I exited all groups except 1)
August – No Contact
September – No Contact
October – No Contact
November………………………………………………………………………………. It brought hopes and we got the first ADR on the 16th of November, 2018 for additional family information. We knew at this stage that the extended SS was over and done with. We submitted the ADR on the 20th of November and received ADR for Re-Meds on the 21st of Nov. The Re-Meds was done on the 27th and transmitted to CIC on the 29th of November. Day 1, Day 2, 3,4,5…… Week 1, Week 2 no med passed. Called CIC and it wasn’t successful (progress bar period). I decided to go to the med centre (Name withheld) to ask what the issues were. The assured me that everything was fine and our e-med tracking sheets have been forwarded to IRCC and that is it from their side. Tried CIC the following day and thank God I got through. The lady told me that the Med centre did not upload my DD’s tracking sheet and that is why they couldn’t act on our submission. I returned same day to the Med centre to inform them of my latest findings. The doctor scan through the system and did few abracadabra and told me again that no issues from them. Oga fun gbo gbo yi ooooo; (na wa for all of una). I called CIC again, and this time the agent told me that my DD’s sheet just got updated, seems the abracadabra the doc was doing before talking to me was a quick update of the sheet. Anyway, to God belongs all praises. We passed the med the following day after almost 3weeks.

Now that Med is passed, where is my PPR?
At this point, I began to race against time. If PPR is not issued by the end of last week, they could as well keep it till February 2019 (if you know, you know). On the 18th of December, 5 days after 1 year post AoR, I called CIC and very very courteous agent picked up. I told her that I need PPR without further delay, I explained my situations to her, she went through my application and came back to tell me that there is nothing she can do other than for us to wait it OUT!!! Chai, chai, chai. I resolved to faith and also hope that if Allah wills, PPR fit still come. I went to bed tired, woke up about 3am to pray. Somehow (In the moning), one of my kids said something about Canada and I decided to check my mail at that point………. Behold it was my PPR mail sitting in my box since 3am. My schedule for that day automatically changed. We took our passport at the Lugbe Shop rite and submitted in VFS in silverbird in CBD, Abuja. Praying for speedy CoPR.


The Summary of my Application:

AOR: 13th December, 2017
IP1: 21/12/2017
NA2: 3/01/2018
IP2 + ADR: 23/01/2018 (was a little happy that i was close to PPR here)
SS started: 24/01/2018
January – October (Ordered GCMS, CSIS, mailed Goodale, mailed Ottawa, raised CSE etc till I got tired)
November 16th – ADR for Additional Family Information
November 21st – Re – Meds
December 14th 2018 – Re Med passed
December 19th - PPR

Alhamdullilah that it ended well.

And to my man @issyman, not everyone can endure what you have on this journey. While most of us would have abandoned the whole process, you still remained strong in the face of the trials. Please be strong brother and keep your eyes on the goal.

Fidesa:




Hello @Eyes on prize
I have started the process and ICAN has sent my results to WES but WES sent me a mail last week that my result is incomplete. Please see the below mail from WES and advise me on how best to resolve it bearing in mind that its the same format that ICAN uses to send all AAT results to WES. Your response will be much appreciated. See the mail from WES:


"Dear xxxx,

Thank you for contacting World Education Services (WES).

The document received only contains a partial record of your study program. Subjects taken and grades earned for part of the study were not included. We are missing information on grades earned for all courses.

Please ask your institution to send WES a complete document that lists all subjects taken and grades earned for each year of the program according to the requirements for your country of education. This document should be sent in a sealed envelope that is stamped or signed on the back flap by the appropriate official. Refer to Required Documents.

Please be advised Evaluations require complete documentation of all formal foreign educational credentials. WES will not begin your evaluation until we have received and approve of all the required documents for the credentials you have listed, as well as payment in full.

Best Regards,

Marquis

WES Customer Service"

Fidesa:




Hello @Eyes on prize
I have started the process and ICAN has sent my results to WES but WES sent me a mail last week that my result is incomplete. Please see the below mail from WES and advise me on how best to resolve it bearing in mind that its the same format that ICAN uses to send all AAT results to WES. Your response will be much appreciated. See the mail from WES:


"Dear xxxx,

Thank you for contacting World Education Services (WES).

The document received only contains a partial record of your study program. Subjects taken and grades earned for part of the study were not included. We are missing information on grades earned for all courses.

Please ask your institution to send WES a complete document that lists all subjects taken and grades earned for each year of the program according to the requirements for your country of education. This document should be sent in a sealed envelope that is stamped or signed on the back flap by the appropriate official. Refer to Required Documents.

Please be advised Evaluations require complete documentation of all formal foreign educational credentials. WES will not begin your evaluation until we have received and approve of all the required documents for the credentials you have listed, as well as payment in full.

Best Regards,

Marquis

WES Customer Service"

flosk:


It is not necessary to include your bank statement since the pof is not there. However, you might want to add additional proof of employment to the payslip such as

Job offer letter
Company ID card

Etc.

Sthill5:


Have you ordered GCMS?

tippex:


Oredered when I clocked 3 months and didn't bother after then

Bonvieto:
I would advice against doing this, my reason being Canada has a rule that u must have been physically living in Canada for 270 days or so for you not to loose ur permanent residency.

So. If u apply and get ppr and ur course doesn't finish till 4 months after you soft land, chances are you will. Loose your ppr.

Unless if u plan on switching from the US uni to a Canada one then soft landing is a good idea.

