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akereconfi:
I did and what I have is 361.

Can I get provincial nomination with this?

Work on improving your points. Masters or another diploma

Jeniluv:
Seriously scouting for team mates

Which team are you momma?

Praying for Team January. Just tested positive today. Haven't missed my period yet so threading softly but praying hard.

Mamas please which Malaria drug is safe in first Trimester? Dr prescribed Falcipar same as Fansidar that is Sulfadoxine and Pyrimethamine 525mg. Single dose treatment of 3 tablets. Anyone taken this safely in early pregnancy / First Trimester? Please confirm. Thanks.

pejuhazel:
I don't think that's correct, he/she needs to evaluate both. Only if it's an MSC or MBA is when only the highest degree will be evaluated.

You're very correct, he needs both to claim points of 2 or more degrees. Even with MSc/MBA it just might be best to do both. That's what I've resolved to do. Better safe than sorry. I need all my points without story.

playces:
Pls house.. I salute ur effort in educating us here.. Please I need some clarifications.. I will be rounding up my pgd soon. For the process of ECA, m I to evaluate both my BSC and PGD or the highest (PGD). Though in the CRS simulator, I choose 2 or more CERTIFICATES. Wifey is the PA. She is in the process of rounding up her MA

Please evaluate both. Rather safe than sorry.

yemblaze:
Hello my beautiful E-fam,

(ECA SUCCESS STORY)

Its not PPR OOO but am happy I've crossed this hurdle as it was not an easy one for me so i want to share with you guyz. Am very happy and am wondering how it ll feel when PPR comes...lolsss

ADVISE: WES is still the fastest evaluation body, however, if your school is like UNILAG and you want to go ahead with WES, just be ready to chill and be eating puffpuff and sipping zobo..lolss.. All the same, glory be to God. It will end in praise.

Chai! My school is not like Unilag. Its is actually Unilag and same MSc. Well I trust God.

Congratulations on scaling the hurdle.

dislat:
It's not unnecessary anxiety. Do not disagree when you've got no proof! My application was actually rejected because ECA certificate.

Can you explain further please? What happened to your ECA?

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Stencil:
In this case you just need to evaluate your highest degree, which is your Masters.

Thanks. Chai! See how I've wasted money that I don't have. I included BSC in WES Application. Also gave out money for BSC transcript application. Let me run and see what amount I can still salvage.

The you MUST evaluate SSCE made me think all Certificate levels are a must.

@kingspaco thanks for your response too.

Luceecarter:
hello,
please im trying to pay with GTbank card but it keeps failing,
please help

Someone here have used GTB successfully. I used Zenith Bank Master Card this morning. Failed the First time, gave me an invalid merchant error or something like that. Was Successful immediately I retried within a space of minutes. Sorry you're experiencing the challenge. Could be a network error. Try another network and/or system. I believe using a Tablet/iPad/Computer will be better than using a Phone. Just my thought.

dislat:
PEEPEE-ARGH

TIMELINE

IELTS: 20/01/2018

ECA : 23/06/2018

EE profile created: 23/06/2018

CRS: 461

APRIL 29: PEEE-PEEE-ARRR

VO: AVO

Family of 3

Congratulations.

Is a Bachelors degree evaluation by WES required if you have a Masters degree, like can you evaluate only the Masters? Is this acceptable?

iaatmguy:
just delete in between the post. However be wary of the quote at the beginning and the end of the post.

Thanks for teaching me. Tried it with this and got it.

enoeshett:
I took the CBT in February 2019 and mehn it was a sweet experience compared to my paper based in 2012. I loved CBT because i didn't need to count my writing text, I am a fast typist so typing was a sweet relief not that my handwriting is not fine o! the listening was impeccably clear, reading was drag and drop for matching headings, mouse and keyboard were wireless, no crowd therefore sweet ambience even the invigilators were nice and smiling. My result was online in 7days therefore EOR was faster as well. I chose early morning speaking session and afternoon LRW session so my examiner was not tired and angry. I prefer CBT o!

Thanks for this. Am prepping for ielts. My concern with CBT is scrolling up and down through questions and passages in the reading test. Am practicing under exam conditions and this is worrying for me. I lose time scrolling. How was this for you? Can you share your experience around this? Thanks.

jjohndoe83:
na wa o. You didn't have to quote the whole post

Lol. I don't know how to shorten quotes. So for long posts like yours, I just click like and hope the poster interprets my like to mean I love how detailed you were, thanks for sharing and congratulations.

I love it when people share their journey and with all details possible, I don't mind how long.

electroTech:
Thanks bro. Think I will go for NOUN masters. But is it possible one enters the pool with BSc while waiting to conclude masters program then update later after completion of program?

