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Congratulations to all PPR recipients. More grace to all August and September 2018 AOR and all who have crossed 6 months still waiting.

Topsmamen:
@raphrulz @ItsAnita @Maritee @AzariahYaa

Me too

Congratulations Livy2018

stanzee:
Good Morning guys, congratulations to the ITA & PPR holders.

I sent a mail to ottawa to inquire about my application as it’s over 5 months. Just look at what they replied Please guys, what could be the problem? Did anyone ever experience this?

They even responded. Please how long did it take before you got this reply. I sent message and no reply till today.

Ify happy birthday!!! Thank you for all you doing on this thread.

ottawasenators:
PPR mail received today, will be back with full details.

We waiting

Topsmamen:
6 months post-AOR and education/experience have not been approved, this is peculiar. Please do as @joo2018 and @GozyNA have advised.

@joo2018 and @GozyNA thank you all for the reply. Newmum is helping me out. I think I misinterpreted what was written.

Hello all PLEASE i need help.

I just received my GCMS notes after almost 2 months and I’m in panic mode. My education and experience have not been met. My education and experience were not recognized. I attached WES document which was equivalent to master’s degree in Canada and my certificates when I submitted my documents initially. What should I do? Should I raise a CSE and attach documents again. My six months elapsed a week ago. Please what should I do? Plus there was a due date for 31st december 2018. Help me please.

Waiting for all this week's good news.

sleekysoft:
Hello house, it’s been 2weeks I landed in Corner Brooks , Newfoundland.. it’s being mixed feelings.. is there any Nigerian living in Corner brooks ?

And trust me to people coming , you will have to undergo cultural Balance lol

Thanks

Congratulations on your landing. Please what do you mean by cultural balance

bammy2017:
ITS PPR/COPR guys!!! (Written 17th October 2018, 14th November, I put a PPR date range by Faith  but God had other plans, PPR came in Feb 26th 2019)
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Issa congratulations something.�

Rode20:
I am worried about the current high figures of the CIC draw. At the moment my score is 447 but my fear is that I will lose 5 marks by 20th of April if the numbers does not drop.

I guess there will be 3 draws only before then.

It will definitely drop. Have faith.

raphrulz:
Guysssss!!!!


THE EAGLE HAS LANDED!!!!!


ISSA GOLDEN MAIL THINGS!!!

Here is my “brief story”… read at your own risk:


God bless you and thank you for reading my long post!
PS: Please, rate your Prof well oooooooo!!!

Oga Raphael congratulations. Please did your application ever move to Ip2. I wish you safe journey and a beautiful life in canada. Its 9.95 over 10.

titiclassy:
LANDING GIST (LANDED 2 WEEKS AGO)

ALL THE THANKS TO GOD

Congratulations on moving. Please can you share the list of food stuff you used. Thanks.

fizzile:
Decision to migrate:

ITA: June 11, 2018
AOR: August 28, 2018.
1st ADR: September 20, 2018
MED passed/ BIL: September 24, 2018.
Biometrics submitted: October 9, 2018
RPRF Request: October 26, 2018
RPRF PAID: October 31, 2018
GHOST UPDATE: Feb 19th, 2019
PPR: Feb 20th, 2019[/b]
VO- Ottawa

You really global now. Congratulations!!! I was smiling all through. I pray for sound health/recovery for your dad.

Please has anyone recently registered and started a course with ACCES? Kindly indicate.

amdman:
TESTIMONY TIME

So I have been 6weeks in Canada and I can say that God has been so faithful, so much so that my greatest challenge many a times is making the best choice amongst many good options. Here are a few highlights:

Starting a Business
Participating in Acces' Entrepreneurship Connections has been very helpful in getting to understand how things work here. My business' niche is highly regulated, so there is a lot of work to be done. Lots of useful contacts made. Looking forward to Business Day 1.

Finding Work
First week of February, I decided to start job-hunting so that bills will be getting paid. Before the week was out, I got and resumed at this interesting job at an Airline Servicing Company. Also got an RBC invite for an info session and interview. Aced it and got an offer to resume at RBC this February as a fulltime staff. They will be bearing the cost of obtaining some certification that I require. Today, I got another offer from TD Bank...but RBC's offer appears better, and I love the atmosphere at RBC's head office where I will be working.

