It's our 3rd week here in Canada. It's been beautiful thus far.
Just thought to encourage someone here who's waiting for IELTS, waiting for ITA, PPR..... It's just a matter of time, and your wait will be worth it.

Just hang in there!

I know a family that relocated to Canada in 2016, and the wife gave birth 2 weeks after arrival. So I know it's possible to fly even when you're heavily pregnant. I just think you need to get more info from the airlines. The issue now is to hope she gets the COPR like this week, so she can fly nextweek

Eraytee:
Hello house please can anyone assist with this my inquiry, my cousin got PPR 2weeks ago and have submitted her passport, she’s heavily pregnant and her EDD is less than a month.

Please is there any airline that can fly her with this condition? She plans to give birth in Canada but i told her most airlines would not want to fly her. They are ready to fly immediately they get their passport back. Its a family of 2. Please anyone with useful information should please share as regards my question. Thanks in anticipation.

Hephzibah2018:


Congratulations to you and yours brother. May your new home be favourable to you. My husband and I too shall testify in Jesus mighty name Amen

It's just a matter of time. Amen. See you there

browneyes7:


Congratulations to you and your wife

Please what's BIL? Like someone asked, did you get married after AOR?

Thanks so much.
Yes it happened that we got married after AOR.
BIL is biometrics instruction letter, a mail you get in your page to go for biometrics.

Cryptomania:
Congrats bro. Quick one, did you marry after AOR?

Yes we did.

Before I forget, anyone knows where we can get winter jackets here in Nigeria? Preferably Lagos, ibadan or anywhere around the southwest. Any links would be greatly appreciated

IELTS – July 28, 2018 (L R S W 8.5, 7.0, 8.0, 8.0)
IELTS results – August 10, 2018
Profile created – Feb. 15, 2019
ITA – Feb. 20, 2019 (CRS 478, cut off – 457)
Medicals – Mar. 06
AOR – Mar 09
ADR(spouse kit) – April 24
BIL – April 24
Medicals (spouse) May 13
BIL (spouse) May 15
Spouse kit uploaded May 15
MEP May 17
Ghost update1 May 17
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Ghost update 2 – Oct. 15
Ghost update 3 – Oct. 16
PPR – 2:38am ,Oct. 17 (dated Oct. 16)
Ghost update - November 6(BG check and eligibility done)
Application approved - November 7

Called VFS on November 12 because we were yet to get any text messages that our visas were ready. We were told they were ready for pickup, they arrived November 11.

COPR/passport pickup - November 15.
Family of 2(my wife and I)

This journey that started last year has finally come to an end.

We got tickets a few days ago already, to land in January (in the middle of the winter), may God help us. That was the cheapest tickets we could find, plus our documents expire in March.

I wish everyone here Goodluck.
Hope to see you all in Canada.

Time to start packing

Thanks for the information

LecturerIFE:


If you submitted your passport at VFS Lagos, expect COPR in 3 weeks.




That's correct.

Hello,
Just checking up on everyone. Hope you all are doing great.
For those waiting for ITA, I hope you get thr invitation soonest. And for those expecting the golden email.... Know that it would come, it will!

Was as VFS to submit the document required for the visa, the feeling was good mehn....
The whole process took about roughly 1 hour.

Hoping to get the COPR soon.

Anyone here gotten COPR recently? Mind sharing what the current average time to get a confirmation is?


Meanwhile, back on the application portal, nothing has changed. Everything still remains as it had been. Maybe these will change after COPR, I'm guessing.

I totally understand.
Truth is, I didn't think of the of the consequences of my actions.... It was probably the excitement.
I wanted to make people feel what I felt when I read other PPR stories, but I regret that I fumbled.
It had even started causing friction in this place between one or two persons.

I'm still a part of the group, and will be absolutely willing to help whenever I can.

Thank you.

Kaygirl33:

Come on bro, it hasn't gotten to that. All we wanted was for you to edit your post and remove some parts that might be quite implicating. Your story was quite inspiring and like you said, you want to give back what you've learnt from the thread.
Nairaland posts always come up whenever you search the net for info on express entry, and it would be unwise to mention the 'B' word (hope you understand) so openly. And again @justwise had done justice to it.
I therefore plead with all humility, that you repost your PPR story.
Thank you for understanding.

I'm sorry if my previous post offended anyone.
Some people saw it as too much information to let out.
I just got back home and saw people have mailed me, and mentioned me in different posts.

I learnt most things I applied from this group, and just thought I could help one or two persons with those information.

I've deleted my entire PPR story.

Hope we all get what we're looking for.
Thanks

I'm sorry if my previous post offended anyone. I learnt fmost things I applied from this group, and just thought I could help one or two persons with those information.

I've deleted my entire PPR story.

Hope we all get what we're looking for.
Thanks.

