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what I actually want to ask is "When is the expiry of COPR"?
1 Year from when PR was approved or 1 year from last medical.
a friend of mine said hers was 1year from when PR was approved

Rahl007:
I don’t know how to access my in mails/messages here though but sure, send me a message

Can I send a Private message?

Rahl007:
Thank you. Seven weeks and apparently I’m one of the lucky ones. My friend got his 10th week. Lol

I am just two weeks in.
I should just relax.
10 weeks?That's mental

Rahl007:
Thank you. Seven weeks and apparently I’m one of the lucky ones. My friend got his 10th week. Lol

Congrats Mate.
How many weeks In total?

Rahl007:
Yeah finally. They just dispatched my passport today after countless emails that were never answered.
I can now see application approved and counterfoil on ircc account now, so happy days indeed. Still won’t advise anyone to send to London office for now anyway. Bad bad service

Any response from the London VO yet?

Rahl007:
For anyone who just got PPR and considering sending their passport to London. DO NOT ATTEMPT!
(Sent there only cos it’s my primary and nearest VO)
My docs have been with them for 6 weeks and nothing yet, I know someone waiting 9 weeks now, so do yourself a favour. Cheers

Hi Fam,
Please does anyone know how to track passport on VFS website.
When I tried, it returned "No records Found" even though I have a tracking number and passport has been received at Visa Office.

I have seen it.
There is one in Tel-Aviv too.
Ireland/Sweeden goes to London Visa Office.

dorisabid:
For those looking for the visa offices close to them. Not VAC. Google "Canada visa offices outside canada". You have a list of countries and their visa office is listed in front of them. I think each country you send your passport to sends it to the Visa office attached to them. I am not sure.

I think there is one in Dublin

dorisabid:
I am in Sweden. I realised the only Visa Office in Eu. Is rome. So i just sent today to italy. Hopefully it comes back soon

Sorry bro..
I understand you bro.What can you do besides wait.I wouldn't know how busy Canadian office in London is but I can bet its busy.
I think Dublin should be a better option for us in Europe.

Rahl007:
Yeah but these trips were planned way before I even got PPR. I am even supposed to be in Venice today but missed it cos IRCC is holding my passport to stamp something they already approved. So annoying.
Same webforms that they don’t even reply until after 3 weeks? �

Hahahahaha

That's why they say you should not travel this period o.

I suspended all trips mehn cos I know they can call anytime.

If it's more than 4 weeks send a webform. There is a link in that PPR letter.

Rahl007:
Hey guys, anyone here sent their passport to London Visa office? How long did it take?
Accra wasn’t an option for me because I live in Europe so London was the advised office but it’s been almost 4 weeks and nothing yet. They don’t even respond to emails (lol)
I need my passport to go to the US.

Ircc wait times for everything is ridiculous!

Are you reding response sent to your questions at all?
You need to relax and do your application well.
Go to Irish immigration website and read the updated rules for Study Visa application.
For edubond, visit the website here and there are links provided: https://educationbondireland.com/
quote author=SireSommy69 post=115474921]How can one pay for Edubond?[/quote]

I have contacted the agent that gave me the house I used to live.
He is in charge of few houses here for some landlord.
Hopefully he gets back to me today.

Prosper123:
Please let's chat. I will email you

Just hold cash first for Airbnb for a week or 2

kaybim1010:
Hi everyone
Am a registered nurse
I just got my work visa.
To resume middle of August.
Hospital is not providing accommodation hence I need to sort myself out.
Please � Anyone that has information on accommodation in South Dublin D16 to be precise should holla Me.
Will be travelling next week

Dublin 16....
Accommodation mehn..
Send me an email.

kaybim1010:
Hi everyone
Am a registered nurse
I just got my work visa.
To resume middle of August.
Hospital is not providing accommodation hence I need to sort myself out.
Please � Anyone that has information on accommodation in South Dublin D16 to be precise should holla Me.
Will be travelling next week

Let it sit there till you enter ireland cos sometimes, some immigration officers ask to see.When I came here in 2018, I was asked at port of entry but ,my friend was not

