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Xclusivemaama:
Using a Canadian address means the hard copy of your report would be mailed to the address in care of whoever is going to receive the mail...
The soft copy would be uploaded on your iqas account for your to download

QUTEE:
Good morning everyone, I need your help please. Kindly assist with your experience on the questions below:

1. In address history, do I fill the place lived while In school as a contact address (I schooled outside lagos) or retain my father's house address.

2. I had my son in the U.S and I stayed there for 4 months, does my address at the time stay under address history or travel history.

3. Do I fill both passports (US and 9ja) for the part they requested for ID documents under child PR.

4. Am I to leave the Unique number part blank (I am post ITA)

topacs:
My transcript has been sent to IQAS from my sch.... DHL showing received and signed but it has not been updated on my portal, do i need to email them to notify them..

Thanks.

ladymarshall:
Don't be discouraged by that experience. Try it. You might have a positive experience and be our guide in getting a direct reference from NYSC. No harm in trying.

Topsmamen:
Yup. Those 2 are enough.

YugoGeorge:
Good day,
Please I am interested in the BCS IT certifications, I need help with info like where you wrote the exams, material you used. I want to self study but have search their web for materials and can't find any tangible information. You can send me the information via mail :georgeugochukwu92@gmail.com. thank you very much in advance.

joo2018:
Interesting discussion on eligibility earlier. Good points made. Hope to make a post on the process another day.

moneybag4411:
Hello friends,

can i process my WAEC verification from waec regional/state office or it has to be from the Lagos office you guys normally mention here?

I'm based up north, and may be difficult getting someone process for me in lagos; hence my asking.

Zutlin:
MY PPR STORY EPISTLE

ECA: 30th March, 2017
IELTS: 6th June, 2017 (LRWS – 8.5, 9, 7, 7.5)
CRS Score: 449
ITA: 25th April, 2018
AOR: 10th May, 2018
Medicals Passed: 24th May, 2018
Interview: 14th February, 2019
Remedicals Request: 14th February, 2019
PPR: 15th February, 2019
COPR: 26th March, 2019

Express Entry Awareness

I got to know about EE mid 2016 via a Facebook comment. I quickly inboxed the commenter and that was how it all begun.
After several correspondence, she told me they used an agent CANREACH and strongly adviced I used them too. I didn’t know anyone else who had gone through EE neither did I know of platforms such as this. I relied solely on whatever info she gave me and called the agent. To cut a long story short, I had the pay the agent over N500,000. After payment, they sent a mail on things I had to do such as IELTS, ECA, PCCs, Medicals and so on. Prior to payment the agent never mentioned it neither did my Facebook contact.

I later realized my Facebook contact was just a dependant spouse who knew next to nothing about what EE actually entails. My contract with the agent was valid for only 2 years and by the time I was finally ready to apply I have become very informed, I didn’t trust the agent anymore (they became lackadaisical plus too many stories of people complaining about agents needing more money and not giving them access to their application) and the 2 years agreement was almost up. To avoid any stories, I decided to handle my application myself. So, that was how I lost over N500,000.

ECA

After I opened an account with WES and paid for transcript, my school said they couldn’t find my file at all . That means they have nothing with which to prepare my transcript. This dragged for months. My contact kept calling me saying she’s trying but my department insists that my file doesn’t exist. My dear mum got tired of it all and decided to travel down to my school herself to enquire how after spending over 5 years doing a 4-year course, going for NYSC and even PGD, her daughter’s entire file suddenly disappeared. Lo and behold, barely 3 days after my mum show face my file was automatically found.
In the end, I got my 2 or more degrees evaluation.

IELTS

I was quite confident in my English ability but still I studied. The resources I used were ieltsliz, ieltsbuddy and futurelearn. I found ieltsliz especially helpful for listening and reading. Futurelearn really helped for writing.

ITA-AOR-Medicals

I declined my first ITA because my passport had less than 6 months validity. I made the mistake of going to Ikoyi for renewal and even paid for express, only to be told there was no booklet.
Second ITA came and I was determined not to decline. I submitted my passport as it was and then raised a CSE after I eventually got the renewed one. 2 weeks later I passed medicals and In my mind I was thinking I go soon get PPR. Little did I know that AVO had other plans for me and that was how the 9 months long wait started.

After months of uncertainty, ordering 2 GCMS notes, raising 3 CSEs, signing several petitions and going through a roller coaster of emotions, AVO finally broke their silence. An interview invite!

