₦airaland Forum

Newmum0615:
Awww, someone has offered to help on the other thread. If it doesn't work out, I'll let you know. Thanks a lot hun.

Newmum0615:
I need help bringing my recently re-issued driver's license over from Nigeria please. If there is anyone coming in soon from Lagos to Ontario and is willing to help, please PM me. I am humble please. Thank you.

Newmum0615:
Oga number 13, I am sorry.

chuckdee13:
So fast forward from October 2018
Ghost update 13th February 2019 (maybe 12th)
PPR 14th February 2019 (dated 13th February)

I learnt a lot here. a lot took me from Nairaland and so I missed out on all info and gist. I'll give back as much as I can. Thank you to everyone, both old and newbies. we learn DIY here in preparation for Cannyland.

Hephgirl:
@boundlessjoy
@flyboi1
@Shyee
@juicebox
@jhoci
@lowla1
@Majesticniyi
@Team16
@BoboXIV
@adewumz
@dane15
@Chibuiked
@Barryston
@enemyofprogress
@Fyorgyn
@abakiki
@Bukzie
@iPopAlomo
@Vivacious2
@Tee248490
@mbakweich

Congratulations guys. I wish you all the best. I celebrate with you. May Canada favor u

shinaboy:
Been wanting to ask about this. How easy is it for single guys to find partners in Canada? Where are potential places where Nigerians socialize say in Toronto or Alberta?

Fkhalifa:
Mourinho's gone, you have world class baily, lindelof and deagea, so mpabbe did mpabbe do you something or not?

Lastruct:
Hey my people. Please oh, I just got a good deal from Jumia, Abuja to Calgary through London Gatwik Airport.
Stop over of about 5hours, will I be needing a transit. VISA please. It’s urgently needed my people. Thank you guys.

Lana1:

Na only when United lose/draw u dey log in?

You are lucky no games in EPL this weekend. You for disappear as usual. Useless coward.

Vivacious2:
PPRRRRRRRRRR IS HERE O

It can only be God. After 10 months and 19 days.

This is my story:

nomad26:
congratulations to you and your wife!! Canada PR + UK PR is a sweeet deal. Will madam join you in Canada?

cmaamaa:
Congratulations Cookie. Abeg where is "my woman" in the later part of the story? Story Neva complete o�

jjohndoe83:
Na man you be sir. 1 more alomo for you!

By the way, how did you overcome the T, F, NG questions in reading. I've been dropping points a lot there.
Cc. Ifeoma77 (the way we mention you here sha), tojued.

jjohndoe83:
Bros. What happened to the woman who spurred your journey?

Decision to Travel... Has always been there... But it was never Canada... It's always been the UK... It just didn't happen then emigrating got really hard after 2010... So I just shenked it till when I have plenty money and can do shakara inside embassy.

Then me and my woman got pretty serious and she told me about ways to get into the country... Truth be told... Sometimes I'm eager and sometimes... I don't give a hoot... She's been my motivation... Throughout this journey...

Decision to travel reignited August 2017... (I won't be precise with dates... Make una no vex...). Signed up for WES that month but I didn't pay I had to travel to Ghana to get my transcript.

I went cold turkey again between August and November and I paid for WES and IELTS late November. IELTS was December 02 2017... I had about a week to practice...


IELTS: December 2, 2017 (L8.5, R8, W7, S7)

I started off practising with listening... I got better by the 3rd day scoring 36 and above then reading... And the only exercise I have an issue with till date is True/False/Not Given... For writing I just studied the tips and speaking... I watch two YouTube videos to get the hang of it...

On the exam day... I totally forgot how to spell "DISEASE" and two answers skipped past... Reading I left /F/NG blank... Oh... I only attempted True... Writing... I remembered I had to clean the second passage as I was contradicting myself... The first passage was a 9... If I'll score myself... And speaking... If I had an average of 2 minutes to answer my questions... I was done in 30 seconds...
Either ways... I didn't do too bad...