Am a newbie but have read a lot on previous threads, this one and CIC website. Yes you can update your profile while still in the pool even after ITA if you want but if update affects your CRS that's where the gbege is. But adding a Masters will actually give you more points, that's a positive update.

Elders correct me if am wrong please.

Yuyukoko:
Return kwa? One way o.

This got me Return will be ... Only God knows when.

Avidreader748:
GTB naira MasterCard. Ensure the address on your account statement matches with the one you are inputing.

Use the regular standard post.

Use a system, just input your card details, it will tell you once it is successful. Then wait for few hours to be debited.

Thanks Nwanne mmadu. I was successful with MasterCard Debit ATM Card. CAD 227 = N61,933.59 debit from my account.

DrMrsCK:
Ask away! Onye ajuju a naghi efu uzo(person way dey ask questions no dey miss road)

My husband paid for his wes using a debit mastercard

Nne you're right. Achoghi m ifu uzo chaa (I don't want to miss road) on this journey at all. I'd rather ask and look stupid but learn, than pretend and make avoidable mistake.

Thanks to you and to @ all who responded to my question.

You guys must forgive this village girl who keeps asking questions at every point. Am about paying WES for ECA to get my reference number. I want to initiate my transcripts at my institutions this morning and I see options that am unsure of

Credit Card: I don't have a Credit Card. I do have a Master Card Debit Card (ATM) will this work

Western Union Online Transfer: I don't know how this works although I do know there's Western Union in Nigerian Banks. I see stickers and ads at bank.

So which is the right one to choose? I'll prefer Master Card ATM Card or Mobile Bank Transfer from my phone whichever that works. Pleas answer if you know. Thank you.

Hobyno:
Contact @COPR he can help out

Thank you. Done he has provided help.

Has anyone here used the regular post with no tracking to receive their ECA Report from WES Successfully? The cost difference is $7 (regular) and $85 (Courier with Tracking) is making me think it. Thanks

Avidreader748:
Unizik 10700 for transcript, 11100 for courier.

Neco is faster and cheaper. They don't have bulk applications like waec. Courier is however more expensive. But compared to waec, still cheaper. Affidavit not needed. But you will need a contact in minna who will be willing to help you go.

Faster and cheaper than WAEC sounds good to my ears. How much in Total (Processing + Courier) but I have no one in Minna Any way out? Sent you a PM.

Please how long does it take for WES to issue a Reference number after payment?

Please who knows any state that processes International Passport fast currently, Lagos or any neighbouring state please share state, processing time and amount. Thanks

Fadia:
I only know for CIPM.

The transcript processing fee is 2,250 but you must have paid your dues up to date before they'd process it. You can send an email to exams@cipmnigeria.org for the requirements for transcript processing (all this can be done from the comfort of wherever you are and you'd just pick it up when it's ready. I even had someone pick mine up for me).

You'd however have to send it to WES yourself as CIPM won't do that for you.

Thank you. Does CIPM transcript apply to Practitioners Route as well?

Ifeoma77:
Yeah, WAEC's process is straightforward. Infact there are people here who can do it for you if you don't feel like stressing yourself

Thanks a bunch.

Please which would you do first if you can't do both concurrently, Certificate Evaluation or IELTS with eyes on managing your finance ?

I was thinking of doing Evaluation first before test because of the time Cert Evaluation takes but after reading a testimony here, am considering doing the test first and if I get good grades that will make my CRS make good sense, then I'll go ahead with Certification evaluation.

What do you think?

Ifeoma77:
WAEC is the better option

Thanks much. Good thing I've not submitted to WES for evaluation. I'll pull off the NECO from my profile.

captainhoo:
Birth certificates, pictures. Anything that shows you are related to the person

Thanks.

Topsmamen:
If your sibling is related by blood (i.e. you guys share a mother or father) or adoption or marriage, then you can use the following to prove relationship:

1. Lease/tenancy agreement, utility bills, bank statement to show their residence status in Canada.
2. Birth certificate or attestation of birth for the both of you to prove relationship.
3. PR card to show proof of sibling status in Canada.
4. Bio-data pages of passport of you and sibling (optional).

Thank you very much.

