Ethelia:
Hello everyone, it's been a while.

Please I have a question about employment reference letter. When it comes to listing the job descriptions, can one just copy and paste the ones provided on the NOC page?

Many thanks!

Copy and paste is not so advisable. Paraphrase instead, remove one or two (that does not apply to you), add two or three of what you do that isn't already listed.

Newmum0615:
Hello @Kontagious, I remember you posted a while ago that you submitted Tbills and 6months SOA. Did you also add bank reference letter or did the other 2 suffice for you? I am asking cos my funds are in 3 Tbills and in some mutual funds. Do I need to submit reference letter? My 6months average balance won't show much cos my savings are always in Tbills or some other investment.
I am thinking of adding 9months statement cos the last time i booked 2 out of the 3 tbills was almost 9months ago. If I do 6months SOA, it might not show the debit. The 3rd one was booked this month, I intend adding 3 months SOA for this one. I don't want a bulky upload, so I am thinking of how not to include too many docs. I already have to add reference letter for the mutual funds & hubby consent letter to use his own mutual funds. Or can I add only the Tbills certs and reference letter, and then my mutual funds letter? I no wan make mistake abeg.

Anyone else with advise can chip in please. Thanks.

Hi hi, I didn’t include bank letter. It was just 2 Tbills certificate, 6 months statement + screenshot from Oanda & EX. I used the SOA because I needed the closing balance in addition to the Tbills value, SOA was barely 6 pages.

You don’t need the SOA to show debit of the TBills. The certificates will details they are from your account as the certificate bears your name (the account name), account number, date invested among other details. That’s enough to show it’s from your account. The 6 (or 3) months SOA you’d be providing will detail you haven’t liquidated the investments.

A way to work around your multiple POF source is to do a cover letter saying you have funds from various sources, all have been included in your POF document but a summary is as below; you may do something like the attached table (adjust to your taste or whatever detail you want to include). From the table, VO already sees the total you have at a glance without having to sum up all your POF document, just left for him to confirm you attached the documents (perhaps their value too) and continue with whatever he’s to do.

Try keep the documents as simple as you can. Wish you the best.

2faceman:
Quick question pls. Can someone get an ITA if he just submitted his profile today and has a score of 470 ?

If you submitted before the draw, Yes. If not, wait about 2 or 3 weeks and you'd have it.

mcstan18:
Bro, I suggest you edit this post to point people to the page where you provided links to the IELTS materials. The constant requests make it feel like the thread is being spammed already.

I was wondering how come that post gained popularity today, I think it's clear those who requested recently don't read. The same bro who posted your quote just yesterday shared links to 33 books. Yet, we see people quoting a post of over a week when links de few pages back.

It's like someone sees another person's request quoting the post, then without reading further just clicks on the initial post and boom, makes his own request. Circle continues. Issa worrying sunthin

Fanyeofori:
Gud pm my pple. Tx to all dat assisted me ystday. So I completed WES payment last night but contrary to expectation, 71k+ (233.91 canadian dollar) was deducted from my account as against 68k! Is dis normal?

A 2nd question, can I edit my details on WES website after payment?

3rdly, how can I make d WES reference number reflects on d certs to be scanned and sent?

Tx my pple.

#1. N71k+ is in order. 68k is for IELTS and not ECA.

#2. Some edits are allowed, you can edit your mailing address and login details for starters. You may need to contact WES (maybe with proof) for other edits.

#3. A number of ways.
i. Rename the document(s) to be sent to show your Name, WES Reference Number and Degree.
ii. Add a cover page (either by adding additional page to be sent or through the hellofax cover page) detailing your reference number.
iii. Attach a very small piece of paper on your certificate(s) with your reference number written on the paper, then scan. Fix the piece on a corner but make sure no lettering or logo on the document is covered.
iv. Combination of some or all of i - iii

Bello321:
This could be of help

IELTS (33) books

This is awesome. Thank you.

cc: GliterringStar, Cochtrane

nairalandnewbie:
Hi, thank you for your help but the problem is this:
1. My sister is a contracted staff to the company so her employment letter is carrying her contractor's letter head not the Company she has been contracted out to work with.
2. Her job description has evolved to another role since she started working there but the Contractor(which is her direct employer) has failed to include this updated job description in her reference letter.
The role that's included cannot fetch her any point as it is not relatable to her job description.
Her job description now is NOC 1225 but what is written in her reference letter is 1221
please what can she do? cc @glitteringstar @einsteino, @cochtrane, @40manlappy. Please i need your help

Hi, I see no issues with #1. When filling name of employer, let her fill the Contractor's name. That's her real employer not where she's working.

