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MaamCita:
Yes they have. To IRCC and I'll get mine within 30 working days.

Okay. But you have been sent a soft copy right?

Hi MaamCita. Please have they shipped the new ECA?

MaamCita:
Thanks alot, they have responded and my ECA has been corrected. I'm so happy

uche13:
The journey for this phase is over!!! All glory to God.

PPR Mail- 12th September, 2020
Passport dropped at DHL enroute Accra- 25th of September, 2020 ( Wrote several mails to find out where to submit since Lagos VFS does not accept passport. Also had to renew.

29th of September, 2020- Passport arrived VFS Accra and a mail was sent the same day that the documents have been forwarded to IRCC

5th of October, 2020- Received a call from IRCC asking whether we can travel before 31st of March, 2021. I said yes, but subject to the travel restrictions and the lady said sure.

8th of October, 2020- Mail from VFS stating that the decision envelope has been couried via courier partner (DHL). Profile was updated same day with counterfoil generated. (Passport spent 10 days in Accra)

14th of October, 2020- DHL delivers the parcel

I am still in awe and grateful to God for the journey.

May this go round to everyone who desires. May the draw today bring smiles on the faces of many people

Congratulations!!!!

Rutee1:
I'm having exactly the same challenge. Somebody kindly assist.

So what I did was to restart my system and then clear the cache. You can try this. Hopefully it should work for you as well.

Good day house,

Please I need clarifications on two issues;

1) is it possible to edit your primary NOC after profile creation without leading to ineligibility?
2) In a situation where you changed jobs and you ended your previous job in a particular month and you resumed your new job in the same month; for instance you ended your previous job on the 6th of September and resumed your new job on the 9th of September. How should it be captured during profile creation to avoid overlapping dates?

Thank you.

Hello house,
Please I'm trying to create my EE profile. Once I login with my GCKey, I don't go beyond the next page which just has options for revoke GCKey, change password or change recovery question. I don't seem to understand what the problem is. I have tried both on my laptop (which I have restarted) and phone.

Please help.

LecturerIFE:
That's the norm.

OAU now charges for transcript verification. Last time I asked, it's N2500 for undergraduate and N5000 for postgraduate. You can use ETX for your verification or reach out to anyone in the school.

Please do you have any contacts?

LecturerIFE:
That's the norm.

OAU now charges for transcript verification. Last time I asked, it's N2500 for undergraduate and N5000 for postgraduate. You can use ETX for your verification or reach out to anyone in the school.

Thank you very much

bukkie04:
I did but not through ETX which didn't require verification I guess. WES updated my profile as ACCEPTED.

WES initially updated my profile with accepted and then changed it to verification required and I’m confused

Hello everyone. Please is there anyone who sent their transcript from OAU to WES via ETX ? If yes, please how did you go about following up for verification?

Please help look at my work experience that I intend to claim points for and tell if there’s an issue;
NYSC
November 2016 - Camp
1st PPA - January 2017 - April 17 2017
2nd PPA - April 24 2017 - October 27 2017
Full employment - January 2018 - December 18 2018
Changed department - December 19 2018 - September 2019

I also understand that it is better to state the FG allawee for NYSC. Should the employer state it together? For instance, I was paid 15k at my PPA. Should my employer state 24,800 monthly as my salary?

*P.S : All those experiences have different NOCs�

Elektra008:
Maybe reconfirm if you are using the correct fax number. I sent mine and hubby's own without any itch

Thank you very much. The fax number was indeed not correct. It has been sorted now.

Hello People

Please I’m trying to send my degree certificate to WES using the hellofax app but it has bounced back twice saying fax failure.

Am I doing something wrong and Please what can I do?

Jaybye:
WES and this their shakara sef! Try resending with Hellofax as someone earlier suggested. It will end in praise.

Jaybye:
WES and this their shakara sef! Try resending with Hellofax as someone earlier suggested. It will end in praise.

Amen...thank you but I don’t have a copy of the transcript. ICAN does not release the transcript.

I also sent them a message on their ‘contact us’ platform and they responded stating the obvious; that is what they have received and what they haven’t received. It seems to me they don’t understand my plight.

Please what else can I do?

Jaybye:
WES and this their shakara sef! Try resending with Hellofax as someone earlier suggested. It will end in praise.

Amen...thank you but I don’t have a copy of the transcript. ICAN does not release the transcript.

I also sent them a message on their ‘contact us’ platform and they responded stating the obvious; that is what they have received and what they haven’t received. It seems to me they don’t understand my plight.

Please what else can I do?

Tina26:
while at it , you can resend it to them again for free using hello fax.

Thank you Tina. But unfortunately I don’t have a copy .

Hello guys,

Please I need an advice. I submitted my ATS and ACA certificate ( this was unnecessary but I didn’t know this early enough) in 1 envelope.

