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Aka2003:
Boss you may have to pay back eventually but I hear it is interest free and also possible to make payment arrangement.

There was no where it said I didn't qualify. I have read the requirements over and over again. Besides they specifically created a way for ppl in this situation to apply. But if it comes to paying back, no problem. These are uncertain times, nobody knows the way this pandemic will affect things. It's better to have money at hand.

sweetrie:
Someone on my group posted this... "I just got off the phone with cra, and the rep said the clause to this is that even though you earned the 5k outside of Canada �� , but you must be a resident at the time of earning it outside the country" The matter is somehow

The CRA rep that processed mine asked me for the date I migrated to Canada, after which he asked me if I earned 5000 last year and told me it doesn't have to be in Canada. I am sure if there was an issue with me migrating to Canada this year, he would have told me. Besides, the application was successful and I have already been paid the benefit

Influential101:
The 5K criterion isn't an issue as they said the money mustn't have been earned in Canada..

My major issue is that for a new immigrant who hadn't gotten a job before Covid 19, how will you say your income was impacted by Covid 19? when you were not in employment prior to that.. This is the reason I haven't applied.. Because the CERB is for those whose income have been impacted by COVID 19..

If I can get clarification to the above, then I may just apply.. Me sef need the money

The benefit is for workers. The way I see it, I am a worker by even their definition, I came in as a Federal Skilled Worker. Covid 19 has hindered my chances of getting employed. I think they have this in mind hence they included the clause of earnings outside canada. I think they just want to make sure at least someone was working ( Canada or abroad)

LecturerIFE:
Good to hear.

How about someone who had not earned $5k in Canada (she obviously made as much prior to migrating) in the twelve months preceding the application but lost her job due to covid-19? Will she qualify to apply?

That qualifies, the money can be earned outside canada

Hi guys, this is for those of us who just migrated to Canada and couldn't get a job because of the pandemic or just stopped working just after we got a job. We don't qualify for E.I but we can get CERB. We qualify for CERB. I just applied successfully. No dulling.

Jbelieve:
Thank you for the breakdown. Grateful much. Please do you have a contact for frsc reference letter?

Search for officer sule on the search bar or send a pm

bekayy:
I am with you o. Stuck btw Ethiopian and Egypt. The diff is about N100,000, that's enough to help me prepare. I have heard abt bad reviews for Egypt. I really don't know. A day's journey shouldn't be spent in an eventful airline. I have used Ethiopian before and loved it, like any intl airline but last March dey make me fear.

I am travelling in a few weeks, I have already booked Egypt air. What bad reviews did u hear?

Newbeecey:
You should reach out to Mr Sule ASAP, his contact details can be gotten via search on this forum.

OK thanks. I will contact him

Petitemommy:
I applied via email and got a response after two months to pick up.

Wow, that's quite a long time. I will be out by then. Do u know if it would be faster if I go to their office or is there any other way to fast track it?

Hello house, please who has applied for frsc driving records / authentication of Driver’s Licence recently?.

I applied via mail over 2 weeks ago but am yet to get a response from them.

bekayy:
Update.

@Natalie27 @bankyh1905. I went to the VFS office, Abuja. Passport is still in Accra. I was told to wait for the text so maybe next week. Cheers.

Told u to give them 5 working days. I believe by Monday it will be available for collection.

bekayy:
Banky thanks for your input. For me, my profile now shows approved and shows document: counterfoil as well as the counterfoil number. I will go there on Friday if no text comes. Cheers.

Give them like 5 working days after ur application is approved online. So u are sure u are collecting it when u go there. Mine took about 4 working days.

DrAngie:
Can’t say yet cos I submitted a little over a week ago @ VFS and last I checked, was told it’s still being processed.

Pls how did u check?

bekayy:
Thanks for helping me last week and for posting the call details. I submitted my biometrics slip as well. But @adanac13 submitted this slip and was still charged. Congrats again.

Congrats to you too. I am sure he/she didn't do Biometrics dere that's why.

bekayy:
Oh well, let's see. Maybe when the passport comes back, i will pay if not, Praise GOD. Santa is working x2 for me. I actually saw the charges. I'm surprised as well. My slip shows N0.00. Congrats Banky..

Was urs abuja or lagos?

Also does anyone know how to track passport after submission? This tracking i.d they provided keeps on showing records not found on their site.

bankyh1905:
That's interesting. From my experience and that of others, you either pay 7430 Naira (e-mail notification only) or 8190 naira (e-mail and SMS notifications). Like @adanac13 mentioned, we were too excited to ask for further details about the payment.

