nusetron:

PPR mail followed suit at exactly 3.40am on the 11th of April 2018.
Shipped passport off to ACCRA visa office same day 11th of April 2018
Finally, application got approved this day the 19th of April 2018.

God be praised.

Congrats. Where is your vo?

Let's know if london gang should get another cup of water as we watch this series "ayam waiting" season 4 epi 20

peddy001:
Hello everyone

So it's PPR guys wawu.........

Congratulations! What visa office were you?

kachikapor:


The company i work with is a global business.

That was when we began thinking about reaching out to my company in Canada to see if there was room for an internal transfer of sorts...na so i take reach here o.

See the effect of how people sharing their experience can help reshape opportunities for others. More people should explore this internal move before jumping on that plane.

Congratulations!

yokus:

Day 3
The kids have been bored 2 out of 3 of them will start school today so they have something to gist bout over easter break. Class picture is April 3rd. Im glad we came at the right time

I give thanks to Almighty God for everything

Congratulations, thanks for sharing. Buh e be like say your post enter okada com deliver to nairaland o. It's April 16 today

balogunsam:
Long time guys! For those in the Feb 24 IP2, how's the waiting o?

For us, update to application has come in the form of a baby boy...

Congrats on your bundle of joy

Quick question for you, did you mention/nurse asked for your EDD during medicals? If you gave that information, my guess is that CIC probably knew you were expecting a baby soon so they decided to wait for the delivery so you could add him on file and have everyone get their copr at once. I am sure ppr will come immediately you complete his addition.

To the house, did anyone get ppr ~3 weeks to EDD?

kay2011:

The interviews was basically about situational questions - ' tell me about a time when' .....................................

Thanks for sharing.

kay2011:
Long post Alert. Make una no vex abeg.

March 7th, 2018 – I did my Telephone interview. It was interesting though.

March 15th, 2018 - I went for the In-Person interview at TD Bank office at Yorkdale. It was a panel interview of 2 interviewers. One of my interviewers said “You were highly recommended by the people at Acces Employment”. The interview took like 2 hours. I was drained when I left the place.

Congratulations

Can you share the transcript for the phone interview and nature of question/discussion from the in-person session. The one you remember can help prepare people in your field for a better experience

Canadianfly:

If you ask me, go to Canada and save yourself the headache.

Read every line expecting to hit one of your funny remark till i got to the end - none! I'm impressed ijiji canada.

You have no idea of how many silent readers are facing similar issues and benefiting from the vast amount of knowledge shared here.

Gone through the various options and just curious, if one births in Canada and gets a pp is that sufficient for baby to enter US without a visa?

I am interested in catering business o. Cooking is my natural gift

Lovelywings:

Don't even try it.

Thank you for this useful info, you such a wonderful soul. This will definitely help one plan ahead. Links to support figures is highly welcomed.

salford1:

As per cost (conservative), rough calculation if Alberta:

Thanks for the enlightenment. Your detail is apt and objective, please remember to share other updates when you complete your next steps. Godspeed

themaestro212:


My philosophy is “the worst you can get is a no.”. Nobody will crucify you for trying. Just shoot your shot.

themaestro212:
Hi guys. Here’s my Landing Experience

Exit and Settling
I went to TD (Canada Trust) to open an account but I had dropped my CPR at the Airbnb, forgetfully, so I couldn’t open an account. You would need your CPR and Passport to get a new entrant package as the lady told me. She set an appointment with me for 10am tomorrow when I will be going back to open the account.

I got a Fido SIM card at the Square One Mall in Mississauga. I have to say at this point that Canadian mobile phone service is quite expensive. My package was CAD55 monthly for unlimited Canada wide calls and texts and 2GB data.

Next Steps
I plan to look for a permanent place to stay in Downtown Toronto from next week as that is closer to my new office where I resume in April.

I need to get and load a Presto card for bus service. I also need to go back to the bank to deposit my dollars and wire the money from my Nigerian account.

Thanks themaestro212 for sharing this wonderful experience with the family here. I have a few questions about the text in bold.

1. Why did you choose TD as your bank and what is entrant package like? Is the entrant package different from this on their website (https://www.tdcanadatrust.com/planning/life-events/new-to-canada/index.jsp)? I plan using RBC (http://www.rbc.com/newcomers/moving-to-canada-resident.html) but your response and rationale for TD may help in making a better decision and avoid t&c that can enslave for life .

