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Being on this platform has really helped me a lot and also lifts my spirit and hope. I stumbled on a thread about USA DV lottery about 6/7years ago, omo I wish I was here then alot has gone down. Green cards flying up and down just like how PPR is flying on this thread too. See ehn we need to seek for knowledge, if you're here just be grateful cos I am.
Newcomers please try to read because this journey depends on who you are, what you want and how motivated you can be and be sure this platform will motivate you, give you hope even turn you to prayer warriors. Grab the opportunity now before the Canadians CLOSE THEIR BORDER!!!

I CANT EMPHASIZE ENOUGH.... you have to read!!!!! We have people that are ready to put you through here when some things are not clear, but read first !!!! This place flows with milk of knowledge where the wise dwells so therefore understanding can't be far from you.

Congratulations to the those that has gotten PPR and to the gurus that are still waiting, no doubt yours is coming soon. You will be celebrated!!
God bless us all

Sannisege:
Waiting for ITA with my CRS points at 486

He he you hammer this CRS well well oo
show me the way nah.,.biko

Topsmamen:
No you can’t. Your cousin is not your sibling.

Thanks for the info

Ifeoma77:
No you can't use your cousin to claim CRS points. It has to be sibling or sibling-inlaw

OK thanks for the info

Please am I getting something wrong,

I have a cousin over there, according to what I read oooo related by blood, step blah blah, sibling

Can I claim my cousin as my close relative too in order to increase my CRS score and hope this won't affect her in anyway cos I dont want to trouble or stress her.

Chibuking81:
Abuja

Please dont be given wrong orientation, I've never used an agent before and all statement made by me was from my own personal experience.

Please just find more information.

I believe this thread is to condemn the use of agents...

Imagine someone asking me to pay 4,500 just to know if I am eligible for Express entry when it is free!!!!

See we need to start getting the right knowledge and informations ourselves.

God bless us all

MamaOO:
Abeg , no need trying to educate someone who already miseducated themself. Where was he last year or so when appointments was 4-6 months out? Smh

I'm telling you...the person needs to be reorientated

vibrant99:
God bless you bro, I was worried.

Most people use agents and they come here and sound like they are the ones who applied themselves.

Agents will say there are no dates again that they have to pay someone to give them an earlier date.

No matter what, dates for B-1/B-2 cant be more than 2 weeks available anytime you want to apply.

N.B Which interview center is this please? Lagos/Abuja?

Oga like they said earlier you are yarning dust...
One question....Have you booked by yourself before??
If you haven't, which I did on my own and no false statement was made from all what I said but from my personal experience, then pls just shut up biko

seyewest:
lolzzz you're yarning dust...

As in ehn !!

Daringtohope:
I posted my transcript about F2 visa rejection in Lagos a couple of weeks ago. I decided to reapply immediately, and I was able to get a date in Abuja. The screening process was quite long and tedious compared to Lagos. Also, my baby was a bit restless, so I kept moving back and it took a while for my turn. This is the transcript of the interview as I can remember it;

VO: Good afternoon.

Me: Good afternoon Ma.

VO: Pass me your passport.

I gave her our passports and I-20s. She took her time to go through the I-20 and typed for a while.

VO: Where is husband studying?

Me: He is studying Molecular Biology in the University of ABC.

VO: How long have you been married?

Me: We have been married for 4 years it will be 5 years in a few months.

VO: How many children do you have?

Me: We have one child.

VO: Has he visited since he left?

Me: Yes, he visited us in August of last year.

VO: I can see that there is a shortfall in the living expenses on the I-20, how do you pay the rest?

Me: My husband has full funding and we have some personal savings.

She excused herself and left the cubicle with the passport and I-20 for about 5 minutes. While she was away, I was worried that maybe she was not convinced about the funding. Therefore, when she came back, I quickly said;

Me: I have the funding letter from his school here, would you like to see it?

VO: That wouldn’t be necessary (while smiling).

VO: Was he working before he left for the United States?

Me: He was working as a lecturer, and he is currently on study leave.

VO: What will you be doing in the U.S?

Me: I will be busy raising my child as well as providing physical and emotional support for my husband.

