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It's PPR guys

*MY TESTIMONY (14th April 2019)*

If you're reading this, know I have found favour before the Almighty God.

My journey started as far back as February 2016, then it was only an idea to do a masters in Canada.
In September 2016, I started gathering documents needed to secure admission in university of Saskatchewan. To cut the long story short, I applied & wasn't shortlisted.
In 2017, I got admission to another school, that's where the emotional saga started.
I applied for my first study visa in June, was refused in August reason was insufficient funds.

Applied for second visa in October, this time I paid tuition ($7560), come December visa was refused.

Mind you, I had a friend who we applied for study visa together, he advised me not to apply the second time, rather I should use the money to prepare for IELTS. He told me I was qualified for EE. Desperate me didn't want to listen, my mind was already made up.

In December 2017, I applied again to Saskatchewan, (I'm sure you're wondering why I like this school. LLM students are entitled to funding of $20,000 plus the tuition is cheap $5,000)
In early March 2018, I got shortlisted, by the end of March, I got a letter of rejection & was advised to apply again with a waiver of application fee.

At that point, my brain had to reset for EE. Immediately I paid for transcript, by April transcript had gotten to IQAS.
While I was waiting a friend who started the Canada journey with me now in Germany added me to German student group. I got all the information, applied to a couple of schools as plan B. Waited ooooo no admission letter came. I jejely registered for IELTS. Took the first test June (LRWS 8,6.5,7.5,
Second test July (8.5,6,6.5,
Remarked first IELTS but the result came out unchanged� my 46,124 just gbe like that.

Admission came from Germany, I couldn't secure a close date for interview. The date I was given was after my enrolment deadline. I was advised to cancel the interview & plan for summer intake.

At this point, I thought I had seen the worse� but guess what? My boss informed me on 24th July to tender my resignation because he was relocating to Canada�
Where do I start from? where will I get money to fund this canada waka��‍♀
The bible says let God be true & all men liars. I called two awesome friends who knew all I was going through. I jokingly told them I was going to set up a committee of friends to raise funds for me to write IELTS. My best friend said make me No.1 on the list. My other friend said give me till the end of the month. I cried eh, God what kind of love is this�.
Bestie credit my account, my other friend did same, my dearly beloved only brother sent money (in his voice "don't fail this time"

Third IELTS, I took the test in September. Result refused to come out on the stipulated date. This time depression set in, I just concluded that the delay meant I had failed again. I was contemplating the best possible way to vanish from planet earth�

I made it through that day when some of my friends noticed I had not come online. Calls started rolling in, words of encouragement came, strength came from above. Next day Tuesday 25th, a friend took me out to see a movie, after waiting for about an 1hr 30 mins, I told my friend I didn't want to see any movie, I just wanted to lie down. We went to her house & while she was cooking banga rice for me, I got a message from someone I wrote the test with that our results have been uploaded�.
Time to check result, my hands started shaking, my brain shut down because I was not able to remember my passport number. Them boom� I remembered, I saw the most beautiful result in my entire life LRWS 8.5,7,7,8.

October 3rd I got ITA, I started gathering all the documents I needed. while this was going on, I got a call from a foreign number, It was for a job.
Few days later, I got another call to discuss the salary. Come October 26th immediately I submitted my application, I got a mail. It was an offer letter.

I swear this is really true, like I experience the hand of God all around me.

Then the wait began, I waited for medicals, my AOR mates started getting BIL & med pass from right, left, center, then my anxiety level increased�. Finally the long awaited mail dropped November 29th, I did biometrics 30th.

At this point, I said God it's now your application. Nothing will shake me again because I was very sure of the Hand on my application��

In January 2019, everybody started checking their VO. I join the multitude to check on January 3rd & � AVO�. What a way to start the new year, I felt very very weak. I had to talk myself out of the feeling, I reassured myself with God's words that He is with me.

Kept myself busy with work & started tutoring people on IELTS, that way I would have little on no time to stress my brain over my application.

While these was ongoing, my friends started getting PPR; people I tutored, those I helped put their application together. As they were getting PPR, they were sending me their passport to drop at VFS (my office is very close). Every time I get to VFS I always ask God a question “when will I come & submit my own passport? When will it get to my turn?”�

Fast forward to March 9th when there was a down pour of ADR on a Saturday. That down pour got go me. I submitted March 16th.

April 12th I got another shocker of my life. An invitation for interview scheduled for 30th April�. Trust me I cried like my life was over when I got the mail. I started doubting if it’s the same God that I serve that everyone serves. I made a statement more than 10times “God has stretched me beyond my limit”

*Interview preparation*
I was added to an interview group on WhatsApp, asked of the silly questions possibly, did monitoring spirit to those that went of interview �
I travelled to get documents for my application. I took about 4 documents I have drafted, a court judgment showing my name, directory for lawyers in that state showing my profile & the firm I worked.

