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Interesting discussion btw on hunting for jobs and survival etc. Silent reader here

Oh yes @CanadasGOAT It is definitely worth it, coming from someone who has lived and is still living in two wealthy European countries, with backyard hustle in another, while pursuing Canny. The struggle for PR is real. Do you know what our people in diaspora (highly educated and uneducated, gainfully employed and unemployed, rich and poor) do just to get citizenship and PR in their host country and end the torture of visiting immigration office every year to prove that they financially and legally deserve to stay? The insults? The transition from legal to illegal, then to legal? The insecurity because you can't fully invest and plan in a country that where you have only one leg in? The contract marriages? The unwanted yet necessary pregnancies so "auslander behoerde" doesn't throw you out? The stripping of one's identity? The tears? The denial of one's culture so they can see you are integrating and deserve PR? The psychological torture to learn another annoying language while trying to pay bills? The fear of losing your job before you become a PR? The intimidation by white collar bosses because they know your stay in the country is dependent on their contract with you? Your children's struggles to prove to others that they are not refugees or children of refugees (with all due respect to refuggees and those who went through that path)? The social stigma of being in a country where you have to defend your right to be in the country for the rest of your life (because of your skin color and former African nationality)? Do you know how many in Germany have been duped countless times in their efforts to get UK/US passport (fake or original) and end the residency renewal once and for all!!!

Blessed are you Canadians (Current and potential) since PR belongs to you on landing I heard of Canada's deal and told myself, "it is too good to be true". I told my friends and senior African colleagues here and they just couldn't believe it, knowing the tough decisions they made just to get host country PR. My mentor here told me, "Girl, go for it, get that passport and so you can breathe. If you want to return, I am here". This is the best immigration deal and ROI for holders of (third world) useless passports right now. Let the immigration renewal torture be over, I told myself. I will be happy to bother only with taxes and career challenge, while entitled to certain rights. If for anything, rejoice that you are a PR as soon as you land in Canny, this is heaven to some of us. Job hunting palava? Is there any foreign country where one does not have to seriously strategize (or get lucky) to get good jobs. The Canadian labor market is still open minded sef, like they believe that immigrants have sense and can work good jobs and are not stupid, like they believe in your ability to learn, grow and be useful in the society, chai!!!

I respect you all and thank you for sharing your differing experiences for "in-comers" like us. At least we can climb on your experience and make the best decision for ourselves, using the information. To avoid information overload and over-anxiety while waiting, I have decided to minimise my engagement with this thread. Let me return to the baby EE thread where I truly belong for now and leave una mama and papa Una doh o!!!

CanadasGOAT:
But from the little life has taught me in this Naija. This Canadian PR journey is totally worth it

Is there any of you here that moved to Canny from Germany/Denmark (or about to move, having gotten PPR)? Please kindly reply so I can send a pm. I have received conflicting information about the specific PCC required (and the specifics regarding certified translation required), especially Germany because they are not used to dealing with emigration requests for Canada. Also, the official procedure for Danish PCC on CIC website is different from the Danish official website. I am tired of arguing with them and have spent so much for what I think might not be the correct documents.

@toyinana, how far dear?

I responded. Yes it is possible, although difficult. Remark listening and writing so you have a chance to get a refund.

funshobabs:
please my people i need answers. this is my second attempt and i was so certain i will get a good score in listening.
is an upgrade in listening possible?

L7.5
R7.5
W7
S7.5

FED UP ALREADY.

Congrats

dorothy0324:
Finally passed IELTS on the 2nd trial LRWS 8.5,7,7.5,7.5 (MOD).. lemme go and update my profile. Please pardon me in advance if I start asking too many questions. ....Also S/O @Wasseynewest

This was a fantastic result were it not for writing. Remark asap.

yetunde84:
My cousin's result
L 9
R 9
S 7.5
W 6.5

VERY ANNOYING, WHAT'S WITH WRITING

Yes it is. You only need a 0.5. Go for it. Remark listening and Writing, so either way you get a refund. If you can afford it and you are the PA, register for another. Well done on this attempt. It will end in praise

funshobabs:
IELTS MOD: LRWS 7.5, 7.5, 7 and 7.5. Is an upgrade in listening possible after remark?

Congrats!!! May the rest of the process be smooth.

FaskRolce:
God has done so much for me and I can not tell it all. Narekele mo.
My first attempt ielts result is out LRWS: 8.5,9,7,8.

Basically I used ieltsonlinetests.com and Cambridge books for listening and reading. Speaking was ielts mentor and Jay E2 language, writing was Jay E2 language for task 1, Ryan and ieltsadvantage for task 2. Thanks @drcynthia for reading and correcting my writing trials.

I must say managing your time is pivotal. I was able to manage my time to read through my writings and make corrections as well as change some words to their synonyms.

I made sure I finished my reading in time and used the extra time to read through the passages line by line where I realised I had picked some wrong answers while skimming and changed them to the correct ones.

In all, God favored me. I also said the prayer of St Joseph of Cupertino though I'm not catholic. May God's name alone be praised.

