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To those SIGNING OUT after receiving their TRV/SP and getting to Canada, ...Dia Is God oooo...

Remember that you were aided by those who had received their TRVs/SPs and even landed in Canada.

If they had all SIGNED OUT like you, who would have attended to all your numerous questions?

This life is all about GIVE and TAKE

....wishing us all the best

abiriba:
Hello brothers and sisters,
Please how can I get my credentials assessed by West and how mucheap does it cost to do that.
Thank you.
Your response will be highly appreciated.

About C$200 only

bbclue:
Derel. ........are you in dis house

Present...Aunty!!!

Lere2017:
I still dey NA department oo

Got will do it for you....dont worry

Lere2017:
definitely gonna drop,dont waste money on the ielts again,there is no probability you would hit ur right combination of results

And here it is, your prophecy came to pass

bigfido:
For the dude that passed the ielts that is complaining bitterly, please be thankful to God.

I have written ielts 7 times. My journey started since 2015. My Wes has been ready since then, but because of age and ielts, I have been falling short. I wrote ielts and got moderate score. I didn't know what was required then, since then, it has been a battle for me. My last 3 scores were 8,7.5,7,6... 7.5,7.5,7.5,7... 7.5,8,7,7..after the 6th one in June, I swore I was done with this dream. I had sunk so much money into this. I have gone to dubai to write celpip, went to dubai again for new brunswick info session, spent money 2ice on SINP and all to no avail. I was frustrated and devastated. July, I told my spouse to let me try ielts one more time. Even thou she didn't want to see me hurt again, she let me have my way. As for her she was done. She wanted the dream closed and buried. I don't blame her. So I paid and decided to change venue, this time I went to Ibadan, meaning I was spending more again. Then something changed. I prayed a lot about it. For catholics amongst us, please pray the prayers for exams to St Joseph of Cupertino. I went into the hall, did my best and left. I couldn't even beat my chest about my performance. I have been humbled by Ielts. But I kept on praying. I am not going to fail the 7th time. In between that time, a stranger in Lere2017 on this platform came into my life. She needed something from me. I actually wasn't in the mood to talk to her (reply her pm) but I did. We got talking and I told her my story. She was touched and she also truly prayed for me seriously. She will send me messages almost everyday telling me how much I was in her prayers and letting me know all is well. Yesterday midnight was the most awkward time of my life.. From 12 am till 7 am this morning, I was refreshing ielts website to check my result. The fear and panic was too intense. When I didn't see anything, I decided to go to their office to pick up my result.. That drive was filled with swallowing stone like saliva. On the bridge, I decided to refresh it again.. My result was there. My soul left my body and my eyes became blurry. I didn't know what I was reading but I knew I was reading.. L-9, R-8,S-8,W-7

I felt water swell up in my eyes. I understood what it is to look for something within your grasp and yet not have it. I am still basking in this euphoria so I can't real explain my ordeals. So please if you have it on a platter of gold, don't come here to rub it in on people that are going through a lot of even have a slice of what you have. For me the journey starts soon. I now have 450 points. I pray we all get to the promise land. Thank you @lere2017 I appreciate you. That's the beauty of this thread. Goodluck to everyone. I apologise for the long post and misspellings

Oh my God. Congrats to you.

I have learnt several lessons from this write-up.

Do not give up your dreams...NEVER!!!

@ the emboldened......See me see tears

boldinc:
I think it's best your husband sends the balance to your account, cos when you add him to your application, CIC will request for an updated POF for 2... You can add an LOE stating he transferred the money to you to complete the POF.

Oh really? Does it mean that the husband can fund upto 90% of the required POF and deposit as a lump sum into the PA (spouse) account?

freeradical:
You will need to write an application to your bank for the letter of reference. Just follow the std formal letter format copying all the requirements for POF doc from CIC page and present it in the body of your letter to your bank. That's just what I did and it worked.

Hello Freeradical, how are you? I PMed you but cannot reply to your PM. The mail keeps bouncing back

GermanDreamer:
you are only generalizing with Niaraland statistics..do you think it's everyone that applied for studies know that this forum exist?

Hahahahaha...exactly. If you want to see/read approvals... go to canadavisa...... you wont only see approvals and delays, but funny English(es)..

freeradical:
What a glorious CRS cut off score. I spent close to 6months on 433 with my first EE profile searching for ITA but it wouldn't come

Congratulations to all our new ITA holders, yimiton, dammiehar, XX01, et al. I know you guys expect to get speedy processing of your eAPR to PPR and so I've decided to help you with a few advice from my own experience. My timeline from AOR to PPR is just 46days which is quite impressive and something I'd wish for you guys to replicate. Now my advice to you goes as follows. Brace up its gonna be a long read

1. Getting ITA is a big deal but it's not so much of a big deal if u don't package your application well and it gets rejected. So use only 24 hours to celebrate dis ITA after which you have to settle down, snap out of the euphoria(you are not in Canada yet ) and focus on submitting your eAPR without making any costly error that may mar your chances.

