vcole:
@Spatz81, I carefully read through your post. That was a very important update to the rules that you brought to the fore. It means that if an applicant receives an ITA on say April 1st and has his birthday on May 1st and submits his eAPR on May 1st or after, whenever the immigration officer begins to review his application for eligibility checks (i.e. A11.2), he stands the chance of being denied permanent residence based on not being eligible if by virtue of losing points for age, his CRS drops below the required cut off for the draw in which he was invited.
However, if he submits after his birthday and yet even with the points lost for age, his CRS still meets or surpasses the cut off for the draw, his application would be fine. Also, if he goes ahead to submit his eAPR before his birthday on May 1st, his app would be fine.
Bottom line - once you receive an ITA, endeavour to submit your eAPR before your next birthday if you know that your CRS less 5 points would make you fall below the cut off for your draw.

@bimpsy99, pls take note that "your application would not be refused" is not the same as having a successful outcome.

@esosa4real, I got my passport back siiiiiincceee in February. It only took 5 days. Don't worry about your medicals, sometimes it gets updated quickly, other times it takes a while.

@40manlappy,congrats. This has been a long time coming. I wish you a smooth sail from here on.

@markab, I am female oh. I often wonder why "thanks bro" is the default response when someone gives a reply. Is it only men that provide answers? #justsaying

@lochinny, medical doctors can only evaluate their degrees through MCC and pharmacists can only evaluate theirs through PEBC, any other evaluation done by any other evaluating agency would be declared null and void by IRCC. If your husband is the PA and his estimated crs scores WITHOUT evaluating your own degree is 459, then y'all may want to write ielts and get his own degree evaluated and get into the pool asap to take advantage of the wind of low cut off draws.

@ugoiyke79e, that eAPR form can be dicey. You may have to fill all the info again seeing as it wiped off.

Greetings to all. Congrats to all new ITA recipients. And to the hopefuls, hang in there. It'll happen soon.

P.S.
If anyone new here sent me PMs, pls kindly endeavor to ask your questions here as I would be unable to respond to the messages via email.

khasm:
Hello good ppl,pls help out:
WES has sent me an email twice explaining that copies of my doc has bn sent to my schl,my schl is sayin dey have not seen any document, my question :
1. Do I need to wait for WES to complete evaluation bfor I cn enter EE?
2. I hav sombody in canada that's giving me a job offer, what documents should I get from his company?

I await your honest opinion

ramsol00:
Hello House,

Please do we have anyone who is into Risk Management (Operational Risk, Credit Risk or Fraud Management) here, I'm trying to get the best codes for this job title pls. Your prompt response will be highly welcome.


God bless you all.


Regards.

Yettyseye:
Hello house, i am new on this platform, i put in for a study visa in canada against next year but my application was refused, so i decided to try out PR tru d ongoing express entry platform. pls i need proper guidance and i will appreciate every ones support. if i may ask, what is d guarantee for migrating with dis programme and how long does it take.

irondome:


If only politicians would stop making insane promises just to curry electorate's vote. The good thing is that they are not processing the refugees' pr outrightly. The plan is to rush up their basic health and security checks, grant them temporary visa, resettle them this year and process their pr over next year. Even with approach, they would still struggle to resettle 25k refugees before xmas

irondome:


Lols, there is a rumor going around that CIC may be prioritizing 2014 FSW applicants, as well as the 25,000 Syria refugees. If that's true, you should hear something good from Ghana very soon.

All the best.

romefe:
Pls forum members I have a driver licences which I did but without capturing and I was told I will need to sumit it in Winnipeg to get there own. My question is will they confirm it with Nigeria road safety or not.

cedarhaven:



By mutual fund account I meant investment account (asset mgt ) bonds, money mkt. Its different from my pension acct

chigoziri7:
Thank you Issydebo and Zandora very much for the insight - I appreciate.

@IssyDebo - I also work in an International bank but in HR. that means the long and short of it all is that Embassies one way or another verify authenticity of bank statements which invariably is also a confirmation that i have xyz amount in my account, right?

zandora:


They are legally allowed to contact your bank to confirm your balance as at the date of the submitted statement. That's what the disclosure agreement you sign is for and therefore can't be a breach of anything. It's when they attempt to find out how much you have outside of the provided bank statement dates that it then constitutes a breach.

P.S - please check out these links on how immigration officers in general verify bank statements:

https://www.nairaland.com/329395/high-commisions-calling-banks-ask

https://www.nairaland.com/31250/british-embassy-account-information-survey

zandora:


Yes processing can take up to 2 years because Quebec does not use express entry.
They can call your bank to verify your account balance however under the law they can only verify the balance as at the date on the bank statement you provided. For example let's say you provide a bank statement with an ending balance of XX naira as at 21 Oct, they can only call your bank to verify if you indeed had that XX naira on 21 Oct.

zandora:


You're not asked to provide evidence of proof of a relative in Canada unless you used it to claim 67 points to qualify for FSW. In that case you'll have to provide both your birth certificates, his PR card or Canadian passport or Canadian passport etc. I hope you realise that in order to claim the points he has 2 be a PR or citizen.

emmanuel07:
Zandora thanks for your reply but i left out one vital information, my wife is 40years old and i believe that may count against as well. can you well again estimate what her CRS score will based her IELTS result; 8: 8: 7: 7. listening is 8. thank you.

kosplateau:

no need...quit tormenting ur wife.

zandora:


Congrats! That's a good score. I don't think she should retake it unless you have spare funds to burn. I hope you're in the pool because you have a chance of being selected. Goodluck

snowhity85:
Plz guys thanks for d response but what exactly will shoot up my points to 450 or more. Is it really necessary to write the English test n d evaluation thing Along with hubby or can he do it all alone n still achieve the minimum points.

JesusDWay:


This Oanda stuff is something we just discussed on another group I am. I'll rather advice one use bank rate(you will use bank to make any payment you are making anyway) which someone who just transacted with First Bank said he was charged 165. It used to be 170 actually which I'll rather advice anyone to use.

zandora:


This was what you wrote before:

'Current crs is 435 excluding spouse ielts which from my calcn will take me to 451 (that's on a score of LWRS 7666) and potentially up to 455'.

As you can see you didn't mention IELTS and WES, you only mentioned that the IELTS will boost your score.

Ekpekus:

please what is the cost of verification with WES? I am seeing two options viz basic and another

zandora:


The maximum your spouse can add is 20 points for language, 10 for education and 10 for Canadian experience.

zandora:


How did you arrive at your calculation though? If she scores L7,6,6,6 that's clb levels 7&8 which will net you 12 points bringing your total to 447 which isn't that good. The English scores awarded for principal applicant and Spouse are different. She should aim for the maximum at most or L7.5,7,7,7 to give 453 which is good. See the link below for spouse language calculation:

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/express-entry/grid-crs.asp