Lahnreh:
Please is there a minimum number of days your POF should sit in your account for?

you don't need it here. If airline ask for it then it is airline but they don't

EllyCiciCarter:
Hello house, please has anyone travelled recently ? Do I need a Covid test? Would I be asked for one at the airport. Ireland website says I don’t need but I’d rather be safe than sorry.
Please for anyone that has travelled recently, were you asked for one at Lagos airport. ?
Thank you

Congrats o...Good news all around

Chenkes:
Got our stamped passports yesterday

Most banks can provide PDF copies of bank statements from anywhere.For GT you can request from the app.
Another option is move you cash to Foreign currency and use that as POF anytime

babeD:
Good evening!
Please I am currently in the pool, and I will moving to Uk for my masters, please I understand you can apply for Canada pr anywhere, please my question is how can can get my bank statement for POF from Uk?

Scan/Merge?compress to between 1-4MB. Any document of this size is of solid quality.

chiada:
Good afternoon all, hope our day is going well.

I got a request letter in mycic account requesting I upload some documents to facilitate addition of my new born.

I thought a section will be created for her to upload documents into placeholders with labels BUT I observed just one placeholder (named replacement documents) was provided under my husband's section who is the principal applicant and it was labeled "KITS, APPLICATION FORMS".

Am I supposed to merge all the requested documents into one and upload?

I am asking because I know from experience with the application that placeholders have size limit.

Please I await your response biko as I am confused.

ooooomo..
Happy for you.
Congrats

zannie:
OMG I can't believe I'm back here with my own testimony. I promised I'll be back to give God all the glory when I finally got the golden letter and to encourage someone, because all the golden mail stories gave me so much hope.

I started this whole process because my SIL was applying. I thought it was a good idea so I joined her. She got her PR seamlessly in 6 months so I thought ours was going to be that easy. Fate had other plans lol.
IELTS: 15/12/2018
WES completed: 30/01/2019
Jumped in the pool: Feb 2019, score 445. Stayed in the pool and lost 5 points due to birthday in July. Note that ITA cutoff scores just before we entered the pool were hovering around 435-439. Immediately we entered the pool, it rose sharply to 460s. As soon as I saw that scores weren't dropping, I quickly got my husband to go and write IELTS. It boosted our score to 459. I adjusted our score and the wait continued. We were lucky to get ITA because the cutoff was 459 but our profile was created before the tie break date.
ITA: 24/07/2019
AOR: 21/09/2019.
COMPLETE RADIO SILENCE! Sent about 20 webforms that went unanswered. We even ordered GCMS notes that we did not understand.
IRCC finally responded to one of my webforms and I was informed that our VO was Accra. That was when I decided to just take my mind off the entire process and wait on God.
This year, we decided to update our medicals on 24/04/2022. I sent webforms with the re-medicals and our change of address. More silence.
We even got my SIL who is in Canada to keep calling IRCC on our behalf. Still no new update from them. At one point, I thought they had cancelled our application.
One day, a friend who applied because of us, called us to tell us he just got his letter. We were confused because we know his application was months after ours. So he told us he was tired of his own waiting and got info to write a strongly worded letter to the immigration minister. We decided to do the same and sent a letter to the minister on 24/05/2022. Fortune finally smiled on us and we got a mail on 11/06/2022 for ADR to submit police report, passports for my husband and son, and schedule A for my husband and I. We submitted the documents on 7/7/2022 with our deadline being the next day (8th). On the 20th of July, I logged into our profile only to discover the documents were not transmitted. The devil really tried to work overtime but failed. Omo, I started sending webforms and reporting technical issues o. I begged and pleaded and cried. I didn't hear anything from them on that matter but on 25th July at 11pm, I saw a mail from them to check my account. I was so scared it was a rejection due to our docs not transmitting to them before our deadline. It was so heart wrenching to open my account and seeing that letter. I couldn't stop crying.