I called a friend to get a contact in Accra to help me find my way around but he offered to go on the trip with me. Despite not knowing what I was going to do in Accra, he could sense the fear & anxiety in me. My friend cleared his schedule for the period of time I was traveling, travelled all the way from Abuja to Lagos just to go with me to Accra.

Prayers started from all corners, rehearsal everyday, asking questions upandan on the interview group�. A day before I left for Accra (Sunday) I was prompted in my spirit to sow a divine mercy seed, I took this seed offering from the money I was suppose to travel with... the money pain me small (David said I would not give to my God that which cost me nothing) I held on to those works.

God showed up on the 29th just before I left for the airport, alerts started dropping like bomb �. In short my trip became an all expense paid trip, I even had extra money from it.

*Interview proper*
April 30th finally came. I woke up by 4am, went through all my documents again, finally got to the embassy by 8.23am. Dropped all documents at the reception, sat down quietly waiting for my turn. From the list, I was the first but this people didn't call me till the reception was completely empty. I just waka enter the convenience & started blasting in tongues, didn't care whether my voice was loud� I just wanted God to make everyone & everything work for my good. I was planning to ask the security lady for mat or monks/vita foam to put on the floor & sleep� (make I just kukuma rest till them ready)

The lady flung all my documents at me that I will hear from them. The interview didn’t last more than 10mins just as I prayed & God heard me.

I took my tired self to the hotel, changed & went to enjoy a bowl of chicken at KFC�. After spoiling myself, I checked my phone & saw that my golden mail has been there for over an hour & half.

*Timeline*
ITA --- Oct 3rd 2018
AOR --- Oct 26th
BIL -- Nov 29
ADR -- March 9
Submitted- March 26
Interview invite - April 12
Interview April 30
PPR-- April 30.

I appreciate God almighty for being my Ebenezer, my glory & the lifter of my head, my strength, my peace, my provider & my supplier. My champion the host of heaven, the captain of my destiny. Words cannot describe Him, words cannot express my gratitude.

Special appreciation goes to everyone, for as many that are still waiting on God in one point or another, I pray the outstretched hand of God shows up on your case.

Sorry it’s coming late, I just got back from Accra.

Congratulations Ifeoma,

Ifeoma77:
God is too good

...Long post alert...

Oga lecturer congratulations

raphrulz:
Guysssss!!!!


THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!!!!


[b]In a nutshell, my timelines are below:
7 July, 2018 - IELTS – LSRW (8.5, 8.5, 7,7)
19 June, 2018 – ECA report arrived (2 or more degrees)
5 September, 2018 – ITA
4 October 2018 – AOR
8 March 2019 – Ghost Update (Casper, the friendly ghost)
12 March 2019 – PPR

Single Applicant

… and it has finally ended in praise!!! It will end in praise for you too in Jesus Name!

My little advice: Remain patient, and positive. Ensure to have positive minded people around you, as they will be the ones to encourage you when it’s looking like you are losing faith in the whole process.
Above all, acknowledge God as the divine helper… “Nothing good comes except it’s from above”

God bless you and thank you for reading my long post!
PS: Please, rate your Prof well oooooooo!!!

Congratulations Je m'appelle Ramj

Ramj:
Timeline
ITA October 15, 2018
AOR November 20, 2018
MEP/BIL Dececmber 27, 2018
Biometrics Done December 28, 2018
Raised CSE January and VO – Ottawa
RPRF ADR – February 7, 2019 paid and updated same day and then the review and finally the status was changed to Not Applicable Feb 22nd and then the excitement increased but no shows still.
However yesterday the penultimate day of the RCCG 49 days Prayer and Fasting Programme the word I got was within the next 24hours I am going to have my testimony and ohhh dear how I keyed into it and …..
5:01am February 28th 2019 PPR Email came less than 24hours after the word was spoken.
Glory to God.

Thank you Jesus


Je m'appelle FillInTheBlankSpace

Congratulations Tojued... it has ended in praise

Tojued:
All glory to God, all thanks to my real life family and friends, all appreciation to the

Timeline
Family of 3, Ottawa VO
IELTS – 24/04/2018
ECA – 24/04/2018
ITA (CRS 454) – 24/04/2018
AOR – 30/06/2018
IP1 & ADR – 17/07/2018
Response to ADR – 23/07/2018
MEP – 27/07/2018
IP2 – 29/10/2018
PPR – 26/02/2019

Congratulations BoboIV, Chibuiked, Fyorgyn & Barryston. May it continue to rain endlessly here.

