I want to submit family passports, please does one 1-way VFS courier service cover all members of the family? (i.e. will all the passports be considered as a package by VFS?)

Wow! Congratulations. All the best in Canada

Distinct777:
To the glory of the Almighty God our Enabler and Lifter up of our heads, our PPR has arrived!!!!!!!!!!

Timeline

ECA (IQAS) – AOR 22nd June 2018
ECA completed – 23rd August 2018
IELTS BC – 21st Sept 2018
Requested for EOR – 28th Sept 2018
Acknowledgment of EOR by BC – 13th Oct 2018
EOR results upgraded – 29th Oct 2018
Created EE Profile – 31st Oct 2018
ITA – 28th Nov 2018
ADR for further med – 13th Dec 2018
AOR – 3rd Jan 2019
ADR for IMM5475 – 13th Feb 2019
BIL – 15th Feb 2019
MEP – 21st March 2019
PPR – 18th June 2019 (my birthday)
VO is Ottawa

Wow! Congratulations. All the best in Canada.

melochic:
It’s the Lords doing and it’s marvelous in my eyes.


ITA: July 11, 2018
AOR: August 15, 2018
MEP/BIL: September 18, 2018
Biometrics Completed
So I had to fly into Accra last Thursday. Everything you could think off was flying through my mind,. But I remained still knowing God was in control. After a few unnecessary questions VO asked if I could travel between now and August when my medical expires. I responded of course. Visa granted and I was asked to come back by 2pm to collect my passport.
PPR & COPR: June 6, 2019
Visa Office: Accra
Family of 2

1. Yes, some provinces require you have a EE profile first. You can check the PNP thread for more info on PNP. Payment depends on the province.

2. Sure, you can. It is even advisable to do that, in case of tie rule on your final CRS

3. I think so, check the PNP thread to confirm

4. Yes, but 1 has to be 1 year minimum

5. Please keep trying, I am sure his WhatsApp no is somewhere on nairaland. Nairalanders, please help!

itamkate:

Wow! Thank you so much. I'm determined to leave this country within this year however possible, IELTS preparation in progress but I still have more questions.

1. I read about PNPand thought to myself while waiting and prepping for another IELTS, won't it be nice if I applied for PNP even with my low CRS of 387? If this is possible, do I need to create an EE profile first before applying for PNP? Will I need to pay for the application?

2. Can I subsequently update my profile in the event of a better IELTS scores?

3. Can I apply to more than one PNP?

4. How can I combine NOCs as I have experience that cuts across Technical Support, Customer Service Supervisor, Agricultural consultant and Forest Biometrics and Remote Sensing Analyst?

5. Please anyone that has Wasseynewest's WhatsApp contact or any phone number should kindly help me with it, I have been trying to connect with him without success and it's quite urgent that I connect with him ASAP.

Thanks.

The sibling is clearly stated. Your sibling or spouses' sibling. If not any of these, the answer is no.

Hobyno:


Nope it's either your sibling is in canada or your spouse or common law siblings
Let's not misinterpret the rules
Cc @Bunmioluwa

You will loose 5 points on your birthdays after 30 years. Your goal now is to have as high IELTS scores as you can. Maxing your IELTS (L8.5,R8,W7.5,S7.5) will makeup for any score you might loose with your next birthday. Your strategy now is to focus on how to max. Your next IELTS

itamkate:

Thank you very much for this response, I obviously was studying wrongly and I'll do as you have advised. I must Ace my next one.

I also have an issue with my age, I'm turning 31 this June, do you know If this will affect me?

It's two or more degrees

yetunde84:
Hi friends,

What will be the level of education for someone who has OND, HND and Diploma?

Please I need an urgent response. Has anyone experienced this before?

See screenshot

Nmaotito:

Same here o. The score of today removed all calm from my system.

Please who knows if siblings in law that are permanent resident can give one points?

Go through his comments in part 7 of this thread, you should find his phone number, you can contact him through whatsapp. I think you need to practice more, here are my suggestions:

LISTENING
I will recommend you complete all listening questions in Cambridge IELTS 1-13 (I learnt 14 is out, please include that too if you have access to it). Make sure you review all questions you missed, replay it as many times as possible until you understand why you got them wrong. Once in a while, after completing a practice test, just listen to the entire recording and read the transcript along, notice how the parts that have the answers (they are usually underlined) stressed and paraphrased. Doing this overtime naturally improves your listening skills. Then do more BBC (TV, radio, podcasts) at your leisure, so as to get used to British accent.