2. What was your rationale for Fido? Will 2GB be sufficient for new comers who will be heavily involved in online job research and posting or will a dedicated home wifi internet be advised?

3. Lastly, did you get your April job from naija and how did you go about it?

Thanks for your response.

Was there a draw yesterday? No.

You can always confirm from the source, cic site, yourself using this link
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/become-candidate/rounds-invitations.html

You will find other useful information on that site that will help stay abreast of things. Most of the useful information shared on this thread are gotten from there.

kaypompee:
Hello house, my wife and I are currently in the pool, with CRS score of 479... I assumed the draw would have been done as at yesterday with invites sent out today, anyone have an idea why its being delayed?

Strange punctuation!
But the people that will respond to you are still busy in their respective offices trying to close for the day, exercise patience and you'll get your answer.

Albion05:
Please answer me!..

On portal is FirstName MarriedName but on report printout the format is MarriedName (MaidenName), FirstName MiddleName. Provided you indicated to WES that you are married and name changed.

Hope this clears your concern.

askofemma:
Happy Sunday people,
Please I will be processing my wife transcript tomorrow and From the information I gathered the school will be sending it directly. Now my concern is we registered with her married name and the result will carry her madien name! So which name will reflect on WES portal

Don't see how being pregnant will delay the medicals. I know of someone who went for medical heavily pregnant. She was given a protective jacket to cover the bump if that's your concern. The funny thing is if your pregnant wife has a higher CRS score and eventually gets ITA, she may have to travel and land before you sef. Secondly once you declare your family, y'all need to go for medicals.

Flunitrazepam:
Please how soon can my family and kids join me in Canada.Thinking of going alone because wifey is pregnant now and that can delay the medicals.Thanks

Resolved, there is a Modify my answers button above eAPR to update your record.

Right

Deebay:

There's no space or column till after ITA. You are on the right track.

Enter pool sharperly.


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Great job!

40manlappy:

cc: zandora, dupyshoo, Ehrnie, MummyJaygirls, justwise

Thanks for the quick confirmation and wish you speedy pr. Guess you're already in post ita.

calfy:

That's what my wife and I did. Eventually, I got Ontario NOmination and we are in the process of submitting our PR application.

How true and workable is the bolded?

calfy:

Both of you can have two express entry profiles - him as PA in one and you as PA in the other. Also I would advise he re-writes IELTS. His Masters Degree carries so much weight with the right IELTS result such as yours. And good luck to you two.

Easy peasy

[search criteria] site:[sitename.com link]
example: "Gracefulchild site: https://www.nairaland.com/2624318/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled"

Or just follow the tip in this search specific site link.
https://www.google.com/intl/br/insidesearch/tipstricks/all.html

Gracefulchild:
Please I would like to ask about names on passport. I know people have discussed something similar here but I tried to go back a couple pages but could not find the discussion (I can't figure out how to search on a particular thread, it keeps giving me options from the entire Forum).
...

Kontagious:
ECA don fall on me!
WES profile has always shown ECA estimated to be completed 8/17 but they delivered today 8/15! @philip3, how far yours?

Ministry is moving.


EOR all the way.

Congrats on ECA. Can you EOR for IELTS, then jump into the pool and update with new result (if it changes) pre or post ITA?

Had similar experience with a friend. We added a few hundreds to the fund and it was fine. Keep adding more funds, up to 1k to your POF and if nothing happens then you know you've eliminated funds as the root cause.

kissoflife:


in fact I am tired. Don't know if anyone has experienced this.

Increase your funds and try again.

kissoflife:




someone please help me, what am I doing wrong? I am certain that I meet the requirements

Saying I enjoyed your write-up is an understatement, am definitely going to sleep well tonite after so much laughter
I guess we took same test so i can relate with each sentence. E be like say 6.5 na the new score for majority that day o. Retake or enquiry on result?

Kontagious:
I promised I’d be back with my experience.

This will be a long read but might be helpful particularly to those yet to take the IELTS. It’s my experience with mistakes I made, pointers here and there.

I'd start with Speaking. I was overtly tensed just a few seconds before we started, though my examiner had tried getting the correct pronunciation of my surname, I guess that little conversation should have relaxed me a bit but no, it didn’t. By the time he hit the record button on his recorded, my nerves were almost touching the ceiling that my first response, I began to stammer! I was to say south-west but all I heard me saying was south, sou, sou, south, south. Not exaggerating but I would have said the sou-south at least 6 times, eventually I got myself to say the south west . Examiner tried signaling me to calm down but I will not just follow the prompt. Oh I skipped, by the time I was handing over my passport during the ID check, guy asked can I see your ID please, in my tensed self, I said "thank you" like twice while passing the passport! Then I thought, oh boy, you don de fvck up. That thought alone aggravated my already tensed nerves.

