Tojued:


Thanks for response.

As painful as it is, PCC is ₦10k flat without receipt. They say it's official price, I say it's organised crime.

Chei!

I was also quoted 10k... just wanted to know if it could be cheaper. Lol.

Good Morning, Please how much did you spend in total? I'm based in PH

Threemg:


Ma'am why waste such money? I'm not in Lagos also but I trusted Inspector M to do it for me from Niger Delta where I'm based and he didn't let me down. FedEx sealed the deal. All the best

Honestly, its very frustrating.

Ethelia:

Also its a bit frustrating and draining when I keep seeing the same questions over and over again. As I cannot answer them, its better I leave it for newer people on the thread who still have plenty energy to answer

If i didn't look at the moniker i would have thought you were Mcstan.
BTW, Fedex plus Inspector Moshood will be more than 10k.

Threemg:


Ma'am why waste such money? I'm not in Lagos also but I trusted Inspector M to do it for me from Niger Delta where I'm based and he didn't let me down. FedEx sealed the deal. All the best

Yes medical was passed with my new born 15th June

niobe77:

You will get new ppr mail, usually within 1-4 weeks after medical passed. Have you passed medical with your new born?

Threemg:


He said 7.5K, I know he receives call alot and the man no dey farabale sort off so I just bone face transferred 6.5K to him and that's all. Then I paid for the courier to send it across around 3K or thereabout

10K..no difference.

Hi all,

Long post alert!

Wanted to post this for a long while but when Vfs/Accra say wait, you wait, lol.

So I got copr. My timeline:

ITA: March 26, 2018
AOR: April 8 ( dated April 9)
Med Passed: April 18
IP1: April 18
IP2: May 17
PPR: May 18 (dated May 17)
Passports submitted: May 22
Approved: June 12
PUM: June 20

I want to state details of my application process because I benefited a great deal from the details posted by others and I'm hoping someone may benefit from mine

PRE- ITA

ECA: I stumbled on Iphy's posts for lawyers so I used IQAS for my llb. Paid in July 2017. Learnt from a friend afterwards that she and a couple of others used WES for only their llb and still claimed professional degree and got ppr. Painful especially as I had to wait until March 7, 2018 before I obtained my ECA. (Please I didn't say use WES o, please go with your guts ).

IELTS: March 3. lsrw: 8.5,8,8.5,7. Cochtrane's tips was everything! Honestly when you use mini-ielts.com (found out it's the shorter version of ieltsonlinetests.com), the ielts proper doesn't appear so daunting. Also went through ieltsliz.com. I found her soothing and easiest to flow with and understand particularly for reading and listening. Barely practised writing (oversabi and see finish, lol) but I wish I did. I'd recommend practising, (especially writing) on the actual exam sheets and in actual exam conditions. My spouse did and got lsrw: 9,8,9,8 .

Post ITA

PCC: No travel history and Inspector Moshood to the rescue! I live in PH so he scanned the form for spouse and I. Filled and affixed thumbprints and couriered to him. Paid 10k for both and PCC was ready in less than 3 hours. Had it delivered to us.

POF: Used a gift deed for 75% of the funds. Deed wasn't notarised or stamped (trust me, in Nigeria, you do not need to notarize or have a Commissioner for Oaths stamp an original deed...any deed. Stamping/ notarization doesn't make it any more or less valid . Except the deed isn't actually a deed but a letter or an affidavit). I provided 6 months statement for the account that the funds was paid into even though the account was pretty much dormant. For the balance 25%, I got a letter in the format Yimiton shared for money market fund. First bank sha decided to add their own jara by including my statement of unit holding. Didn't want that because a chunk of the funds was invested a day after ITA. I guess that didn't matter for me, lol. So I uploaded the deed of gift, teller showing transfer, 6 months bank statement (dated April 4) and letter from fbn quest attaching my investment statement. Preceding these was a simple table of content showing those documents as well as a screenshot of exchange rate on xe.com on the day of submission. Infact, I had a table of content for documents exceeding 3 in a placeholder.

Reference Letter: Yep, NOC mama delivered! Obtained from 2 employers. Didn't even have to change Newmum's format. Used it exactly as she provided. Also helped that my noc was pretty straightforward. I also used only "To whom it may concern", no ircc address, no time, lol.

Change of Name: Submitted affidavit and newspaper publication. Marriage certificate was already in the marriage certificate place holder so I didn't think it was necessary to include it in the change of name placeholder.

LOE: I honestly didn't want to explain anything. But out of curiosity, I clicked on the loe placeholder to see what would pop up (yeah I know, I'm a dumbass, lol) and for some reason, the payment page refused to come up despite having uploaded all the required documents. I kept logging out and logging back in but whossai. I just jejely wrote a short letter "to whom it may concern" and explained why I didn't get bank letter in the required format (maybe this helped, I dunno ). Payment page came up after uploading in that placeholder.

Post PPR

VFS: Spouse and I debated over sending or not sending with the family forms. I was for the former and he, the latter. Even though we filled it eventually, we ended up not submitting our passports with the forms because really, our family composition didn't change. We also didn't include any note in our application to state this.

I guess that's about it. Special thanks to this amazing forum. I read some of part 1, read part 2 1 and half times, followed part three to the end and been following part 4 from the beginning. The wealth of information *sigh* . Sad to see how many people don't realise page 0 is the actual goldmine. Do you know what it means to sift through seas of information looking for something peculiar to your situation? Meanwhile this has been made sooooooo easy to find on page 0? Yes, I have to add, Glitteringstar and Choctrane, you're amazing! Thank you! And really thank you to everyone mentioned in my post and other active contributors on this invaluable thread.