Finding Accommodation
This has remarkably been easy. When I needed to move from Airbnb to a more permanent accommodation, I found a lovely place in Toronto where the Landlady didn't care about my newness to Canada. No job reference, credit check or guarantor required and rent is paid month to month (not first and last as is usually required). Now because of my new job at RBC, I need to move to Mississauga. Guess what? A Canadian friend connected me to a couple in Brampton that have a furnished 1-bedroom basement apartment for rent and we agreed on a month to month rent of $625 CAD! For a 1-bed apartment within GTA! Amazing!

There are so many other things to be thankful for in this new place called HOME, and it can only get better.

TIP: Doing as much research as possible before landing is important to hit the ground running.

Congratulations on all your wins and I pray you have more. Please I want to ask if you have previous experience in the bank before. Also, are the positions entry level positions?

Please I want to find out about ACCES. I registered but i didn't get any response from them. Please for those of you that have used ACCES how did you go about registration?

Please I have a question. Does Canada pre-arrival services require us to pay any fee eg ACCES

Hello please are there people who are working with McKinsey on this thread?

With a PR status which can we Nigerians enter the US without visa?

salford1:
It basically means a contractor would be sent to work in a different province or within the same province for a project. The project could be 1 month long or 2 years long. Apart from the likes of PwC, IBM, KPMG, there are other smaller consultants that focus solely on PM and Business Analysis, and are well established across Canada. A good one that I know of is Paradigm Consulting Group out of Winnipeg in Manitoba or PMX out of Toronto. I am sure there would be tons of those smaller consulting firms across Canada.

Hi Salford thank you for the response. Please bear with my questions. Still on the project management, there are different aspects like IT PM, construction PM etc. So for these consultancies like E&Y, PWC, KPMG etc do they have need for all types of project manager or different consultancies with different PMs? And irrespective of your background when you do pmp or prince2 does this enable you work with any consultancy? Also do you know consultancy that construction professionals can work? Thank you.

salford1:
I don't know much about Conestoga. All I know is that it's in Ontario.
As per Conestoga stats: 92% PM related roles, or 92% related and unrelated jobs...?
If it's 92% PM related jobs, then that's a good record.
In my opinion, PM is good and can be a hot cake if you have good experience to back it up, usually 5 years and more of related experience.

Please could you share the link where you got this statistics.

salford1:
Yes. Pmp is more accepted in Canada/N.America. Very few organization will list prince2 as a substitute to Pmp. We accept both in my place of work, but a candidate with a prince2 will get bumped for one with pmp when it comes down to one person getting the pm job.
Most core project management positions will not ask for a particular degree. Note "core PM positions" e.g like a PM team for an IT project or PM team for lean improvement projects; however, some construction or engineering jobs or IT jobs will still require the prerequisite engineering or computer science degree, and Pmp ceetification will just be an added bonus. These kind of roles will often encounter projects on their jobs, but their engineering skills and regulatory requirements is of more importance than PM skills.

So whether your degree matters or not will depend on the kind of job you are looking for. There are project management consultancies that send contractors to work term projects in companies all over Canada, for this types of jobs, your degree title would hardly matter.

Hi Salford could you please explain a bit more on the bold sentence and please state some companies that are project management consultancies. Thanks.

salford1:
I really do not understand what you meant by "scanty community and mixing up". It is not true that people do not want to support others. You would find good and not so good people everywhere, irrespective of whether you stay in Ottawa or Calgary.

Hi salford this is quite enlighting please what courses or certifications can one take to beginning with also how does construction project management practice differ from what we have in nigeria and please do you know anything about real estate finance.

Please I have a honest question to ask. I see a lot of people in well paying jobs and comfortable lives still moving.

And then i here people also say the kind of money or cashflow they have in Nigeria its challenging to make it abroad. Some one literally said those words. It always makes me concerned.

So how can people still make it and live more comfortable abroad.

By the way I believe people should still move though.

Congratulations!!! To all PPR people go and prosper

Boom12:
My people, this PPR is a sweet feeling ooo, I've been smiling all day

Timeline

Decision to travel was in April 2018.
Family of 4
IELTS July 2018 LSRW 8877
WES September 2018
CRS 454
ITA 3 October
AOR 6 November
MEP/BIL 11 December
Visa Office No idea
PPR 22 January 2019 (dated 21 January 2019), letter didnt specify VFS location for submission

Congratulations

A good number of PPR on visa canada for the month of September and August, so check your emails yours might be there.

Please are there any real estate professionals already practicing in canada on this thread? Please I need to speak with one. If you know anyone kindly let me know.

smslive2:
Soft Landing Gist.

Congratulations....was just smiling while reading your post.