This journey has taught me the true meaning of patience, but I'm so happy it finally ended in praise. To all who are still in their waiting period, don't lose hope. It is definitely coming. Thank you so much to all old members of this thread i.e those who were here 2018/2019. This thread is a huge goldmine. Every single thing I learnt about this entire process was from here. Onto the next!!!!!

I ca help you.
what's your email?

Priceless25:
Please can anyone help me pay for Gcms note? My card is being declined

....and the state of her marriage does not call for insulting anyone.
Simple: In a situation like this, I'd advise you do this and this and this ..
Nobody sought your opinion on the marriage, you may see them together 4 weeks from now sipping champagne.
..On whether I am bright enough?, don't worry na me be "Daddy Bright" : lols....
Bye bye.

Nacho4:
It's not in my place to express my opinion on a public discuss but it's in your place to express your opinion on my opinion? Think straight please.
I hope you are bright enough to comprehend my response to her well enough to see that I made my submission based on the premise she presented while acknowledging the absence of the other side of the story.
Letting her know he can't go scott free with his FOOLISH act (oh yes, very foolish act)and would be held accountable, arms her better in her decision making on how to salvage this situation she is in

"She came for help with visa not for insult or marriage" rada rada. I hope you are bright enough to see that the bedrock of the visa issue is the state of her marraige. When did advicing someone on how to avoid future troubles from the source of their current trouble become a problem?
Are you alright?

The fact that you don't know the full story says it all.
in every situation, there is the Man's side, the woman's side and then the truth.
No matter the case, I don't think it's in your place or anyones place to insult another lady's husband. She came for help with Visa not for insult. or marriage counselling. Whether he's wicked or foolish or kind or whatever, he is still her husband.
Just provide answer to her question and move.

Nacho4:
I don't know the full story between you and your husband, but from what you Have said, your husband is a wicked man.
More importantly, he is foolish too. He didn't think his actions through. Canada knows that he is a married man. And his application didn't say non-accompanying. Visas were also issued to two persons. They have all that information. Sooner or later he will answer to why he is in Canada without his wife. This is Canada.

Someone said maybe he is testing you. It is only the devil that tests people this way.

If somehow you eventually come to Canada, leave that man for your own good. (and incase you are actually the witch in this whole story - leave him for his own good. Animals have more rights than men here and you would only make his life more miserable if you stay with him)

Payment in cash is not against the law.if you have the payslips, send it and also add a cash salary certificate from your employer.I was also paid in cash for a job 11 years ago and I sent salary certificate, the other job I did after, I provided bank statements showing salary payment..I don't think this is an issue.

Dennyjuff:
Hello people, please has anybody’s application ever been refused because they were paid in cash? i was paid in cash for one of my work experiences from about 8-10 years ago… i have my computer generated payslips. will that suffice please?

Congrats

Charityjunkie:
Sorry in advance for the long story. I just want to share my story for reference/encouragement.

Summary and timelines

IELTS: November 2019 (L: 8, S: 9, W: 7, R: 9, overall: 8.5).
ECA: April 15, 2020 (I used WES)
CRS: 475
Entered the pool: May 19, 2020
ITA: September 2, 2020
Upfront medicals: October 15, 2020
Aor: November 4, 2020
Bil: January 10, 2021
Upfront medicals: March 18, 2022 (raised webform and didn’t get a reply till after 2 months, *sigh*)
Medicals request: April 9, 2022
ADR schedule A, PCC and PoF: April 11, 2022 (for PCC I only did for Nigeria given that I had previously submitted my UK PCC and had only lived in Nigeria since my AOR)
ADR submitted: April 14, 2022
Medicals passed: June 17, 2022 (after raising about 3 webforms)
PPR email: June 22, 2022

VFS journey

Passport sent using red star express: June 24, 2022 (Friday afternoon)
Arrived VAC Abuja: June 27, 2022 (Monday morning)
***No update from VAC Abuja***
Tracked my application on VSF website using a tracking number I got from a VSF agent (via phone call) on July 8, 2022 and got this update “Your processed passport has been forwarded to the Canada Visa Office on 2022/06/27. To know more, please call VAC helpline number or visit VAC website”
Counterfoil generated: July 18, 2022
Copr received : July 25, 2022

Narrative

One thing that is for sure is that this whole process has been torture! This process has humbled me and thought me patience.