VO: Have you traveled before?

Me: No, I have not had a reason to travel.

VO: Do you or your husband have any relatives in the United States?

No: We don’t have any relatives in the U.S.



VO: I will be approving your visa. Please excuse me I need to get a document for you.

Me: Thank you Ma. (I few tears of joy rolled down from my eyes.)

She left and came back with a document containing instruction for student visa applicants stating that students are only allowed to enter U.S 30 days before the start of the program and not after the start date on the I-20. It also contains a reminder to take along and present I-20 at the port of entry.

I give all praises and thanks to Almighty Allah. I prayed fervently, did several mock interviews, and prepared written answers to likely questions. I big thank you to everyone on this thread. I learned a lot from here. By the way, I use full hijab that covers me from head to toe. I hope this will encourage and be useful for someone.

Your ans to "Have you travelled before"
No, I have not had a reason to travel

Bravo!!!!

Moreover I dont think the hijab matters ooo...just saying....hijab or no hijab if they will issue visa, they will..
Congratulations!!!

Oluwayinka91:
Hello everyone pls I am at verge of starting the whole process pls which is evaluation body do u advise I go for that would be less stressful for me�!i will appreciate your urgent response!thanks

Go for ICES

Milllz:
It’s PPR!!!!!!

Decision to migrate: July 2018, after trying without success for about 6 months to get an admission for my masters program and emailing all the course supervisors in Canada. I decided to kukuma just go there. I switched threads, best decision I made.

IELTS: 28th July 2018
MOD 1st and only. God was faithful. LRSW 9,8.5,8,7.5
I didn’t have much time to prepare and on the speaking day, I was trembling, in the 2 minutes talk, I just spoke for about 1 minute and told the nice lady I was done, but it went well overall, when I left the room, I was just thinking of the next available date and where to get the funds from. It’s better to be calm.

ECA: 31st July 2018. WES (before all the madness started) already had my transcript, I just applied for the immigration part, took about 2 days. I am a pharmacist but didn’t use PEBC because I wasn’t practicing and didn’t want their wahala.

POF: funds was 100% gift from my dad. Transferred it to my savings account 2 days prior to submitting my application. I got the non indebtedness and reference letters, transfer successful receipt, and still added a 6 months statement (I later realized there was no need for this statement).

EMPLOYMENT:
My application wasn’t perfect at all. There were difficulties, it gave me sleepless nights.

My 1st and current employment was with my Dad’s company, and I was paid in cash. So I had him draft a letter stating both jobs in IRCC format and another letter stating my current salary and that I was paid cash, I also explained it in my LOE. He signed both letters as the MD of the company.
I believe this was really smooth too because we were in the same line of business. Pharmacy.

My 2nd employment was a federal hospital, they didn’t give us payslips and they had a generic reference letter they refused to amend to IRCC format. I just submitted my offer of employment and the supposed reference letter. Luckily, the offer of employment had my salary, job conditions and start date while the other letter had just duration and a brief job description. Another headache. I submitted them like that. (I should have added a letter from my supervisors to help me sleep better at night)

Mediclas: Children’s practice. It was pretty smooth.

Siblings: I claimed siblings points, my sister was well settled a few months earlier, so I attached everything I could get my hands on. But it was very complete.

Schedule A: I have a virgin passport and about 4 US visa rejections. It should be 5, I didn’t get past the gate on one occasion because of a mistake . All were blue letters though, no misrepresentation or anything. Those people just hated my guts .
So I just respected myself and jejely attached the schedule A form and explained in the LOE.

I had an issue with my name, I always use my 4 names in all my documents, with two of the names separated with a hyphen. But my birth certificate was missing one of the names and I had to add it to claim siblings point. I had done an affidavit, but for some reason I decided not to attach it at the last minute. Another sleepless night because I was so tempted to raise a CSE and attach it, but I decided to relax. When I ordered my gcms notes, I realized an officer had a little issue with it but with the hyphen in my name being absent in another document. (Please just attach the affidavit of name change to avoid stories.)

CRS Score: 456. Should have been 470s but CIC didn’t give me professional points. I followed some people’s advice that I’d be given professional degree points because of my degree irrespective of what my ECA says. It’s a lie.