READING
For reading, practice all questions in Cambridge IELTS 9-14 (both academic and General), start with academics, do some first not timing yourself but aim to score 40. Once you start getting 38+, start timing yourself. By the time you do this consistently, you will start scoring almost 40 in General questions.

WRITING
I am a fan of Liz. Her videos are very easy to follow and I love her approach to the structure for each type of essay. You can then use writeandimprove.com to assess, so you can know if you are improving and where you need improvement (very useful especially for grammar). I will recommend you subscribe because the free version won't give you access to IELTS questions and gradings. Practice till you consistently score above 7.5 in all your unedited practices.

If you are yet to attain your desired scores in your practice (for all the modules), please don't book for another test yet. The next one will be the final by God's grace.

Please reach out to Oga @wasseynewest. He will surely help you.

All the best. I look forward to reading your PPR gist soon.

itamkate:

Hello Bunmi, greetings. Sorry to bother you, I really need help with my IELTS, I've written twice now and scored same LSWR 7.5, 7 5, 6.5, 6.0. Please let me know what I can do and how to connect with Wasseynewest. Thank you.

In my opinion, raise a CSE attach the current utility bill as evidence and include a letter of explanation.

ummhalimah:




Please my people!
Your candid advice is needed.

At the time of filling my EE profile, my sibling was residing in Airdrie, Alberta but I mentioned Calgary. Incidentally I am claiming sibling points. Although the two cities are just 20 mins away from each other by road and I also learnt they are counted and identified as part of Calgary during census.

My concern is should I raise CSE to provide the current information as he is now living in Calgary gangan or leave it since the two cities are in Alberta?


NB. I chose Calgary as my intended place to settle, I have been worried since I saw the above post.

If I am in your shoes. I will proactively do another gift of deed with correct name and send it through CSE along with a LOE sincerely explaining what happened. I will do this for peace of mind sake

jerich:
Good evening Gracious people
Respect to the Elders in the house
congrats to ielts smashers ITA clinchers and those who got PPR.
what ever stage you are in this process ,pls stay strong and keep your head up.

pls I have a query .
got back from home this evening and decided to go through the document I submitted , and realised that the gift deed affidavit I used for POF had the name of my donor misspelled. ie instead of OYONBA, it was spelled OYOUBA other names where correct and the evidence of transfer was also attached with the correct name .
should I ask my donor to correct the error and send to me so I can raise cse or should I just ignore ?

i am getting conflicting suggestions .


and i would love that all heads tackle it together here

You don't have to change your title. What matters are your duties matching the chosen NOC

Jesusbabygirl:
Hello house, good evening. Please I have a question and I'd really appreciate responses. I am planning on applying for express entry with my husband in August (everything is good - IELTS, we both have masters degrees, the only thing pending is I just graduated this May with my Masters and started the WES evalutaion process yesterday, so August seem like a reasonable estimate to apply). We have pretty good points, so I'm not bothered about getting ITA. My concern now is we have decided I'd be the primary applicant because I am younger. But this is my concern - I worked in Nigeria for 3 years as a Strategy Analyst and already have the reference letter from my employer. But when I checked the NOC classification, my job description is very similar to Management Analyst (NOC 1122) but my title of Strategy Analyst is not listed anywhere. So, must the job title be one of those listed even though the job description closely matches one of those listed. You know different companies have different job titles for similar roles. Or is it advisable I try to get my employer to change the title to Management Analyst (which they might be unwilling to do)?

Read this to know Canada's stand.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/permanent-residence/non-economic-classes/family-class-determining-spouse/legality.html#polygamy

ThePath:
Hello family. How’s it going ?
Will there be a draw today ? Like what time Nigerian time ? I’m anxious ni o

Also what chances does a man with two wives stand ?

Congratulations. May you prosper in Cannyland. This is superfast!

cmaamaa:


Now the words of our mouths and the meditations of our hearts has been accepted by the Lord!!!

People of God its PPR����

PA IELTS - Nov 2018
SA IELTS - Apr 2018
PA ECA - Sep 2018
SA ECA - Nov 2018
Profile created - 20th Dec 2018
CRS – 451
Draw Cutoff - 449
ITA - Jan 10
Medicals - March 7
AOR - March 7
MEP - 23rd April 11:40pm
Biometrics Rcvd- 23rd April 11:40pm
Completed - 24th April 9:00am
Ghost Update - 23rd May
PPR - 28th May
NOC – 1122
Family of 2
Travel History: UK, Dubai, Germany, Ghana, Netherlands
No LOE
No ADR
VO Not known
AOR to PPR - 82 days
Never raised a CSE nor called IRCC

Congratulations, may you prosper in Cannyland

Transformium:

It’s the Golden Mail!
God has granted me a speedy PPR!!!!!!!!!!!

