jadief:
Please I need a clarification on this. Can one claim sibling point for a sibling who did a soft landing and should be returning back to Nigeria in like 3 months. Will there be an issue if she gives an address but won't be there in some months time when they may need to do verifications. Anyone who has gone this route, please advise. Thank you.

shygunXs:
Hi,

How much did you pay for LASU Verification?

Thank you.

Adunnee:

Thanks. Does it mean it can be combined with B.Sc. to give 2 or more certificates?

TemiGee:
A colleague of mine got hers as 3 years bachelor's degree. However, I heard you need to write all 3 stages of the exam. I don't think those that got exemption on the first or / and second stage will be assessed as 3 years bachelor's degree by WES

Adunnee:
Please what's the equivalent of CIPM, if evaluated by WES?

Marula:

Thank you. Does CIPM transcript apply to Practitioners Route as well?

dewiseacre:
Please I am sorry that I'm having to ask this at this stage. Issue is this thread is so long and I don't know exactly where to look.

1. I need direct information on how to process my CIPMN certificate with WES (anyone done so?)
2. I need direct information on how to process my LASU (B.Sc) certificate with WES (anyone done so?)
3. If I am verifying the two above, do I need to verify my SSCE?
4. Do I need to, or can I verify training certificates e.g. HR training at Tom Associates?

Will appreciate help from the pros at the earliest.

Bless y'all

lambsbread:
So today, I went to apply for international passport. I got there around 1pm and had my passport ready before 3pm. I never believed the application process would be this swift. Right now I'm about applying for IELTS with British Council for June 2019. While preparing for my IELTS exam, I will like to know if I can go onward with ECA?

I think my journey just officially started

Marula:
Make una no vex say my questions too much. Please anyone know the cost of transcripts from these schools to WES?

UNIZIK - Nnamdi Azikiwe University (1st Degree)
Unilag - University of Lagos (Masters)
NECO - National Examinations Council
WAEC - West African Examination Council
CIPM - Chartered Institute of Personnel Mgt. of Nig.

Abeg any gain in evaluating NECO and WAEC, both have good greats no combination required.

Between NECO and WAEC which one is better (Faster / Cheaper)? I can use either.

Thanks for answering.

Fadia:
Please has anyone evaluated CIBN with WES or any other evaluation body? What was the report like?

ItsAnita:
Thank you very much I really appreciate..

Pascal88:
I have a CIPM certificate, can it serve as a second degree with my Bsc inclusive? Kindly respond plz.

princekins:
Congrats Bro....Wish you Success in our new country.



Please why did you buy T-bills after a gift deed, any reason(s) for doing so?

joo2018:

Congratulations to all who announced progress today.

ADR: @EndInPraisess (you can submit the FD certificate)

PPR: @Aruoture18, @sweetthangbaby

COPR: @Fadia

toyinana:

Congratulations!!!!

Kudos to your mum, mothers are sure destiny moulders.


My wish for you is that you will find favour in your new home.

toyinana:

Congratulations!! It ended in praise, my wish for you is that you'll find favour in your new home.




quote author=Fadia post=76887945]LONG POST AHEAD

The Lord is good and His mercies endureth forever.
His praises shall continually be in my mouth for He truly is too faithful to fail.
It’s finally here, the long awaited COPR! I keep going back to stare it

IELTS – 14th October 2017
ECA – December 2017
1st EE Profile – 5th May 2018
1st ITA – 9th May 2018
2nd EE Profile – 31st May 2018
2nd ITA – 25th June 2018
CRS - 443
AOR – 8th September 2018
MEP/BIL – 4th October 2018
Biometrics completed – 4th October 2018
RPRF – 16th January 2018 (Paid without an official request from CIC and raised CSE with payment receipt)
1st and only CIC Call – 5th February 2018 (The agent said security and criminality were not yet started and I felt really bad and decided I wasn’t going to call again or order GCMS Notes till after the 6-month mark, if PPR wasn’t here by then)
PPR – 14th February 2018 (God gave me a wonderful Valentine’s Day gift)
Submitted passport – 25th February 2018
COPR – 20th March 2018

No ADR

Ottawa Visa Office

SINGLE APPLICANT



DECISION TO TRAVEL
Lol It was initially more of my mum’s decision than mine. I was meant to go for my masters in the U.S. and then work on getting a work permit and staying back after. Lol little did I know I was deceiving myself.