Now WES sent me a no-reply mail to say that they received the ACA certificate but not the ATS certificate. I sent a DM on Twitter already on the issue.

But has anyone experienced this and how did you go about it? Is there anything else I have to do?

PLEASE HELP

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

Congratulations.....May you find favour in the land.

Iwinosified:
I apologize that this is a late PPR post. I have been somewhat overwhelmed by so much, but then I am reminded that the blessings of God maketh rich and addeth no sorrow. Also, this thread has been a blessing to me, this is my own small way of adding to the wealth of information here. So here goes my ppr gist.

Firstly, I would like to thank God almighty,the giver of all good gifts for this great opportunity He has granted my family at this time. Also, to this wonderful community of selfless individuals helping each other out, I say a big THANK YOU.God bless you.

Timeline:
2 Dec 2017- Ielts(BC) L7.5 R9 S7 W7.5
April 2018- Ielts Hubby
25 Sep 2018- ECA landed (PEBC)
1 Oct 2019- Entered pool, CRS,410(I was PA)
Dec 2018- Ielts (BC) L8 R8.5 S8 W7.5
20January 2018- Updated profile, CRS 470
23 jan- ITA
17 Feb- AOR
8 April- Biometrics/ medicals passed
12 April- Biometrics done at vfs Lagos
May- Applied for gcms
June- Raised CSE for updated passport/ Received gcms (only criminality passed, eligibility and security not started)
July - Raised CSE for updated pof
15 August- Applied for 2nd gcms
21 August- saw the ppr mail( Arrived 20th,10pm)
28 August- submitted at vfs Lagos

Ielts:
Writing templates on this platform proved very helpful. Just a little bit of mix using synonyms rather than repeating words can make a lot of difference. Practiced my strategy for writing both tasks in simulated exam situations using the sample ielts booklets.

ECA
This one was a journey on its own. After the Nasu strike we proceeded on Feb 2018, with all documents reaching Canada by April using PEBC as evaluating body for both hubby and I.
This was after much research, considering that this evaluation would cost us about 950k and hubby has msc clinical Rx and I, a pharmD.

Pharmacists in this house, points to note;
WES will not give you professional points for your BPharm. However, If you have msc pharmacy or a pharmD, wes will evaluate as a masters and hence you still get the same professional points.That said, if you intend to practice pharmacy in Canada, only PEBC can evaluate your degree, which is the first step towards licensure. If you're thinking of a career switch in Canada, and your NOC is NOT under community or hospital pharmacy, ie your noc may be Lecturer , then by all means use wes, of course with an msc. It saves you time and money and you still get masters/ professional point for your CRS.
Using a Nigerian address also cost us about 3weeks as documents was sent Aug via Canada post ,but somehow reached us Sep 25.(World Pharmacy day). I took this as a sign. Smile.

Work Reference:
1 year Internship at Government hospital.
2 years Self employment with job title as Superintendent Pharmacist in a community rx, owned by hubby and I.

I got reference letter from the Hod pharmacy in CIC format on hospital letterhead, signed and stamped with department stamp. I included pcn letter of experience, payslip of 4 months.
I got jittery after submission seeing some posts here, concerning using the hod and not mgt as I knew the bottleneck involved and still wouldn't get a CIC format reference from them. So after submission, I applied for the mgt refence letter. Once it arrived, I planned on raising a CSE to add it, I never did.

For the second job, I tried to see how I could remove the self employment and use nysc and some other experience I had, but those ones were not too straight eg redeployment during Nysc, cash payments( didn't know about cash certificate). So I stuck with self employment, being the most recent. The first task was actually deciding whether to choose self-employed or employee. CAC documents bear my maiden name as hubby and I registered the company when we were still fiance/fiancee. Also, hubby is chairman/ CEO on these documents ,albeit has another job.
On the hand, I receive a small salary as superintendent and another income from being Co- owner. After much thoughts, we decided to go with self employment instead of having hubby write me a reference letter. Also, considering my name is mentioned in company registration documents it seemed the correct thing to do.
The next thought was documents to submit, I have to specially thank Moniker @ LadyAy. I don't know her nor did i contact her, but in the course of my research after I stumbled on nairaland, I came across her well detailed posts in thread 3 or 4. So everything I included in this placeholder was a prototype of hers with a few additions.
LOE explaining my situation, writing in detailed but concise sentences , including a little bit of the retail nature of the job.( just so they didn't expect large deposits from customers in bank statement).
Personal licence and pharmacy licence for the 2 years claimed. Personal income tax receipts for me and employee. Pharmacy revenue receipts. Insurance policy for 2 years. Two letters from customers and one from a lab I refer my clients to. Corporate bank reference showing hubby and I as signatories, date it was opened , amount. Letter of non- indebtedness, statement of last 6 months. Dated and current Invoices from company reps and our own receipts.(one was bearing the name of a customer that wrote reference), lastly was a picture of a haematinic and vit c syrup in our branded nylon.smile.