Egbon mi congratulations. Only God made this happen & all praise & glory belongs to Him.

So na you dey make me sneeze any how since morning

Barryston:
ALHAMDULILAH ROBBIL ALAAMIN!!!!!!!!!!!

TIMELINE
I sat for IELTS 4 TIMES and on numerous occasions I thought of giving up for so many reasons for people like me who resides in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State…you either travel to Calabar or Ph to write IELTS it was never easy for me…but I was pushed by @bronze25 to keep trying..

1st IELTS; L.6.5,R.7.0,W.6.5,S.7.5
2ND IELTS; L.6.0,R.6.5,W.6.5,S7.0
3RD IELTS;L.7.5,6.5,W.7.5,S.7.0 (at this point I was going crazy…I even lost it a night to the 4th exam…)
4th IELTS; L.8.0,R.7.0,W.7.5,S.7.5
Then CRS stood at 462 at this point and the round of draws on the 15th of November 2018 was 449 (Naso ITA no drop on time…my wife was almost crying and she didn’t eat until when ITA dropped around 9.30pm)

ITA- NOV 15,2018
AOR- DEC 8TH 2018
MED/BIO NOTIFICATION- JAN 17TH
GHOST UPDATE- JAN 18TH
RPRF REQUEST- FEB 1ST and I paid on FEB 2ND
PPR MAIL- FEB 5TH at around 1.35am
Family size is 3, and my Visa office was in Ottawa.

Congratulations

Omoalayonimi10:
Good morning guys, it's PPR!!!

*silent reader coming through*

IELTS- Feb 10, 2018 LSRW(8,8,8.5,7)
CRS- 466
ITA- June 25, 2018
AOR- August 20, 2018. 
Medical Passed/BIL- September 15, 2018
ADR (IMM5406) - December 15, 2018
Ghost Update - January 22
PPR - January 22

Family of 3
PA - Moi
CPC Ottawa

God did it.

Congratulations

jholarharde:
Beautiful people, It's PPR

here is a summary of my timeline
CRS 459
ITA 30th Oct
AOR. 21st Nov
MEP/BIl. 2nd Jan
PPR. 22nd Jan.
61days of grace.

Congratulations

Boom12:
My people, this PPR is a sweet feeling ooo, I've been smiling all day

Timeline

Decision to travel was in April 2018.
Family of 4
IELTS July 2018 LSRW 8877
WES September 2018
CRS 454
ITA 3 October
AOR 6 November
MEP/BIL 11 December
Visa Office No idea
PPR 22 January 2019 (dated 21 January 2019), letter didnt specify VFS location for submission

Congratulations @gogedda, @peteronota @Gracenmercy01.

May they be rain of PPR this new week.

Congratulations

yahooz:
Hi guys, it's PPR!!!

Single Applicant
IELTS- December 4, 2017 LSRW(8.5,7.5,7.5,7)
ECA- June 27, 2018
CRS- 475
ITA- June 30, 2018
Upfront Medicals- August 8, 2018(Qlife)
AOR- August 9, 2018.
Medical Passed/BIL- September 13, 2018
Ghost Update- January 18, 2019
PPR- January 18, 2019, came in 1:35am today.

All in all, God be praised!!!

Congratulations
Unto the next phase

Shinningstar201:
Hallelujah to my God who has made me scaled IELTS' hurdle.

My 3rd result is out.

MOD IDP - L8.5, R7, W7 and S8. I am so relieved and happy, thank you Jesus.

In another news, please who has a reliable contact for transcript in Delta State University. Thank you in advance

Congratulations to all ITA Recipients & PPR Clinchers.

Wishing everyone God speed in the various stages on
their journey to maple land.

Congratulations @dumsydsassy1
@MacShiff
@Engr2000
And all others that got their PPR. It shows Ottawa is working. I look forward to reading the testimony of those in Accra.

It will end in praise.

Congratulations, may Canada favor you.

Fresty:
hello everyone!!!! finally received my ppr this morning from NDVO!!!!!
ABEG, u people should not vex, I'm a woman of few words.. I don't have many gist... lol... so straight to the point!

AOR - 26 JULY
MEP - 17 AUGUST
IP1 -18 AUGUST
IP2 - 15 NOVEMBER
GHOST UPDATE - 18 DECEMBER
MAILED NDVO - 1 JANUARY
PPR -7JANUARY

Congratulations

nomad26:
My people, I am so happy right now that you would think I won the lottery lol My EOR results (from BC) came back successful! Writing was upgraded from 6.5 to 7 and speaking from 7.5 to 8.5. In fact, I didn't want to remark speaking, it was COPR that suggested that I do it just to increase the chances of getting my money back. Thanks man!