ECA: November 2017 - October 10th 2018 (11 freaking Months with WES)

This one... Blame Nigeria for this... I evaluated my B.Sc, NCE & WAEC before it was mandated... My B.Sc was the first to get accepted... Then WAEC until NCE decided to show itself... They sent my verification mail 5 times and WES will tell me they didn't get it... Worse... After 7 weeks... WES will send a new verification mail and post until I paid my school to send it via DHL... 5 Days later... It was accepted... 20 days I got my first ECA but WES has spelt my name wrong... I quickly contacted them highlighting the fact that they spelt my name wrong... I had to wait another 20 days for the error to be fixed... And by then... It was already October... Meanwhile I had created my profile (CIC) way back 2017... So I updated my profile on Monday and there was a draw that Monday... Ding ding ding... ITA!!!
ITA: October 15
CRS: 468


PCC: GHANA and Nigeria... Make I no loud am... But Ghana PCC cost pass Nigerian PCC by 250%... It ends there... Make I no give Nigerian government ideas. I had it couriered to me from Accra to Lagos.


POF: No salary AZA... but I've got savings, current and dorm AZA with different banks... ... It was half my POF so... I sold my kabukabu... Fixed it for 6 months... And got the certificates... Now this is the tricky part... I've read people saying CIC demands letter of indebtedness and something else in CIC format from the bank... Cool... I went to the bank asked for those letters and the bank me I've to get two referees with a current bank account... I had roughly 10 days left to submit my application and this people are putting me on cruise... So I just asked them to send my 6 months statement to my email... Fam... Trust me... That statement without stamp, without signature was what I uploaded along with my certificates... No letter of explanation.


WORK REFERENCE: If you've a good boss... The sky is the beginning... Man told me to type the letter the way I want it on the letterhead myself... He signed and stamped it and wished me luck... In fact... And that was the only thing I uploaded for work Reference...


AOR: Dec 4

Mid December... Someone had viewed my LinkedIn profile in ghost mode... So I know work was going on.


MEP/BiL: Jan 16 medical passed and Biometrics... Medicals at IOM... called October and my earliest date was November 21... I didn't confirm if it was acceptable or not... So November 21... I turned up for medical and wowzer... My name isn't on the list... Long story short... I gatecrashed my own medical date... As the next available date was December 20... Oh... Something funny happened... When my information was keyyed in... The nurses asked if I've been to Canada before... It was funny... I've never travelled outside Africa... And she's making me look like I've toured the world... When the result was out... They made a mistake as my date of birth was reduced by 10 years... I had to rectify it... So this contributed to me submitting and getting my AOR by the 4th of December.


Ghost update: Didn't look out for this. Honestly was expecting mails... I didn't look out for this... So I clearly missed it.


VO: no idea... I was tempted to check... But me schooling in Ghana... Although I uploaded all my visa pages on my old passport and residency permit... Accra had a reputation and it'll be heartbreaking if my application was there... I guess my VO should be Ottawa or Sydney...


PPR: Feb 12th... I couldn't take it anymore yesterday... I tried calling IRCC... BUT €5 worth of Skype credit for #2,100... It's cost 0.020 cents per seconds but I couldn't connect... Meanwhile I had predicted February 15 for myself... But Valentine came early...


I'll be branching London (maybe spend a week if possible) then Straight to Ottawa Canada.

AOR to PPR: 70 days (minus 10 days Xmas/New Year break).


The journey no easy at all... And I'm grateful... I can look back and smile... It's a new life for me out there... All the best to everyone on this journey...

I want to gbe my body mii and my soul... Lol...

Onyeenyeh:
Just head straight to studio24 to take your passport photo in CIC format, tell them the passport is for Canada. Then go to VFS, with a copy of your passport bio-data page, ur PPR letter duly filled out, international passport, of course and the fee of N17,790. You can choose to pay the SMS charge of N780 or not, I didn't. Pay no attention to the touts outside. I forgot to add, parking fee of between 200-500 naira. Congratulations.

iPopAlomo:
February 15th...

TheLogicalMind:
One rule for the raisin head abeeds and another rule for their Arab masters. It seems to be allah who is toying with your brains not poor innocent 'sheitan"

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TheLogicalMind:
But you still haven't answered the question. What happens to all those who worship in mosques built with haram money? And what happens to all those Almajiris who went to madrassas built with alcohol VAT? Are they going to Hell?

Sawzer:
Tohr! I cannot read

Honestly, you guys make people run away from religion.