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Haggai92:
I am currently studying in NMBU. Send me a mail I will be of assistance. Cheers

thormywa:
When did you get the admission bro. I applied and i am yet to get feedback from them

Haggai92:
Generally to all who applied last year, you have taken the bold step and I believe your admission letters are being prepared. I wish I was here earlier to advice during the admission rounds, nevertheless like they say "better late than never".
Am sure most of you had multiple applications, because not every where in Norway is "okay" from my experience. Just like Nigeria, location plays a big role, you can't compare Lagos to Kwara or ebonyi (I mean no disrespect).
Thus, if you have applications sent to UIO,OSLOMET,UIS,UIB,NMBU maybe NTNU and UIA kindly prioritize accepting their admission over any other schools. These areas are developed or in close proximity to developed cities.
Please if you will borrow, go for interest free loans (it could really be difficult in the first 3months of your stay getting a job especially if you're not staying in Oslo or Stavanger).
In all, Norway is a good place and I will encourage anyone to come but have a "plan" (it's not so easy staying back after graduation tbh).
This is my little inexhaustive contribution. I'll try to reply some "important" questions because most of the questions asked here have already been answered in the thread, some people just find it difficult reading previous pages.
Cheers!!

pinkasso:
I guess they have a large intake of prospective students....the volume has really increase...the flexibility to learning and hustle should be one of the best right now .... so them dey they do shakara...if I may ask which intake are you . ??

Jacknn:
Na wa.. I have ielts general (7.5) overall score.. can ielts general suffice for hull city university. Or can I present english proficiency exam from my school.

gsade:
I used this when I applied in 2018. What I did was to supply evidence of the establishment of the esusu: an email sent to everybody taking part in the esusu showing the rotational order of payout. Then I used my salary account statement showing the debits for the monthly esusu evidencing payments I made to other esusu contributors throughout the period up until I received my own esusu payout. Then I explained it all in the LOE. I would recommend you do the same.

Sandicious:
From your explanation, Company A employed but you were seconded to Company B1 & subsequently B2. That means that you only need a reference letter from Company A, in your letter itemize the positions you occupied in the two companies stating the duration and Job roles. You were not employed by B1 & B2 so i don't think they can give you an employment reference letter.

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Sir the point is that Company A employed me and conducted all the necessary things(interview and all). But I was given a letter for B1 for 1st year, after the first year, they (Coy A) gave me another letter for B2. Hence, I have been performing the same job role for the company A through two different contractors(B1-ended and B2-continuing till date).

I know I am getting two different ref letters from B1 and B2, but the Job roles has been exactly the same given my explanation above. How can the Job roles be presented please?

Mmamaroon:
Maybe you do need the LOE after all....try and make it as easy to follow as possible.

What I still don't fully understand is, how come when you were initially employed, Company A gave you a letter with your duties which you'll be carrying out in company B1 and B2 ....but now they are declining to give you a ref letter (basically the same type of letter) with JD for EE?

Anyway, the ideal (to me) is to have have all docs from Company A. If this is impossible, absolutely impossible and you have exhausted all channels, then present what you have, add a crystal clear LOE and pray for the best.

Anyone else with this type of work arrangement? Please help!

Mmamaroon:
If the companies are different (companies B1 and B2) and I was a VO I would be suspicious that they have the same JD....no matter how similar the roles, I don't think any two companies can have the exact same JD.

Remember a LOE should make things clearer to a VO, not confuse him further! I thought companies B1 and B2 were already writing your JD why are you mentioning company A?

IRCC doesn't ask us to specify what type of staff we are (as far as I know), just follow the IRCC guidelines on hours, pay duties etc...remember the checklist should be your second bible.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/corporate/publications-manuals/operational-bulletins-manuals/permanent-residence/express-entry/applications-received-on-after-january-1-2016-completeness-check.html

Mmamaroon:
The VO will not know that a person's duties includes taking phone calls, responding to emails and welcoming visitors if it is not listed in their JD.

Regarding having duties in the JD that are not in the NOC, I suspect this isn't an issue if they are few e.g. 1 or 2 but if they are many, is it possible the VO may wonder if another NOC is better suited than the one the applicant chose? Perhaps.

Please, these are just my views, I am not a VO, just a fellow applicant.

Good luck!

Mmamaroon:
Nedu, please take my comments with a pinch of salt. This is just personal opinion and I may be wrong.

1. the first question that came to mind when I read your JD is: "is this guy a travel agent?" - note that the travel agent NOC is 6521 which is skill level C and not eligible for EE.

2. For 1211 you have identified 3 out of the 8 NOC duties; 38%.......maybe not such a good match

3. For 1241 you have identified 6 out of the 13 NOC duties - or 10 NOC duties if we disregard the ones starting with "may" - may I suggest you review the NOC again and ask your employer to include any duties that you actually perform, which have not been included in your JD. For example, I imagine you welcome visitors, take minutes of meeetings, respond to emails, file things etc. I have marked these in red below.