I'm so elated right now. Waiting for eca to done. ���

It is not true. I wrote about 320 words, collected extra sheets and got an 8. Your grammatical accuracy, structure, coherence, flow and vocabulary range are what matters. It should be the exact length (250) or lenghtier. Perhaps, they had every other points checked and were short of lenght, which would make the advice of extending the lenght to 10 more words at least relevant. I would worry more about coherence especially for task 2 and grammatical accuracy for both tasks considering the time pressure. You had an 8 before so you stand a better chance in your next (and last attempt hopefully). But get a third eye to look at your personal writing drafts, you might be surprised at the evaluation.

teeielts360:
ok.
i get your point now.
you mean maximum should be plus 10 words. anything beyond could discourage the examiner from marking judiciously.
If this is true, then that would be unfair but it wont hurt to be on the safe side.
nice one. thanks

Sent you an email. Be strong, you will testify in the next and final one

teeielts360:
Hello Guys.

i'm going to take this post like my first therapy session.
i am teeielts360, a prospective Express Entry applicant.
i think i'm .... sorry. i am an IELTS addict.
i've been up here since the beginning of this thread and between then and now, today confirms my 5th but not final IELTS test.


I REALLY NEED HELP ON THIS ONE.

Thanks

muyiroro:
What IRCC actually want is the Originality of any document you are scanning to them if is color scan color if is black and white scan black and white. If you change the color by yourself that is forgery

Thanks sis

Ifeoma77:
That requirement is for the Copr picture. For this one, just front will do

Thanks sis

Liz019:
That will be used at the PPR stage.

Ok got it. Thank you

tey4tobyy8005:
That's not needed at this stage, the requirement is after PPR

Great! Thank you

joo2018:
You are good to go. Color scan it like that and the signature will prove that you scanned it as original.




Only the picture itself.

Thanks

tey4tobyy8005:
That's not needed at this stage, the requirement is after PPR

Congrats!!!

samsonedos:
God is faithful.....
I applied for EOR as advised and I did a rewrite on the 23rd march.
EOR: Not yet out
Rewrite: L-8.5 R-8.5 W-7 S-7.5.

IELTS cleared.
WES: Awaiting verification from university
ITA coming soon....

The eApr requires a soft copy digital photo so how do we provide the backpage of the photo where we are asked to write our DOB and the photographer's address? Do we provide it at this stage or during the PPR stage?

How can I scan/convert a black and white document to color? Any app you can suggest? One of my PCC is in black and white except for the signature and the IRCC requirement is to scan all PCCs in color.

*grabs binoculars and red biro*

Hallelujahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! Congrats!!!! Congratulations!!!!! Shame to the Devil and praise be to God.

Chai! Your story post-AOR touched me. I am so happy for you. God indeed did not put you to shame, He has answered and now you have testified.

For pouring out your heartfelt story to us and the elaborateness of your script, I will score you 9.2

Wow @bolded, March post-ITA Whatsapp group, where una dey? I am not a good groupie member but I come in all humility, I no form again, we need each other, kindly add me edakun

QUTEE darling please if you read this, reply me on whatsapp, I have changed my mind God bless you for the whatsapp group encouragement, you're an angel

Livy2018:
LONG POST ALERT

You are God from beginning to the end, there is no place for argument, You are God all by yourself.


POST AOR: The real gist
I joined like 3 groups for July AOR, one had a lot of Indians. When Pple started getting PPR all around and nothing was happening, I raised a CSE on the status of my application in Oct and I got to know that my file was at Accra, that day I cried. I was sad and depressed. I left all Canada-related whatsapp groups except the one for lawyers. For a long time I didn’t want to join the AVO group, when I eventually joined in Nov 2018, the stories were gloomy, no one had heard from AVO in months. I just knew it that village people were at work, lol.

Surprisingly, the AVO whatsapp group that I didn’t want to join became a beam of light to me. Talk of men and women of faith, I met them all, sharing hope. We were all told that Accra works only between Jan – March, so we were all hopeful for 2019 1st quarter.

Back to the AVO whatsapp group, we had prayer and praise sessions via conference call, and I must confess, I felt lighter after those sessions with assurances that God had not forgotten or forsaken us at AVO.

Praise the Lordddddddddddddddddd.

I want to thank everyone for the selfless contributions to the thread. The information on this thread is massive, even though I joined in maybe part 3 or 4 not sure anymore.

Did I say that we didn’t finish the movie, lol. My daughter couldn’t understand the emergency that made mummy run like that.

Congrats to AmeComplique and Msmodi on their PPRs. Eagerly awaiting your scripts

Congrats to all the ITA clinchers of yesterday, may your process be smooth.

What did you use to simulate your ielts scores? Try to max it out, especially the PA: LRSW 8.5, 8, 7.5, 7.5

Get additional certifications if you are the PA (CIPM, BCS, Masters degree, ATS, etc)
If your husband is the PA, he can combine his OND and HND to get two or more certifications

No you cannot pretend your Canada close friend is a relative, that will be misrepresentation and can lead to a ban if IRCC find out eventually

Yes you can use pension fund as POF, only 25% of it, no more, no less. Read more here https://www.nairaland.com/search?q=pension+fund+as+pof&search=Search

Read page 1 to get more information of the basics. When you finish and you have more questions, please feel free to ask.