2. Even though we know that ultimately d divine controls the speed of every application yet you must do your utmost best in packaging your application carefully. As much as you can, get the documents in d format specified by CIC. Start now to disturb your bankers for the reference letters and your employers for the work reference letter. From my experience, you save d VO time and make their work easier when you submit documents in the recommended CIC format and they reward that with a fast processing.

3. PCCs are very vital and you should know by now what PCCs you need to provide. To be on the safe side any country you have spent a cumulative period of 3-4 months from when you were born till now just start now to process your PCC from them. VOs r very unforgiving with PCCs and sometimes they interprete the laws around PCCs in ways we can't truly understand. If you are like me that have never enter international flight before (I.e no travel history) then u are safe but for all the ajalas in the house, the chicken has come home to roost

4. Do not be in a hurry to get AOR, thereby rushing to submit. Take your time to ensure that you include every document in your checklist and in the right file format. Always cross check that your uploads are still intact even at the point of submission. It's not really by AOR but by how fast you move from AOR to PPR. Some July AOR peeps are already with PPR while we still got some April AORs languishing in IP1. So don't let the race to get AOR get to you.

5. Avoid ADRs. If it means waiting till the final week of your 90precious days it's safer to wait it out and submit your application with that document you know will be requested. ADRs have a way of unnecessarily delaying the movement of your file. The best time to send CIC documents is before AOR so be proactive enough to prevent anything that will make then ask after. For example if you know you have been refused visa to some country, nothing stops u from filling a schedule A form proactively even before it is asked.

6. Use your LOE very well. The LOE is a powerful weapon that you must use very well to your favour. If you do an unbiased self assessment of your application, you will note the areas where your application appears to be weak. It's almost likely that the VO will come to this same conclusion as you. That's where a good LOE does wonders. You can use your LOE to politely explain and provide further detail to the VO. What u r actually doing is subtly allaying his doubts about this weak part of your application. This helps the guy to make a favorable decision on your case. The trick to writing a good LOE is being honest, polite and MOST IMPORTANTLY attaching a document to buttress your point or as evidence. Also you can write as many LOEs and attached documents to each even though there is one placeholder for LOE. That's where your PDF merger comes in. Merge all the LOEs into one single file and attach.

7. Raising CSEs is a bad, bad thing!Avoid anything that will also make you to start disturbing your application midway after AOR by having to raise a CSE. Examples are getting married, adding a baby etc. Though most times these stuffs are beyond our control but as much as you can try to avoid entering such situations because it will delay your application. If you know you want to marry that man/woman then make the decision and get married already even before you secure ITA. I've seen some people's application getting delayed because they have to include spouse. If you r expecting a baby and your due date is before the 90days post ITA period,its best you wait for the child and include him before AOR. This exactly was my case. I had ITA Apr 12th and my wife's EDD was May 12th. I decided to wait for the baby. I made every arrangements for his passport with the immigration agent( the guy thought I was crazy trying to do passport for a child yet unborn ), but alas baby came early on May 5th. My son got his passport May 12th or so and we got AOR June 19th.
So my point is as much as we can control these events let's try our best.

8. Finally just keep praying as though everything depends on your prayers but not your work and try not to be overly anxious. Who anxiety EPP sef.

I wish you guys a smooth PPR journey from here on.

Thanks a bunch. God bless

Aig84:
Hello, it is the same fax number in their website +1-780-422-9734

Thank you

GlitteringStar:
IQAS fax number: 780-422-9734

https://www.alberta.ca/iqas-contact.aspx#toc-3

Thanks

Osemigho:
If Monday to Friday is 5 days, is 6 weeks not the same thing or even lesser than 30 business days considering public holidays?

My thoughts exactly.

In the midst of my sleepy eyes, i counted his processing time and it was 30days to be exact.

6 weeks oo...30 days oo... same thing

Osemigho:
Respect! I see you too. I don leave the EE argument in the other room. He that have ears, let him hear. I'm here fully. It's Not by force to follow. Lol

Exactly. I wish us the best.

Lets relate offline.

Pm me

Osemigho:
Respect! I see you too. I don leave the EE argument in the other room. He that have ears, let him hear. I'm here fully. It's Not by force to follow. Lol

Exactly. I wish us the best.

Kontagious:
Please o, what's the difference between 6 weeks and 30 business days? Of course, there might be public holidays within the 6 weeks but I don't think it will be more than 2 days.. In all, 6 weeks and 30 business days looks same to me, or am I missing something?

Jamiesongsingz:
I was denied Canadian study visa twice in the past and more recently a south African visa. In my application, I mentioned the 2 Canadian visa refusals but didn't mention the South African visa refusal. I just contacted an immigration letter who advised me to write them stating it and why I didn't mention it earlier.. Sir, what's needed is the email address of the Visa office in accra....

accra.immigration@international.gc.ca

eboziem:
Payment for IQAS ECA: 14/05/2017
Scanned/Faxed Documents via Hellofax: 15/05/2017
First Acknowledgement: 26/05/2017
Transcript Delivered: 30/05/2017
Second Acknowledgement: 15/06/2017
Third Mail for Completion: 29/07/2017(Date of Completion was actually 11/07/2017 as found on the ECA)
Hard Copy Received:31/07/2017


***IQAS now takes about 6weeks after all documents are received and no longer 30 Business Days*** as updated on their website, excerpt found below

"Status of your IQAS assessment and processing time
Applications take about 6 weeks to process after everything is received. This does not include mail delivery time."

