GlitteringStar:



This is the post---https://www.nairaland.com/4212543/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/238#64699145

Kizzes
Thanks a lot.

They should fight more often on the sister thread so you'd seek solace here more regularly.

xtosync:



The question was something like: Can one get CRS points for work experience obtain while schooling at a post graduate (MPhil/PhD) level?

The person who asked the question didn't clarify na. You cannot claim the points if applying under CEC but for FSW, one can claim the points.

Tojued:


Nothing is impossible. However, your research has provided you with the most most reliable expectations for now.

Thank you bro for your assistance, the CRS of 405 was based on barest minimum of IELTS, I checked again with high IELTS and I found out that my CRS will be well above 450. It is now left for me to get the job done with IELTS

Now my next point of call is with Education qualification, I can either go for 2 or more certificate (I have a degree and a PGD certificate in a specialty of my profession) or I can go for "a professional degree needed to practice in a Licensed profession". I am a medical Radiographer(referred to as Medical Radiation Technologist in Canada) and the profession is regulated and practitioners are licensed before they can practise in Canada. So which
option do you advice I pick ? I tired both on CRS projector and both of them placed me at projected CRS well above 450.

Gurus in the house, abeg make una help a rookie.

GlitteringStar:



This is the post---https://www.nairaland.com/4212543/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/238#64699145

This eases things a bit. This IRCC people with brief, 'shot-put' answers like this can give one HBP

Fsw (single applicant)

Aor 21st April
Med passed and IP1 - 26th April
Correspondence letter - 4th Sept
IP2 and passport request letter - 12 Oct.

London office (according to notes recieved on August 16th)

Asked to send my passport to Islamabad, Pakistan. What is the connection?

Will share all the moments after sorting out this Islamabad, Pakistan ish.

Franklyly:


Thank you bro for your assistance, the CRS of 405 was based on barest minimum of IELTS, I checked again with high IELTS and I found out that my CRS will be well above 450. It is now left for me to get the job done with IELTS

Now my next point of call is with Education qualification, I can either go for 2 or more certificate (I have a degree and a PGD certificate in a specialty of my profession) or I can go for "a professional degree needed to practice in a Licensed profession". I am a medical Radiographer(referred to as Medical Radiation Technologist in Canada) and the profession is regulated and practitioners are licensed before they can practise in Canada. So which
option do you advice I pick ? I tired both on CRS projector and both of them placed me at projected CRS well above 450.

Gurus in the house, abeg make una help a rookie.

Do a Google search 'list of professional degrees canada EE'. If sonographer is on the list, good. If not, use 2 or more. (Hopefully your PGD qualifiés to receive equivalent évaluation)

Try to visit as many links on page one of this thread as you can. Almost no experience is new under the sun.

Riddler32:
Fsw (single applicant)

Aor 21st April
Med passed and IP1 - 26th April
Correspondence letter - 4th Sept
IP2 and passport request letter - 12 Oct.

London office (according to notes recieved on August 16th)

Asked to send my passport to Islamabad, Pakistan. What is the connection?

Will share all the moments after sorting out this Islamabad, Pakistan ish.

We are waiting. We join you to hope it's sorted ASAP.

House please, what update will i see on my account after my biometrics is done

pejuhazel:
Lol, I'm a lady. Just keep practicing and don't give up, learn from your mistakes.

you're a sweet Lady

LadyBR:
My reference letter from the bank.

I got my reference letter before investing in treasury bill.

As long as the letter has ur balance and its enough for pof, u r fine. If they ask for pof again, u submit ur treasury bill cert

To be honest, I can't really advice which order to do it.
In my case, I wasn't too confident that my school (foreign university) would respond so I didn't pay intially. What I did was that I created an account on the ICES portal, then I contacted my school with the ICES reference number. I only made payment after my school had confirmed that my transcripts had been sent to ICES.

emadamysy:
Thanks. Do i make payment before contacting my school? i wont be free till Early January

SESE10:
Send a mail to lautech and blast them stylishly copy the capable like the registrar Top lecturers they will reply. Have a colleague that sent them a mail to tell them of how inefficient they are after two weeks of applying for transcript. Appears the second day after the mail

Thank you jare, God bless. Would look into that.