Biometrics fee covers passport transmission. If you still have your receipt from doing Biometrics and u use the same place for ur passport transmission, u won't pay anything, for abuja at least.

bekayy:
Hello. When asked where you are calling from , what did you say. Nigeria or Canada? Thanks.

I wasn't asked as most agents won't ask, but you can say Nigeria

Titaness:
Congratulations. For POF you submitted only the tbill certificate? Did you include six months statement of your account?

Yes, but it wasn't the account I used for the t bills. I added statement of another account that had about 100k in it to serve as a buffer incase exchange rate became unfavourable. It wasn't necessary though.

Abridged version

ECA.    24/04/2019
Ielts.    5/06/ 2019 
LRWS 8.5, 8, 7,7.   British council abuja‎
Express entry profile. 10/06/2019
Ita.   12/06/2019
CRS. 491‎
AOR.   7/07/2019
Mep/ bil. 01/08/2019
Bil completed. 02/08/2019
Raised cse. 21/10/2019
Ghost update 7/12/2019
Called ircc. 9/12/2019
Ppr : 10/12/2019. Dated 9/12/2019
 
Single applicant 
V.O ottawa
FSW- O


PRELUDE
 
I have always been opportuned to achieve more than my peers . I finished my professional course  at the age of 22, made my first million at the age of 23, bought my Ist car then too. All these I accomplished primarily because of various investment, I never rily practiced my profession except internship and nysc. I keyed in to bitcoin very early and made it rily big. Then due to youthful exuberance and bad investments, I squandered majority of my money ( plus btc lost value). 
In 2016, when I was still very buoyant, my brother told me about this Canada runs, I was like am young and to some extent rich, I could easily stay and do very well in Nigeria. ( if only I had known). Well fast fwd to 2018, I had lost over 90% of my money, I started considering relocating. I asked my brother for a link to check my eligibility around early 2018. I was found ineligible because I made I mistake of indicating my professional degree as bsc, hence I was discouraged . Later in the year my brother got his ppr, I decided to recheck my eligibility and discovered my mistake, corrected it  and realised I have been dulling myself. I made the decision to relocate shortly after my brother  did.

ECA
 The Ist hurdle to cross for me was evaluation of my degree.  I finished from uniben and nasu was on strike that period. I applied for transcript In November 2018 and it came out in January 2019. I thought of using wes for ECA, but my waec certificate had problem with date of birth, and my friend told me about ices and how I could do everything via email, so I didn't I have to pay courier fee to my school. I immediately embraced ices, paid for it in January  and my evaluation came out April ( evaluated as as a first professional degree)
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IELTS

The next hurdle was ielts. I had not found Nairaland by then but I had heard how ppl wrote it several times. I mean my brother is very intelligent, he did most of his schooling in the UK but he still wrote it 3 times. I was determined to write it once. I decided to register for it on may 2nd so I could take it serious. I chose may 23rd as my test date so I can have enough time to study as I haven't done so all this while. I used ieltsbuddy.com, Ieltsonlinetests.com ( which I used the most and recommend for listening and reading) and also glanced at ielts liz and Jay on you tube ( used his ppf style for my speaking). I paid more attention to listening, then reading. I paid the least attention to speaking. My speaking test date came surprisingly ,as I was only notified 2 days before the day which was about a week before my written test date. I quickly prepared for it and started practicing accents cos I wasn't too confident of mine. On the day of the speaking test, I went to the venue very nervous cos I haven't prepared rily well for it. When it got to my turn, the examiner came out to ask me to pronounce my surname which was very long. I was shocked to hear him ask me in a very local accent, one I even felt mine was far better than. All of a sudden I gained lots of confidence and I relaxed and decided I would use my normal accent. Immediately the test began, to my greatest amazement, he completely switched his accent to a British one. This ca‎ught me off balance, and I was struggling between using my normal accent and  the one I practiced for. I know I must have sounded very incoherent at first especially in part 1, but I soon got a hold of myself and finished the rest parts fairly OK. Then came the written test, I was very confident of the listening and reading since I practiced a lot. The writing was OK, I think I did well, was expecting very good marks there too. On June 5th, the results were out
L. 8.5, R. 8.0, W 7.0, S 7.0.   Though I thought I should have had 9 in both listening and reading and at least a 7.5 in writing, I didn't contest the result cos I was happy I made it and I had a high enough crs score to jump in to the pool.

