vcole:
it must be a first bank thing. debit cards work just fine for mcc payments as long as its a foreign currency denominated card. try contacting your bank.

U need to also make sure d money in the account is in excess of what is required.

iwillrejoice:
Ielts result is out!!!
LSRW - 8,7.5,8.5,7.5 overall 8.0 hubby has overall 7.0 . Over to ECA.

Nice

Faky201:
Yes it's in Lagos. Thank you. So that is all I need to attach and d proof of transfer

D deed of assignment should suffice as it ordinarily should contain d parties, property in question, and consideration (amount land was sold). U can PM for further clarification.

40manlappy:


No fall hand bro. All the best

Thanks Bro.

Faky201:
Please in selling a land that does not have c of o. What does one attach as proof of sale ?

Deed of assignment. Am assuming d land is in Lagos

miella:


Congrats to Madam. Success for you also next week.

Thanks @miella.

sweetrie:
Good evening house, please which bank(s) issue Dollar CREDIT card. @optionese, miella and everyone.

Buy dollars from black market and approach any bank to open a dorm account. Minimum deposit is $100.

Guys my wifey got LRWS=8,7.5,6.5,7. Am looking forward to mine next week Thursday. I hope not to fall hand.

EBENEZERABAYOMI:
Pls advice. My wife and have done our ECA and our IELTS. My wife result is LRWS 6,5,6,7 and mine is 7,6,7,6. After using the CRS our score was not even up to 400. I think 315 or thereabout but we were told we can only be picked if we enter the pool buy going through the PNP. Am a computer scientist major in Database analysis while my wife is a Registered Nurse and midwife. We are both in our 30s. Pls what can we do. (2) Which province is presently open to give EOI an and accept or give PNP.Am waiting for your response pls

U guys should resit ielts and aim for LRSW-8777. U can use d CRS calculator to check ur possible scores with these values. If u can get up to 410 then u ve a good chance of getting ITA or worst case receive invitation from OINP.

Michaelbay:
please house what do i need for my biometric?

Biometrics? Where r u doing it

Jumdah20:
Are we plenty waiting for 15 marks add come June 6 ?

This CIC sef, they don't like being clear. 15 marks for applicants sibling in Canada. What about spouses sibling? I read on Canada Visa that it's either applicants or spouses sibling, any thoughts? Good Pipu of Nairalandi

Sibling in Canada could either be dat of d PA or d spouse.

ARE U GUYS READY FOR THE CHANGES TOMORROW?

News Release
From Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada

June 5, 2017—Markham, ON – Improvements to the Express Entry system taking effect tomorrow help support the integration of skilled workers as they build their new life in Canada. This benefits Canada as newcomers are able to more quickly put their skills to use to help strengthen and grow Canada’s economy.

Starting on June 6, new points will be awarded to candidates with siblings in Canada. Studies have shown that as newcomers build a new life in Canada, those with siblings benefit by having improved integration into Canadian society.

Other changes to the Express Entry system include points for candidates with strong French language skills, removing the requirement to register with Job Bank and a new approach to rank tied candidates in the Express Entry pool.

Programs managed through the Express Entry system attract high-skilled foreign workers and former international students who want to live in Canada permanently and whose in-demand skills are needed by employers across the country to help build businesses and grow the economy.

ebho:
Copied from Canadavisa

POST ITA PROCESS

For those who are waiting for ITA, check the following and prepare the necessary documents.

After you receive ITA, once you log in to your Express Entry profile, you will have two buttons
- Continue Application
- Decline Invitation

Note: You will have 60 days to submit your PR application electronically with all supporting documents. 60 days start from the day you get ITA, if you feel that you will not be able to arrange all the documents in 60 days, you can decline the ITA anytime before the expiry of 60 days and you will be back in the pool. In case you decline your ITA, then you will be eligible to be invited again provided you meet the CRS cut-off requirement.

Once you click Continue Application, you will be taken to pages similar to your Express Entry forms that you filled up. This page would have all the information carried forward from your Express Entry profile and additionally you also need to fill up Address History, Personal History and Travel History for each member listed in the application.

DOCUMENT CHECKLIST

Post completion of each section, the system would generate a personal document checklist based on the information submitted by you in the previous pages. A sample document checklist for a family of two (FSW) without any Canadian relatives would look like something below.

Supporting Documents for Primary Applicant
Details Document Name Instructions Options
Not Provided Passports/Travel Documents (Multiple) (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Marriage License/Certificate (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Proof of medical exam (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Education (diplomas/degrees) (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Employment Records 1 (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Employment Records 2 (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Employment Records 3 (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Police Certificates (Multiple) (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Proof of Means of Financial Support (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Digital photo (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Letter of Explanation (optional) instructions Upload file

Supporting Documents for Spouse
Details Document Name Instructions Options
Not Provided Passports/Travel Documents (Multiple) (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Proof of medical exam (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Education (diplomas/degrees) (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Police Certificates (Multiple) (required) instructions Upload file
Not Provided Digital photo (required) instructions Upload file

FEE PAYMENT

Once you have uploaded the documents, you have the option to make payment and submit your eAPR. Post ITA after clicking Continue, you will be asked whether you want to pay RPRF upfront, in case you have mentioned Yes and later want to modify it, you can do so by going to Modify Family Information which you can find in the menu bar.