Also, to be honest I wasn't very confident about my writing because I didn't have time to review my essays at the end. All I was sure of was that I wrote over the word limit in both essays and in Task 2 (my task was to argue both sides and give my opinion), I wrote 4 paragraphs and used made-up examples in explaining both sides. I used IELTSADVANTAGE as a guide to structure my essay.

So my people, if you're looking for 0.5 or 1 point upgrade, EOR is worth a shot, go for it! Mine took 2.5 weeks in total. Thanks to COPR, fmsimple and everyone for your encouragement, God bless you guys plenty

The icing on this new year 'cake' was that my ECA also FINALLY arrived this morning from ICES, after 4 long months of frustration.
CRS now standing at 459, I am off to the pool o, next stop ITA!

smslive2:
Brethren, gather together.... The Lord of host has done it!. He did it at His appointed time.
IT ISSA PPR... Please click here for the abridged version of the journey so far

Congratulations king of the red pen. May Canada favour you.

codebrew85:

Please find below my PPR gist as promised.

Congratulations! what a beautiful way to end the year... if only those sitting around you in church will understand the reason behind your dance

Congratulations Osazee, see how God is beautifying your life. I pray you find that wife with 'sense'

Osaze007:
My pple well done
I just got an offer as assistant director with a bank in Toronto (4 levels higher than my previous role in dubai)
I can’t even believe my luck
This year I lost my job in dubai and thought my life would come crashing
I had mental illness and my body will move involuntary
I felt like a failure
I gained weight due to depression
I had blanks out and forgot what I was meant to do at work
I originally planned to move to Canada for good late 2019 little did I know God sent the storm my way to place me where I need to be
I want you to know no matter how stormy the situation you will overcome
Pray and always plan ahead
I have never seen anyone suffer due to both

I’m starting 2019 on a super solid note
I’m now ready to settle down with a woman that has sense
A working class woman ready to build our future estate/kingdom

Life is good
I have lost weight
I don’t have blank outs again
Everything is going smoothly
Peace out

Congratulations to all the PPR & ITA recipients. For those below 439, God is still in the business of changing the rules for his beloved.

Keep the faith alive.

Congratulations... very interesting testimony. Your little princess that decided to take her sweet time to sleep at immigration office just made me laugh. Go & prosper in your new country.

Bettybeauty:
Now to our ppr gist...
We started the process in April, all thanks to nairaland, and specifically this wonderful thread that made the journey so easy for us from day one. God bless you all for sharing life changing tips and experiences that keep one going. God alone will reward you all.

We calculated our crs and discovered hubby is the best person to be the PA cos of his masters degree and years of work experience, even though his age affected a little. He started preparing for ielts and also transcript evaluation process for both of us started. I didn't need to write the ielts exams cos our crs score was ok without it.

My hubby wrote the exams twice, first one in June, of which only writing spoilt d result with 6.5. we went for EOR but came unchanged...so heartbreaking. By then hubby was already tired and saying "mi o feko exam yi mo oooo (I don't want to write this exam again). In my mind I was like 'ooni ko kini' (u won't write wetin), I left him and went to him later to encourage him, then bros' spirit was awakened'...lol, power of a woman .

I put to bed in July, den hubby was on leave and decided to write the exam again before he resumed work. Then he rewrote second ietls in August and oga aced it. My hubby na bookworm o, though I mentored him both on the reading table and in za oza room . We were so excited about the result. By then ECA was ready so we dived into the pool.

Let me even gist you guys about my three week old baby that I went to do international passport capturing for. On a normal day, this Lil princess will wake at any slight sound. Most times I even tip toe whenever she's sleeping. On the day of capturing, she slept like never before. I threw her up, swinged her, tap the cheeks, turned the head, did all manner of things, for where. Even the immigration officers helped me to wake her, she refused o. They were like why are u people disturbing this baby, she said she doesn't want to travel to Canada She slept for about 45 min. At last, she woke for a short period and we did the capturing. Was very happy ehn like we won jackpot....lol

By 22nd Aug, 2018, we received ITA.

My people, we travelled on Tue, the 18th of Dec, and God just decided to embarrass us with this great news in the early hours of 19th Dec. I checked our cic account before I slept at about 12am. Then around 4am, hubby woke me up with the good news. Only me I screamed, rolled on the floor, smiled, laughed, sang, couldn't sit or sleep again. Na like dis e dey be? . Submitted our passports that same yesterday....no dulling�.I have come to return all d glory to the God of Shiloh who has made this possible. Baba we not taking You for granted, May Your name alone be exalted. You have given me and my family our Shiloh Dominion encounter/ best Xmas gift ever.