ITA
I collected my ielts trf form on June 9th, and created an express entry profile on June 10th with a crs of 491. I  got this cos I indicated my brother is Canadian pr and also cos of my age and professional degree.   I received Ita on June 12th with a cut off of 465. 

POST ITA

Ita came so fast that I wasn't expecting it. So I had to gather the necessary documents. It was around this period I discovered this forum on nairaland. ‎
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Work experience ‎

This was my first major problem. As mentioned earlier, I didn't rily practice my profession. I only had my internship which I did for about 19 months and my nysc. This wasn't up to 3 years but I had already filled in 3 years work experience in my express entry profile. I was confused on how to resolve this, till I saw a post on the validity of work experience while studying. I quickly remembered I did my externship (sort of i.t) for 6 months while in my final year. As things will turn out, I did all these in the same place. I quickly called my former boss, explained everything to her and asked if she could give a reference letter stating all the period I worked with her. She agreed and scanned it to me. So that was one down. I didn't  mention my nysc, cos i didn't want to complicate the application.

Proof of funds 

Next major concern was my proof of funds. My bank account was practically close to zero from the beginning of the Year as I had most of my money in bitcoin. I knew bitcoin won't be accepted as a proof of funds but I didn't want to sell immediately cos I knew the value was going to increase soon. But then again, I was bothered about how to explain my source of funds. I sought advice from this forum and ppl told me to immediately sell my btc and convert to naira, then do t bills or fixed deposit. I followed their advice and liquidated all my bitcoin , which I regretted because a week after then bitcoin doubled it's value, so painful,  I mean i had 60 days, there was no harm just being a little bit patient. Well, I did tbills for four months, added my online bank account statement as a buffer and that was all.

PCC

This was done easily in abuja at force HQ for 10k. It took two days to get it. I didn't add the fingerprint page in my submission, I mean they only asked for the certificate. ( if u are asked for ur school certificate, do u add u add ur transcript? )

MEDICALS

I did this at IOM abuja. Called to get an appointment and was given one a week later. I went there quite early, around 8 am, but was number 30 on the queue. Finished at around 1 pm. There was no issue, I was called 2 days later that I passed.

Education docs‎

Here, I just uploaded my university  certificate, ECA report and ielts trf form.

Proof of sibling status and relationship

I used our birth certificates which showed our Father's name, though in his own, our mother's maiden name was used unlike mine where she had changed name already. This didn't matter though, at least worst case scenario we have the same father. I used his pr card to prove his status and his online bank account statement to prove his residency.

Change of name document

I wasn't given an English name at birth, instead had my father's first name as my middle name ( though I was never called by that or used it in my early life documents) .In my teenage days, I had to adopt an English name as both my first name and last name were difficult to pronounce even for my own people. Though, I never did an official name change, I started adding the name to my documents from my university days. (This was also part of the reason I never considered using WES  as my English name wasn't in my waec result).   This wouldn't have been an issue in my application, but I needed to show my birth certificate which had a different middle name. After ita, I just went to court to do a one and same person affidavit, using a format I got from this forum. I later found out after uploading that there were some typo errors. I just left it as it is. I didn't want to raise a cse for it.

AOR
My documents were ready by July 7th, I uploaded them, gave my brother my login details and he helped me make the payments with his credit card. I paid for everything ‎once, received Aor immediately. ‎

MEP/ BIL 
I got notification that my Medicals was passed on the Ist of August and also got biometric instruction letter same day. I did my biometrics the next day at vfs abuja. It took about an hour but it was updated as completed that same day.

POST AOR/ POST BIL/ THE WAIT/THE REAL TEST OF PATIENCE
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With the way things were working fast for me and being a young single applicant with a professional degree, I was of the opinion my application won't take more than 3 months except they have issues with my POF or work experience ( those were my only two worries). I dreaded getting an adr for payslips or account statement. That would have been a real challenge. Also explaining how I got my money via cryptocurrency would have been a herculean task. So I kept on waiting and hoping I get PPR request soon. After the 3 months mark was crossed, I got a bit skeptical but didn't order gcms cos I started hearing it takes up to 3 months now. I just kept on hoping. 

In October, my brother said he logged in to my account and saw a request to update proof of funds on my profile, though when I logged in immediately after,  I didn't see anything. But coincidentally that was the day my tbills matured. I sought advice from the forum, though I was told not to worry, I decided to play safe and renewed my tbills for another 2 months. Raised a cse to notify them and also used the opportunity to ask for my visa office. They replied a week later, acknowledging the receipt of my document and also letting me know my visa office is ottawa. I was glad it wasn't Accra.  