#2. Did she ever work as 1221? If yes, for how long? If under 3years and that will give her ITA score, let her use the reference letter as it is and move her 1225 to personal history. If the 1221 is less than 3 years but needs the 1225 to shore up ITA score, then LOE to the rescue plus all smslive2 earlier listed. If the 1221 is however 3 years or more, do same as bolded.

doksheritage90:
Hi guys.
Please, i need your advice.

I empathize with you... You hear about New Zealand, Canada, Australia among others and you try to read but get discouraged when you don't have the right content or guidance.

You have come to the right place if only you'd invest time, to read. If you will, please read page 0 of this part 3, then do more time on part 2 and 1. You'd find the links on page 0

See that long story you put up there, it's simply put as you're 31, have a masters and over three years experience. You are a hot cake. If there's any at all, it's just a little more Canada desires more than you... Canada awaits you!

Tamad101:
Hello house, Please is it possible to claim 3yrs work experience with 2 jobs under one NOC. That is, using my NYSC (one year) work experience and the job (2yrs) I do now under NOC 1241? Thank you

Yes, totally fine. You don't have to have just one employer. We've had cases of those who even combined different NOCs.

crazyinlove:
For guys with COPR, please when you send your PUM and authorization letter to DHL, how do you know they have picked up your package from AVO.

I sent mine last week and they sent an email the same day that my pickup request has been processed.

I thought they are meant to send a tracking number because I am yet to yet one from them.

Thanks!!

Send a mail (preferably on the mail trail) to the DHL representative that you forwarded the PUM to, keep the rest of recipients in copy... Ask for update on your parcel, as well the tracking number just so you can monitor yourself.

I wasn't exactly gentle when I did, I got a screenshot of the movement within minutes as well as tracking number.

Try ask and see if you'd get a response.

Flaj:
You can only edit details before an ITA, if you need to edit after receiving an ITA you'd have to decline it.

If this post was in reference to issue at hand, maybe fine but some [s]unpretentious before person go carry dictionary ontop my head[/s] modest edits are allowed after ITA.

When a nation gathers to tell you not to do a thing, and you say it is that one thing you must and will do because you are a doctor who married a stand-up comedian. Well, all the best proving your point.

Eni a wi fun, oba je o gbo
Eni a kilo fun, oba je o gba…

einsteino:
me I sha would like to board flight today with my future COPR

My brother ehnnn

fantababy:
I agree that ECA report should be gotten before entering the pool however I am just speaking loud my inner analogies.

You cannot compare IELTS and ECA evaluation.

IELTS - You are yet to write, you do not know what your score is.
ECA - You already have your degree, you are not claiming what you do not have.

I'd love to give you an elaborate response but today is not the day I have plenty time.

You say you cannot compare IELTS and ECA but you can compare ECA and POF abi, weldonma!

Again, you say you have not written IELTS, but you as well know you can input 8777 and then edit to reflect true position when result is out to show your 8.5,8.5,8.5,8.5... So what then stops you from using a pseudo score when you can always edit?

I read through your posts then realized you'd most likely miss only one more draw if you do the right thing, why the rush?

Since you have made up your mind to do what you want to do, we can only wish you well. I rest my case.

fantababy:
He is ready to take the risk as he wants to prove to me
That claiming readiness of ECA report and Claiming completeness of POF is the same thing and has no risk so far, you get it before the 3months expiration.

Ma, I try to understand rationale for equating ECA to POF but the thing just de elude me.