GozyNA:
Long PPR Gist Alert!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Timeline

Decision to travel: Second half of 2017 (but still was not 100% decided)

Final decision to travel: May 2018

IELTS: April 21, 2018

WES: August 24, 2018

ITA: October 15, 2018

AOR: November 10, 2018

MEP/BIL: December 11, 2018

Biometrics: December 12, 2018

ADR: February 27, 2019 (submitted same day)

Ghost Update: April 16, 2019 (Additional documents moved from “We are reviewing…” to “Not Applicable”)

PPR: 2:07am of April 17, 2019 (dated April 16, 2019)

Main Gist
I have always been the “whether Nigeria likes it or not I must prosper here” kind of person. I had never seen myself living outside the country. My own plan was just to make money and go for vacations. That was how I sat here with a postgraduate degree, working like an elephant and eating like an ant. Chai, I suffered in Lagos, what!!!
Sometime in 2014, a friend who lives in Canada started talking to me about moving over. She painted a great picture so I checked out the occupation list and mine was not there so with that excuse I was able to make her stop disturbing my life.
In May 2017, a dear friend and sister called to tell me she was making the move to Canada with her young family. She told me things I already knew, about how tough things are and how the future looks bleak here. She asked me to join her on the journey so we can leave together as she was getting set for IELTS then but I was not so convinced. Not long after, a close friend started talking about moving too, in fact at that time he had started his PEBC evaluation. That was when I started thinking about it passively and then all of a sudden it seemed like everyone I knew was either in the process or knew people in the process of leaving to Canada. Towards the end of 2017 I decided to give it a shot but because of the NASUU strike I could not get my transcripts so I waited. Early 2018, I decided to do IELTS first since I had been seeing people take it over and over. I made a silent bargain with God that I would sit for it just once and if I flunked it then my destiny was not to go to Canada. I also decided I would not start ECA until I saw the IELTS result to know whether my destiny was in Canada or not.

IELTS: Registered a month ahead because the cost for next available dates after April 21 would be 75k and I was on a very tight budget so I jumped on the 68k date. I practiced with the Barron practice book and some videos I got off youtube. I kept getting 35 and above in the listening practices I took. I practiced for reading using the Barron practice book also. For speaking, I did not practice as I was told it would just be a conversation I just needed to speak with confidence. For writing, I only practiced the night before I wrote the exam. I am quite imaginative so I knew I could always come up with stuff to write down. Results came out 5th May, LRSW: 9, 9, 7, 7.5.

ECA: Having sorted out IELTS, I quickly paid for my ECA with WES. This was before the WAEC brouhaha. My cousin in NAU helped me process my transcript. That process should not have taken more than a day because I had processed it years before. Guess what? NAU said they did not have records of my former transcript so they needed to type afresh and there was just one lady in exams and records who types transcripts. Long story short, transcript came out, was sent to me in Lagos and I sent via courier to WES along with a copies of my degree certificate. In fact I also helped a friend send his spouse’s certificate along with my documents. I just made sure hers was in a separate envelope with her ECA number boldly written on it then put that and my own well labeled documents into a bigger envelope before sending. Doing that saved us 18k. Was processing transcript form CMUL at the same time and they got to WES some days apart. WES notified me after some time that verification requests had been sent to my schools. NAU surprised me as they verified as soon as they got it without asking for any payment. CMUL however kept saying they had not received the request. I was later to discover that correspondence from WES to CMUL goes to Unilag, Akoka first and sits there till they have a sizable number of mails to move to CMUL before they dispatch. My verification request must have sat there for over two weeks before I finally got a call from CMUL that it had come and I had to pay 3k for the verification. I paid and we got that sorted. WES told me exactly when to expect my final report and on that very day in August 2018, I got the soft copy while the hardcopy came a while later.

ITA: Created my profile after my ECA was ready in August but I was not quite ready to get into the pool because POF was not yet complete. On Sunday 14th October 2018, I do not know exactly what it was but something pushed me to sit with my computer and complete my profile. Next day I was minding my business at work when a friend who had also been in the pool called to say congratulations. I asked him what the occasion was and he said it's ITA. I quickly went online and discovered for myself that a surprise draw held that Monday and I was going to get ITA as my score was well above the cut off. Long story short, I left the job by the end of that month so I took submitting my application more seriously as I was unwilling to look for another job and I also believed my processing would be fast so I can just get out of here fast.

Medicals: A friend told me he walked into the Children’s Practice about two months before I was ready and was able to get his medicals done without an appointment. Na so I carry myself go there. At the gate they told me they no longer attend to applicants for Canada. I immediately called Q-life and they told me that the earliest I could get was sometime in January (this was first week in November). I called IOM, when they finally picked up I was able to go through the process of getting an appointment for 9:30am the next day. I walked into IOM the next day at about 9:15am thinking since I had an appointment for 9:30am all would be smooth. Long story short, I left IOM at about 6:30pm in the evening.

POF: I have money market fund accounts with Cordros Asset Management and FBN Quest. I submitted letters from them along with account statements. The Cordros account was about four months old and there was a bulk deposit (about 70% of the POF) in it about one month prior to printing (I did not explain this). In addition, I got a letter from Stanbic IBTC along with account statement. The purpose of this was to show salary deposits of my most recent job and to also add a little buffer as I had a cash balance in the account of about 300k.