I want to also add though, while getting info from here, please don't forget the CIC website. That's the immigration bible .

May our desires on this journey, come to pass .

I have seen it my sister.. We are waiting for you in the pool already.. Trust me ECA will show as stated.. I woke up to the mail... Come and see me grinning from ear to ear.. Lol

Fresty:
me sitting pretty by the poolside waiting for my eca today or tomorrow ready to dive in... Hahahahaha... peep that logo on my swimming gear.
fizzile, u feel me?

Good morning e-fam, I entered the express entry pool few months ago but I mistakenly withdrew my profile yesterday. I tried creating a new one but got to a point where I was asked if I had previously applied to IRCC. Does entering the pool also mean applying to IRCC?

My people, that's how I saw one mail today from CPC o (with many steps and one family information form). It appears they asked for my passport. Having waited for like four months me I don't even know if it's PPR sef. My status on my application profile didn't change so...abeg make the elders advice accordingly.

Newmum0615 biko come o. I have been praying for us to get ppr same time o. What's the update?

Me too! Steady dreaming of handing over my resignation. This wait is something else

Newmum0615:
I think I am even more conversant with that thread that this one sef. No time abeg. I am already living in Canada.

Big Congratulations to you!

[quote author=CanadianWasp post=68681810]Hi all,

Long post alert!

Wanted to post this for a long while but when Vfs/Accra say wait, you wait, lol.

So I got copr. My timeline:

wizean:
Morning everyone,
And so it happened that I travelled down with my family to children's practice Lagos yesterday for my medicals. Got in around 8.40am and approached the receptionist on how to go about my medicals. The lady snubbed me for over 30mins. When she finally responded, she said "Oga, am full for the day". I didn't understand her and I asked "Hello ma, please what do you mean u r full for the day? ". She ignored me again. I called out to another staff and explained my plight, she told me "Sir, we only attend to 40 people a day and u need to come in as early 6am to put down ur name, dis list get filled even before 7am. You will need to come back very early tomorrow, please get a hotel close by and lodge. I was dazed. I drew their attention to the fact that I called to make enquiries the day before and nobody told me to come 6am. I was told to be there between 8am and 10am. How come u r now giving me dis 6am story... Whatever the situation is, this is just to give someone an handy info, lest you get disappointed when you get there.

I had similar experience, last week Wednesday to be precise .I got there around 9am, for my mind I was happy that I arrived just in time despite the terrible hold up on d third mainland bridge, only to be told that list for Canada was filled for d day. The crowd sef dat day was discouraging. Thankfully, I stay in lagos and Thursday wasn't a public holiday. We left immediately to prepare for d next day. Got there few minutes to 8am and was number 23 on the list. Ironically, some people who came around past 9am were still attended to cos the list was still less than 40.
I guess some days just have more people than others. But I think on their part, they should at least give one the heads up that they have a maximum number of people they can attend to per day hence it's advisable to come as early as possible.

Hello seniors,

please what placeholder is best to attach schedule A form?

Congratulations. A wonderful something. Glad I was able to help.

Funny how I don't remember most of my NOC 'clients'. Somebody will say Newmum did this and that and I will be like 'Jesu! When o?'

GS has to teach me how she remembers monikers and posts. Issa talent.

CanadianWasp:
Hi all,

Long post alert!

AOR: April 8 ( dated April 9)
PPR: May 18 (dated May 17)
Passports submitted: May 22
Approved: June 12
PUM: June 20

Reference Letter: Yep, NOC mama delivered! Obtained from 2 employers. Didn't even have to change Newmum's format. Used it exactly as she provided. Also helped that my noc was pretty straightforward. I also used only "To whom it may concern", no ircc address, no time, lol.

Lol. IP2 since Feb 27 o. London people are busy scoping me and hubby on LinkedIn. Whenever they are tired, they will release me.
It will end in praise jare.

BlackMimir:
Newmum0615 biko come o. I have been praying for us to get ppr same time o. What's the update?

Additional documents placeholder.

JesusBabyyy:
Hello seniors,

please what placeholder is best to attach schedule A form?

CanadianWasp:
Hi all,

Long post alert!

May our desires on this journey, come to pass .

Great!! Congratulations!

Congrats Canadianwasp (your name will forever make me giggle) and thanks for so many details.

Please repeat : you used gift deed without notarising or supporting with affidavit? Just signature of donor, donee and witnesses?

Congratulations.
[quote author=CanadianWasp post=68681810]Hi all,
Long post alert!

So I got copr. My timeline:

ITA: March 26, 2018
PPR: May 18 (dated May 17)
Passports submitted: May 22
Approved: June 12
PUM: June 20
[/quoe]

Threemg:


Funny enough Mcstan is my lost but found brother, Inspector M plus courier no reach 10k, come to think of it, even if it reached then imagine travelling down to Lagos from here which is around 14k (to and fro) plus 5k (assumption for Inspector M) that's around 20K approximately. Mind you I didn't talk about the risks on thr highway o etc. I think it's safe IMO

10K is abuja price. Drive down with less than ₦500 fuel or take transport of ₦300. No courier involved.

Thanks LOVE!!!

Newmum0615:
Additional documents placeholder.

Huge congratulations!!! @ CanadianWasp
@QueenieB, @Ohla how far with EOR?
I sent them a message with my details on facebook and I was told my results are not back yet but i should check again by Friday...
Fingers crossed!

Congratulations! @CanadianWasp

BlackMimir:
My people, that's how I saw one mail today from CPC o (with many steps and one family information form). It appears they asked for my passport. Having waited for like four months me I don't even know if it's PPR sef. My status on my application profile didn't change so...abeg make the elders advice accordingly.

Lol. Congrats. Na PPR mail.