Hello everyone.
It's PPRRRRRRRR

JUST WOKE UP TO THE GOLDEN MAIL

ABOUT 222 DAYS OF INTENSE ANXIETY HAS FINALLY COME TO AN END.

WILL POST THE PPR STORY LATER.

GOD IS FAITHFUL.

AOR MARCH 9
2 GHOST UPDATES BETWEEN OCTOBER 15 AND OCTOBER 16.
PPR OCTOBER 17 2:38AM, DATED OCTOBER 16

IOM will solve your medical worries. She should get an appointment for next week or next two weeks if she calls to explain, or if she goes in person.
She has 30 days, so no need to worry, medical is done in a day. Same with police clearance.

yodiyokun:
Please I need anyone that can offer insight on how best to proceed.

Early this morning we received an email for medical for my mum. She applied for PR on the Parent Sponsorship class. The medical form said she has 30 days to complete medical.

Today also, we received another email saying her VISA is ready and she should send her passport, medical results and police certificate within 15 days from today.

We have been calling all the two clinics that do the medical and also emailed a request for an appointment but the VI one says they are only booking in October. IOM is yet to respond, although I just sent the email like an hour ago.

Please my people, my mama want come Canada ooo and its like she won the lottery, please how can we get a medical appointment with 1- 2 weeks. Any suggestions?

Is it normal to receive request for VISA and medical the same day. I did my immigration over a decade ago so I don't know the current system.

I forgot to add....
This was the information I got on my status the moment my application clocked 6 months.

For those who have more recent AORs, who will cross the 6 months line too, you should expect same. But I pray they speed up the process somehow so people don't have to wait this long before knowing their fate in the future.

I'm thinking that's the next thing to do, that is, ordering GCMS notes. But I want to wait a little more.

Hearing people's stories here has made me understand that even the GCMS notes don't really help, if anything, they just increase the anxiety.

If they want you to wait, you will wait

ladymarshall:
Have you raise gcms? If no, do that. The wait is not easy but what can we do? Stay hopeful

Yes o, we will all enter that Canny together. Fingers crossed

bankyh1905:
You're right it is, a pointer to the rest of us who have more recent AOR dates. Your PPR will soon land, fingers crossed!
The last part of the response from Ottawa, @bolded is funny though : "We thank you for your patience and for keeping your correspondence to a minimum."

I enjoyed every bit of your story. I can relate. The way IELTS was swift for me, and when I saw that VO was Ottawa, I was just happy that everything will be done in a maximum of 3 months.... It's been over 6 months now, still waiting.
We must learn this patience by force, most importantly, to trust more in God.

Congratulations on your PPR. Can't wait to be like you soon

Torkwase1:
PPR IS HERE!!!

LONG, LONG PPR GIST.

This journey started in February 2018. A friend who's in Canada introduced Express Entry to me, tried to convince me to give it a try. He sent me the NOC and WES links. I had always toyed with the idea of leaving Nigeria, but I wasn't really ready, so I didn't do anything immediately.
A few days later, I heard one of our colleagues would soon leave with her family to Canada. I said ehn, is it that serious? Then a close friend from Uni left. I started giving EE a serious thought then.

My friend in Canada introduced me to an immigration lawyer that she used, Abrams and Kroschak. Then, I didn't know I could do it myself. That's how I sent 500 dollars to the agency as deposit. Well, they sent me an initial package of ducuments to fill, which I will pay another 1000 dollars before submission, apart from other payments o. Hey God. I don't have this type of money o.

NAIRALAND TO THE RESCUE
By a stroke of luck and grace, I stumbled upon the nairaland EE thread. I read several chapters, page by page, and watched YouTube Videos.
Then I realized, babe, people are doing this thing themselves o. I sent a mail to the Agent that I'm no longer doing. That's how I lost 500 dollars.

At this time, I had already sent documents for WES evaluation, and in my ignorance, I evaluated both 1st and Masters degree. See ehn, ignorance is costly.
By the time I met Nairaland EE thread, I had many regrets, and was eager to learn as much as possible.

IELTS:
I didn't practice much for IELTS, never had time and just felt I could handle it. A few days to my test, a friend called and asked me how many tests I've practiced. I said about 6 or 7. He scolded me, said I should have practiced way more than that. I got scared, and tried to squeeze in 3 more tests before the test day. I wrote my test in pencil, answers all in capital letters except for Writing. Thank God it came out great.
L- 9
R- 8.5
S- 8
W- 7. 5

First ITA: AUGUST 22.
My score was 476. I had to decline this ITA after some weeks cos I couldn't complete my POF. Was to sell off a plot of land, the person who wanted to buy it couldn't pay in time.

MEDICALS:
IOM Abuja, pretty straight forward

Second ITA:
November 27. Land sold, money paid, everything was ready.

