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Congratulations etrange, zingi, palominopeaches, nenesisi, firsttimeuser and to all ITA clinchers. May your processing be speedy and hassle free.

We dey your back.

Congrats Msdee29 on your PPR. Go and prosper.

Inloveforever:
please i want to use ICES to evaluate 2 masters degrees. will they charge $220 per degree?

Is there a particular reason why you want to evaluate two Masters degrees?

If its to boost your score, there's no need because Masters is your highest degree no matter the number you have. It's the same score.

Congratulations @smslive2.

You're appreciated.

Go and prosper.

Hello @etrange, is It possible to have all info (like test format, how to read, what to expect etc) and resources regarding TEF on page 1 of this thread?

Merry Christmas everyone

Merry Christmas everyone

Congratulations @olajide21. What an interesting read! The wait is over. Go and prosper in your new country. God be praised!

@wasseynewest congratulations. Your prayer has been answered.

@topsmamen, @vancouver, @flosk, @flourisher and to all ITA grabbers, i wish you Godspeed.

To all who got PPR, go and prosper in your new country.

I rejoice with you all.

Congrats @bimsebony. Go and prosper

Saintee2009:
I only have Bsc and 3yrs Working experience... If I apply as single and must max out on IELTS, then I'll arrive at 441... which isn't strong enough.
If I apply as married and she joins her BSc. ECA and max out IELTS.. then we end up in 445!!

When you say apply as single, i hope you mean spouse unaccompanying

Chicagomum:
I have not gotten my report but will pick it up and submit EOR 2mrw. Cant you pick up the report?

Will pick mine up and return back to sender o.. lol i must get my 7 or 7.5

No BC in my location. I have to wait for it to be sent via DHL.

ontarioissauga:
You must not receive the trf to commence the EOR process.

I saw this on their website

Reelee:
Whenever you intend to re-write, please inform me so I can add a little to the cost of the exam. You can send me a private mail. Thanks

@erigo23, same here. Let me know when you're ready. Cheers

Thank you all for your kind and encouraging words. I'll do as advised. I'll remark writing and speaking to increase my chances of refund.

It's quite unfortunate that it's only BC conducting IELTS where I reside. An alternate body would have been considered.

I'll start the process as soon as I receive my TRF.

I'll keep the house updated.

My husband wrote yesterday's exam. I'm praying he does better so our chances can increase.

Thanks once more.

At this point, I have to wish tjbrown, Sting007, hachikaru, bababode825, peteronota, Adiepena, liferunsoncode, oluphilip2008, ofei, youseuph, Zeiya, NwabuezeCKA, daicee, Cutebabe0002 and skywalk12 congratulations.

Your waiting and perseverance has paid off to the glory of God.

Go and prosper in your new home.

My dear Family,

I don't think I can do this again. 3rd attempt

Overall Band:

8.0

Listening:

8.5

Reading:

9.0

Writing:

6.5

Speaking:

7.5

Tojued:
Congrats in advance to today's ielts takers!

Thanks tojued. Today's exam ehn. No words! Listening..... IELTS, IELTS, IELTS how many times did I call you?

God pass una

Congrats to @TEECAN, @amakyzuu, @dbjay and @drcynthia.

Go and prosper

@drcynthia I loveeee your timeline. I pray mine will be faster o. I tap into this testimony Amen!

Congratulations @Maworld, @naijaismyown, @toske0, @ebi12, @teoyubel, @kiboe and @rijo02.
Go and prosper in your new country.

To @hephgirl, @dannyko, @barryston and all who got ITA, speedy PPR is my ardent wish for you.

And to those of us still on the race for IELTS, more certificates etc, may our expectations not be cut short. Amen!

@cutiep, thank God you still have another buffer for the 5 points loss. Happy birthday in advance.

Congrats dear. Go and prosper. I wish you safe delivery.

Stonebreaker01:
Finally, the Eagle has landed!
it's PPR!

Hubby and I can finally have a fantastic night's rest , I had a strong belief that part 5 will not end without my PPR testimony and it didn't.

Timeline below

Decision to travel March 2017 ( Was single then)
IELTS with BC April 2017
IELTS was passed at first attempt 9,8,8,7.5
ECA took about 6 months between NASU strike and IQAS
Got married in Dec 2017 and joined the pool as a couple with me being the PA
Hubby was on the journey before we met, had IELTS and ECA already
CRS score 477
ITA was JAN 5
AOR March 29
Proof of fund was FD which was maturing in 2 months and the balance was from my savings account.
Med passed April 12
Then the wait began ...............