Thank you all for reading the boring gist. Over to you prof. I no want yeye mark o, Ehn ehn

Part 6!
Booked for my PPR announcement

Congratulations

Claire40:
PPR IS HERE

IELTS – February 1st
ITA – February 21st
AOR – March 16th
IP2- October 23rd
PPR – October 24th

Finally Nairalanders, you guys are a fantastic bunch of people. Thanks to everyone that has helped in growing this express entry thread. It is a great source of information and was very helpful to me.

Congratulations! @spouse we love you

wizean:
For God is faithful and faithful shall He remain!

IT'S PEE PEE ARHHHHHGGGG GUYS !

Decision to travel : September 2017
WES processing took 7months : May 10th (All thanks to NASU and the Nigerian bottlenecked system.
Spouse WES : 8 months: June 22 (Eventually didn't use it)
IELTS first attempt : Jan 6 (writing fall my hand and remark no pure.
IELTS Second attempt : Feb 1 (I pulled through)
Spouse IELTS : Jan 20 (she made it at the first sitting)
ITA : May 23
AOR: June 22
MED PASS: July 10
Ordered Gmcs : Sept 25 (Yet to get it)
IP2 : Oct 19
Ghost update : Oct 20
PPR : Oct 24 (Dated Oct 23)

@Spouse, I know you will read this, I just wanna say I am so sorry for diving you so hard, forcing you to sit for IELTS with your big bum, forcing you to go after inspector moshood with that big bum, forcing you to take a 3days old baby to queue up at immigrations for passport. Believe me, I really do appreciate every of ur efforts and it was just for our collective good. I love you to the moon !

Peace out !

Congratulations

exceedinglory:
Onise Iyanu
You are the God of awesome wonders, I've tasted of your power
Onise Iyanu
You have shown me so much mercy, Much more than I deserve…..

Lord Jesus, before these wonderful people I declare that you are a merciful and loving father. I will serve you all the days of my life.

The Lord has done it again!

See my timeline below:

Application for family of 5

CRS: 460 points
ITA: Jan 10 2018
AOR: Mar 06 2018
ADR (AUTHORITY TO RELEASE PERSONAL INFORMATION TO A DESIGNATED INDIVIDUAL): Mar 14 2018 (ADR was submitted the same day)
Medical passed: Apr 12
FTD: Apr 13 2018
VO: London
Request for Height and eye color: Sep 19 2018
IP 2: Sep 20 2018
Update / PPR mail: Sep 21 2018
Passport submission at vfs: Sep 24 2018
Update / Application approved: October 10 2018
Passport & COPR pickup: today, October 19 2018


I will worship Him forever, Love Him forever because
This God is too good, oh
I will worship Him forever, Love Him forever because
This God is too good, oh

Please I have a question.

Must I include my current job to my work history even when I'm not claiming points for it?
Do I have to get reference letter & pay slips for it?

Congratulations! What a wonderful brother you have. @Topsmamen, you're an amazing brother, may your joy be full in Jesus name.

dumprep:
My great family. It has happened! The joy I feel right now cannot be described. My chest o!

Me: "No Broda Shaggi. It is called Timeline, not timetable. My ITA was May 9, AOR was June 13, MEP/IP1 was June 26, IP2 was October 9, ADR (Updated Bank Statement) was October 10, ADR submitted same day, PPR mail came in at 4:17 AM today (October 16), Visa Office is Ottawa, AOR to PPR is 125 days, Single applicant".

Make I drop this phone and hold my dear passport tight because this bus conductor is looking at me like .........

Congratulations

jergins:
PPR landed.

ITA - May 23
AOR - July 17
MEP/IP1 - August 23 or so.
BG in progress noticed Oct 15.
PPR - Oct 17(Dated 16th)

Family of four.
VO unknown, no LoE.

Thanks to all the wealth of resources here. Been so helpful.

Best of Luck to everyone.

The house is flooded with good news.
Congratulations to those that aced IELTS. To those still trying to cross the hurdle, don't give up, God is still is still in charge.

Big congratulations to those who get the Monday ITA, may the submission process be stress-free for you.

Mighty congratulations to those that got their PPR, may we also testify like you.

Cheers

Seen. I have responded.

Obtay:
I have replied you

Boss I sent you a message, please check your email. Thanks

Obtay:
Replied your mail.yes