POF:
I did a fixed deposit in Fidelity Bank, uploaded FD certificates and added their generic reference letter. I had money in two other accounts, for which I presented statement of results.

AOR: December 11, 2018

VO: Ottawa. I was so happy that my file wasn't going to Accra. My processing will be sharp sharp. Hahahaa!! Ottawa had other plans as I would soon see.

MEP/BIL: January 24

THEN THE WAITING BEGAN.
I had joined a post-ITA Telegram group. People started receiving PPR, COPR, and giving landing gist. We were always excited to get the news. I was calm, my time would come soon. If only I knew what CIC had in store. Those with AOR's in the same period as me started getting their PPRs too, I was still stuck in MEP. When I clocked 6 MONTHS in June , I called CIC help centre. They put me on the usual long hold. I didn't know I didn't have enough credit, when the agent said "Your waiting time is 2 minutes", MTN told me, your call credit has been exhausted!!! I Wan cry! Next day, I loaded anough credit, and called again. They said they will check my file,
. Another month passed, no show. This time, I was about the only one in the group who didn't have PPR. Kudos to my members, who tried always to cheer me up.
7, 8 months post PPR, I applied for GCMS notes. When they later arrived, everything was fine, no problem anywhere.

SECOND MEDICALS
One day, I was with a friend and got an update on my account. We were both excited, thinking PPR had arrived. I opened it to see, MEDICALS! My first test had expired. I broke down in tears that day. I was tired. At that point, I just wanted CIC to say they declined my application, so I'll kukuma stay in Nigeria. Which kain delay be this?
Went to IOM, booked an appointment for September 3. Luckily, I was able to get an earlier date after going back to plead with them 'cos I had a trip coming up.

PPR- SEPTEMBER 4, 12:15 AM
I was on night duty in the office, when I saw the mail. I wasn't even thinking of CIC again at this point. Lo and behold, READY FOR VISA!!! I screamed, my body started twisting in crazy dance MOVES, I burst out singing "Halleluya Ogo Ni Fun Baba" off key. My colleagues were worried. What is it, what is it, I couldn't talk. At least not yet. They said, come back and focus on your work, I continued my solo singing. If only you know I'll soon leave you guys with this work!!!
Even though I did night and closed by 7am, by 10 I was out to submit my Passport at Silverbird.

MY MUM:
Initially my mother didn't want me to go. Her worry was, I'm not married yet, it will not be good, I may not get a husband in Canada. Well, what if I stay back and still don't get married in Nigeria? Let me not lose both ways. So I insisted, we prayed, and she's finally cool. But I know at the back of her mind, she still worries.

LESSONS
This journey taught be patience. Ha! I had a swift IELTS, I thought everything will be like that. For where. I learnt to accept that there are things I can't control, and I should just let them materialize at their time.
I started coaching a few people in IELTS writing and speaking. It's been a bit inconvenient, cos of my work and travel schedule, but it helped take my mind off the wait, and made me feel useful to other people.
Now that the Golden Mail is finally here, I am excited to start this new phase of my life.
Thank you Nairalanders, this group is a gem. And to imagine it is free. God bless you all. It ended in praise for me, it will for all who are waiting too.

AOR March 9.
6 months passed.
Sent a message to Ottawa, raised CSE and mailed Ralph.
Only the message to Ottawa was responded to, saying our application is on the queue, and they can't provide any other information.

This stage, is the real test.
May God help us all

Congratulations. Can you please guide me on how to call IRCC? I'm March 9 AOR and your story just inspired me. Thanks

patakioy:
Guys, I got the Golden mail on Saturday morning

The Lord has been merciful unto me
ITA: Feb 20
AOR: March 7
Bil: April 25
PPR: 24 August
NOC 0601
VO- Ottawa
Single
No ADR
Zero travel History

My journey started early November 2018. First IELTS was 5th of January 2019 (L8.5 R7 S7.5 W 6) Second IELTS on 17th of January 2019 (L 9, R 9, S 7.5, W7) I couldn’t dive into the pool as my ECA with WES didn’t come out until 19th February 2019. So, I enter pool on 19th and got ITA on 20th February 2019.


Medicals & PCC
I did my Medicals at IOM Ikeja. It was a hectic one because of the crowd. I got there 7 am and I was number 76. I guess the crowd was due to students doing their medicals too that period. I didn’t leave IOM until 4PM. PCC was very easy, I used Inspt Funke. I paid 4k.

POF
My POF was in my salary account( I was scared of using Mutual fund or TB). 3.3 Million was a gift deed from my elder sister with a notarized gift deed. Funny that I was worried that she now has a different surname as she is married.

Reference Letter
I got a reference letter from my HR in CIC format. I didn’t submit payslip or any other document.