Ordered 3 GCMS notes in between... 3rd yet to arrive
1st and 2nd had similar info note, one of my job references wasn't used so points dropped to 452 but was still good, so I didnt bother about CSE.
Visa office: initially London, moved to kyiv in August.

Started raising CSE and sending mails to Kyiv after 180 days post AOR and didn't really get very helpful feedback except to keep checking profile.
1st Ghost Update 16th Oct
2nd Nov, Kyiv contacted my office to confirm my employment status, HR replied same day.
5th Nov, status changed to NA
6th Nov, changed back to IP1

2nd Ghost update 8th Nov at about 2pm
9th Nov, status changed to IP2 about 2pm
Then at 3:45pm I got an email from CIC, opened my account and behold Passport Request Message, I was alone at the time, I didn't even know how to behave

We have been under a lot of pressure to get PPR so we can land in Canny before our baby who is on the way arrives or airline refuse to carry me lol. I just want to say a big thank you to God who makes all things beautiful in its time and a big thank you to everyone who has contributed to this thread. I discovered this thread about 3 months after applying and every PPR testimony shared really encouraged me to be hopeful.

God bless you all.

Wow!!

BC or MOD?

Nigeria or abroad?

Baden18:
Hi All,

I took the IELTS exam on Oct 27th for the first time and below are my results:

Listening: 9.0
Reading: 9.0
Speaking: 9.0
Writing: 7.5

I spent less than 5 hours in total preparing for this exam and I focused only on speaking & writing as I was told those were the difficult sections.

I only watched YouTube videos and recommend the IELTS videos by Jay for writing & IELTS videos by Liz for speaking.

Also for writing make sure to use FANBOYS (For/As/Nor/But/Or/Yet/So) in addition to the complex words Jay will give you.

Good Luck!!!

Congratulations @melaninpopping, @nazor83, @fabmummy and @gook. Go ye and prosper.

@fabmummy and @gook happy wedding anniversary.

@wasseynewest congratulations. Your story has re-ignited my zeal. I was already thinking of jettisoning the whole idea.

Thanks @nazor83 for your bolded advise. Much needed at this time.

Wow wow Wow!!! And to think I was trying to search NL for the lady whose children said "thank God mummy. Chicken at last!!".

God is indeed faithful even in out faithlessness. It has ended in praise.

Go and prosper!!

aworldcitizen:
Praise to the Lord the Almighty the king of creation!
Gather round people, it's PPR!

Below is my timeline
Decision to travel August 2017.
Family of 5
Visa office: initially London, moved to kyiv in August.
IELTS: September 2017.
My IELTS was written once and was perfect 9,8,8,8.
Spouse IELTS 7.5,7.5,7,7
ECA: Masters Nov 2017
Entered the pool Dec.
ITA January
AOR January 17th 2018
Medical Passed Feb 11th 2018
IP1 Feb 12th 2018
IP2 Feb 27th 2018
Then silence. Not even a single ADR.
Ordered 1st GCMS notes April 2018 everything looked perfect.
Then complete silence.
Ordered 2nd GCMS notes July 2018, this never arrived
Wrote Raplh who confirmed Eligibility and Security not yet started.
More silence, not even a ghost update
October 3rd 2018 ordered 3rd set of GCMS notes. Arrived Nov. 1st. Still same as April notes. My file had not been touched since March 2018. Eligibility and Security not yet started.
Wrote a 3rd mail to Ralph on Nov 4th who was gracious enough to respond (Ralph responds only once). He confirmed that my eligibility and security was not yet started and my application cannot be expedited.
Nov 8th, like a dream ! my PPR!

Checked email and profile this morning and saw nothing.

By 2pm during my lunch break, I saw a mail notification, I wanted to ignore but decided to check.

I saw a mail from donotreply@cic.gc.ca that I have an update on my profile. I was excited, that finally I am getting a ghost update / adr.

I logged into my cic acct and saw my profile was updated. I was so excited,thinking it was just a ghost update and that finally my file was receiving attention. I wanted to log out but I felt the nudge to proceed and click on view complete application which I did.

Nothing seemed to have changed, my background check was still in process, I was about to log out again, when I felt that urge to scroll further down to the mail section.

I saw I had a new mail, titled request letter. I already concluded that it was an ADR for fresh bank statement. Love and behold, it was the almighty PPR.

I wasn't expecting it to come without an ADR for updated POF since my application had been pending for almost 10months. I lost appetite immediately, and was was just screaming. I couldn't share the news with my colleagues, so I just lied to them that my husband got a new job!�.