One question though, can you legitimately receive ITA with a future IELTS result?. When you answer this, then do the proper equation to what you should have done than comparing ECA to POF.

So, to submit profile, you fill in a past date for ECA. All went well.

ITA comes 3rd January 2018
ECA date in e-Apr 9th January 2018

Nothing else to say o than Wehdonsir!

This pseudo date of a thing can however be done for IQAS as those one are known to dispatch ECA about a month after completion. If you're lucky, ECA report date will be before ITA date.

kunmi5:
Lol, I cant read all 80pages na.

Now we understand why you were debating usability of pension's 25% and of course why you'd send your wife on a journey to Uyo to go get a document which is not needed.

Truthfully, you shouldn't even read the over 80pages but read the over 500 pages of Part 2 and over 800 pages of Part 1.

KINGTELLER:
Thank you

boldinc, someone (Deebay) quoted below that it is not a financial institution according to CIC, have you witness anyone who has successfully used mortgage bank statement of account as POF?

Deebay never said that. S/he only mentioned CIC says financial institution, implying mortgage bank is also a financial institution that the statement can be used. If pension account (which isn't a bank) can be used, then a mortgage bank should suffice.

Muslimity:
I was not arguing or disputing with @Kontagious. I was only expantiating on the issue to you when you asked question: Are u talking abt accompanying spouse's work experience or the PA's?

Allow me clear your doubts a little further. My wife has about 6 years work experience -all in Nigeria, which means zero points from spouse work experience- I answered No to spouse having work experience which also means no place holder was created for spouse work reference letter. Instead, I put the work experience under personal history. This is what most people here do to avoid the stress of requesting spouse reference letter that adds zero point to PAs CRS point.

Now, if you read my initial post, I mentioned I removed a work experience. Creating my EE profile, I had used three different companies. Got ITA and getting reference letter from the 3rd company became stories for another day. Had to remove that work experience post ITA, the other 2 companies gave me above 3 years experience, adding the 3rd initially wasn't necessary, hence removing it was inconsequential. Placeholder for reference letters subsequently reduced from 3 to 2.

If your spouse work experience is outside Canada, there is no point detailing it in work history. Though, we have seen few cases where spouse work experience that adds no point to overall CRS were requested but this cases are few out of many who have succeded without adding spouse work experience.

PS: Don't argue with elfmann, you'd soon get used to him. Guy na special case on hm own

kunmi5:
Good morning great people,

(1) For Tax Clearance certificate from FIRS & LIRS, is there a need for a special supporting letter or just the certificates/ statement from this two bodies will help?
Who are they to be addressed to?

(2) If 25% of pension has already been collected, I feel the pension statement of account wont add any value to the POF.

Kindly enlighten me on these 2 issues.

1.) Care to explain why you are uploading tax clearance certificate upfront?. If just to substantiate your work experience claims, the certificates alone will do. You can always address documents to;
Central Intake Office (CIO)
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Canada.

2.) If you have withdrawn the 25%, there's absolutely no need for the Pension statement of account except you want to explain where you get the money from if the 25% is significantly huge and a substantial part of your POF otherwise, keep your documents simple.

kunmi5:
Hi,
For every work experience of your spouse filled in the EE/PRE-ITA/e-ITA form, you have to submit Letters of employment/reference. There is a space where you will upload all her employment/work reference letter. Not sure about the points issue but very sure about the upload as I am presently uploading my spouse, she'll need to travel for some. If I had know, I wouldn't have put the one outside the state.

Even at your present stage, you can still edit her work history to remove all or that which she has to travel to get. Spouse work experience gained outside Canada adds zero point to your CRS. So, if you remove any or all (provided it's outside Canada), your CRS is unaffected.