POST AOR.
2 weeks after submitting my application, I read that I am suppose to include a copy of my MSC certificate. I only submitted WES and IELTS, I quickly raised CSE to submit my MSC. As if that wasn’t enough, I discovered a silly error I made while opening my Express entry account. I MISSPELT ONE OF MY NAME ( unbelievable right?). I wanted to withdraw my application and start afresh. Anyway I raised another CSE for correction of name. I was shock they obliged and corrected the name on my dash board.

Biometrics
Biometrics was on 25th of April at VFS Lekki


The Wait.
The wait was something else. I have never been that anxious all my life. I order GCMS note and received it on the 17th of July only Criminality and Medicals passed, Eligibility and Security not yet started. I call IRCC 5-6 times, the Last call was 14 August and status was eligibility and security still not started. I gave up after the last call that PPR is not coming anytime soon, only to receive the golden mail mid night 24-08-19.

This is the most touching PPR story on nairaland. I'm so happy for you. Damn, you're brave!!!

Sandydav:
How the lesbians got PPR��
TIMELINE:
IELTS(ONCE) LSWR 8.5, 8, 7, 7.5
Spouse 3rd Attempt 8777(PA)
Spouse ECA: WES- Applied in May received July- B.A and CIPM
CSR: 454
ITA: 22nd Aug 2018
AOR: 5th Sept 2018
Med passed/Biometrics request: 28th September
Biometrics Completed: 28th September
ADR: Nov27th RPRF and Authorization to travel for dependent child.
ADR provided: Nov 29th
DEADLY SILENCE
ADR2: May 29th 2019 Interview Invite to Accra
Interview: June 13th
ADR3: June 14th
PPR: July 8th
Passport Submission: July 9th
Application Approved: July 22nd
COPR: July 29th
Type of Application: Common-Law
Family of 3.
VO: Initially Ottawa but transferred to Accra Feb 4th

