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jadief:
I am

joo2018:
could be either of the reasons you stated below or you scanned it and it was not clear.

citizen202:
hello please I need a reliable agent to process a Canadian visa for me ...the agent should also process a job for me...there if you can please drop your watsapp contact let's chat and call.thanks

citizen202:
hello please I need a reliable agent to process a Canadian visa for me ...the agent should also process a job for me...there if you can please drop your watsapp contact let's chat and call.thanks

Jennypharb1:
Nice, not a bad move at all. Wish you the best with your process

citizen202:
hello please I need a reliable agent to process a Canadian visa for me ...the agent should also process a job for me...there if you can please drop your watsapp contact let's chat and call.thanks

Topsmamen:
You don't need an agent. The process is quite straightforward. Read from Page 1 to understand more.

@GogyNA and @Ocon: Lol. You guys be nice na

LadyHeaven:
Please can you give me a rough estimate of how much it would cost to apply & possibly clinch a Canadian PR?

LadyHeaven:
Please can you give me a rough estimate of how much it would cost to apply & possibly clinch a Canadian PR?

Debsify:
Congrats it's a really a breakthrough with ICES

AzariahYaa:
Congratulations! Lool! I can imagine the relief of one hurdle crossed. Sent mine 7th January, 2019. They received it a week after. I have written them several times! All they say is, it is still in progress. The wait is killing! 14weeks is a very long time! Lool!

Topsmamen:
Estimated Cost of Entire PR Process

yemblaze:
Congratss sis...I can imagine the joy ooo. Smooth ride all the way.

Thetherapist:
Congratulations sis

leonard002:
Please, the process of evaluating LLB with IQAS. Can someone give me a little breakdown?

The graduate is from University of Nigeria. Anyone who has done this from UNEC?

drcynthia:

Jbelieve:
@joo2018 and @GozyNA thank you all for the reply. Newmum is helping me out. I think I misinterpreted what was written.

Mamaroon:
At your service ma'am

kentoski:
Please is it a problem if one's Educational qualifications varies widely from their work experience? Let's say one is an engineer that ended up working in the bank, the norm with naija.

Does the person have to explain why?

Topsmamen GozyNA please help out.

Topsmamen:
No, it's not a problem and there's no need to explain anything. You will evaluate your engineering educational qualification and use your banking job to claim points for work experience.

drcynthia:
Good evening...thank you.
Pls I have a few questions with regards PEI PnP.
A friend got nominated. A medical Doc, A family Physician.
She has a few questions.
Q1
For her degree, they said it must be evaluated by a regulated body and this is not ECA, when she sent MCC a mail, MCC said she will need to contact PEI med body, she did and PEI med body said she should go thru MCC.
Any idea what to do at this point? Cos they gave her 5points for registered with a regulatory body option.
PS she has also verified her specialist certificate.

Q2. How will she go about paying the 300cad for PEI PnP cos they said should raise a bank draft.

Q3 can ARM account (investment managers) be added as an account to show POF for the PnP.

Thank u so much.....I really appreciate

kentoski:
Ok bro, I was thinking that if I'm the one I might be wondering why an Engineer is presenting work experience as a teacher, and them as an admin, both very unrelated to his field you know.

But if you say that don't matter, we shoot our shot and believe God. You've been of immense help to me. Thank you!

7ft1:
Is anyone here writing CIMA BA cert soon?

jjohndoe83:
That which you seek, you shall find here:
https://www.alberta.ca/iqas-immigration.aspx

Make haste learned friend, IQAS is not for the faint hearted.

Eddy4400:
And PPR came on a platter of gold....thanks to this thread!

If you're a lazy writer like me, I must warn you to start typing your story ahead. I didn't (), but more than determined to encourage someone with my story.