Please do the needful, save your self and more your wife the stress of travelling to get reference letter. Folks (PAs inclusive) have removed work experience after ITA was received and nothing consequential happened. I (as PA) did remove a work experience post ITA and sailed through quite well.

mummytutu:
Fam, please who knows how earliest one can renew his or her passport before expiration. Mine will expire by August 2018. Team 434

The rule is, NIS will only renew your passport when you have 6 months or less to expiration. Don't know if that rule can be bent when man-know-man is involved, but then, if you know who can bend such rule, then you have little worries as such a person should be able to get you a renewed passport within a day or two.

chizilulu:



Congratulations!!!!!!!! I'm so happy for you! I We have been waiting for this! You deserve it and more. Favour and speedy PPR

Congrats GliterringStar, DereI and all other ITA recipients. Christmas gift for you all.

Congrats Boldinc, Kissoflife and Deebay.

crazyinlove:
Hi guys,

Is it advisable to resign once you get PPR.

Plan to land by Feb ending and I need to give 2 months notice at work. I have sent passport to ghana but no update from them for 2weeks now.

Please advice.

Just like the e-APr timeline where some have less than 20 days, and some as long as fopawon ... Same goes for post PPR. Some receive their passports back within 3 weeks while some wait 4/5 weeks + to get approval plus a little more delay before receiving PUM. Give or take, sending to receiving passports should not exceed 2 months I believe.

If you plan to stop working mid February and you have to follow your notice period, then you should have turned in your resignation by now considering you might have to wait a while before you have your passport back, that guaranty you seek.

It's rare to read a case of denial/rejection after PPR (if it exist) as that seems to be your fear.

mcstan18:
Can one request for a remark before receiving the TRF?

That which I know, you have to submit your TRF with the EOR form. If you succeed applying for the EOR without your TRF, my brother, stories that touch will enter after a very long wait. A representative of a brother on here unknowingly made that mistake, BC only communicated after 10 weeks wait that initial TRF could not be found, rest na story.

bigbroda:
Guyz, I got Nova Scotia province nomination on tuesday and relaxing in the pool with a CRS of 900+expecting ITA next week wednesday by God's grace.

I have the following post ITA questions to ask:
1. Where should each/all documents be addressed to. Documents like PoF, employer reference letter, etc.
2. Has anyone successfully paid the application fee with a naira mastercard before especially someone with a family size of 4(considering the amount)
3. The issue of passport photograph, will I be required to upload for every member of the family(including toddlers) or just that of my spouse and I? Also, do I need to resnap another passport at PPR stage after snapping now for submission? Considering the fact that dates and some other info. have to be written at the back of the passports. If PPR comes like 4-6 months, hope the passport won't be too old since they usually say recent passport. How many copies of passports are required?
4. If a substantial amount of money(say 2M) is transferred from spouse's account to PA's account, is there any need to explain it or do gift deed especially when the narrative is something like "spouse immigration support"
5. What item(s) do I need to take to Alagbon, Lagos to obtain police clearance? Will I get it that same day? Who is required to do clearance? Only the PA or with spouse and children?
6. What items to I need to take along for medicals? What will be issued after the medicals at the hospital? Can we(including kids) eat before going for it as it's not advised if sugar level has to be checked?
7. What options do I have in terms of hospitals? The names and locations.
8. Can someone please describe how to drive down to Alagbon and the hospitals?

So sorry for the numerous questions. Just trying to avoid stories that touch ni. lol

Wish everyone here success in this pursuit.

One luv!

Congratulations on your nomination.

1.) You can use address below for all documents;
Central Intake Office (CIO)
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
Sydney, Nova Scotia
Canada.

2.) A bank was recently mentioned to have increased monthly limit to USD5,000. Not sure of the bank at the moment but i'd be guessing total App fee + RPRF for family of 4 should come to CAD2,480 (depending on age of the children). A Naira card aside that of the mentioned bank might not go through if you'd be paying App fee and RPRF at once.

3.) All members of family is to upload passport, some allowance in body posture is given to toddlers though but not too far off the accepted standard. A professional photographer will know how to handle your toddlers. Six months is the time-frame given for passport photographs, so, you may explore option of using same passport for e-Apr and on PPR. If you intend doing this, tell the photographer you want the PPR dimension (50mm * 70mm), s/he knows other specifications to follow. You can try any Studio 24 outlet. You should tell them to stamp and sign at least one each of you all. Soft copy of the passport is not necessary since you'd still be scanning other documents, you can scan the hardcopy passport just as well, but if you feel you want the soft copy, please collect it. Might still come in handy for some other stuffs.