My EE journey officially started in July/August 2017 with my mum constantly researching and hammering on the entire process. Some family friends had recently relocated and had advised my mum to use a lawyer to avoid mistakes and blah blah. I was so uninterested initially and constantly felt she was bugging me over unnecessary things and the lawyer’s fees also did not make matters any better.
Few days after later, my mum contacted the lawyer and connected us together. She (My mum) would constantly call me at work to ask if I had called the lawyer and insisted on being copied in all email correspondence between the lawyer and I. She even offered to pay the $200 dollars for the initial consultation fees and that was how I kick started the process.

IELTS
registered with BC and wrote my exam on the 14th of October 2017. I majorly used the free 30 hours of practice and some days before the test I browsed through some study materials the lawyer had sent me. My speaking test was the Monday before my Saturday writing exams and it generally went well.
The night before the writing exams, God just led me to one of the videos on the BC Practice page and I learnt some tricks to passing the reading exam without necessarily reading through or wasting much time and that was how I got 8,9,8,7 in LRSW in my first and only attempt.

ECA (WES)
I started in October 2017 and so I didn’t encounter the WAEC wahala. My aunt is a lecturer at my University and helped apply for my transcripts and covered that aspect. Then I sorted my CIPM transcripts myself. I had to send the CIPM transcript myself though because they won’t do it for you. I sent it in their name sha.
Verification was also very easy with my school because they have a proper process in place for all that.
ECA came out in December 2017 and was evaluated as two degrees (CIPM certificate was evaluated as equivalent to a 3-year bachelor’s degree)

4-MONTH LONG HIATUS
By the time my evaluation was over, I was in the process of moving houses and still had a number of other bills to settle so even if they shook me and threw me up and down, they won’t have found shishi on me to pay the lawyer as processing fee. Unfortunately, because neither myself nor my mum knew that we could successfully continue the process without a lawyer, I felt like I was at a dead end so I completely stopped thinking about the process and went back to reconsidering my U.S. masters. I also started considering schools in Canada sha with the mindset of “at least one must click”.

EE PROFILE
In May 2018, a close friend, who I had earlier told about EE, called me to ask how far with my process. She said she had entered the pool and gotten ITA the week before and that I should better forget about the lawyer and start my thing myself.
(I remember when my mum and I told her about it in 2017 and she said she didn’t have any money for a lawyer and wanted to do it on her own. I Kept discouraging her and saying she shouldn’t use her hand to spoil her application and I even started getting angry in the process).

After the call, I called the lawyer and told her to send me all my documents that she had with her, that I was no longer continuing with her. She tried to persuade me and asked if we should come up with a payment plan to make things easier, I haven’t replied that mail till today.

I created my first profile that weekend and got ITA the following week, on the 9th of May 2018. Man, that was the beginning of the joy and me starting to take things seriously. After getting ITA, I kick-started my own research and somehow stumbled on this thread in Part 4 and became addicted.

*I said first EE profile because I ended up deleting it. I had created it using an additional fake work experience to give me additional points. After ITA, I became so uncomfortable and my conscience couldn’t take it anymore so on the 31st of May I declined the invitation and deleted the profile. Fortunately, I created another profile with a new email and with all the correct details immediately and guess what? I had the EXACT same CRS of 443. I felt so silly and upset with myself because I could have saved myself sleepless nights and unnecessary headache by just using the correct information from the very beginning (I didn’t know about the CRS tool before creating my profile).
Unfortunately, I didn’t meet the cut-off for ITA in the next draw and when another draw date came again there was no draw. Then on June 25th, one very fine Monday evening, my friend called me and asked if I had gotten my ITA, that there was a draw that day and it was 442 (so close! Thank God!). A few hours after the call, I got the wonderful mail.

Then the main journey began…

REFERENCE LETTERS
I had worked in 2 other places before my current job (thankfully, I worked in HR in both companies so I had direct access to the people preparing the letters). My current company was the easiest because I was the one to do the letter myself hehe (it’s a very small company and we’re very few). I prepared the letter and gave it to my boss to read and sign.

PASSPORT
Ikoyi Passport office showed me PEPPER! I had less than 6 months at the time I was to do medicals so I paid for express but still ended up waiting for almost 2 months to get my passport.
I started the process with my old passport so I had to upload both. I created a table of contents indicating that there were 2 passports

MEDICALS
Did this at Children’s practice when my passport came out and it was pretty straightforward.

PCC
With our very own Inspector Moshood. I paid 4,500 for mine

POF
I used a gift deed then I bought treasury bills with the money before AOR. After it matured I left the funds in my account for a while then bought T-bills again in January but I didn’t raise any CSE for it. I also wrote an LOE and attached my account statement showing the day the money entered my account and when I bought T-bills.
I created a table of contents here as well and attached the gift deed, LOE, account statement, T-bills certificate, Oanda conversion on the date of submission and XE conversion on the date of submission.