What is the waiting time or processing time for pnp

Good day al.

My three year old scribbled on one of the pages of my Nigerian passport (not the data page). What could be the implication of this for this entire process? I am due to write IELTS first week in December.

Lansky:
I can link you to the person that helped us and you can ask for a link to the person responsible for your department.

I need the link too.

Amen oooo. We will come dancing

Pegzzyg:
It is well my sister, we'll testify together in Nov by His Grace

Thanks so much @arcugo

Top of the Day to you all,

I intend to write the IELTS exam soon and i think i can handle the speaking and Listening by practicing and watching a couple of videos. where i have my concerns are the Reading and Writing. was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction with respect to a Tutor or an online virtual tutor. Right now in Nigeria everybody claims to be a certified IELTS Tutor, you dont even know who is telling the truth.

Finally i got my freedom...lolzzz... after being banned for close to 2months...lolololzzzzz...

fizzile:
Finally i got my freedom...lolzzz... after being banned for close to 2months...lolololzzzzz...

Lol welcome back

joo2018:
Congrats to everybody who aced IELTS. The rest of us, let's keep trying.

In other news, Part 1 of my Canada story almost over after 9 months since decision to travel. Spouse ECA received and IELTS results out. CRS jumping from 423 to 447. My marathon stay in the pool almost over.

Fingers crossed for next Wednesday.

NB: now I know why the number of candidates with high CRS score in the EE pool jumps from Friday to draw on Wednesday. IELTS General Training tests globally comes out the week before the draw (here). So you see people massively collecting their TRF between Friday and Tuesday and diving into the pool or updating their profile.

Congratulations to you

Its great to see people who give so much (on this thread) make remarkable progress on their journey.
Congrats to @ OYASALOF, Eben04, sinie, Sthill5 , jmnsimone, ottawasenators, Riddler32.

Ielts result appeared really really good in this batch.

nomad26:
To be honest, I can't really advice which order to do it.
In my case, I wasn't too confident that my school (foreign university) would respond so I didn't pay intially. What I did was that I created an account on the ICES portal, then I contacted my school with the ICES reference number. I only made payment after my school had confirmed that my transcripts had been sent to ICES.

would adopt this method. Naija schools can be headache

TEECANN:


Congratulations sis. This round of IELTS is undoubtedly @Sthill5's IELTS.

Yours is a story that resonates tenacity, doggedness and determination.

Starting with your ECA hustle to this beautiful IELTS smashing...

As this phase of the journey is ending in praises, may the next phase (golden mail) also end in praises IJN.

Congratulations.

Thank you so much and Amen to the golden mail

Congratulations. Kindly send the materials to me via email. dearkaryn_1@yahoo.com. thank you in advance.




Quote author=Lansky post=72012411]God is good!

L - 9.0
R - 9.0
W - 7.5
S - 8.0

Sharing my story cuz of how I've learnt from others in this thread. Mine will take a peculiar route and I'll update the house.
However, for now I'll share how I studied for IELTS with the hope that it might help someone too.

Listening: Practice a lot. Get a hold of the Cambridge Books 1-12 and even 13 and do many practice tests. Practice concentrating cause my mind wandered sometimes, usually in between sections or at the beginning.

After a lot of practice, find out which of the listening question formats gives you a hard time then focus on that one to get better. Mine was the section with a question and multiple choice long answers. I jonsed a lot answering these type of questions during practice.

In the hall, don't touch the headset during the test or bend too low. Doing so will either interfere with or block the Infra-Red signal and you'll hear a scrambled sound instead of the test. I wrote all my answers in ALL CAPS; I couldn't risk small caps as my handwriting is terrible.