My journey started in 2019 with my mum hounding me to look into this process. I was still in school then and to be sincere I was not interested. All I wanted was to finish my MSc program and get a good paying job where ever I could (Nigeria not withstanding) I wanted to be close to as much family as I could be.
Anywho fast forward to October after my dissertation my friend convinced. She wanted us to start at the same time and hold each other accountable. At that point my time in UK was coming to an end, so I decided to start with IELTS while waiting for my degree to come out. There was no harm in trying, right?

I entered the pool in May 2020 and that was when the wait truly started. At this point Nigeria and Covid had frustrated my life (still frustrating my life but thank God for this new opportunity). Fast forward to getting ITA. In my mind I had given myself 6 months to be in Canada, little did I know that covid was not yet done with us . During my wait I took the vaccine as soon as I could (didn’t want my village people playing with my destiny) I even took booster shot. I was not taking any chance.
In February of 2022, my hope soared when I saw people getting ppr left right and center. I waited and waited for my turn but no news. More frustration . I took matters into my own hands and did an upfront medical but ircc was on a mission to exasperate my soul. I sent various webforms but no update on my portal. They now decided to one up themselves by asking me for remedicals. At this point I felt like my village people were working overtime. I was not in the country and had already spent so much money doing my upfront medical. I didn’t have it in me to do another so I just waited and trusted everything to God. I had proof of my upfront medical and raised webforms so I knew that even after the 30days timeframe they could not reject my application. I won’t lie and say that I wasn’t worried but what more could I do? At this point NSPPD was my mum’s resting place.

The golden email (as we all call it) came one random night. I was shocked. Didn’t even know that my medicals had been passed lol. I was confused because I only received an email and no update was made on my portal. After consulting you guys (Big shout out to @Allegory and @Dimple10; also @GraciousWords for creating this thread so beautifully ps: congratulations on your ppr) I submitted my passport. And now the wait is finally over!

Good luck to everyone. God will do it for you as well.

Mine is 2021 February.I Just sent ADR about 6 days ago.
I have a friend AOR 2019 she just got ADR 4months ago and 2months after, she got PPR and COPR.
Reach out to them

DFreeze:
Anyone with Sep-Dec 2020 AOR?
Mine is Dec 2020 though, no update whatsoever other than that my medicals was extended late May 2022, contacted the VO via email and they just a gave a typical vague response that my application is still under processing. No ADR or any other request. Folks, what do you reckon I do to hasten things? Feedback will be appreciated.

Many thanks.

100%

Navaroooo:
Please house is English proficiency test needed in applying for visa ??

I have sent it already as it is.
My former box travelled and its already the deadline.The figure on it tallies with my initial employment letter anyways.
We go get good news by God's grace.

MrPein:
If you can, please add tax deductions. It is typical for visa officers to ask for tax certificate for a particular work experience as ADR.

There was no tax o..It's already printed on letterhead and stamped

processrxtn:
This looks good. However, try to include Tax and probably try to print on company letter head if possible.

Good luck

Hi Fam,
I want to send my ADR documents today and one is a salary certificate.
I have a template and I want to be sure if it will fly.

Is this template fine for a salary certificate ?

You may freeze the palm oil before packing your luggage

Allegory:
I don’t think it’s contraband in Canada but you have to hide it in Nigeria. The airlines don’t like it cos if it spills it will stain something and the Agric guys would try to toss it if they find it.

If you go by this link, I think HND is likely considered level 8 in Ireland which means, you can apply for masters but you can send an email to the international office of several schools, they will respond with information
https://www.qqi.ie/what-we-do/the-qualifications-system/national-framework-of-qualifications
quote author=bigmills post=114491871]I am not sure about this but you can definitely reach out to a school of your choice[/quote]