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What happened to referring people to Page 1?
Things have changed oh

Congrats, your score are great.
From your simulation, it seems you have 2 years of work experience. That's fine.

A few questions for you.
Your IELTS, is it General or Academics? If General, what was your target score? I believe you had a score in mind when writing it.

Well, if it's for EE you were interested, your score is good to go.

lilyanzee:
Hi guys , i need help i got my IELTS result with L=8.5, R=8.0, S=7.0, W=7.0, i have a masters from an abroad university and im 26 years old. i tried using the CRS calculator and i got a score of 450. i want to know if this score is good enough to apply or should i redo the IELTS test. thank you

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That's the advice given.
Always write your Listening and Reading answers in capital letters. It makes your writing clearer

OgechiBae:
I also wrote mine in capital letter and scaled through as well

We all tap into your testimony.
This is purely grace and favor

Kwado87:
GRACE FOUND ME

Lessons Learned...
1. FAITH WORKS!!
2. Make ur application as simple as possible
3. Your application is different.


GRACE FOUND ME!!

Pardon any typo.

Hahahaha

ChandlerBing:
Prophet Mosky! We bow and tremble.

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Hmmn. This Part 5 is moving really fast, and it is filled with basic questions.
I posted this in Part 4, let me do it again:

For all those who are just joining, I think this might help.

● Acquaint yourself with the acronyms used. It took me over a week to understand all the acronyms apart from ITA, IELTS and EE. I kept going to page zero everytime I heard AOR, ECA, COPR, PPR, POF, PR, GCMS etc.

● You can't run away from Page 1. Pls read it.

● Compartmentalize your stuff. First know all you need to get ITA, as you are at it, you would get to know what is required for PPR. However, still get the overview.

● You don't have to read through everything. Some stuff doesn't concern you, just pass. If you don't need ACCA, don't bother when those that need it are discussing about F1-F4.

● Ask direct questions; people are more likely to respond to direct questions. Rather than asking 'pls tell me how to get ITA' if you ask 'is it possible to get an ITA a day after creating and submitting your profile?' someone would definitely respond.

● You can get lots of info here and for free. An alumnus of your Uni may be here and have the contact of the guy in charge of transcripts and that would help you a great deal.

Una well done oh, our people of this group. You guys are the best

Thank you so much, ChyG.
Someone here gave me another contact. Yeah, I've heard of Mr. Ogolo. I'll consider him if the other one doesn't pull through.

ChyG:
Sad. I can imagine how you feel. I'm in PH as well. When I needed to send my fingerprints to FBI in November, I sought for, but couldn't find any security personnel to assist me. I had to resort to YouTube videos as well. I prepared and sent 5 sets to FBI and fortunately, they accepted mine.
I was very worried during the 3 months long wait as they hadn't commenced the 48 hours processing then.... thank God it ended in praise.
To your question, I later discovered a police officer at the SCIID, Moscow road, PH (Thanks to this wonderful NL e-family). He took our fingerprints for our Nigerian PCC. If I had known him earlier, I wouldn't have bothered taking my fingerprints myself. I can help with his contact. I don't know if it's okay to put it out here. His name is Mr Ogolo

Thanks..... Well appreciated.
I printed it from their website. The problem was with the way the fingerprints were collected. You know it's the rolling type, which is kind of technical.
Yeah, I'll redo it.

Nono16:
Sorry about that. Did you print the FBI fingerprint paper from their website? Could that be the problem? What paper type did you use?
I suggest you print the fingerprint form from their website and redo.

Cheer up pls.

I'll appreciate your contact.
I did 5 sets myself and none was accepted.
Let me PM you.

DonTee07:
you can do it yourself. you can pm me, I have a contact there but he will take 5k from you.

For details of the FBI PCC, see https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/application/medical-police/police-certificates/how/united-states.html.

For how to send your fingerprints, what they need is the imprint, so a scanned copy will NOT be appropriate.
You should send directly to the FBI or through someone who is traveling there.
It's more convenient though to send via courier.

Bello321:
Hello everyone,

Please I need assistance on how to go about FBI PCC.
Also for those who had ADR for FBI PCC did you send the finger print card directly to the US or it was scanned and to some1 in the US and that person helped to submit.
Thanks a lot

Feeling sad. The FBI rejected my Fingerprints which I needed for PCC. I prepared 5 sets of fingerprint cards myself after watching videos on Youtube.

Please has anyone in Port Harcourt used security personnel to obtain fingerprints?

A contact will be appreciated.

PS: I had to repost since my earlier post may have been lost in the celebration. The house is yet to recover from Newmum's announcement of yesterday.

Feeling sad. The FBI rejected my Fingerprints which I needed for PCC. I prepared 5 sets of fingerprint cards myself after watching videos on Youtube.

Please has anyone in Port Harcourt used security personnel to obtain fingerprints?

A contact will be appreciated.

Congrats, Newmum. The moment we have been waiting for has finally arrived.

