blissnenye:
Wow!!! Reading your story brought tears to my eyes. I remember the night we were up till 12 midnight! It has really been worth it. I give God all the glory. It has finally ended in praise. Wish you a speedy PPR!

venorite:

My Ielst story. I contacted johnybravo again and told him i needed help in writing, he told me he wouldn't be able to attend to me and introduced me to one of the best ielst writing teachers @blissnenye. she is highly recommended. she carried my empty tired head and opened it, chased village people away and made me a better person. i will forever be grateful to this woman, the words of encouragement, days where she had to teach me even when it was past greed time. My result came out today and i aced it. i cried like a baby for the first time in years.
i want to say a big thank you to @1soul my biggest motivator. @blissnenye my ever reliable teacher(if u have writing issues, please contact her. she will show you so much that you didnt know. i enjoy the way she pronounces "essay". @kiera, @chichyclassy, @johnybravo,@wasseynewest who tried for my life too.

I am hoping that the rest of this journey will be smooth and ppr annoucement will come.

FIRST IELTS-LRWS----7.5, 7, 6.5, 7
SECOND IELTS-LRWS-----7.5,6.5,6.5,7.5
THIRD IELTS---LRWS---7.5,7,6.5,7.5
FOURTH IELTS----LRWS---9,8.5,7,7

Adva45:
Good day house.
Please, I want to assess my credentials course by course to obtain an early childhood educator level 2 license.

Someone mentioned to me that I can claim 50 points from this license through the allocation points for Territorial/ provincial certificate of qualification.

I am aware that there are some occupations like medicine and engineering which can give an applicant 50 crs points if one gets certified as qualified to practise or work in that province.

I will like to know if this is true for early childhood education licensure.
I don't want to make any mistakes.
Thanks.

Funky123:
Am having issues with my maul.....check the attached screenshot

johnnybravo1990:

Contact johnnybravo1990 on religionnascam@outlook.com.

Stencil:
I think you should try remarking writing and speaking.

Keluma:

Hahh, I only evaluated ND,HND, PGD, I didn't evaluate WAEC o, can this be an issue?? although I have gotten my evaluation report already with WES,

ednut1:
Philips49 . Update or remove as many things have changed

Philips49:
As seen on canadavisa.com.
Very detailed .

Preparation for Canadian PR from Nigeria Explained


Police clearance:

Nigerian Police certificates only have a 3 month validity, so it should be one of the last things you get prior to submission. You can get one the same day (within a couple of hours), just get to Alagbon Ikoyi early.

A police clearance certificate is required for every country, other than Canada, that the primary applicant, spouse and kids over 18 have lived in for six months or more in total within the past 10 years. In total means cumulatively. In our case, we had to also get from the UK. Check your travel history, some countries take up to 14 weeks to give one. Cost – N6500 and £80 each.


Medical:

We used The Children’s Practice in Ikoyi, Lagos. Take passport photographs and two copies of passport data page for each family member to the clinic. One can find a CIC approved physician to perform the medical at http://www.cic.gc.ca/pp-md/pp-list.aspx

The physician enters all your medical results onto an online system which the CIC has access to, so we never actually saw our results. You could ask for them if you want though. You just need a "Proof of medical" form (or the IMM 1017B upfront medical report form) from the physician which you upload during the application.

Cost – N28025 per family member. Date of medical – 06Mar17


Proof of funds:

One has to prove that you have the minimum required funds, in my case for a family of 4 (see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/funds.asp). These funds have to be readily available, so can't be in the form of property or the like. I got my bank to provide their letterhead indicating when I opened my accounts with them. I also printed out 6 months of statements (with the branch stamp on each page) for each account. I scanned in all these with a cover page summarizing what I had in each account. I also included statements from my foreign US account.

There have been cases where an application was refused because the required funds were "gifted" to the applicant a relative/sponsor. I am not 100% sure but I think one can have funds gifted to you, but you have to prove the money is not borrowed. Get the gift notarized. In your letter of explanation, have a financial section to explain with detail every major deposit that is not usual income with proof.


Proof of work experience:

The CIC requires proof of your current and previous work experience. This is reflected by a reference letter and pay slips (where available) from your current and previous employers.