ITA: 22nd August 2018
AOR: 10th September 2018.
MED passed/ BIL: 4th October.
Biometrics submitted: 8th October
VO- Ottawa

Then the wait started.

Biometrics completed: 14th February, 2019.
My biometrics just completed this week, we were a lot that had this issue and initially thought it was an issue but to God be the glory. The only thing that changed in my status was medical. I had raised several CSEs, emailed Ralph and called once.

Ghost update on the 4th of January.
Ordered gcms notes on the 12th of December, received on the 15th January, 2019.
Apart from the name, every other thing was fine. Just Criminality had been passed.

February 14th, got another ghost update, raised another CSE and I was replied the day after that a decision had been made.

PPR mail: February 16th, 3:56am (dated 15th)

Thanks to a lot of people who helped me, shared in my worries, adviced me. It has ended in praise, yours will too.

Wow smooth sailing ....Congratulations !!!

Please I have question concerning the POF your dad transferred...

Means the whole money can be transferred even after getting ITA and about to submit application.
Please will I write LOE explaining its a gift from my dad??

didentus678:
Happy voting everyone! This would be the very last election for us in Nigeria in the mighty name of Jesus Christ,Amen!!!!!!!

Election has been postponed.... This is Nigeria**

Amen to your prayer !!!

Slymonster:
Lagos 3500

I'm in Ibadan.... how can I contact you I should be in Lagos soon and hope its installing cos I encountered one earlier that's the disc is bad

Chibuking81:
As I checked now, I found out that many date are still available with the closest been February 21st. Go through my attachment, the dates in bolded appearance are still available. Anyway, it depends on your interview center.
From the attached below, 6 days are still available in the month of this February, 17 days available in the month of March, while 3 days available in the month of April.

Her interview is in Lagos
where is yours

Femichris:
Any interesting game I also have fifa 18 for sale or swap

how much for the FIFA 18 and where are you??

adetola007:
Let me add to the discussion. If you can practice meticulously with Cambridge 10-13 books, you'll be fine. Each book has 4 tests. Once you finish any test, make sure you review your answers. When I first started, I noticed I often make mistakes with singular/plural, for example, if the answer is books and you write book, you'll not get any mark. So I started paying more attention. You can download the books here.
https://ieltsmaterial.com/cambridge-pratice-tests-ielts-1-12-book-answers-audio/

ohh I really appreciate for the info thanks

kfrosh:
I will suggest you practise listening with only Cambridge IELTS. To me, it's the only practice that is 99% close to the real thing. In fact, its just direct past question.

I have used other materials and I've written IELTS once, it's the best I can suggest to anyone.

Please do you have the link or prolly the material if you can mail it to my email... thanks

iamdjplus@gmail.com

jjohndoe83:
Why not wait so that you don't lose money. Practice, practice, practice until you're comfortable with the whole thing. I started practicing listening 2 weeks ago. I started with getting 6/6.5 but now I'm getting 8 steadily but I'm not ready yet because yesterday I was still getting 7 but today I'm back at getting 8. I have noticed the problematic areas and I'm working on solving the issues. 68/75k is no joke my sister. I plan to write in April but I will practice every other day till then. Think about it again.

I plan writing April too....started practicing ...my first attempt tho. God will see us through

CheesyTee:
I booked 1pm in January for my speaking module with B.C.. Guess what? I was called last for my speaking test. This was around 4:35pm.

I was so tired, hungry and angry at the same time. People that picked latter hours were attended to, before me. The first person was to have hers at 3pm but got my time slot instead.

I was livid throughout the test. I had 8 in my speaking sha.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that, be prepared, your speaking test may not happen at 1pm.

All the best.

Ahh with what I read from their site during reg...since I booked LWR for 1pm .....Speaking will be in the morning. I hope this stays this way.

Ojasope1:
Thanks for this update. How is the CBT Listening test like, how many minutes, are you allowed minute(s) before starting of each section as the PBT?

i just did a practice test on that CBT listening ...Mehn I must say its requires lot of concentration
That part 4 on tht listening part, I gave up with that accent I could only write just one answer down out of 10 questions.
The whole speaking was just going phewwhinleshmoinahgoventureinthecenturandthe

vibrant99:
Wow, this information got me , I must tell you....