TIMELINE
ECA: 27 Aug 2018
IELTS: 18 Aug LRWS 8.5|8|7.5|8
EE profile created: 28 Oct 2018 (CRS 456)
ITA: 29 Oct 2018
AOR: 9 Dec 2018
MEP/BIL: 18 Jan 2019
1st ghost update: 16 Mar 2019
2nd ghost update: 20 Mar
PPR: 22 Mar 2019
VO: Ottawa
No ADRs, Single applicant


DECISION TO RUN
....the minute I returned to Nigeria from my masters in the UK in 2017. The pressure to go back for a PhD was high, but I wasn't going to let them turn me to a psycho. My masters was intense, hence, I needed a break.

Sooo I considered Australian visa 476 and the Australian PR, changed my mind. Next was Netherlands work year visa for graduates from the top 200 universities in the world to gain work experience. It's a 1year visa, but I was willing to give it a shot. Started gathering documents, but not wholeheartedly. Worse still, the people on that Netherlands student thread are sooo stingy with info....it would have taken me 3yrs to land in Netherlands.

Meanwhile, I knew about express entry somehow but thought I wasn't eligible cos I was a Graduate Trainee then, which wasn't a full time role. Also, where the hell was I gonna get POF from? (POF isn't required for the Netherlands work year visa). Still read page 1 and updates in my free time, but was scared of asking questions.

Finally gathered courage and asked the stupid question in July 2018 in Part 4 and got the shocker of my life...I was very eligible, infact, my NYSC experience was more than sufficient!!! WHAT The second shocker was the info on gift deed for POF! So why did I now come back to this Nigeria? Ohhh ignorance indeed is bliss...I sha followed alllll the Canadian express entry threads from Part 1 and my journey began.


ECA
Used WES, no WAEC requirement then. Considered evaluating my BSc for future purposes...those ones told me transcript is now 21k (flew from 8k I paid prior to my MSc), then posting outside Nigeria 15k...wonderful. Plus the stress I'd go through, didn't want any delay. Respected myself and evaluated only my Masters at £12, the future will take care of itself.


IELTS
I'm a very lazy writer, so my fear was writing. Observed you score less in the section you're most scared of (using my myself and friends as reference). Having written IELTS academic before (which is tougher than general), I knew whats up.

Concentrated on actually "writing" complete letters and essays before the exams, not just reading through....felt satisfied with my writing on exam day compared to my performance in the academic. So I was shocked when my result for writing was a 6.5....went with my gut feeling and requested for a remark. Remark returned positive after 5weeks.

By the way, I registered with MOD which I discovered and heard for the first time on this thread. BC was fully booked as usual.


POF
Was worried this wasn't available pre-ITA as one Uncle laidat I was hoping on kept giving me tales by moonlight. Later confirmed by reading through this thread that it was okay to have the POF in your account post ITA, as long as it was before the 60days deadline. Entered the pool asap and continued gathering docs while waiting for this story-telling Uncle.

Anyways, my mum came to the rescue and gifted me 100% of the POF (had to wait for her TBills to mature). Still had 700k jara in my savings account to give it flesh, so CIC won't think I don't have my own money. Invested the total sum in TBills for 3months, then duplicated @Newmum0615's LOE like a lifeline in explaining my source of funds. Sent back to her to proofread and she was like, this looks so much like mine (hehe, this woman thinks I came to play in this Canada struggle).

Ensured I didnt hide nothing, included gift deed (sample from page 1), transfer slip showing transfer from my mum, Tbills certificate, generic bank reference letter and 6months account statement printed 4 days before AOR.

NB - reinvested matured Tbills in fixed deposit early March... no CSE raised.


JOB REFERENCE
I switched roles within the same company, so was confused about combining two very seperate NOCs then (I hear it's possible for outland applicants as long as they fall in NOC 0, A or B). Sha used only one NOC, 2yrs experience (1year graduate trainee experience pre-MSc and 1 year graduate trainee experience post-MSc)...this was sufficient to get CRS of 456. No need complicating stuff, though the additional experience in the other NOC wldve shot up my CRS to 481.

Job reference was in CIC format drafted by me with go ahead from my boss. @Newmum0615 (this woman is God sent) helped edit the draft which I printed and gave to my boss to sign, not HR. My boss asked for the soft copy for her future use.