PCC: A friend gave me a contact at Alagbon. I walked in there at some minutes to 4 and by 4:30pm I walked out with my PCC after parting with 5k.

Proof of Employment: I was able to get a reference letter in IRCC format from my former place of work where I put in 3years. It was prepared on the company’s letterhead paper and signed by the general manager and I also attached his call card. This company did not have an online presence so no website or official email addresses. The unique thing about my case was that I was not on a salary rather I was paid commissions for businesses I initiated and completed (aside a weekly stipend for transport). As there were no paystubs, to prove I was getting paid by the company, I got my account statement and highlighted transfers made to my account covering the last 8 months that I was with them. I also added the offer letter from my most recent employer along with paystubs, account statement highlighting pay and contact details for the head of the Nigerian office.

Biometrics: I had always seen on this forum that Biometrics does not take over an hour. On the day I went for mine, village people struck. Network was down at VFS and it took me 5hours to get mine done

The Wait: Let me just say that in my entire life, I have not wanted anything more than I wanted to get this Canadian PR. The suffer I suffered in this Lagos was just too much so I every time I felt like getting discouraged, I remembered the goal of all this and stayed in line. After AOR, I checked my profile daily (I was on IP2 from AOR). Somehow I kept hoping my application would be one of those superfast ones. Well with time I was checking once a week and then once in two weeks. Early January I raised a CSE to find out my visa office. Got a generic reply from Agent Mathew without an answer to my enquiry. I was active on the November AOR group and it was excitement and anticipation galore when we had a couple of PPRs in January but being a single applicant I just accepted that the families were mostly going to go first so I decided I would only start panicking if I do not get PPR by May 10 (day I clock 6months).
Raised another CSE 2 weeks after the first to enquire again about visa office, eligibility and background checks. This time I got a reply to say my application was being processed in Ottawa and that eligibility was on.
Passport was to expire July 2019 so on the 25th of January I rushed to Abeokuta and renewed. Decided not to update via CSE but to wait till whenever they ask so I can know for sure that my file is being handled.
On the day Tojued shared her PPR story (Feb 27), I remember reading in it that she had typed it since November 2018. Now, even though I had always wanted to type my story ahead, there was zero ginger since I was not seeing any movement in my account but after reading that part of her story I made a mental note to start typing that day. Got back that evening, checked my account for the first time in a while and there was nothing. I put on my laptop to start typing and I had barely finished the first line when I looked at my phone and noticed there was a mail from ‘do not reply’ wow!!! It was an ADR for new passport. I quickly scanned with my phone and uploaded via the new placeholder. Checked my account the next day February 28 and the message still read “we need additional documents….” I left the matter and faced other things. At noon on the 1st of March, I decided to check again and I saw that the message had changed to “we are reviewing the additional document….”
On the 20th of March I called CIC. The call lasted 32minutes but I got to know that I had recommended pass for eligibility and that background checks were on. The agent told me everything looks good and that my application should be wrapped up before I hit the 6 month date. Exactly two weeks after the first call (3rd April), I called CIC again. The agent noted that nothing much had changed since my last call. She repeated to me that eligibility was recommended passed, criminality passed and that other background checks had not started. She assured me that that everything was looking good and that she sees no reason why my application would not be completed before the 6 month mark.
On the 16th of April, I checked my account and noticed it had been updated. Additional Documents was now reading "Not Applicable", I smiled and knew deep down the visa officer had finally looked through my file for a final review. That was when I put finishing touches to this story and started making mental plans to go to VFS the next day (today). Turned off my phone and tried to sleep off at past 1am but could not. Turned on my phone at exactly 2:01am and 6 minutes later I saw the beautiful mail drop (actually dropped twice sef).

Passport Transmission: Even though it took me almost three hours to go from Surulere to Lekki this morning (no thanks to the trucks on Western Avenue/Eko bridge), I simply followed the steps joo2018 laid out yesterday and I was out of VFS in an hour.

Conclusion: No two applications are the same. Make your application as detailed as you can bearing in mind the peculiarity of your case. Knowing what I know now, I would package my application differently if I were to do it over as there were a number of things I felt I did not really do right. However, rather than have sleepless nights and raise unnecessary CSEs, I handed it all to God and he came through for me.

Benediction: My prayer for everyone reading this is that no matter what stage you are in on this journey, the eternal one would do for you what he has done for me at the perfect time. God bless us all. Ire akari o. We shall all meet in our new home, Canada.

Congratulations. Thanks for sharing. May God prosper you in Canada and make your days happy.