TIMELINE SUMMARY

ECA (WES): 16 July 2018 – 30 August 2018 (45 days)

IELTS (15 Dec 2018): LRWS 8.5,9,7.0,8.5

ITA: 23 Jan 2019 (CRS -448)

Medicals (Qlife): 1 March 2019

AOR: 2 March 2019

ADR (Schedule A): 15 Mar 2019

ADR (Schedule A) Submitted: 17 Mar 2019

ADR Replacement (Schedule A): 18 Mar 2019

ADR Replacement (Schedule A) Submitted: 20 Mar 2019

MEP/BIL: 23 Apr 2019

Biometrics Completed: 25 Apr 2019

Ghost Update: 16 May 2019

PPR: 16 May 2019

Passport Submitted: 23 May 2019

VO: CIO Sydney, Nova Scotia

Single Applicant

All the best! You are favoured in Jesus name!!

Denerystormborn:
Finally did my ielts tests today.praying for the best.

Yes, spouse will also list his siblings. Since the spouse will become a PR holder, his/her siblings can claim sibling points.

Vicolak:
Please will spouse also name siblings in EE profile, so spouse's siblings too can claim siblings in canada in future. Gurus answers abeg
@Topsmamen, @ladmarshall etc

Congratulations @teepee4Him, @akinlad, @Topsmamen and @WhizzyG on your PPR. May you all prosper in Cannyland.

Wow! I had to log in to congratulate you, after some weeks of reading as a guest. Big congratulations, thank God you did the EOR. I wish you speed in the rest of the process!! I'm really dancing for you. Your result is so beautiful.

My Oga @wasseynewest, thanks so much for your selfless service, testimonies of your good works keep coming! God bless you sir, enjoy Cannyland! !

ceyrahtlk:
THE STORY SO FAR

You see, after my first attempt, I came to this forum for assistance, and I joined Wasseynewest's writing group to familiarise myself with the essay structures, @bunmioluwa also introduced me to writeandimprove.com, a wonderful site for IELTS. Furthermore, I downloaded Grammarly app on my laptop, from the Microsoft store, and that made me realise some of my writing mistakes, and I worked on these by watching some youtube videos.

When I started practising with writeandimprove.com, my score was 6.5, but, before the test, I was consistently getting 8, sometimes 8.5, under examination conditions. So, that prompted me to ask for a remark when my results came out because I badly needed 3 extra points at least.

Fortunately, as God would have it, I got 6 points extra because I received my EOR report today.

L-9, R-9, W-7.5, S-8. Halleluyah somebody!

I guess what I am trying to say is that you should seek assistance when you need it because in this journey, being full of yourself isn't going to help you one bit, and secondly, even if you 'pass' the test, and you need extra points, consider asking for a remark first before rewriting the test. You might be surprised!

Thank you @wasseynewest @bunmioluwa and every other person that dropped one tip or the other when I needed it most.

I wish you all the best.

Big congratulations, may you prosper in Cannyland!

kriyobt:
Its PPR guys.

Decision to travel- February 2018
ECA- 28/6/2018
IELTS- 13/10/2018
CRS Score- 446
ITA- 29/10/2018. (Draw score) 442
AOR- 12/11/2018
MEP/BIL- 12/12/2018
Ghost Update- 13/12/2018
Biometrics Completed- 14/12/2018
ADR for RPRF- 16/01/2019 (Payment made same day)
Ordered for GCMS note- 14/02/2019
GCMS note received- 19/03/2019
PPR- 17/04/2019
Passport Transmitted- 18/04/2019
AOR to PPR- 156 days
VO: Ottawa
Single Applicant

Congratulations, I am very happy for you. I introduced writeandimprove on this platform, it helped me and I will always recommend it. See me dancing for you. Speed in the rest of the PR processing.

ytp:
....”you have 33 minutes left, you should be on task 2!” At this point, I was inundated and confused because another failure could be lurking around the corner....I had stopped writing.Breathing in and out, I gathered strength from within to start Task 2 at 31minutes to go.Why should wallowing in self- pity strike after exams again? Needed to write for 26 minutes as it is a must to reserve 5 minutes to count my words.By the time I got the last paragraph, the word “dissolution” was spelt as “desolution” but I couldn’t figure it out after several attempts.Had to leave, I was blank, clock ticking and my darling 5 minutes had turned 4 minutes. Counted and recounted my words for the whole 4 minutes.After the exams, I found solace in the word count because I never made it for the previous attempts.