But i guess it works both ways .

It is even very possible someone goes online to apply today and finds an opening for February,...

Not so sure how it works but dates could spring up between different times , it is almost impossible not to have a date in between March no matter the amount of Application.

To my own understanding, If you go online to book now and you see February date, it might be due to those that reschedule their appointment date and probably the reason why you have that date.

vibrant99:
Sorry to Jump in here...

During booking for interview date, does it mean March is filled up? or you just prefer a later date?

To answer you,...

You print out the invite , and go with it.

The main assessment is done with the DS-160, be careful what you wrote and how you wrote it, they will ask her a question and she would be muttering or answer in confidence, That's when the whole thing is decided, gather documents , no wahala !

Oh okay thanks...And to answer your question
Thats the date left...she was scheduled for March 22 before but due to corrections and had to book again and the appointment date changed afterwards.. I guess no march dates anymore....even I doubt April sef as at now

rosepetraa:
If you sit for LWR in thé morning session, then your Speaking will be in thé afternoon session.

When i sat for the CBT, about 7 of us were slated to begin LWR at 9am. While we were in the Computer room (The test was 2hrs 45mins) another batch were having their Speaking test.

When we finished our LWR, we went back to the waiting room and when those who had Speaking in thé morning session started their LWR, we also started our speaking test.

So, the Speaking is basically few hours before or after the LWR depending on if you re having LWR during thé morning session or afternoon session. Speaking is not more than 15minutes, at most 18 minutes if you re thé chatty type.

I'm booking for the 1pm test and Speaking will be before my LWR

I hope this is a good idea as I will be travelling to Lagos from Ibadan

I just want the CBT its all because of the writing part, I prefer typing because it will be seen clearly and no need for cancelling in order to avoid rough sheet.

Zeewirld:
........Hello Super mum! I became emotional after reading your post.Nigeria just lost a super person to Canada. You're impactful on Nairaland and your pieces of advice most especially in NOC issues was more than soothing balms to plenty.. While,I hope to meet you some day in Canada, but in the meantime, I have to complete my own.From my heart,I bless you and your family and I decree concerning you;Canada will favor you. You will enjoy Dominion.

Please any link on the NOC page

I need to read more on it.

PLEASE I NEED YOUR ADVICE!!!

Not quite long i joined this forum and I've really gained alot in here.

My mom will be going for an interview scheduled for April and I helped her fill the DS-160 form and also booked her interview. Visiting visa B2 visa, thats what i booked her for and did all this before I joined this forum.

An invitation letter has been sent to the embassy from her brother who is the person inviting her, I told her to go with her bank statements, Land documents and divorce documents because she is divorced.

Please are this documents enough for her or is there any other thing I need to send or know.

As a matter of fact I never send any documents to the embassy, I just filled out the form appropriately and booked, thats all.

PLEASE YOUR ADVICE!!!!

Cifrag:
Thank you. i'm searching for the ices email address for my school to send my transcript.

The one we used failed. please assist.

This should be thir email: icesinfo@bcit.ca


Pls confirm tho

rosepetraa:
I did both PBT & CBT. If you re good at typing ( not necessarily typist skill level); i will say go with CBT. It is so much easier to re-arrange your paragraphs, move some sentences around, and tweak your essays if typed as compared to cleaning with eraser.

In addition, i found thé Reading CBT easier. There's minimal fear of loosing marks due to not obeying instructions. For example, some questions say choose A, B or C. Exam tension may make you write out thé answer in PBT( I know this cos it happened to me) For CBT, na to just click correct alphabet o. You can also just copy thé answer from thé passage and paste in thé given space ( risk of spelling errors eliminated)

Finally, the fact that you get to do thé Speaking component on thé same day is the icing on thé cake

Your last sentence is my point exactly......icing on the cake
Not even like on thesame day but the time interval after the Listening, reading and writing test is not much at all.

From the online registration, its like the speaking is taken few minutes or hrs before the normal test...

Anyways thanks for the info tho