No payslips, no employment letter, no nothing... Just that one beautiful letter in CIC format listing my roles in the company.


MEDICALS
Funny I planned to complete mine at Prime Medicals in PH. This was no longer possible when I was due to carry out medicals, evidence that the process was getting tighter.

Booked ahead with Qlife late Sept way before ITA. Remember shaking my head in disbelieve when I was told the next available date was 9 Nov 2018 - booked this. Called early October to check if there was an earlier date since I was in Lagos and was told the next available date was March 2019. Dropped the call and hissed...they must be mad. Patiently waited till 9 Nov.


PCC
UK PCC was ready in 3days. Used my sister's address for hard copy, she scanned and sent the soft copy. Used Inspect Moshood for Nigerian PCC @3500 (discovered him on this thread as well). He sent the forms to my email which I filled, thumb printed were applicable and sent back to him.


POST-AOR
Thankfully, I got busy settling into my new job, so forgot about my application throughout December. Said I wasnt going to bother with gcms notes, CSEs or nothing. However, BIL/MEP came longer than expected, got curious and started checking progress of other Dec AORs on immitracker. I relaxed when I observed others hadn't gotten as well.

Later saw a rejection case mid January on immitracker (forgotten cause of rejection) Shuuuuu...I started worrying and included my application in my prayer point that my file was covered from going to AVO (sorry AVO guys). Raised my first CSE on 17 Feb to enquire about my VO and stylishly asked about status of application. Was surprised to get feedback on 19 Feb...VO was Ottawa, eligibility was being verified. Was so happy, dropped a huge amount in St. Vincent's 'help the poor" box the next Sunday.


PPR
Still on immitracker, noticed late DEC AORs were already getting PPR mid February...ok na. Started checking my gmail daily and CIC account once a week. Even took interest in my spam and deleted all spam "forever" after a thorough check.

Come March, number of PPRs for Dec AORs on immitracker increased. Doubled my CIC account weekly checks and increased gmail checks to 3 times a day My efforts were not in vain, saw the first ghost update on 16 March (application/profile update but no mail). Raised a CSE on 17 March enquiring what the update was about and stylishly asked for update on application as well.

Got a reply on 20 March that they can confirm a decision had been made on my application and I should be rest assured that I'd get a mail soon. Jesu!!! Quickly said a prayer for the Agent that sent that mail...God bless him. I then raaaaan to my gmail...nothing. Spam..nothing. Refreshed twice...nothing. Then checked my CIC account out of curiosity and saw the 2nd ghost update - 20 March.

Was certain of getting PPR in March. Saw the golden mail yesterday morning and just shouted yaaaasss. Called in sick and went to work an hour late. Gave me sufficient time to re-read the mail 10times and make my announcements to family and close friends. When I got to work, greeted every single person I passed from the gate down to the office....stranger or not. The joy got me in another mood.


To new hopefuls...please read page 1 and understand the process first. Again, there's so much information on this thread. Screenshot useful info for reference even when you don't need it yet, it helped me a whole lot. Stop waiting or procrastinating...do it now!

Phew.....thanks for reading!

citizen202:
hello please I need a reliable agent to process a Canadian visa for me ...the agent should also process a job for me...there if you can please drop your watsapp contact let's chat and call.thanks

boco2126:
PM me for a contact for law school transcript if you haven't gotten any.

drcynthia:
Lastly, her friend wanted to apply for the same PEI PnP.
But when she tried creating a profile, at the end, it said not eligible. Shes 44 yrs, gotten her ECA via MCC and did ielts. LRWS. 8.5/6.5/7.0/7.5
Scores currently is 313. If she retakes ielts n gets the upper limit for ielts. Her scores would be like 383.

Question is,
1a. Would 383 be ok to create an eligible profile? So she re writes ielts.
Cos Without EE profile seem she cant apply for any PnP.....or can she?

Thank u again.
You have been so helpful.