Someone said Nigeria has a way of making you think you are going to blow very soon and then boom its been 10years and you never still blow instead you are still managing and shouldering on. My spouse and I started thinking of migrating in 2017 when 2 of her colleagues got PPR. I strolled to CIC website and convinced myself that it was impossicant cause of POF. Saving that money go hard and its not as if your daily/monthly needs were going to be on hold while one saved, plus the friend recommended an immigration lawyer whom we contacted, and she gave us her own bill (about 5k USD for both of us) and a breakdown of what the process entailed. We fashied it and continued with our lives. Towards the end of the year we started thinking of migrating again. I am not a fan of US because of all the gist I have heard of what people had to go throw to either remain illegally or legalize their status, my power no reach and UK is almost out of reach. We circled back to Canada and decided to go through the school route. We found some affordable schools (about 5k CAD per semester) up north and decided to contact our schools for transcript only to hear of NASU strike. We decided to wait for the strike to be over. Before you know it was 2018 and strike was not still over. Then my spouse calls me one night (she travelled to India for work) to say another family friend has gotten PPR o and her bestie too. Choi, it was as if the Lord was telling us something. We kept wondering, can we do it ourselves without paying that agent?? Her brother said we could that we don’t need an agent. So, I went back to CIC website and started studying the process. Then my colleague turned bestie now mentioned how her bro said Nairaland had all the information and how someone helped deliver something to him free and how another lady on their thread said she was going to give a single lady room and board in exchange the lady babysits her kid twice a week in the evenings. I was like ahh, the people there are nice o. I googled nairaland and searched “Canada” and that was how I landed on Part 3 of the thread. The rest is history.
I was supposed to be the PA because of age but with my 1 degree and scores not coming down, we were at 436 till mummyjaygirls mentioned that people with CIPM could evaluate it too, we sharperly added it my babe’s Wes profile and somehow the Uniben delay wasn’t so terrible. My babe then became PA and CRS went to 454
WES: As schools were still on strike, I saw a post by Mcstan that told me he was a UNN alumnus, so I PMed him asking for help with transcript. He said he had a contact, but their fee was way higher than the official price and I was skeptical about their delivery, so I kept digging. I found another post by someone else detailing the whole Unn process plus verification, I saw yet another post about a lady to call to fast track the verification I bookmarked both. I finally applied on the website after I saw an article on how UNN VC employed PGD students to do the work of the striking NASU members (ekele diri Chukwu). Within a week transcript was with Wes. I used their contact us form to inform them about the delivery. Within a week they had sent the verification request. I sent the brother that posted about the verification lady a PM and he gave me her contact. I called her after I made payment on the portal and sent her my details. The next day I send her 1k voucher to please call me if she needs any info from me(format). Then towards evening I called again, and she said she had done it. I informed Wes yet again and by the next day they had given me completion date. My spouse and I created Wes profiles same day but Uniben ehhh, ya dibara Chukwu. After much much that one was ready.
IELTS: I got loads of links from here and shared with my babe and we practiced together most evenings. I made sure I did one listening practice at work, and one reading and listening at night. Speaking I watched clips and practiced in my head. Writing I didn’t practice (didn’t think it was going to be a problem for me) but I did look at samples to get an idea of what to expect and read tips. I got the magic score on the first attempt, but my spouse didn’t. A .5 in listening was needed. So, she registered again and this time a .5 was need in writing. We applied for remark and it came out unchanged. She registered yet again, and we practiced and practiced. Everyday we get home from work I will give her 2 writing tasks and mark when she was done (baby sorry I pushed so hard, you know I love you). I kept praying the 3rd would be the last cause her morale was low, and as she put in more than her best to practice, I wasn’t sure how she’d feel when that one comes back without the magic scores. Well, it was the last.
POF: From looking like an impossible task it became possible. It was even chilling while we waited for IELTS. We used my FD with Wema, her Mutual funds with Stanbic, my Leadway assurance savings plan and her pension with ARM. I wrote a letter of authorization and we notarized it. We tabulated it with xe and oanda conversion rates.
COMMON LAW: We had lots of doubts about applying together because our relationship is all manner of wrong in Nigeria. Common law is not recognized, and lesbians could be jailed. We contacted the immigration lawyer again and told her that we are coming o, that we were readying our Eca and Ielts but that we wanted to know if we can apply together instead of separately. She said we could as Canny recognizes both relationships. We weighed the pros and cons- one application meant I could tap into my bae’s 2 or more cert, if not I for perish for 438( I would have done something to boost it sha), it also meant we could pull our monies together and meet up with POF for 3 people instead of her paying separately for herself and I pay for myself and our son. The total sum would have been higher. It also meant PPR would come once instead of one person getting hers first and then waiting for the other. There were really no cons so, we went ahead with it. We downloaded the common law declaration form, filled and notarized, attached 2year rent receipt and lease agreement all bearing both names, joint bank statement(6months), our son’s bank statement showing cash inflow from both of us the whole of 2016. We also attached pictures of us from 2015 with our baby to now.
DEPENDENT CHILD: We have a 2year old, biologically mine, his father’s name wasn’t in the hospital birth cert, but they insisted it must be in the NPC cert when I sent someone to get it for me, I uploaded both. In our LOE, we explained that his name is on there as a requirement not because he was/is a part of our lives. I also attached a single mother affidavit I had sworn to in 2016.
WORK EXPERIENCE: This was almost a problem till Newmum0615 came to our rescue with suggestions and even followed up.