AFFIDAVITS
1. I had some discrepancies in my name on my certificate and passport so my dad did a “one and same person” affidavit for me and I uploaded it in the “Legal Name Change” placeholder alongside my original birth certificate.
2. I claimed FSW points with my aunt and she didn’t have her birth certificate to show our relationship so my mum swore an affidavit of relationship (if I can call it that) and also went to NPC to do a letter of attestation for my aunt.

FAMILY MEMBER PROOF OF STATUS
I uploaded my aunt’s Passport, utility bills and 2 employment T4s.

With all these my uploading and uploading, I kept telling myself that my application is airtight and I’d get PPR in 2 months max LOOOOOOL. Anyway, COPR is here now and I have almost completely forgotten all the stress and I owe it all to God and the wealth of information on this thread.

I thank God for the unusual peace and patience I had during the entire waiting period.

MAY GOD CONTINUALLY BLESS EVERYONE FOR THEIR HELP AND INPUT IN EVERY WAY AND I PRAY FOR SPEEDY AND SUCCESSFUL PROCESSING FOR EACH AND EVERYONE IN JESUS NAME.

CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE!!

ladymarshall:
Yaaaaay!!! Issa rain of PPR somethang!!!

Congratulations!!!

Thank you for sharing your story!!! Very inspiring. Kudos to your mum who did not give up on you. Our official regards to her. She has reaped what she sowed

@Bolded are various lessons your story has taught us.

Very detailed story. You get 8.5 marks. For thanking us, blessing us and wishing us well, another 1.2 mark. Thats the spirit of giving back

Total 9.7/10

All the best in your new country

Topsmamen:


Congrats Fadia. Your mum is too much abeg.

@the bolded, after you got your COPR, she should have said, "Fadia come here, I want to tell you something. Don't be afraid. Just come closer". Lol.

Ifeoma77:

Big big congratulations!!!! I am particularly happy for you that the lawyer didn't chop your money. Big hugs to your Mum! The first shekere is for her

bunmioluwa:
Congratulations!!!

Jennypharb1:


Congratulations dear, better days ahead

bunmioluwa:
Congratulations!!!

Debsify:
Congrats

Iyamefa:


Yes you can use that before getting G1.
I don’t know the requirements of getting it in Nigeria but I would want to believe you have to be an experienced driver first. Don’t know how feasible it is for a new driver without experience to get this in Nigeria.


The IDP (international drivers permit) is primarily used by visitors to Ontario. If you plan on living in Ontario - that is, you will be a permanent resident living in Ontario - you need to get an Ontario driver's licence within 60 days of moving to Ontario.

Full article : https://settlement.org/ontario/daily-life/transportation/driver-s-licence/is-the-international-driver-s-permit-idp-valid-in-canada/

Iyamefa:


For Ontario.

As a new driver without a Nigerian license or experience, you would have to start from scratch. Get your G1 first then proceed to G2. You can attend a driving school to get classroom and on-the-road training which gives you the chance to take your G2 test after 8 months (tip: attending a government recognized driving school can reduce your insurance quotes) . If you choose not to attend a driving school, the earliest you can take the G2 test is a year after the G1. If you’re interested in getting a car, you cannot drive with G1, most insurance companies won’t even sell insurance with G1 (there are always exceptions) but you would have to get the G2 before you can drive.

Mimi1999:
Good day people.
So for people that never got a driver's license in Nigeria, what is the procedure like to start driving in Canada? Should I just go ahead and get one done since I am landing in May?
Will I be able to just take the driving test and how soon Will it be possible to start driving?
I am looking to getting a car in winter.
Thank you

TheCongo2:


Each province in Canada has its own rules and regulations when it comes to getting a driver license.

Maybe you should start by telling the forum where in Canada are you planning to live.

Ifeoma77:
Woke up to THE mail today
It's PPR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ifeoma77:
Woke up to THE mail today
It's PPR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dmpaul:
God! I pray none of our people is among oh
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Bbol:
Hello Seniors,

I am Post-ITA, please I need some help

1. what is the difference between Proof of Sibling PR and Family member proof of status. I have the two placeholders and they both seem to refer to my sibling's PR card. Do i upload the same card in both places?

2. Also under proof of sibling relationship, I have my birth certificate with our parent's names but my sibling cannot find his own birth certificate. What other document can be used for this?

Thank you