Subsequent questions were a walk in the park (typical of part 1 questions) but I was still tensed. The questions were about family values. Then part 2 came, I was to talk about 2 person from same family, sub-questions were what they do, how similar they are and one other I can't remember. God, 1st family that came to mind was the Saraki's - Senate President and his father (how silly , I know) but I snapped out and rather talked about the Williams sisters! I had noted my points - great sportsmen, delight to watch, always delivering stellar performance - in the paper given but when I started speaking, I totally forgot to look at my note, only focused on the prompt. Nerves were still up but not as much as when I started – maybe at window level at this point and I doubt I spoke for a minute cause I rushed through the talk. I tried to continue but I could not just think of something meaningful to say.

Part three, I had answered some questions and was starting to gain control of my raging nerves but alas, I heard examiner saying “we’ve come to the end of the test”. End of kini, Arrrh. I honestly felt like begging the guy to retake the exam but it wouldn’t be possible. I walked out a little bit dejected and expected least score from speaking.

For my listening, prior to start of the test, I had noticed some static sound whenever there was a movement in front of me or me turning my head in a particular direction, so I thought, when the test starts I won’t move my head in that direction, also thought there shouldn’t be much movement during the test. I figured invigilators could move around and then I remember someone’s experience on this thread where he said the static sound made him miss answer to about three questions. Jejely, I requested to be moved, there was a makeshift row that was created for people having issues with their headphone. New seat was much better. Test started, answer one was name of a street spelt AC.CA.CIA. Right from question 1, my mind had started roaming, it wasn’t raging nerves this time around but wondering mind. So I battled to think, did I hear AC.CA.CIA or A.C.A.CIA. I was fortunate to snap out and picked answers to 2, 3, 4. In between 4 and 5, my mind wondered off again, did I hear AC.CA.CIA or A.C.A.CIA, unluckily for me, I missed answer to question 5. Further into the test, I’ll have to battle spelling. One answer was waitress, another length. For the waitress, I wasn’t sure if it had two ts or just one. For the length, I wasn’t sure if it was length or lenght, after I had spelt both and the wrong even looking correct at that point. I tried spelling strength as a pointer, still confused, I wasn’t sure of strength either so I eventually went with lenght. Then there was checklist, here I wasn’t sure if it’s a single word or compound or two words. To play safe, I figured check-list will be best. Naturally, all these spellings wouldn’t be a problem but under exam condition and considering at least 8 is needed in listening, my people, uhm.

Reading came, section one and two were a bit easy. Had about 8 questions with T, F, NG (this type of questions are the most dreaded for me but I stumbled on a YouTube video that worked for me during my numerous practices. I fought with one hunched back monster in section three. As expected, section three was the toughest and time consuming. Passage was two pages, questions were about 13. Turning back and forth between passage and question page was frustrating but it had to be endured. While answering section three, I jolted and remembered I had read about length of the monster, I scanned through if I’d see length. Luckily, it was in the passage. I had written the wrong spelling in my listening! Turning back the answer sheet is prohibited but I managed to turn and correct my length.

I started out the writing with task 1, it was to be written within a short time, lesser than 20 minutes but because I wanted a neat sheet, I wrote out my answer on the question paper to be transferred to the answer sheet after finishing, by the time I was done transferring (with little correction), 20 minutes was gone! I should have written directly on the answer sheet but it was a lesson to be learnt firsthand. I finished the essay on time and crossed checked, even did a rough word count. Both task were above required number, but my sweet people at BC will rather score me a 6.5

I hope future test takers pick one lesson or the other. As for me, the last of this test is yet to be heard.

seunfoster: Test was conducted for the post of a finance analyst on friday june 15, 2012 @ chams city. Hope u are contended with this for those dat are doubting thomas.

Thanks for the clarification. Do you know what the questions were like? Anything related to the "900q" that everybody is begging for?

saintmentor:
Please I need d real and necessary parcel for d dragnet oil and gas recruitment,how do I get it from u? my exam is 11th may 2012, mentor4all2003@yahoo.com . Thank you

ur test on the 11th May 2012 is for the jus closed Chevron recruitment? what position did u apply for? and what state r u hving ur test?