Change of Name:
This was the most challenging part for me. And the part I prayed the most about.
I will try to use examples that fit, so you all understand the challenge I single handedly put us in because I never thought there were issues with it as no employer ever raised one. Although I thought of a solution as an undergraduate, the paper work seemed much and I never went through with it. During the PEBC evaluation, I was requested to send additional documents. Probably, that added to the time spent on the evaluation.
My name- Esther Amarachi Nduka
Birth certificate- Esther Amachi Nduka
Waec- Nduka Amarachi Esther
Degree- Amara Esther Nduka
Started Job- Esther Amara Nduka
Got married,changed and reconciled names legally- Esther Amarachi Williams

What a mess. what did I do?
LOE explaining my situation, that its a tribal thing. it was left to me to produce sufficient documents that this was all me. I had them all. I mean, my parents still keep nursery one results. They taught me to keep papers. With so many dated documents to place in this placeholder, It had to be prudent and significant. Documents included;
Birth certificate, Waec certificate, university eligibility/clearance slip, newspaper publication , change of name, one and same person affidavit, faculty association certicate.
It helped that for some of these documents my DOB was present as well as a younger picture of me. A big thanks to the poster that put the one and same person sample on this thread. I got that sample from relentlessly searching this forum when we just started this journey. At that time,there was no page 1 link.
So new applicants, whatever your queries, good people have taken out time to link these things, which makes things a lot easier for you. Please use them and remember to still ask when in doubt.
So that was that there. I prayed and faithlessly hoped for an ADR in this regard as I still had a heap of documents to submit if asked.I was humbled by God's faithfulness.

POST AOR , I honestly hardly checked the profile. Twice during Biometrics, and once on each occasion before raising CSE and ordering gcms.
I am a natural worrier, so I had to keep myself sane. I prayed everyday for this application. When I was not busy with family duties or work, I reread americanah and half a yellow sun, watched TV series ; Killing eve, Jane the virgin, game of thrones, Wentworth, oitnb, the bold type, money heist. Call me chief downloader( will miss this there).
Kept me busy when I was not busy.smile

While we await our COPR, I cannot but thank God for His loving mercies while still keeping in mind that the task ahead is no walk in the park. God is taking us to our destination as we begin to prepare for our licensure. For regulated professionals, the work for us is real, but carry along your strategic plans, hardwork, tenacity, courage and believe, with your Trust in God. This is our resolution.We are so hopeful for the future in that beautiful country.

Friends, in whatever stage of this journey you are, I pray that your dreams come through, speedily. God bless us all.
Selah.

Congratulations....your testimony is a reassurance that those who put their trust in God will never be disappointed.Happy for you.

barby008:
PM me

Please I also sent you a PM

[quote author=Stencil post=81635234]Unfortunately you’d have to wait if you want to claim 3 years of work experience.
The evaluation process takes a while and you might clock 3 years during the wait.
Your ECA has to be done before you get into the pool anyway.
If 3 years is only 2 months away, I think it is worth the wait to get those extra points.

Thank you very much

Hello All,

Please I'd like to get a clarification. In order to get the maximum points based on years of experience, must the 3 years be before ITA or it can still be counting pending when the whole process is done?

I did my NYSC in 2 companies; spent 4 months in one and 6 months in the other and I currently have about 1 year 8 months experience post NYSC. This totals 2 years 4 months as at now. Though all my credentials are yet to be fully evaluated by WES. If I give it till the end of the month, it will total 2 years 10 months (though for some reason, I don't want to include the 4 months experience).

When I tried to use 2 years in computing my points, I dropped a whooping 25 points and my points were low.

What can I do? Kindly advise.

Thank you

jaybros:
Sent PM.

Please I also need help

jaybros:
Only waec Lagos I understand does this irrespective of where you took the exam.

Thank you very much.

Hi guys....please in order to get WAEC to send your document to WES, should it be from the state office where you wrote the exam? What I mean is I wrote my WAEC in Ibadan and I'm currently in Lagos. Is it necessary to have WAEC office in Ibadan send it to WES or WAEC office here in Lagos can send it?

Please Help!!!

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chibabe25:
Hello everyone. Is there anyone who had their ICAN ATS certificate verifIed by WES recently? Because I noticed that the name of the certificate is not included in the drop down. Kindly help on how the certificate name was stated.

Please help!!!

Hello everyone. Is there anyone who had their ICAN ATS certificate verifIed by WES recently? Because I noticed that the name of the certificate is not included in the drop down. Kindly help on how the certificate name was stated.