I think so too. Although not because of the IELTS. You see the last draw, 2 IELTS results were released and there was so much fear that the cut-off would increase unless the number is increased from 3750 to 4000. But we saw that despite 2 IELTS results, and same 3750 people taken, the cut-off still dropped by 1 point, from 442 to 441.

If we still have a 2-weeks interval, the cut-off will be 439 or 440. I just pray they don't give a 3-weeks interval in August. The last time they did that was in May with 5 wednesdays. August has 5 wednesdays, so I pray they don't skip a Wednesday and still achieve 2 draws per month. Although the scenario in May and August are different. In May if there was a May 2nd draw, there would have been a May 16th and May 30th, so they had to skip one. But in August, 2 draws can still take place with the current 2-weeks trend; an August 8th draw followed by 22nd draw is still fine. If that is the case, August 22nd draw may even get to 437 (the lowest score this year).

The conclusion is that the scores generally have a downward trend unless a week is skipped.

Engr2000:
No IELTS result will be release between the next draw and the last draw... Next draw will hover between 437 - 440.

Hi bibi2017, I just sent a PM.

bibi2017:
I used only naija passport and they stamped the visa in it. I guess it depends on the passport used, for US passport, they will issue only COPR.

I don enter one chance. I sent only the usa passport. I hope I am not in soup

I know. CONGRATS to you too.

o2:
Yes oh, It feels so so good. I have been on this journey for a long time and everything looked bleak.

Thanks.
It was apparently smooth because of lots of info I got from this group. I had to read virtually every page from Part 1 to Part 3 when I joined.

Thank you all.

wizean:
What a smooth ride you are having! Congratulations to you and every other ITA and PPR clinchers

tonyik:
Wow, congrats. ECA was quite fast. Was it IQAS or WES you used?

WES for my spouse, and MCC for me.

Thanks

IamtrulyBlessed:
Congratulations

Thank you oh.

rchilee:
Congratulations bro

My ITA story.

First heard about EE- April 8th 2018.
Submitted credentials for ECA (me and spouse)- May 4th 2018
Wrote IELTS -12th May: LRWS 9,7,7,7.5 (only attempt)
Spouse wrote IELTS- 2nd June LRWS 7,8,7,8 (only attempt as well).
ECA spouse out- 10th July
My ECA out- 12th July 2018.
CRS- 444 (We narrowly missed the July 11th draw with cut-off 442).
If today's draw had been higher than 444, then the village people would have won.

My people, rejoice with me.

Feels so good. ITA finally here.

I read it, it feels like PPR, it feels like COPR.
ITA, here we come.
I'll share my story in a bit. Pardon my excitement (for ordinary ITA)

mosky47:
Waiting for my mail.
ITA mail please come quickly.
I'm so grateful to everyone on this platform

Waiting for my mail.
ITA mail please come quickly.
I'm so grateful to everyone on this platform

Amen oh. Let it be like that

luffyhaki:
May ITA fall on those expectant today.

When I first saw their email that my document was rejected my heart skipped, until I saw where they said I didn't need to notarize it and I could scan and send via email.

fatiah:
Thanks for sharing your timeline. I'm pleasantly surprised that they accepted the second copy u sent via email. It would have been extra expenses to send again via courier.

Good news for me!!
My certificate has now been verified. I have now applied for ECA.
Timeline (to help others)
Documents sent to MCC- May 4
Received - May 9
Viewable online- May 14
Under review - June 4
Reviewed and not accepted- June 4. This was due to a part of the certificate not showing on the photocopy
Another photocopy sent via email- June 4
Reviewed and accepted- June 29
Ready for ECFMG submission- June 29
Submitted to ECFMG- June 30
Verification returned (passed)- July 6

I kept contacting them via chat on a weekly basis to know the status of my application.
I'm glad I've gone pass this stage. The photocopying error caused me an extra 4 weeks.
Thank you all.

fatiah:
Ok. But I'm surprised it's still at that stage since its almost a month it was recieved. It should have been at least sent to ECFMG by now if not even verified. I really don't know what could be causing d delay. Maybe their workload has increased. I guess u just have to keep calling and hopefully they comply.

Too many good news today. It's so good to come here at the end of the day to read testimonies upon testimonies.

There is no better way to celebrate these good news than having a public holiday tomorrow. I hereby declare tomorrow a work-free day. Please use it to relax and refresh yourselves. God bless you all.

Congrats!!!

You're very right. Dear silent reader, your post might just encourage someone

Tojued:
4 PPR, 2 EOR and one BBB or BBG. One announcement remaining....

There is a silent reader somewhere, I see you have good news to share but you're struggling within you...

Activate a nairaland account today and come share your victory with us. Come and encourage us as you've been encouraged!

True. There has been an increase in people on this thread who are asking for information for a friend. Well, what can I say?

There has also been an increase in people who have a discrepancy between 'real age' and 'passport age'. Just my observation.

capsule:
it's always a 'friend'. If we're this concern about others, this country would have been a better place. Back to the issue, it could be a costly process but it can be done. Just talk to the right immigration officer, but you got to have proves of the 'real age'.