The reference letters should adhere to the following:

Printed on the company letterhead.
Company’s contact information (address, telephone number, and email address).
The signature and/or business card of either your immediate supervisor or personnel officer.
All positions held at the company and current Job title.
Duties and responsibilities (must match those specified by the National Occupation Classification (NOC) (see http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/immigrate/skilled/noc.asp) on your application because a few applicants claim they were rejected because these did not match).
Dates worked for the company.
Number of hours worked per week. (To evaluate your hours against a 40hr work week).
Annual salary and benefits. All the documents should be scanned into a single file (a separate file for each work experience if you have more than one)

Proof of Education:

Here we scanned each person’s degree certificates and WES evaluations into a single PDF file. A common mistake is uploading only WES evaluations, it seems the CIC actually want a copy of your degree certificates also.


Digital Photo:

The specifications for the digital photo are as specified here. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/information/applications/guides/pdf/5445EB-e.pdf


Passports/Travel Documents:

We scanned the data page and pages containing Visas and custom stamps that we had received in the past for both current and expired passports. I scanned all passport pages into a PDF file and uploaded (not sure you have to upload your expired passports, I did just in case).


Application:

Many of the fields in the application are carried over from the application to the EE pool, but there is still quite a lot of information to be filled in. Immediate Family Members, Address history, Personal History and Travel History to name a few. After all the forms have been filled in the above mentioned documents need to be uploaded.


Payment:

After the application is complete you can submit and arrive at the payment page. You have the option of paying the processing fee and the Right of permanent residency (RPRF) fee, or just paying the processing fee. If you pay just the processing fee you will be requested to pay the RPRF at a later stage when your application has progressed further. I paid both fees anyway in an effort to save time.

I used my US bank card to make this payment, you would have to figure how to pay from Nigeria with all the restrictions.

Processing fee – 550 CAD for each adult

RPRF – 490 CAD for each adult

RPRF – 150 CAD for each child

Application submitted – 07-Mar with a total of 2,380 CAD paid.


Submission and Waiting:

All you do from here is wait and check your MyCIC account for status changes. Join forums like canadavisa.com to link up with other applicants and see what the progress is like for those who submitted around the same time. The Immitracker website is also a good resource and there are WhatsApp groups for discussions. People also order GCMS notes after waiting a while.


Acknowledgment of receipt (AOR) -

The AOR is a letter that is sent to the MyCIC account. You'll get an email indicating that there is an unread message in your MyCIC account. You then have to log in and download the message as a PDF file.

I received my AOR one day after my application was submitted, 08-Mar. Some people receive this a few minutes after submission, others a couple days afterwards.


Medical Passed - 03-May


Background Check:

This changed from “Not Applicable (NA)” to “Next Step to conduct BG Check (NBG)” aka IP1- 03-May

“Next Step to conduct BG Check” to “Not Applicable (NA)” aka NA2– 06-May

“Not Applicable” to "We are processing your background check" aka IP2- 27-Sep


Passport Request (PPR) – Received as a notification for a new message in my MyCIC account on 28-Sep Note though, some people have received their PPR directly via email.

As far as I know, PPR indicates your application is pretty much approved and complete. All that remains is for CIC to stick in your single-entry Visa and issue a “Confirmation of Permanent Residence” (COPR).

Instructions were to send our passports to High Commission of Canada in Ghana along with a completed IMM0008 form, Updated Height and Eye Color Chart and recent passport photos (stamped by photo studio). Make sure you download the updated IMM0008 form from the CIC website, some people had theirs returned because they used old forms. The instructions recommend (not insist) submitting by courier with a pre-paid return envelope. However, DHL advised that we submit our passports one-way (No return envelope) and wait for notification from Ghana. My wife and I were emailed that our passports were ready for collection. We authorized DHL to pick them up as soon as we received the email.

Date passports sent – 29-Sep

Cost of Passports Courier to Ghana VFS – N 19,575

Date passport received by VFS – 02-Oct

Application approved status on MyCIC profile – 06-Oct (Passports stamped)

Email notification for passport collection received – 10-Oct

DHL authorized to pick up passports from Ghana VFS – 11-Oct, Cost of Courier - N 20,221

Received stamped passports and Confirmation of Permanent Residence (CPR) forms – 17-Oct


Timeline summary

ITA received – Feb 08; App submitted – Mar 07; AOR – Mar 08; Meds passed – May 03; BG check "IP2" – Sep 27;

PPR - Sep 28; Passports sent - Sep 29; App "Approved" – Oct 06; Passports returned – Oct-17 (223 days post AOR).


Total cost of Express Entry (so you get an idea what you are getting into financially)

IELTS test – N 120,000 (for 2 adults)

Degree Transcript request and courier - N 31,000.