I expected Ppr a week or two after the cse, but no show, so I went back to my anxious state, especially when I started seeing some July Aor get PPR on other forums. 
I kept on checking my account everyday cos I didn't want to miss anything. Started seeing testimonies of July Aor here and I was hopeful. I eventually got a ghost update on 7/12 /2019 and knew something is coming. That was a Saturday, I was expecting Ppr or any update the next day but got nothing, I was so anxious I couldn't sleep. Waited till Monday afternoon  and found a way to call ircc ( check my posts to get info on that). I got through within minutes and was told my application had been approved on Friday. I immediately called my awon goons mi, went to do our own small celebration in anticipation of the mail. The Ppr mail arrived the next morning at 1:17 am. The celebration continues.    

PARTEE AFTER PARTEE

kpnick:
This is exactly what I did to call ircc fast and free

1. Download govpn from playstore
2. Open govpn and connect using United States server, this will connect you to a new York server.
3. Download the apk file of textnow app, u can type 'textnow apk' on Google.‎
4. Install the textnow app and register
5. When you get to where to input area code, put 718 and select a number 
6. Now dial +1(905) 676-3640‎.     Or.     +1 (905) 612-5416‎ With the text now app
7. Select option 2, i.e press 2 on your keypad to connect to ircc. 
8. That's it. Congrats you are connected. Within 10 mins u will be connected to an agent.‎

In case you find it difficult to sign up on Textnow, reach me on telegram @kpnick to create login i.d. The PMs here are getting too much. It's faster that way.

kpnick:
So I couldn't bear the anxiety of waiting for the golden mail, I had to call ircc, and was told my application was approved last week. . Still waiting for the mail, already typing my PPR story

And the golden email arrives, Ppr story coming up soon

yemblaze:
congratulations in advance.

Thanks

jany:
Congrats in advance

Thanks

Eraytee:
Congratulations to you, abeg type your epistle ooo. It has end in praise already

Thanks, almost finishing the epistle

Dejavu44:
Pls how did you call?

This is exactly what I did to call ircc fast and free

1. Download govpn from playstore
2. Open govpn and connect using United States server, this will connect you to a new York server.
3. Download the apk file of textnow app, u can type 'textnow apk' on Google.‎
4. Install the textnow app and register
5. When you get to where to input area code, put 718 and select a number 
6. Now dial +1(905) 676-3640‎.     Or.     +1 (905) 612-5416‎ With the text now app
7. Select option 2, i.e press 2 on your keypad to connect to ircc. 
8. That's it. Congrats you are connected. Within 10 mins u will be connected to an agent.‎

kpnick:
My July Aor ppl, I just saw a ghost update on my profile, I think I smell PPR in the air. Well, fingers crossed.

So I couldn't bear the anxiety of waiting for the golden mail, I had to call ircc, and was told my application was approved last week. . Still waiting for the mail, already typing my PPR story

My July Aor ppl, I just saw a ghost update on my profile, I think I smell PPR in the air. Well, fingers crossed.

Oritsejimi:
Hello all,
Please is there anyone in Abuja that we can go through filling of the EE profile together, I got profile not eligible. Please, I'm at my wit's end. Have mercy.
I think I filled it well but probably, there's something I'm doing wrong. Please help me. Thanks

U can state the issue here, if u need personal guidance, u can pm

MrShutterBoy:
Hello seniors,

Please we need your expert advice; my wife and I are waiting on PPR, our AOR was July 2nd 2019 (we narrowly got ITA by 1 point); but we just had a baby 3 weeks ago. The baby is Canadian as we travelled to give birth to him in Canada. How can we go about updating this new information on our application as the baby does not require any permanent residency since she's already a 1st generation Canadian with a valid passport? Does this affect our scores as at ITA? Do we also need to submit a new PoF that reflects enough money for the third family member?

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Raise a cse, tell them about the new addition to the family and explain she has a Canadian passport , u will need to upload an updated proof of funds as well as ur baby's passport. It won't affect ur scores.

yemiciea:
Again I said what I said.

Again, my apologies

yemiciea:
Save it for yourself and family

I said what I said and when I get to that bridge I will cross it

SMH, I still can't fathom why some ppl hate to be corrected. My apologies

yemiciea:
My brother who is a citizen gave me the information. whoever is going the spousal route can do their findings

Educate yourself and ur brother

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/pdf/kits/forms/IMM1344E.pdf