Permanent Resident Application Fee: CAD 550 per applicant
Right of Permanent Resident Fee (RPRF): CAD 490 per applicant

You can make payment using credit card and debit cards provided international transactions are allowed on your card. Contact your bank to check the same. MasterCard, Visa and Amex cards are accepted. Ensure that your bank has not put any transaction limit, contact your bank before using your card for payment. In case you do not have suffcient balance or credit limit, you can use your family member's or friend's card as CIC has no restriction on the same.

You will get Acknowledgment of Receipt (AOR) immediately after you make the payment.

THINGS TO NOTE

Police Certificate - If you already have nomination do not wait for ITA, apply for police certificate soon. For countries that you have already left, in case you do not have the police certificate, initiate the process for the same as well as some countries take time to issue you a police certificate.

Medicals - CIC has a list of empaneled clinics/hospitals where you need to get medical tests done. Check this link http://www.cic.gc.ca/pp-md/pp-list.aspx. The following basic tests and checks are carried out (If you have had any or have any medical conditions, you need to let them know and also carry any medical records that you have)
1. Blood
2. Urine
3. Chest X-Ray
4. Eye Sight
5. Blood Pressure
6. Height/Weight
7. Physical examination by physician

You will not be given the results of the tests, the clinic will upload it directly to CIC. You will be given an Acknowledgement Form which you need to upload as proof of medical exam. Please ensure all the information on the Acknowledgment Form is correct as per passport and that the category on your medicals is mentioned as Non-EDE/Worker. If you find any discrepancy, get it corrected then and there itself and get an updated Acknowledgement Form.

Digital Photo - The final frame size of the photo should be at least 35mm x 45mm. The photograph must show a full front view of the head and tops of shoulders. The size of the head, from chin to crown, must be between 31mm and 36mm. The physical dimensions in pixels must be at least 420 x 540. The final size of the image should not be less than 60KB. The file should be submitted in JPEG format.

Reference Letter - For previous employers, the letter obtained after you have left is good enough, unless and until you want to get a fresh letter or want to get the letter updated. For current employer as a rule of the thumb, get a fresh letter if the previous one which you got is older than 6 months. For other questions related to reference letter check this thread http://www.canadavisa.com/canada-immigration-discussion-board/nail-the-challenge-of-getting-reference-letter-from-current-employer-t397796.0.html

ECA, IELTS - There is no separate placeholder for IELTS and WES. So you can upload IELTS and WES along with educational documents.

Proof of Funds (POF) - Get latest and updated POF. Ensure you cover as much as information requested by CIC in the Bank Letter/Bank Certificate.

Letter of Explanation(LOE) - Though this is an optional document, please use it to your advantage to explain anything you feel the officer should know or consider while assessing your application.

Provincial Nominees(PNP) - If you are a provincial nominee would suggest you to submit copy of nominaton certificate and Schedule 4 (IMM0008_4E) upfront along with LOE. Though these are not asked for when submitting eAPR, later you will be requested to submit Schedule 4.

Statutory Questions - In case you answer 'Yes' to any Statutory Questions, then explain the reason for the same in LOE and also submit Schedule A (IMM5669E) along with LOE. Though Schedule A is not asked for when submitting eAPR, later you will be requested to submit Schedule A.

Document Size & File Format - All documents should be uploaded as PDF not more than 4MB, except for digital photo which should be in JPEG format and not less than 60KB. For each placeholder, it should be one PDF. If you have multiple pages, merge them into one PDF for each placeholder. If the file size exceeds 4MB, scan the documents with scanner settings at 100 dpi or less but ensure that the files are legible. You can also use online tools like Small PDF to compress, merge and split PDFs etc (https://smallpdf.com/).

Help/Instructions - If you have any doubt about the documents that needs to be uploaded, check the help, blue button (Instructions) next to the Upload File button

Link to Generic Document Checklist - http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/resources/tools/perm/express/intake-complete.asp

Nice one. Only little addition is d fact dat u now ve 90days to submit ur eAPR from receipt of ITA not 60days.

Boss13:


Good to know Secondary School Teachers are top Skill experience. However, I am not so sure about Youth Service. I was looking at the 6 months accounting. If NYSC is considered as employment, good enough. I know periods, when one is a trainee is not considered as skilled work

Nysc is skilled work not trainee. Especially since u r been paid (no matter how small).

optionese:


This is the second question and your answer should be yes if you have been denied visa to any country

Optionese is correct. If u look at the question critically, u will notice d use of commas. So u can break d question thus:

Has XXXX been denied visa or permit?
Has XXXX been denied entry or ordered to leave......?

grammy010:
Hello fams,

Wish everyone on here a happy new month. Please help a brother out here. I want to confirm if it's possible someone gather all the other documents required for ECA by IQAS and give them to one's school so that it can all be sent along with the official transcript. Or will they have to be sent separately?