THE WAITING PERIOD: After the first ADR requesting, we get our son’s father to sign the IMM5406 form and RPRF, we wrote another letter of authorization emphasizing that this man was not in our lives and it was impossible to reach him. Then it was silence. I kept calling CIC and was told our file was in Ottawa and being worked on, till sometime in February when I called again and was told it had been transferred to Accra, so no more access to our file by the customer agent. We ordered our 2nd set of GCMS notes in January which came with no mention of Accra, so when the lady said it was in Accra we ordered for a 3rd set to determine why. At this point I had stopped visiting Nairaland cause my anxiety was at an all time high. I promised myself I wasn’t going to bother anymore and simply joined the Accra VO group. I was silent in the group but was just observing the trend. As God would have it Accra started releasing PPR March/April/May, I was hopeful but still told myself not to stress. Ko easy. At a point, I told my babe we should prolly withdraw the application so she can apply alone cause I felt I was holding her back, as I was convinced the issue with our application was me not being able to provide the authorization to travel.
Then on May 29th, we got an Interview update, we were both asked to come for the interview, with proof of relationship(lease agreement, joint bank account, pictures, screenshots of Whatsappchats, mails, IG chats, Messages), historical proof of identification( First school leaving cert, Waec results, LG identification, Old Int’l Passport) and proof of employment(Offer and termination letters) for my babe. We were happy, thinking it was coming to an end cause most people in AVO Whataspp group that went for interview came back with COPR. So we quickly got all requirements for immediate PPR ready as well as prepped for interview and off to Accra we all went on June 12th.
June 13th, we showed up at the embassy for our 9:30am interview. We were delayed till 11am and were last to be interviewed. My spouse went in first. I overheard her say something about me being bisexual at a point and I was like what is this girl saying, who is bisexual. I don’t identify as bi, I made a mental note to correct that when its my turn to be interviewed. According to my babe, she felt she was being drilled and asked to defend her sexuality, the kind of questions she was asked, how long have we been together, how come we live together, are we not scared, have we been harassed and the rest. Her interview over, someone came to call me before she even left the booth. In I went, the lady read the clause about the 5year ban if I lie and I was smiling and nodding my head, so she asked if I’ve heard those lines before and I said yes, its on CIC website, and then we started gisting. Told her how I met my babe through a mutual friend (babe saw fine girl and kept hounding our mutual friend for my contact). We were gisting and laughing. The black lady sitting through the interview said our story was like a reality TV show. The white lady said they’ve never seen an application like ours, they mostly see Nigerians claiming asylum because they are being harassed for being gay but never 2people living as normal as we are with finances and investments together. She asked if it was trend and I told her I honestly don’t know any other gay couple that have a life together. So, she asked about my son’s father and I gave her gist of how it was a fling with an old acquaintance that wouldn’t let me be and how the fling led to pregnancy and we decided to have our baby. She then said she would have given us COPR on the spot but Canada is very strict when it concerns kids because they don’t want anyone coming to sue them tomorrow for taking their child, since we can’t get my son’s father to sign, I can go to court and get full custody. I told her we have little time before Medical expires and I wasn’t even sure Nigerian courts will work fast, she said oh no that they have seen people provide this within a month, that once we have it I should bring it to her. I asked her where I will find her to give her na, she laughed and said I should just upload that she would see it and she would approve our application immediately. So, they called my babe and told her about getting the full custody, she said hello to our son, asked him his name and was generally playful. After the interview my babe said she kept wondering what we were talking about because the laughter was too much, but she told herself laughter meant the interview was going great.
The next day, our profile was updated with an ADR to provide either the authorization letter or full custody document from me, and for my babe to inform them if we need more time so they can request for a re-med.
That was how we came out and started looking for a lawyer. My AVO interview group advised we do it outside Lagos in a magistrate or customary court so it could be swift. And we did. Within days the lawyer had our son’s father served and got a court date in less than 2weeks. Thankfully he lived in the city we chose so I only had to travel down a day before the court date, he showed up in court and admitted he was liable, judges ruled in my favor as what was admitted needed no probe. My lawyer was able to get the court document same day and I uploaded sharperly and also raised CSE uploading the document and telling them no, we don’t need more time so please don’t ask for a re-med. This was on a Thursday. On Wed of the following week, I was reading out the document to my bestie only to realize that my surname was missing a letter. I don’t know how we all missed this after going over the document severally, but then again, my surname is quite long. So, we quickly contacted the lawyer and she went back to court to get it corrected and scanned to us. On Friday, I raised another CSE explaining the error and uploading the corrected document. By Monday it was PPR. We were ecstatic.
We quickly submitted our passports at VFS the following day. A day to 2weeks after submission, my babe got a call from the high commission asking if we would be ready to travel immediately as our medicals would expire in about a month’s time. We were ready dudes! We been ready a long time. By nightfall, we logged into our account and our application had been approved, exactly 10months and 17days later.
I went into all these details for people that might be queer or for anyone who is a single parent. If you know you can’t get the father to authorize you to travel with the kids, please start the full custody process early. I believe if we had this we wouldn’t have been delayed so much. That interview was for research purpose (this is our opinion o) because it seemed they were intrigued that 2 lesbians from Nigeria applied as common-law partners. They didn’t even mention anything about the employment history they asked my babe to bring neither were we asked for an updated POF after all that time.
So here we are, on our way to our new life. Thankful to God that it indeed ended in praise and ready for whatever the future holds.
P.S: If you are homophobic, your negative energy got nothing on me, I am going to Canada, I can’t be assed by your comment so don’t waste your time. This account will be active for a week from today so I can answer any questions anyone might have.
I’m certain all the people I started this journey are almost gone from here, to anyone who is still here, I say hang in there. Its not over until its over. What I know is that the process is very fair. So long as you are honest, you will get PPR, it will only be a matter of time.
UPDATE: I wrote this a long time but haven’t been able to post. We are in Canada now and settling in just fine!