All the best in the process

DesignerDesigne:
congratulations!

Hello everyone, My husband and I have had intentions to relocate for a while now but we’re not sure how to go about it till we found this thread and watched some videos on youtube.

We have begun our ECA with IQAS didn’t know about WES before now and also preparing for IELTS but I have a couple of questions.

From the eligibility quiz we have taken, my score is 394 (I have a B.A certificate, I’m less than 30 years of age and I have 2 years proven work experience as an HR)
My Husband’s CSR score is 400 (He’s above 30 years of age, about 6 years experience as a graphic designer, and an HND) what can we do to increase our point?

-we have a close friend in Canada can we add him as a relative living in Canada to claim the point? if so , what are the things we’ll need to do to prove our relatedness to this person?

-I have been reading about knowing the appropriate time to enter the pool, Please I need more explanation on this.

As to POF, can we include our pension fund? If yes, how do we go about this?

Any other information you think might help is highly appreciated.

Lol. And must you marry a Nigerian? Widen your search

Guitarlife:
Someone called my name here
Make I start my landing gist from here...
One of the hard truths you will realise when you land here, 98%(arguable) of Nigerians that Land here either are married or have someone they are planning to go back to Naija to bring.
So if you single and planning to see a partner here, it is not impossible but its a long walk.


Further updates coming soon....

Huh I think you are trolling us. Stoppeeet

Akeemilori:
please what can I do,I have started my Canada Express Entry since 2016 30th August,so I did my biometrics on 24th July 2018,and I don't why I have received any notification to submit my intl passport,it is getting to 3yrs now, please I need your help on this stuff,here is my phone no+2348024957865

Happy for you. Congrats

Adunnee:
It's ITA.

Praise the Lord

@ bolded

See dem suitors. As her personal life secretary, I've written all y'all names. Interview comes up soon. Only selected candidates will be contacted

JustinTrudeau:
Bros why,soup wey don done,why go through such stress. Just do small ikenujo here and vamous. Wedding is weding wherever you do it in any part of the world.

Take for instance now,mysef and Ifeoma77 just got PPR and we wont do any wedding till we get there. Take a cue from us


Your PM

Congratulations!!!

danianne:
ITA has finally dropped. The feeling is something else. Cant believe my eyes. Glory be to God

Lmao!

Scandinavian02:
Have you been refused visa before?

Even me wey just get my first passport recently cos of this journey don dey think if I have been denied visa before.

Na wa ooo

Engineers in the house?

Barryston:
Please is Mechanical engineering evaluated as Professional degree??

Please I'm asking for a good friend.

Can IRCC find out this information anywhere else in relation to you? If they google your name, will this membership come out? Is your membership on your social media accounts? Have you stated this information on Linkedin, in your cv while applying to any of the English "5" for visa? If yes, then raise a CSE and explain.

If not, no need to worry.

Narkoya:
Good morning house, pls I submitted my application in March, AOR march 8 but I just realized that I forgot to state that I'm a member of society of petroleum engineers. Will this cause an issue or is there anything I can do to rectify?

If the SoR was what you used for ECA, you can use it post-ITA. People have gotten PPR using SoR

chrisebsy:
Good evening house,

to beging with, i want to appreciate the effort that everyone is putting to ensure that peoples dream becomes a reality.

i was once a semi full member in this forum, but when things became a lil difficult, i had to go back to the drawing board.

was gonna Be the primary applicant but, age and increase in crs resulted in spouse been the primary applicant. Fast forward last week she cleared ielts with clb 9.

pls i would need the help of the Elders, the proffs and anyone who has any info on the few questions that i might need help with.


My question is this. will i need to get my Original degree certificate post ITA, or can i use statement of result since am not the PA. getting original certifcate from school will set me back by 50k and am trying to avoid such expenses unless its very important to include the original.

thanks in advance

Haha @ bolded. Don't you believe in miracles

beloved80:
Going by the trend of rounds of ITA slots, I predict that there will be three rounds this month. In the last quarter, the ITAs given were larger t by about a round size (3900 usually) when compared to q1 2018. The third draw in January contributed to this, making sure few high scoring candidates entered as new and allowing long waiters to get in. Also, the long 21 day break from the regular draw days in February ensured that many new and higher scoring candidates could populate the draw, so it wont't stay as low as 438. Hence the increase in CRS points till date. With their set target in mind and the likelihood of same rounds of invitation like the first quarter, this month of April will possibly witness 3 rounds. With that comes lower CRS points even from tomorrow.

Don't exercise fears about the increasing intending applicants. Canada is willing to take more people. There will also be friction getting into the pull. Especially getting an ECA. The more people are seeking ECA, the more time it provides for people in the pool to get ITA. Even the almighty WES is now overwhelmed. IRCC is not likely to add more organization to provide ECA services.

SO keep your fingers, pray for your ITA to come and dont take me too seriously.....

We must all reach Canada las las (that's if you are not coming here to ask whats ECA and stop spamming the pool when you know you dont have POF ).