Kind advice is urgently needed pls.

God bless you

U can do dat. But why not save urself the stress. Scan all d documents into one PDF file and send through fax to them. U can use http://www.myfax.com/free/ to send to dem. I did mine on the Tuesday and got confirmation today.

ottawaboi:


Please house, i want more views than these as i have another option of liquidating the funds in piecemmeal and crediting her account gradually , say over 3 months or so...i just want to ensure that the funds do not raise any eyebrow as in all, its our savings over time and free of any incumberence.

Bros u r just worrying urself unnecessarily. Liquidate move to her account and write LOE attach all supporting documents. Chikena!!!

yungreezy:
Guys please quick question, I'm about paying for my iqas eca now, but I'm using a friends card. I hope this wouldn't cause any issues? Given that the name on card information would be his.

Doesn't matter

elfmann:

Hahaha..u dey mind them? You never read pre, which will get you an ITA na post you wan create a separate thread for. If my wife smashes IELTS any need for me to do ECA? Can I use one WES profile for two pple u know to save cost. With questions like these..no headway.. Which means you haven't read page 0 sef. Go ahead, only Una go dey look unaselves and dey ask who is VO? What is ADV?

Laff wan kill me here oooo

WolverineLives:
Gurus in the house please help.

I want to claim point for "Two or more certificates" as I see it can boost my score from 410 to about 440. I have a B.Sc degree, already evaluated by WES and also have 2.5 years Diploma from NIIT(IT training Institute). My question is - Do I need to also evaluate this diploma in order to claim the points? Anyone that has done this before kindly advise a brother.

Thanks

I don't know much abt using NIIT degrees. However, any degree u intend using for EE must be evaluated.

mercylicious234:
Guys, I am so pissed off right now.

My hubby keeps changing his middle name with his first name. I just noticed that he put his first name as his middle name and middle name as first name.

In his international passport, it appears as eg
Okeke
A B where a is his middle name and b is his first name.

All his credentials have b as his first name, so I don't know why it should appear as such on his passport.

He said the immigration ppl said it doesn't matter , that he noted it there and they said it is to appear like that. imagine!

He is about to register for his ielts, please advise on name to use.

Also advise on the name to use for his immigration application.

Relax madam. In d space for first given name(s) put the first n middle name there as it appears on his international passport.

bigbroda:


NIPOST isn't bad and they are efficient. I sent mine through NIPOST registered mail with N500 or so and it got there without issues. Faxing should be faster, cheaper and more convenient. Neva used it and don't know how it works.

How long

saddyn:



Thank u very much my brother for your response God bless.

Yes I can, I think I have reference letters for my IT and NYSC and can search for a few pay slips in my email for the bank work. But I don't think it will be up to 3years experience. Also do they except bank experience for application made under engineering section of the noc list?


Thanks once more

Bros ur degree need not align with ur work experience for d EE program.

esosa4real:


Acceptance of Rent

No joy at all. Hahaha.

But seriously how difficult is it to use Google?

It's Acknowledgement Of Receipt

lumsyboy:


Gurus in the house, pls I am waiting for your response.

Evaluate the two degrees.

MrsBee:
Hello house, hubby aced his IELTS L9 R9 W7.5 S7.5. Band 8.5. I have updated my profile with his result. Please how long does it take for the total score to change?

Congrats to u guys n all those who got great scores. My confidence is boosted for my speaking test tomorrow.

Updates reflects after abt 24hrs just chillax

Lochinny:
So I can change the result when the new one comes out?
I want to remark mine too

Yes ma

Lochinny:
Good evening all..
Please has anyone used Iqas to evaluate their documents? My husband's ECA came out and he evaluated two certificates. Please what do they write as their evaluation.
Also can we enter the pool with ielts result L7,R6.5,W7.5,S6.5 for hubby and L8,S6.5,W7.5,R6.5 for mine. Hubby is the principal applicant. But he's rewriting in June.
Want to know if we can enter pool and then change it when the new result comes out

Sure

olasmiles:


I thought it's the other way round

Bros PNP only gives u 600points wen u get d nomination which u can now use for EE to get ITA. So if ur CRS is high enough to get ITA straight why would you want to go through PNP wahala.

Arcayo:

He is only save once he submit application (after AOR), Same thing applies to IELTS expiration, if the expiration date is tomorrow and application submitted today you are save

Dats not correct. There's a legal exception for decline in CRS points due to age after ITA but before AOR. See one of my previous post where I included d link.

elfmann:

We are talking about age..if u don't submit eAPR when ur next DOB hits, ur application becomes ineligible if the CRS gets affected wrt cutoff points u received the ITA on.

Dat is not correct. There is an exception for those dat received ITA but their CRS was reduced due to age before submitting eAPR. See below.

http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/laws-policy/exempt-applicants-pr.asp

elfmann:

I learnt it is after AOR and not ITA. I saw the link too.

It's after ITA not AOR. Wen u receive ITA ur EE profile is frozen.