jmnsimone:
Here's my timeline guys

IELTS – September 29, 2018

ECA- January 22, 2019

CRS – 481

ITA- January 23

AOR – February 8 2019

MEP/BIL - March 25 2019

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I called several times and I kept getting the same response, criminality passed, eligibility and security not started.

Ghost update 1 – July 13

ADR – July 15 (Schedule A)

Ghost update 2 – July 20

PPR – July 22 (exactly 6 months from ITA)

VO - Ottawa


IELTS – 9, 9, 8, 7.5 (LRSW)

I wrote this once and maxed out and I am so grateful because I only started preparing for it 2 days before the exam. As there was no time, I only used the road to IELTS that British Council provided to study for listening and reading, in fact, the first practice section I worked on I got only 50%! Anyways, I studied my mistakes (one word where they asked for three, spelling inconsistencies, etc) and worked on fixing them and by the second day when I did the exam samples I had 38 & 39 over 40.

For writing I did not practice at all because by the time I got to it, it was 12:01 am on the day of the exam. I watched about 5 videos but 3 were especially helpful. Two liz videos where she talks about writing the first paragraph and writing the last paragraph of task 2 essays – I followed her advice to the T. Also, there’s one jay Video where he talks about writing the body paragraphs and how to separate your points – I followed his advice too.

In addition to the videos for writing, I spent about one-hour reading level 9 essays just to see what excellence looked like and I modeled my essay after the samples I read.

Please, I’ll personally advice that if you can please practice writing, I didn’t and on the exam day I almost cried. I started with task one, took 40 mins to finish it and had only 20 mins to rush through task 2 – I barely finished and did not proofread it. If I had practiced at all, I’d have known my strengths and weaknesses and worked to fix them, don’t be like me.

Also, there’s one blogpost I read somewhere about having 5 paragraphs for task one – Introduction, question 1, question 2, question 3, and closing paragraph – that's how I modeled my letter.

I went to bed by 3am and woke up by 6 am to get to my center; abeg, don’t be like me.

ECA- WES

It seems like all the problems I missed in IELTS were waiting for me here – Unilag connived with WES to show me pepper, but my God is greater them. This took 6 months!! I also evaluated my first degree from OAU using etx.ng and surprisingly, they came through after about 5 weeks. Imagine a story where the etx.ng guys are the good guys.

Medicals- IOM- 04/02/2019

Took the entire day, I was there from 9am until 4pm – stressed me out.

PCC - 5k

I used inspector Moshood, and the whole thing took about one hour

POF

Originally uploaded my Tbills investment certificate. It matured in March, so I converted it to USD, put in my dom account and sent them a letter from the bank showing my balance.

Passport

Studio 24 Allen

The Wait

Mannn, this was something else. I caved in and ordered GCMS notes on June 18 and it was delivered July 18 but by then I had already gotten a ghost update and an ADR so I didn’t really care. I also used the wait time to write my CBAP exam so all in all, I don’t count it as time wasted


I want to end this by saying a VERY BIG THANK YOU to everyone on this thread, everything I used to put my application together I learnt from here and crosschecked on the CIC website. May the good Lord meet each and every one of you at your different points of need; hold on to Him tightly – He neither sleeps nor slumbers, and he is never late.

Please ma can I get your contact so we can talk on this process no one here seems to have time.for beginners