@ Boldened....

If you calculate from the date your transcript was delivered to the date of completion as written on your ECA, its exactly 30 working days.

Note that your application will only be processed once they received ''all'' your complete documents...

Osemigho:
IQAS is not as prompt as before again.

My application had passed processing time. Called their number, waited 10mins to speak to an agent, and I was finally told my application has not been evaluated.

The agent was even telling me that, If I can't wait further, I can withdraw my application to get the application fee refunded minus courier fee.

I was like: does this one understand what it takes to get transcript sent abroad from Nigeria?

Just dropped the call.

Who recently got their certificate evaluated by IQAS? Pls share your timeline.

Good luck to fellow August 3 IELTS In Lagos center test takers. The listening section was a garri drinking one but God will help us. Amen.

Osemigho, I sight you.

Remember that the 30days processing time means 30 working days from when your documents reached them.

Try to be a lil bit more patient.

Virt:
Hmmm , its well. I cant afford to go to that school o.

I just hopes he is not being fraudulent. I'll update here once completed.

ok

funshobabs:
Thought as much. I just saw 320k on a page. If so then, if application doesn't go up then points for the draw will drop. The last draw was 441. Going through CIC page I noticed that most of this year's points were low compared with previous years. I am forecasting that as from September, there will be a significant reduction in the points needed to secure an ITA, points might go as low as 400 sef.

Amen ooooo (with my hands raised up claiming it)

Nwandy218:
Hi Derel, in the same boat here as well. Although yet to get ITA, but it doesn't hurt to be adequately prepared. I will need ur help too with the fast tracked passport. Thanks in advance. BTW, is it in Lagos?

Sure I am available when you need me.

And no, its not in lagos ooooo

careliz:
Thanks a lot dear,wud very much appreciate DAT.

You are welcome. Its my little way of giving back

ItsYourFriend:
Good day good people in the house, permit me to ask these questions: can I commence the application process before forwarding transcript for verification, and paying for English language test?

No!!! After 1 comes 2.

Follow the steps and you will be glad you did

bbaby84:
Let me share my time line o

WES evaluation : 2nd June
IELTS results : 6th June
ITA : 12th July
AOR : 5th August

It will end in praise!

Amen.

You are getting there...

Remxyj:
Please I will be needing your help on that too.

Sure no troubles...

Aig84:
UPDATE!!!!

Just got a mail from IQAS, certificate evaluation is complete, a soft copy will be mailed to me in the next few days. Thanks to MummyJaygirls 40manlappy, elfmann and others.

It seems the 30 business days is from when you receive an acknowledgment from them and not necessarily when your certificates and transcripts got there.

I faxed my documents sometime late May and my transcripts got delivered on the 9th of June (as per tracking). I only received an acknowledgment on the 27th of June, counting 30 business days from then falls perfectly to today despite them requesting for another scanned certificate.

So for those waiting for ECA, hang in there and don't panic, till of course the 30 business days are over. IELTS next!! Slowly but surely

What number did you fax your documents to? Please post here or pm me.

Thanks

cochtrane:
Okay, again. Summary of Page201-Page300. Actually not difficult for me to do. I hope these help someone!

You are a blessing. Great work

kingWB:
Hello Everyone. Big ups to everybody contributing here and I'll really appreciate it if someone can help me with this problem. So I plan to start processing my travel and study soon but there is something that's been bothering me. I would like to work and possibly continue living after my studies in canada but I have a degree in psychology and I'm pursing an msc in the same course but apparently you have to have a PhD to practice psychology which means I most likely won't b able to secure a job after graduation. I would pursue PhD also but I only have funds enough to sponsor msc and would like to start working asap. My other alternative is to pursue a pgd in human resources management but[b] I heard pgd don't get visas approved [/b]and also that lambton college is 27k c. a.d Anybody in canada that has any pointers would really b helpful. Thanks

@ Boldened, WRONG!!! I have friends in Canada studying various PGD courses.

CanadianNurse:
find the person checking you in small change at murtala muhammed! They will check it in



Please my flight is by 6:25 AM, I can't meet up by that time from lekki

Anyone knows a reasonably cheap hotel around the airport?

Check Jumia Travels.

GlitteringStar:
Congrats! Congrats!! Congrats!!!

For all the IELTS hopefuls, ITA hopefuls, PPR hopefuls, and finally COPR hopefuls (I can't wait to get to this phase ), may all our dreams come true and may God grant all our heart desires!!!

Congratulations to all the new permanent residents of Canada

Amen dear.

Amen

ProFuhrer:
Please how many questions were asked? Can I write the test with a smartphone?

50 questions.

I am not sure, I wrote on my laptop