Congratulations . Do you mind sharing what the ADR was?

orenishii:
And it's PPR finally!

It's been 10 months and a few weeks on this journey and forgive me that this news won't be so dramatic. It's been a long wait and am thankful that it's all over!

Timeline
AOR:September 30, 2018
IELTS: BC- L8, S7, W7, R 9 (2nd attempt as the first one expired in the process)
ECA: WES for foreign LLM
Clinic: The Children's Practice
Biometrics/MED: 29th October 2018
How to find a Job in Canada Email: November 14, 2018

**long silence**
1st GCMS notes: March 2019
2nd and 3rd notes are on an ant and won't reach until I cross the pond.

1st ADR: July 3, 2019
2nd ADR: July 15, 2019

1st Ghost update: August 11, 2019
2nd Ghost update: August 12, 2019

PPR email: August 13, 2019

**Special Thanks**:
Thankful to God for His sustaining grace, otherwise I would have really quit. This was a test of my patience.
@newmum0615 thank you for reviewing my reference letter, @justwise thank you for your immense contribution in the travel section, and thank you smslive2 on bank reference letter for POF.

***can't remember my login access to eljaye, which was my original handle.


Thanks to the Senior members, Admin and all of you guys for contributing and keeping this page alive.

I am happy and relieved at this point. It has ended in praise finally.

Congratulations. Do you mind sharing what the ADR was?

orenishii:
And it's PPR finally!

It's been 10 months and a few weeks on this journey and forgive me that this news won't be so dramatic. It's been a long wait and am thankful that it's all over!

Timeline
AOR:September 30, 2018
IELTS: BC- L8, S7, W7, R 9 (2nd attempt as the first one expired in the process)
ECA: WES for foreign LLM
Clinic: The Children's Practice
Biometrics/MED: 29th October 2018
How to find a Job in Canada Email: November 14, 2018

**long silence**
1st GCMS notes: March 2019
2nd and 3rd notes are on an ant and won't reach until I cross the pond.

1st ADR: July 3, 2019
2nd ADR: July 15, 2019

1st Ghost update: August 11, 2019
2nd Ghost update: August 12, 2019

PPR email: August 13, 2019

**Special Thanks**:
Thankful to God for His sustaining grace, otherwise I would have really quit. This was a test of my patience.
@newmum0615 thank you for reviewing my reference letter, @justwise thank you for your immense contribution in the travel section, and thank you smslive2 on bank reference letter for POF.

***can't remember my login access to eljaye, which was my original handle.


Thanks to the Senior members, Admin and all of you guys for contributing and keeping this page alive.

I am happy and relieved at this point. It has ended in praise finally.

Hephgirl:
MY LANDING GIST
This is actually part 3... Part one and two is in the "landed" thread
IT'S A LONG READ... BRACE YOURSELF.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE IGNORE THE TYPOS

This is so inspiring. I tap into this grace. Congratulations once again

lami88:
Good day all, I have been reading this thread for a while now and I want to start my own application. I decided to use iqas for my evaluation as I am a lawyer and it will help increase my score as against wes. I just read the iqas website now and I am a bit confused . Will my school send the transcript to them directly. Or do I get the transcript from my school and add my other certificate to it so I can then forward it to iqas. Thanks as I await your response. Can do the documents be faxed to them or I have to courier it.


Please I would appreciate your responses gurus in the house

First, the documents have to be couriered, you can't fax them.
Your school should normally send the official copy of the transcript, while you will send your own student copy.
I'm our case with university of Ibadan, we collected the official transcript in a sealed envelope, and did the sending ourselves.

So both the student copy and official copy were sent together in one package, by us. Saved us the stress of having to pay for courier twice.

BE prepared, as IQAS takes looooooong!

Blooit004:
Good morning my good friends. My application has crossed the 6 months timeline. I omitted the address in my bank statement of account in my address history on cic form because it was a temporary address I used just to update the account. I'm worried this may be the cause of my PPR delay. should I raise CSE and explain? though no ADR concerning it. my eligibility was met 2months ago according to Ralph.

I'll appreciate your suggestions dear seniors.

Please who is Ralph and how do we contact him?

Please who has IRCC phone number? I want to attempt a Skype call today?
I would like anyone who has called them before to help me out. Also, how easy is it to connect with them via Skype phone call?

Congratulations international man
Very interesting story

JustinTrudeau:
Had to post this here to motivate someone

Landing gist, reader discretion is advised, long post,long post

Your favourite PM has landed o grin. So i booked my flight with Egypt Air July 12. Prior to that day i was struggling with my bags being overweight, i bought the digital weighing scale as advised by someone on my WhatsApp group. I weighed the bags and they both weighed 26kg and 23kg respectively. I began to ask myself, 'what did i pack like dis,who send me all this eru wey i dey carry. Note that i'm a single guy,ifeoma77 still dey do strong head so i had no goods to follow. I had to sacrifice my garri,removed some stuffs and tried to sort the bags. Eventuarry, they both weighed 23.9kg and 23.8kg respectively. At this point i was tired. I just told myself ama fi were port e ni o.

Fastforward to the D day. I got to the airport 9am for a 2pm flight. My family was to meet up with me from Ibadan.I just breezed past those Immigration at the gate, they didn't even look at me twice or called me. At about 10.30am checking in started, Alas my bags both weighed 49kg,olorun ayo mi o,wetin Local Pm go do like dis. I just talked to the guy and he told me dat i will need to sort him,i said no p. He didn't even mention a price, he showed me the exact counter to check my bags in else other counters are tiger counter. They won't allow it. I went there and the lady was like 'your bags are overweight',i just told her i have an understanding with the guy and she was like you shouldn't have an understanding with him, she sha reluctantly checked my bags in,i was happy ehn,that weight don show me pepper. I thought the guy had forgotten the 'sorting'. Naso he sent one guy to me after me as i was leaving the counter, i just gave that one the last 2k i had on me. I was happy to give him cos paying extra for the luggage would have been a dip in my pocket.