All the best!


Ah!! Sir I'm not a travel agent neither Counselor (as per the noc code shared).

I actually lifted this JD from my CV, and also there are some duties in 1241 which I perform as you rightly noted that wasn't listed there.

Please I need insight on this issue of copying of Noc. I really don't want to tailor all my JD to the noc and it will now be plagiarism.

Also, can some JDs exist in someone's role without it being in duties expected of a particular Noc code?

Thank you

Mmamaroon:
Job titles don't matter, duties do.

For each of your duties below place the NOC code and duty number that you believe matches beside it, example in bold below. That's the best way to see which NOC matches best

Job roles.

1. Requesting of itinerary quotes from travelling agents and issuance of flight tickets; In't and local of over 2000 expatriate/national employees on leave rotational basis(every quarter of the year) NOC 1242 item 10

Mmamaroon:
Interesting arrangement. If A performed interviews, they will likely be conversant with your duties, hours and pay especially if you have
no direct contact with B1 and B2. Other option is for your direct supervisor to do the ref letter. Hopefully his/her ID/call card has the same entity and the one you are listing as your employer on your MyCIC profile. Good luck with it.

Advice re NOC is....label your JD with numbered NOC duties and share here please.... there is safety when there are many advisers.

Mmamaroon:
It would make sense for Company A to insist that the contractors i.e. Company B1 and B2 write the ref letter if, for example, they are an employment agency, like Adecco, which finds work for people and then sub contract the people to work for different firms. Is this the case?

If you were working the minimum number of hours when the contracts were being renegotiated and if you were still being paid, this work experience is valid and you may need to ask/beg/grovel for these periods to also be covered in your ref letter: Oct 2018 to Dec 2018 & Nov 2019 to Dec 2019.

If they absolutely refuse, you may need to just work a fee more months under contract to make up the gap.

I'm taking it for granted that said letter already includes job duties that are consistent with chosen NOC.

Sicaron:
please who has made payment on Iqas. The site is so slow because of the 15mins window and it even closes before the 15mins expires. I am considering paying through bank draft.
Please someone should advise me

Kekereekun123:
before quoting me, Why did you not simulate it first 20 to 29 ger maximum points. Next https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/eligibility/criteria-comprehensive-ranking-system/grid.html

Kekereekun123:
if you use 8777 as ielts.8 in listening scores will be 469. If you chose the maximum ielts scores for all bands that's 481

philaw:
Well, had my speaking test last week. Was via a laptop. Use nose mask. I think it's part of the mail, not sure though. There r lots of precautionary routine they will make you go through e.g sanitizer, hand washing etc. Generally smooth and cool although.

Onebase79:
Mod idp EOR timeline.
Initial results
L 8.5
R 7.0
W 6.0
S 7.0
17th june: Request was initiated
18th june: Contacted Australia to follow up
19th june: Received a mail from idp Australia advising I wait for at least one week to allow the Nigerian office send my request.
23rd june: Received a mail from the Nigerian office that my request has been forwarded to Australia.
24th june: Received a mail from Australia that they've received my request.
2nd july: got another mail from Australia that my case has been resolved.
3rd july: got a mail from the Nigerian office along with a refund form.

I checked online and there was an upgrade in writing from 6.0 to 6.5, other components remained the same. It took 14 days from application mainly because I requested a remark in all the components. I wasn't really expecting much because my word count in writing task 2 wasn't up to 250. I wrote another test on 11th june, but I didn't finish reading. I answered only 37 questions.

Edit
The TRF remained the same

yengi:
Can smone with the Ielts module 1-14 or any range of modules kindly avail the link for download pls.

Neam9:
Good afternoon everyone, please is anyone writing idp mod ielts this Saturday? They just cancelled and moved mine to 30th!�

Kofo123:
Okay, Thanks

sammirano:
I already know this certificate will work, it is quite cheap and easy. It took me 5 days to prepare for the 3 papers. The total cost is around 100k certificate included.

I will add mine after the lockdown.

niceeric:
Yes o.....I got the alert this afternoon

ProfessorJim:
I just got an email from IELTS MOD that the result of those with successful EOR will be printed after the lockdown and we are all quite aware that this lockdown, especially in Lagos, doesn't have an end in sight. The thing here is that most of us just need to know the new scores and I heard on this forum that they usually update the online scores so why don't they want to do that now even when I suggested the idea. A friend even told me that some countries send IELTS scores using SMS. The funny thing is that you can still request for an EOR presently; isn't that double standard. Why is it that organizations in Nigeria enjoy making simple processes complex for Nigerians? I might have a wrong perspective concerning this situation tho and I stand to be corrected. Please, guys, don't take this serious o, I'm just ranting... #StaySafe

niceeric:
EOR refund issa goal!