Reading: Get a hold of the Cambridge Books 1-12 and even 13 and do many practice tests. Although it's the GENERAL we are writing, I practiced a LOT with the ACADEMIC as it's harder/complex. When I did practice GENERAL, it was a breeze. Also, time yourself as you proceed.

After a lot of practice, figure out which type of questions you suck at and focus. Mine was T/F/NG or Y/N/NG - I failed them hard - especially when synonyms were used in the questions.

Finally, I read the entire passages during practice for both Academic and General. However, before my test I tried the skimming and scanning technique, and it worked too

In the hall I answered in my question paper first then transferred to answer sheet later cuz of my bad handwriting. I finished Reading in 30mins then I revised my answers or the ones I skipped and transferred my answers in the last 30mins. I answered in ALL CAPS too.

Writing: Honestly, this was definitely the hardest for me - I am not a fan of long story.

Firstly, I finished an official free (for 1 month) IELTS LRWS online course *** even though I can't remember how I learnt about it. I also did the RoadtoIELTS that comes after you pay. Thirdly, I did a short video course *** downloadable via torrent - it taught me how to plan the different types of essays. Popular free IELTS websites also helped me too. Like L & R, it goes without saying that you should practice a lot.

Now when it comes to practicing, I think the best approach is to first UNDERSTAND the Writing marking criteria for both Task 1 and 2. The criteria for both is similar but only differs in Task Achievement vs Task Response respectively. When you understand the criteria you can give them what they want abi are looking for. (Same goes for Speaking).

Second step is to practice (TIMED) a lot with the criteria in mind. For writing (and speaking) it's hard to know your standing since you can't get immediate answers like L & R. What I did was to pay someone online ***, who claimed to be an official IELTS tutor, to mark some of my practice tests (Did same for speaking). Doesn't cost much. So say you have 3 weeks to your IELTS exam, you can write 4-5 letters and essays a week and get the last one in every week assessed. Practice with pencils or biros - basically whatever you prefer to write with during exam.
If you can't write an essay everyday, at least practice planning an essay everyday (i.e, Intro, Paragraph 1, Paragraph2, etc , Conclusion).

In the hall, every minute counts in Writing. If you are going to ease yourself during the test, it's best you do it during Reading cuz it's probably the test you'll finish on time. They won't let you out of the hall during the chill period between L & R, or R & W. I lost about 2 mins in Writing while running to and fro the bathroom . As globally advised, spend 20 mins on Task 1, and 40 mins on Task 2 (you know Task 2 carries twice the weight). For each Task, quickly plan before you start writing.

The moment I started writing, I wrote down the different ways to show 'Grammatical Range and Accuracy' so that I remembered to include them (i.e. Simple/Compound/Complex Sentences, Modals, Tenses, Adverbials, etc).
In Task 1, one mistake I recall was mixing up indentation with skipping a line between paragraphs. I corrected the mistake in Task 2.
I didn't do well in Task 2 as I wrote well below 250 words: 220 ish words if I recall correctly. Also, my handwriting is pretty bad (like Doctor type) so I had to slow down to be legible which also added to the pressure. I also recall my conclusion paragraph was poor as I was tense, rushing and looking at the clock.



Speaking: I semi-covered speaking in the Writing section. To reiterate, UNDERSTAND the Speaking marking criteria and give them what they want. Cambridge Books 1-12/13 has Speaking tests too.

You already know about giving extended but on-point/topic (don't digress) answers in Part 1, speaking beyond the stipulated 2 minutes in Part 2, using Part 3 to further give them what they want and finally that lying is okay .

The free (for 1 month) online course *** helped. YouTube videos, free IELTS websites, RoadtoIELTS. I also paid someone, who claimed to be a former IELTS examiner, to interview/assess me; He gave me pointers/feedback and the session eased my tension - don't even understand why I was tensed about a Language I've spoken all my life .