DonTee07 and Wasseynewest, you showed me one of the essence of existence - to be compassionate. DonTee07, I slid into your pm after you offered to review a co- nairalander’s writing and no offence was taken.For four weeks, you were relentlessly on my case irrespective of place and time.The encouragements, criticism, banters, showering admiration on my handwriting and why I should lure the examiner with it in the introduction....can never be forgotten.When I mentioned my “desolution” case, shoving it aside by saying band 9 essays also do have errors doubled my hope.I’m bereft of words,my prayer for you is between me and the almighty.
As for you Wesseynewest, what you sow shall you reap.How many whatsapp group do you administer? You are one of a kind...selfless, down to earth,pragmatic,balanced and your voice/voice notes are the bomb! The last one the night before the exam was the icing on the cake.
I had been a nervous wreck since Wednesday night,so while everyone was trying to check result Friday morning, I was pacing around the house. Ate 5 mangoes before 8am,and took tours around the house for the umpteenth time.By the time it was 1pm,assumed BP had dropped. Smiling sheepishly, I started inputting my data but the two eyes were closed immediately after submit.Releasing one of the lids, I looked down at the writing row... there was a slant on top so definitely not a 6 something, the second lid automatically opened.

First attempt L R W S: 8,7,6.5,7 ( @ Ifeoma, Joo2018 and co were encouraging)
Second attempt L R W S: 8.5, 8.5,6.5, 7.5 ( @ Pyruveluv, you helped with my EOR without knowing me, may you always find favour. I would rejoice with you too. And by the way, you can tear the damn TRF with you.Good riddance to bad rubbish! EOR with BC took 11 weeks and came back negative)
Final attempt : L R W S: 9, 9, 7, 8.
God sent all these people to me including the person that encouraged the use of Write&improve.After 3 attempts with 6.5, I slid into somebori’s Pm.CRS now 451,hoping for ITA before my birthday 19th May....my hard earned 5 points must not vanish.May the odds favour us all.
God bless Canada
God bless Nigeria too sha!

7/7.5/8 before I took the test and I got 7 in the test. Use a teacher's approach (Liz or Jay or Chris Pell or others - stick to one), work on using high band vocabularies (they are tagged C1 or C2 if you use Cambridge dictionary - dictionary.cambridge.org), work on grammar (use range of structures -complex, conditional, passive, active, etc), and then practice with writeandimprove.com, correct any sentence the site highlights, you should see improvement over time.

Plus reach out to our great tutors on the group wasseynewest and Johnnybravo1990

tosluv1:


I have been using write and improve but I'm still on 6. Please what was your score before you took the test.

Congratulations!!!

msmodi:

We are indeed grateful to the Lord that rules in the affairs of men. And that is why when the world say "No" we declare that we have a "Yahweh" who is a specialist in impossibility.

Timeline:
IELTS: First Ielts Oct 2017 LRWS- 7.5/7/6.5/7
Second Ielts 20 Jan 2018 LRWS - 8/7.5/7.5/7.5/7.5
Spouse Ielts: 4th April 2018 LRWS- 5.5/6/6.5/7
ECA: May 3 2018 – WES / Spouse ECA –May 20 2018
ITA: 23 May 2018
AOR: 27 July 2018
MEP/IP1: 19 Aug 2018
Job mail: 4th Sept 2018
Received Gcms note – Feb 2018
From the Notes, file transferred to AVO – 4th Sept 2018 – workload redistribution
ADR: 21 Feb 2019 – Famous 5 ( payslips, bank statement highlighting salary deposits, family information form and schedule A).
ADR submitted: 27th February 2019
IP 2- 3rd April 2019
PPR: 4 April 2019
VO: Accra
Family of 2

I will recommend CBT for a change, with prayers, you will surely ace it. In CBT, the computer will do the counting for you, the few minutes you used to use for counting can be used for proof-reading. Proof-reading alone in some cases makes the difference between a 6/6.5 and 7/7.5 in writing. If you want to practice for CBT, do as much practice tests as possible in a similar environment (with a computer timing you and counting the words). I aced it after 5 times of trying and I used Liz and writeandimprove.com basically for the last time with CBT. writeandimprove.com will grade you and allow you to track the band your writing is currently in and the progress made.