My family joined me and we took some pictures and had a moment. My brother in law is a security operative so he got one of his friends to help me with Immigration and customs guys. It was a breeze, most of them were like na our oga bring you here we can't delay you, i was feeling like a boss, JT things. Need i say that all those guys are just doing babianla, extorting money from people for no reason, awon ole ajibole.

Walked into the plane and i still be like shey na me be this, warri warri, i go enter Canada,their father. 5 hour flight to Cairo was just there, inflight entertainment was zero, food is minus 10 but local man was famished i ate it all except one white nonsense like dat. No leg room, the plane was just there. Most of the guys on board were heading to Dubai. We got to Egypt for a 5hour layover and boarding started. That was how the custom guys or who ever they are binned my body spray. Ojami lara je, oka milara. The guy no even look me twice, i just carried my kaya and left. Then the 12hour flight to YYZ began. Kai, after 5 hours i was tired,exhausted and almost cranky. It got to a point i was like who send me message sef,na me sha won go Canada. Ha, are we going to heaven, kilode,oti sumi. I felt a bit of discrimination, air hostess were only smiling to Arab or white guys. I will never fly them again.I'm like wahala tie niyen,today na today i go reach Canada today, they don't know whats going on haq haq haq haq. We sha finally landed in YYZ o,chai, oyinbo pple just full every where but i couldn't bask in the euphoria kan kan. I was tired and hungry, enu gbe. Did my Custom clearance, the guy was not smiling at all, one Lee guy like that. I'm like na u sabi, i don get this PPR para e. Final destination was Regina,so i needed to get my luggage and check them in again for my 3hr connecting flight. That was when i saw free trolleys everywhere. Trolley wey boys they use hustle for MMA. Chai Naija how far. I checked my bags in and went to the waiting section for my flight. I had 20CAD like that on me, i got a sandwich and water. The Indian lady said water is 352, i was like 352 ke, on top water,omi abuwe abumu. Shey i won buy kanji ni.She smiled and said its 3dollars and 52 cent then my body now calmed down. Na Canada language be that.

Finally landed at Regina, Air Canada flight was nice just the food selling. Me i just dey tell them i'm ok. I was not okay kankan. You won make i swipe my card for here,olorun oni fun yin se, with the POF wey boiz won manage. The guy beside me ordered one burger like dat,the smile just dey enter my nose but Local man, sorry International man just arranged himself.My host was already waiting for me at the airport. Regina is a nice and quiet place, not a big city like GTA but i'll live. They have been gisting me about the cold here and i'm scared already. My host have been extremely nice to me. Been taking me around town, done with my SIN, health card has been processed even got a library card, account opening to be sorted tomorrow. Na accomodation and job remain.

Guys how do you people adjust to time difference, i've been sleeping at Nigerian time and its been a real struggle,chai e no easy at all. 4am sun don show, 9pm e still dey.
But then, i am here and i believe my success story in this land is being written. Sorry for the long post.

Yours truly
Justin Trudeau
Your PM

I'm happy for you. Hope to give my testimony soon too

LecturerIFE:
AOR Feb 18, 2019
PPR 15 July, 2019

For someone who benefited immensely from reading other people's detailed PPR stories, I'd be back with the detailed gist.

Congratulations. ���

angelnenye:
Finally PPR has landed and Im short of words. I would like to say a very big thank you to this very platform that was a guide in my process and to the selfless people in this family. Many thanks.
My timeline is below:Single applicant
ITA-Dec 1, 2018
AOR-Jan 26, 2019
Mep/Bil-March 14 2019
The long silence!
Ordered GCMS- June 1 (yet to receive it )
Mailed Ralph- June 11, 2019- Only criminality passed, security and eligibility not started. VO- Ottawa (Odwa )
Ghost update July 10, 2019(saw it when i logged in around 5am but no mail)
PPR- July 10, 2019 (10.37pm)

Im rushing cos im at work oo....
I used 100% gift deed from parents as POF, attached the affidavit, bank ref letter(not in CIC format), 6 months acc statement only. Work experience was NYSC, attached my statement of acc showing payment from my ppa (state ministry) and ref letter from the ministry which was stamped and signed by my supervisor only.
Im grateful and I believe that our hustle must pay off.

Wow.
Hope you find favor!

Erigo23:
Ielts pls let me go!!!! I’m on my way to the office to request for a remark. Pls pray for me guys. I need a positive outcome pls.

You mean Nigerians under the FSW program too? Wow.
I used to think the Ottawa VO was fast and was happy when I found out that was my VO. I'm hoping to hear from them this month.
Though the profile says 59 days left in the estimated processing time

Stencil:
There are April and May AORs who have now got PPR. Average timeframe is 6 months though.