Interview

My interview was scheduled to hold 14th February in Accra. I was asked to come with just about everything pertaining to my application. Even the job I got after AOR which I didn’t inform IRCC of, I decided to take my employment letter and payslips along. On the interview day, I intentionally got there few minutes before so I won’t have to wait for long but I didn’t get called in till over an hour later. I submitted my documents at the reception.

The interviewer told me the purpose of the interview was to determine my eligibility. All of my documents were thoroughly checked (I arranged them in an orderly manner using office clips but when I entered the interview room, they were all spread out on a table). It turned out that they needed to be absolutely certain of my marital status and that I understood the implication. I applied as married but life happened and I became separated which I informed IRCC of along with the necessary document. The questions were mostly personal and the interviewer wanted to be sure that POF was still intact.

In the end, I was told that I passed the interview and I would be issued a remedicals request as the one I applied with already expired. My interviewer also said that due to the peculiarity of my case, a meeting with another colleague (abi their boss) was necessary but that I definitely will be getting an ADR before PPR can be issued.

Immediately I stepped out of the premises I switched on my phone and remedicals request was waiting inbox. For those of us at AVO (especially those who got interviewed), remedicals request is to PPR what John the Baptist is to Jesus. Right there and then I knew all is well. After walking aimlessly for some minutes out of excitement, I took a cab to a Chinese restaurant and gave myself a treat. Mama I’ve made it!

Almighty PPR!

The following day while I was preparing to check out of the hotel, my phone beeped and it was the ADR my interviewer talked about. Few minutes later while I was talking excitedly on the phone about the receipt of ADR, dearest PPR gallantly came in.

I was relieved. I was excited. I was weak. I felt like I was floating. I really can’t describe exactly how I felt.

Remedicals

On getting back to Nigeria, I struggled to get remedicals done. Qlife was booked till April and they couldn’t squeeze me in while IOM said the earliest they could do for me was first week of March. I decided to write to Accra asking for an extension but after all the suffer when I don suffer, I really did not want to extend anything. That was how I came across @Hobyno offering his Qlife slot to someone who was also looking for an early date but fortunately the date was too soon for her . I quickly went inbox to beg him for the slot and he graciously agreed.

Once again, THANK YOU @Hobyno.

Two days later, as at 6:04am I was already at Qlife for my medicals. Before 10am I was done and headed straight to VFS for passport submission.

My brethren na so o like joke like joke, my dream turned reality before my very eyes.

My journey was a long and bumpy one but las' las', na God win.

AmeComplique:
No problem at all ma'am. I'll get you a bungalow in the heart of GTA or downtown Calgary, whichever you prefer

As for your Tesla (great taste by the way) please let me know your colour preference as soon as possible, I have placed a preliminary order it'll be made available immediately you arrive .

Don't worry about payment, as all our services are free. We want you to be as comfortable as possible in Canada [s]while others struggle their asses off to pass IELTS and gather their POF[/s]. What kind of questions will we not see on this thread

Have you submitted yet?

Zutlin:
So you have been stalking me. Thank you for the good wishes.

How far with accomodation plans? Airbnb rate no be play o. Right now I'm looking for anyone who is in need of a flatmate. My preferred location is Mississauga but Toronto is also fine. The matter nor easy.

Topsmamen:
In addition to the 'Urgent', add "SOS", "Highly Important", "Critical", "Mayday! Mayday!". Lol.

Congrats in advance @Vivi844.

ottawasenators:
Full story below

Decision to Travel: November 2017, after proper analysis of the inherent benefits.

Family composition: 2

POF composition: 25 % from pension fund and 75% fixed deposit

Post AOR:

- Provided reference letter of PA in desired IRCC formats.(no payslip provided)
- Thought it wise to provide reference letter for supporting applicant since majority of funds came from supporting applicant, just for 2 previous jobs though. Reference letter for current job was not included. Also no payslips. Wanted to keep application as simple and straight forward as possible.

A wise woman once told us that there is always something that needs an explanation, hence we included LOE to explain change of name, travel history and police certificate.

A separate LOE was included in the POF placeholder to properly explain composition of funds.