To conclude, practice for L & R, understand criteria and practice for W & S, know your weak areas and improve them.

While I understand that we all want to get this PR sorted, please consider your schedule and book a date that will give you time to study/practice wella. Like if you work full-time, part-time, run a biz, married, single, run a family etc schedule your test accordingly. In hindsight, I nearly made the mistake of registering in another City for the test cuz my own City had no space for a closer date - I would have performed poorly.

*** I'm not sure about the rules as per what is considered advertising so I'm not mentioning any links. However let me know and I'll email them to you. For the Cambridge Books I think they are available via torrent even though I copied via USB from someone in my City.

...and I said I'm not a fan of long story.
Cheers

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Amen o. Thank you.

Ifeoma77:

It will come down insha'Allah! Just enjoy the pool because you're getting out on Wednesday

Lol. Politicians ehn.

Bsbabe:

Where did he make it clear? After very publicly smearing us last Spring at a press briefing with the claim that Nigerians were leading the pack of irregular border crossers, now he goes to private meetings and claims 'he has made it clear'? SMH

1. Normal
2. You can do it now or wait for an ADR. Note that ADRs generally delay an application.

Xbature:
Hi my people.

I trust God that we all we share inspiring testimonies as been shared by those who have gotten their PR.

I have 2 questions:
1. I am working with one of the government parastatals specifically one of the teaching hospitals, in the section for work history, can i say this is normal employment or list it under government appointment. I'm kind of not clear which i should call it. And if i call it government please what are the implications and what document should i prepare?
2. As i'm about to submit my ITA application, is it compulsory to submit the schedule A form now or i can do that later.

I will appreciate response from anyone that has had this kind issue in the past and how to proceed.
Thanks.

Pls,i hope you would't mind sharing the resources/sites you used for WRITING. I've written ielts twice and my writing has been 6.5 both times. I've gone through ieltsliz, ieltsbuddy, ieltsadvantage; It's just so annoying. Pls, help a bro out, thanks...

pejuhazel:
IELTS result out: LRSW, 8.5/9/8/6, first attempt. This result dropped my CRS from 459 to 396, I don't know whether to apply for a remark or register for a new one.

@xtosync, @glitteringstar and @tojued

I believe the IRCC tweet is valid. It is a question of misunderstanding.

Yes the requirement for work during school is strict for the CEC program so that people will not cheat the system and use a student visa to claim work points. It also seems generally applicable for FSW as long as it refers to the minimum employment requirements i.e. B.Sc, OND, HND. You cannot really claim a job that you are not qualified for.

The examples in the thread including @dupyshoo are for PG. So yes, a lecturer doing M.Sc or PhD has already met the employment requirements since she has a B.Sc. I'm not too sure of the OND, but I think it may fly.

See @Qsola's link and @glitteringstar's response. https://www.nairaland.com/4212543/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/520#66386132
She did not really clarify and did not add it to her PPR gist.

See another case: https://www.nairaland.com/4212543/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/521#66387172

However to balance it, Section 80 of IRPR states that it is not mandatory for an applicant to meet the employment requirements for a NOC. But in practice (I guess to counter fraud) case officers do sometimes request for ADRs from applicants to clarify how they became qualified to practice a profession.

I did a write-up earlier, you can study it: https://www.nairaland.com/4657743/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/367#71787799

Yakay:


What i quoted is what i saw on a friends ECA report, i know for sure that OND and HND will come out as 2 or more certificates. His HND got assessed as 2 certufucates on its own probably because of the courses he took that made up the HND result, i cant say if that will apply for all HND results.

However note that WES will not assess only HND, so as you have submitted both9OND &HND), be sure to get assessed as 2 certifiacates at least.

Okay. Thank you for this information.

I do hope the HND will be regarded as a degree of three years or more. That will increase my CRS in no small way.