I am immensely grateful to God Almighty who did not put me to shame. Delay is not denial. Though it tarries, it must surely come.

Thank you all for all the love and support.

Off to take my pictures and submit tomorrow.

This year has been so challenging. hubby and I lost our jobs, all our money tied at POF, we were feeding from Hand to mouth and struggled to pay school fees. Infact this September, we had to change their schools to a very cheap school.

God bless you all.

prost80:
Congrats to all PPR clinchers, we are behind you

Hello All,


I need information, the NOC the PA claim she has a year and a half in it, but another NOC which is in the same field , she has 3 years and over, she got an ITA based on thinking because she has 9 yrs experience. What should she do? Decline the offer and re-enter the pool after correcting the error or what?
do we need to expalin to IRCC, whY?

You can change NOC post ITA with LOE (ask newmum cos she changed hers) as long as it's still O, A or B. Will changing NOC reduce her score below the cut off? If it will, decline.

My opinion, though. Others can weigh in.

stonecoldcafe:
Congrats @ vickyehi,
extraterestrial,
doncorleone,
Chicituababe and amdman

Where's our shekere?

Congratulations to all PPR clinchers - vickyehi, extraterrestial, doncorleone, chicituababe and amdman.

Go and prosper. We are right behind you.

illusory:
To clarify, I sent:

MSc certificate by myself.
MSc transcript from Unilag.
NECO result from NECO office Ilupeju (as per instructions in previous posts).

This was exactly what the WES required documentation list asked for...

Thanks again.

I think NECO is not doing it right. If I remember correctly, you're the second person complaining of this. I think you should go there and let them know how it should be done. Kpele.

But I really do not understand WES and verifications. Schools and WAEC send transcript and certificate to you directly and you're still verifying from them. Is it that they don't trust what is sent to them? Why can't the student send the WAEC/NECO certificate along with a scratch card?

Abeg if you can, avoid WES.

joo2018:
Hi sis. How's is going? What's the progress report?

Hi joo2018. Thanks for checking up on me. I dey o. Tried going through PNP. No show. Back to FSW. Been trying to convince hubby to rewrite IELTS. He has finally agreed. So most likely Dec.

How are you doing?

Congratulations @deesmama, @Luce and @Fiona111, wishing you all the best in the maple land

Congratulations dear

Claire40:
PPR IS HERE

IELTS – February 1st
ITA – February 21st
AOR – March 16th
IP2- October 23rd
PPR – October 24th

First week of January, I finally decided to see what all the hullabaloo was about Canadian express entry in order to decide whether or not it will be appropriate for me. I spent the week reading up on the express entry process and reading the living in Canada thread. On the 9th of January, my journey officially started. I paid for WES and applied for transcript. About a week later, I paid for BC IELTS. It was like the heavens approved of my decision, ECA was ready 1st week of February and I did not even have to pay for transcripts as my University sent them FOC. I passed IELTS and family came through for POF making my CRS score 476. I wore my swimming trunk and took the plunge. Everything was moving smoothly. I was already planning June landing BUT London decided to teach me a lesson.

Some days after AOR, I received the dreaded “how to find a job in Canada” mail. From my GCMS notes the email coincided with the date my file was transferred to London. For 6 months, my file was gathering dust in London Visa Office. Also, my eligibility changed from met to not met when it was sent to London. After 6 months, I raised a CSE and was informed that my file had been transferred to Kyiv, Ukraine. In October I sent a mail to Ralph Goodale and he responded that my eligibility had passed. Shortly afterwards, I moved to NA2, then IP2 and finally received the long awaited PPR.

Throughout this journey, I experienced so many emotions; joy, sadness, hope, euphoria, dejection etc. It was an emotional tasking something but God has done it. Delay is not denial. It finally ended in praise.

Proof of employment – My reference letter was short, only three duties were stated on it. I sha attached payslips, letter of employment, confirmation and promotion to avoid stories that touch

POF – I thought I did everything right for this section but it was this section that sent me to London. My POF had review required on it. I know that some people with review required remain in Ottawa but the one thing almost everyone in the London whatsapp group had in common was that review was required for one or more sections.

IELTS - I stammered and stuttered during my speaking test and did not even finish the two minutes but thankfully, I still got enough points to apply

Finally Nairalanders, you guys are a fantastic bunch of people. Thanks to everyone that has helped in growing this express entry thread. It is a great source of information and was very helpful to me.

Congratulations @wizean. May the Maple land favour you. @wifey thanks so much

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