Please don't give up, it will definitely end in praise.

teeielts360:
i'm sorry i don't get you.
you mean
task 1; 150 words(+10/-10)
task 2; 250 words(+10/-10)
all my writings have always been about +20 words and above.
i literally count them at the end, 1 by 1.

Wow!!! This is awesome!! Congratulationssssss! May you prosper in your new country. Congrats again.

Livy2018:
LONG POST ALERT

You are God from beginning to the end, there is no place for argument, You are God all by yourself.

Timeline:
IELTS: 12 May 2018 LRWS - 8.5/9/7/8.5
ECA: 11 June 2018 – WES / Spouse ECA – 21 June 2018
EE Profile Created: 22 June 2018 CRS 451[b]
ITA:[/b] 25 June 2018[b]
AOR:[/b] 27 July 2018
MEP/IP1: 18 Aug 2018
1st ADR: 19 Aug 2018 – clear copies of children’s passports data page
Got 1st Gcms note – applied 4 Oct 2018 after been notified through CSE enquiry on 3 Oct 2018 that my file was at AVO, received note 9 Nov 2018
From the Notes, file transferred to AVO – 30 Aug 2018 – workload distribution
2nd ADR: 21 Feb 2019 – payslips, bank statement highlighting salary deposits, family information form and schedule A for hubby and I.
[b]PPR: 4 April 2019
[/b]VO: Accra
Family of 5

Did I say that we didn’t finish the movie, lol. My daughter couldn’t understand the emergency that made mummy run like that.

Yah!!! Congratulations

AmeComplique:
PPR MAIL DON DROP OOOOO

Mail dropped inside Idumota thank God my friend was with me

Congratulations. May you prosper in Cannyland!!!

JustinTrudeau:
Fellow citizens,so this is it...
I know most of you might not know me but my name should suggest something to you,right? Big thanks to all the elders that rocked part 3-5 with me,most of them are in Canada right now. Likes of @Kontagious @Happytbaby @newmum0615 the NOC expert,glitteringstar oh my star,i miss her ,mcstan18,threadstone,elfmann,cochtrane,erudite of our time,40manlappy,sleekysilk,DadR,Yookus,Virt,einsteino,Mummyjaygirls and Feygbe my good friend,we met on nairaland and we have become friends over the years, i cannot thank her enough for her immense contribution towards my app.


Your PM

For people having problem logging into their IRCC GCKey account. Try using another browser (e.g Mozilla Firefox or Microsoft Edge), I couldn't open mine for many days now, I just used Mozilla and it worked.

Hmm, true talk. I am even thinking it is possible he is doing it for Australia, where he needs 8888, and 8 in writing is not a walk in the park.

Topsmamen:


As in! If that guy’s processing Canada, add other expenses such as ECA, Medicals, RPRF/Application fee. Then POF and airplane tickets, assuming it’s a family of 5

I don't think 8777 in IELTS is all about sense o, if it is many people will get it once. There are first-class and intelligent students who had to attempt IELTS 5 times before having 8777 only because they kept missing 0.5 in one component.

The guy might have also looked for 0.5 many times. It is well o.

ladymarshall:
Maybe o. Case of too much money, no sense.

Congratulations, may you prosper in Cannyland!

Kods1900:



Timeline:


IELTS: 21 Apr 2018 LRWS 8.5/8/7.5/8
ECA: 14 Aug 2018
Spouse IELTS: 21 Apr 2018 LRWS 6/4.5/5.5/6
Spouse WES: 28 Jun 2018
EE Profile Created: 14 Aug 2018 CRS 443
ITA: 22 Aug 2018
AOR: 19 Oct 2018
MEP/BIL: 21 Nov 2018
Ghost Update: 24 Mar 2019
PPR: 27 Mar 2019
VO: Ottawa
No ADR’s
Family of 4


As it has ended in praise for me so shall it be for us all.

AMEN!!!!!!

This is wow! Congrats Congrats Congrats!

Zutlin:
MY PPR STORY EPISTLE

ECA: 30th March, 2017
IELTS: 6th June, 2017 (LRWS – 8.5, 9, 7, 7.5)
CRS Score: 449
ITA: 25th April, 2018
AOR: 10th May, 2018
Medicals Passed: 24th May, 2018
Interview: 14th February, 2019
Remedicals Request: 14th February, 2019
PPR: 15th February, 2019
COPR: 26th March, 2019


My journey was a long and bumpy one but las' las', na God win.