CanadaPR:


I have for family of 5 for December 28.... I don't need it immediately but I was told by the Lady at Qlife that it can't be swapped..... I'm not sure how the slots can help you.

ottawasenators:
Good day House and compliments of the season.

I was at IOM around 8 am today and scheduled medicals for the earliest possible date which is 8th January 2019.

But i noticed we have been playing ping pong via email shifting dates from 8th, 9th and now just got another email

informing me that earliest possible date is 10th.

I'm assuming they have backlog they cant complete this year hence what i'm experiencing?

Anyone with similar episode?

Anyi3:


Lagos or Abuja?

Bonvieto:
I would advice against doing this, my reason being Canada has a rule that u must have been physically living in Canada for 270 days or so for you not to loose ur permanent residency.

So. If u apply and get ppr and ur course doesn't finish till 4 months after you soft land, chances are you will. Loose your ppr.

Unless if u plan on switching from the US uni to a Canada one then soft landing is a good idea.

pretygurll:

Hello, please I have problems with the passport size allowed for Post ITA application.

Plus is it true that I am to upload the front and back of the passport

neni83:
My God is Awesome! My God is Faithful!! My God in intentional!!! never Failing !!!!
It's PPR is company documents,tax receipts,Jobs he has done with corresponding payments showing in his corporate account.

Thank you to nairaland...this place is a wealth of knowledge.

olajide21:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER……………. (MY EXPEREINCE)

Alhamdullilah; its PPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! To Allah belongs all praise!


And to my man @issyman, not everyone can endure what you have on this journey. While most of us would have abandoned the whole process, you still remained strong in the face of the trials. Please be strong brother and keep your eyes on the goal.

Bonvieto:
I would advice against doing this, my reason being Canada has a rule that u must have been physically living in Canada for 270 days or so for you not to loose ur permanent residency.

So. If u apply and get ppr and ur course doesn't finish till 4 months after you soft land, chances are you will. Loose your ppr.

Unless if u plan on switching from the US uni to a Canada one then soft landing is a good idea.

Vivacious2:
Wow.

Congratulations. I am so happy for you.

Please which visa office are you?

Vivacious2:
Wow.

Congratulations. I am so happy for you.

Please which visa office are you?

olajide21:


OTTAWAAAAAAA!!!!

SkyWalk12:
Went to dig this up cos I was stalking @Tojued ( )and I saw something about her throwing her timeline away. Even as I was writing the timeline, a small part of me could tell I was just making God laugh.

My timeline said PPR will come February, the thing came December. Lmao. All I’ll say is it was the right time. So no matter how hard your wait is, no matter how many times you have to call your family and friends to cry and complain and no matter how many times Nigeria vigorously frustrates you, just remember that God will not let what’s yours pass you by.

And ONLY His time is perfect.

Hmmm... I actually had to look for thepicture again to look closely.

It's actually a nice writing...

But then.... she neva write medical terms for you or prescriptions naaa.... who knows.... Maybe till then, the Dokita in her will now come out.

_{runs away}

Ifeoma77:


Look at your beautiful handwriting
You have disproved the doctors' bad writing myth

Ifeoma77:

you mean Ottawa - London branch.
congratulations Brother, I celebrate with you. Your testimony is just starting. Canada will favour you and yours and your fantastic job will come with supersonic speed.

Zutlin:


More like Ottawa - Accra branch.

raphrulz:
Hmmm... I actually had to look for thepicture again to look closely.

It's actually a nice writing...

But then.... she neva write medical terms for you or prescriptions naaa.... who knows.... Maybe till then, the Dokita in her will now come out.

_{runs away}

bbaby84:
Wow! Part 6! Congratulations to those with PPR, ITA, those who dusted IELTS.. it's been a minute.

Merry Christmas!

olajide21:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER……………. (MY EXPEREINCE)


The Summary of my Application:[/b]

AOR: 13th December, 2017
IP1: 21/12/2017
NA2: 3/01/2018
IP2 + ADR: 23/01/2018 (was a little happy that i was close to PPR here)
SS started: 24/01/2018
January – October (Ordered GCMS, CSIS, mailed Goodale, mailed Ottawa, raised CSE etc till I got tired)
November 16th – ADR for Additional Family Information
November 21st – Re – Meds
December 14th 2018 – Re Med passed
December 19th - PPR

Alhamdullilah that it ended well.

And to my man @issyman, not everyone can endure what you have on this journey. While most of us would have abandoned the whole process, you still remained strong in the face of the trials. Please be strong brother and keep your eyes on the goal.

raphrulz:
Merry christmas to the entire Cannyland community!!

I look forward to marking your PPR scripts and meeting y'all in Canada!

God bless and Happy holidays!

olajide21:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER……………. (MY EXPEREINCE)

Alhamdullilah; its PPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! To Allah belongs all praise!
The Summary of my Application:

AOR: 13th December, 2017
IP1: 21/12/2017
NA2: 3/01/2018
IP2 + ADR: 23/01/2018 (was a little happy that i was close to PPR here)
SS started: 24/01/2018
January – October (Ordered GCMS, CSIS, mailed Goodale, mailed Ottawa, raised CSE etc till I got tired)
November 16th – ADR for Additional Family Information
November 21st – Re – Meds
December 14th 2018 – Re Med passed
December 19th - PPR

Alhamdullilah that it ended well.

And to my man @issyman, not everyone can endure what you have on this journey. While most of us would have abandoned the whole process, you still remained strong in the face of the trials. Please be strong brother and keep your eyes on the goal.

Ifeoma77:


Look at your beautiful handwriting
You have disproved the doctors' bad writing myth