2 copies of passport is required, one to have name of photo studio, date taken and subject's name at the back while the other should be left blank. Applies to everybody in your application

4.) A gift deed is not necessary when spouse transfers. A letter authorizing the use for immigration purpose will suffice. Frankly, I'd say N2m out of what is needed for family of 4 should not necessitate that authorization letter but for peace of mind, you can include it. Gift deed is however not needed.

5.) Who should do PCC: PA, Spouse and children above 18. Take along passport photograph (2 to be safe), copies of your international passport biopage, and of course money . Average of 4k per person if you go through Inspector Moshood. You'd get all the PCCs in about 30-45mins, shouldn't exceed 1 hour.

6.) Take same thing for PCC but your original international passport at hand. You'd be given a sheet which is what you'd upload in placeholder for medicals. You should as a fact eat before leaving home, you don't know when you'd be attended to.

7.) Just three hospitals in Lagos, prices defers though;
A. Q-Life Family Clinic,
Plot 155a Prince Ade Odedina Street,
off Sinari Daranijo, Victoria Island Annexe.

B. IOM Migration Health Assessment Centre
No. 1 Isaac John Street,,
GRA Ikeja.

C. The Childrens Practice and the Consultants Practice,
25 Raymond Njoku Street,
Ikoyi,

8.) Hospital, depends on your choice and where you coming from but Alagbon is just after Passport Office (NIS) going from Obalende but before if coming through Kingsway Road.

Hope all questions are covered, and congratulations again on your nomination.

Adebookie85:


Good morning all, I am new here on this express entry thread and would appreciate some guidance.

I had a score of 7776.5 in the recently released Ielts test result and this made my assessment very low

Any suggestion as to how to boost this score if I decide to rewrite it?

Thank you

You're welcome here. If you connect (privately) with people here, in other for the person(s) to help you better, you need to have basic knowledge of the whole PR process for your relationship to be seamless. With that said, the best guidance you can have lies in page 0, there you will see links to the previous thread and many other useful pages. Read the two page 0 diligently if you haven't done so and you're sure to be armed with the basics needed.

PS: Beauty of those pages is in the links contained, it will take you time to cover but you will gain knowledge, a lot. Tips for acing IETLS is there as well, a page or two back, link to materials was also shared. Good luck

This kind of day brings mixed feelings. Some rejoicing and some deflated but not defected. Struggle continues whichever way. At the end, we will all triumph.

Thank you Optionese, Boldinc, Yokus and 40manlappy. Much appreciated.

Thank you Optionese. My people. I’m begging o, Please, Abeg, Biko, Mbok, Don Allah, Edakun, make una no do jump and pass on my questions. I’m asking for a friend who’s just starting out, he’s self-employed and most likely to get married to a lady who has a young child. I believe proper preparation plays a part especially for an applicant caught in this web. Here are the questions again.
1.) For an applicant who’s adding spouse after AOR, what are the likely ADRs to expect apart from POF, PCC & Medicals for spouse, Pictures of wedding/honeymoon, chats/email exchange?

2.) The significant other has a child, asides consent letter from the child’s father, any other legal document to support addition of the chap?

3.) PA is self-employed, what documents are needed to prove work experience? I know recommendation letter from clients, CAC registration, income evidence, tax clearance, reference letters from clients, bank statement showing payments from clients, contract agreements. Please any other document to be added?

Individualized answers will be appreciated, those who added spouse post AOR can help with #1, single parent applicants can help with #2, while our entrepreneurial applicants can tidy #3. Ojogbons, elders and gurus/gurus in the making can attempt any or all questions. Please no jump and pass biko.

saaddiction:
Hi everyone, I just got the golden mail and I'll like to share my timeline. Thank you all.

ECA - 31 August
IELTs - 31 August
AOR - 21th Nov
PPR - 13th Dec

ECA and IELTS same day, plus 22 days timeline. You're balling! Congratulations.