WES ECA - 400 CAD, Delivery - 14 CAD (I chose standard delivery. Courier delivery is 85 CAD each) (for 2)

Police Report – N13, 000 and £160 (for 2 adults)

Medical – N128, 100 (for 4)

Application Processing fee – 1100 CAD (For 2 adults) and RPRF – 1280 CAD (for 4: 2*490 + 2*150)

Passport Photos – N 6,000

Passport submission to VFS – N 17,575

Courier of passport back from VFS –N 20,221

Total cost of application - N 1,216,568 (Approximating 1 CAD = N 288, 1GBP = N 475 bank rate).

On top of the total cost one obviously still needs the minimum required funds for the required 6 months duration available to you.

pufframmy:
Lovely narrative for others keep it up Canada will favour you

Please delete your post, there are enough narratives on this thread. We have no need for canadavisa info .

pufframmy:
Lovely narrative for others keep it up Canada will favour you

Euchi:
Hello guys. Pls kindly help me with step by step procedures on how to create an express entry profile. I already have a valid username and password with GCkey. How do I proceed from the point where I am redirected to the immigration site? Thank you in anticipation

Iyamarun:
My ielts result

L-8
R-8
W-7
S-6.5

Even if I'm to write another one, I don't know how to sit in front of a complete stranger and talk away. I'm bad with people generally. Extreme introvert.
They said pretend he/ she's your friend, pretend you are interacting with a close pal. It didn't work o immediately I saw the examiners face, everything I learned disappeared. Panic entered. I did breathing exercise and started to talk but my voice failed me.
Anyways... Enough of the rant.
We recharge to refire

Dan90s:
Good day my people, I have a few questions:

1. I received my WES evaluation mid 2018 without the new WAEC addition requirement, hope it won't reduce my points if I use it for my application? Also a reference

Answer: Nope. Fire on.

2. My case is a bit different as I am currently in Canada doing my MBA and I have a graduate diploma from here I got in 4 months (it was meant to be a full one year program but i finished the program early, questions is can I use it to claim points?

Answer: You might have to reach out to WES via Twitter but as long as it's a standard diploma course, it'll most likely be a favourable evaluation. My MSC lasted less than the usual duration and was evaluated favourably.

3. Will I have to get a new medical report or use the one I did for the study permit?

Answer: I think you'd have to. However, they might not request for this immediately. A few people say that they don't get the request for medicals until much later. NOT SURE!

4. For proof of employment, is it compulsory to provide pay slips or can the last 6 months bank statement of salary from my previous work be used, or just forget putting pay slips at all

Answer: A bank statement isn't necessary if you have a clear and easily verifiable proof of employment. I used it and have my PR, a friend didn't use it, got PR and has been in Canada for over a year.

PLSHELEP:


Honestly, you might have to start reading from page 1. Believe me it’s interesting, just keep reading.

But whatever you do, start with ECA then IELTS... don’t worry about work experience for now, by the time you’re done with ECA alone, your work experience would def be a year and above.

When you’re done reading, you can come back and ask questions

Stencil:

_{Pay prophet offering to Stencil of Nairaland}
Wait for the Golden Email.

Villagegirl:


You're welcome.

Tina26:
why are you now shouting at us get an affidavit , one day difference is not enough to cause you any issues. why not use CES also to avoid waec

Tina26:
what is your noc did you put over 30 hours per week did you put the correct POF

Fenvictory:
After about *10 sittings* ( I have 7 hard copies of my past ielts results, some which I wrote with MOD but didnt pick-up and the current result)

venorite:
My Ielst story.

i want to say a big thank you to @1soul my biggest motivator. @blissnenye my ever reliable teacher(if u have writing issues, please contact her. she will show you so much that you didnt know. i enjoy the way she pronounces "essay". @kiera, @chichyclassy, @johnybravo,@wasseynewest who tried for my life too.

I am hoping that the rest of this journey will be smooth and ppr annoucement will come.

FIRST IELTS-LRWS----7.5, 7, 6.5, 7
SECOND IELTS-LRWS-----7.5,6.5,6.5,7.5
THIRD IELTS---LRWS---7.5,7,6.5,7.5
FOURTH IELTS----LRWS---9,8.5,7,7

Iyamarun:
My ielts result

L-8
R-8
W-7
S-6.5

Even if I'm to write another one, I don't know how to sit in front of a complete stranger and talk away. I'm bad with people generally. Extreme introvert.
They said pretend he/ she's your friend, pretend you are interacting with a close pal. It didn't work o immediately I saw the examiners face, everything I learned disappeared. Panic entered. I did breathing exercise and started to talk but my voice failed me.
Anyways... Enough of the rant.
We recharge to refire