Timelines

Ielts Dec 2 2017- LRWS 8777
ECA - Feb 13 2018 (Spouse)
ECA - August 21 2018
Ielts 1 (Feb 1 2018) - LRWS 8.5 6 6.5 7.5 (Spouse)
Ielts 2 (May 12 2018) - LRWS 8 6.5 7 7.5(Spouse)
Ielts 3 (June 30 2018) - LRWS 8.5 7.5 6.5 8 (EOR Unchanged)(Spouse)
Ielts 4 (July 28 2018) - LRWS 7.5 8.5 6.5 7.5 (Spouse)
Ielts 5 (September 30 2018) - LRWS 8 9 7.5 8(Spouse)
CRS - 440
Spouse - PA
ITA - December 19, 2018
Medicals - January 10, 2019
AOR - January 11, 2019
Biometrics - February 25, 2019
PPR - March 27 (dated march 26th)

After submission, we followed up with prayers and basically went to rest. That's it!!!

Thanks to each and everyone for the wealth of knowledge gained from this thread.

Vivi844:
Thanks so much. I've re-sent.

FirstTImeUser:
@lordsneed....any news? Mep or bill? I hope you are "coping waiting" or "waiting coping"

Ifeoma77:
Woke up to THE mail today
It's PPR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kods1900:
I don’t know how to do all the bolded things you people do so please just take my write-up the way it comes, Secondly I’m going to be typing on my phone so please ignore any typos you see.

Timeline:


IELTS: 21 Apr 2018 LRWS 8.5/8/7.5/8
ECA: 14 Aug 2018
Spouse IELTS: 21 Apr 2018 LRWS 6/4.5/5.5/6
Spouse WES: 28 Jun 2018
EE Profile Created: 14 Aug 2018 CRS 443
ITA: 22 Aug 2018
AOR: 19 Oct 2018
MEP/BIL: 21 Nov 2018
Ghost Update: 24 Mar 2019
PPR: 27 Mar 2019
VO: Ottawa
No ADR’s
Family of 4


POF
I had some challenges with this because I’m one of those people who earn a lot and spends as much too. I work in an organization where you work hard and play harder.

Wifey had our second child 2 weeks post ITA so POF became higher. Eventually I used my savings, 85% gift deed from my dad, pension and gratuity.

I literally just lumped them all, didn’t put the exchange rate of the day, no breakdown tables nothing. Just loaded them all and decided to let them figure it out. Lol.

I had a scare with my POF because i submitted my 6 months payslip and a few months before, I took a 3m car loan from the office and I had it showing in my payslips, I’m not sure how this was calculated eventually.

JOB REFERENCE
Used the last 3 years in my latest job, Others were in personal history. Didn’t want any complications on this.

It was in CIC format and Newmum0615 helped also with confirming this. (Thank You). I also added my payslips, employment letter and work ID card to this. Pretty straightforward I might say.

MEDICALS
I had my medicals at Children’s practice. Had to take my newborn at 2 weeks old for his passport. This also was eventless. Booked ahead, I was really scared because I didn’t want anything to go wrong. I’m one of those people that gets really worried when I fall sick and start checking google which almost ends up giving myself an unnecessary heartattack.

Well thank God there weee no issues.

PCC
Used one inspector like that, paid 10k for my spouse and I and we were done with this in about an hour.

POST AOR
Shortly after AOR I got promoted at work, hmm I was just looking at them because whether they liked it or not I was going to leave eventually but it was all good though. So I settled into my new role which is pretty tasking and took a whole lot of my time.

I ordered GCMS in February and got it in 11 days, this was a big surprise and when I checked the only thing that was completed was information sharing, criminality was in progress while eligibility and security had not started. I was also shocked to see that the last time my file was touched was in November.

After biometrics I also found out that it never became completed like other, it continued showing my biometrics was nit received bla bla bla even though there was a biometrics number assigned. I raised a CSE and got a confirmation that it had been received so I relaxed.

I also raised a CSE on wifey’s passport because when we submitted she used the one that had her maiden name and we realized it was going to expire sometime in July and we wanted to have enough time to plan after PPR so we got a new passport with my surname and sent a LOE and affidavit with the new passport. This was acknowledged received although it never changed in my profile.

PPR
I used to check my profile once or twice weekly max. So on Sunday I decided to check because the last time I did that was the previous week and I saw that my application/profile was updated. Ran to wifey and told her PPR was coming.

Opened my profile and saw that biometrics had changed to completed. Then, I became a bit worried because I would have preferred to see nothing change and it would then have been defined as a proper ghost update. I started overthinking things like what if the update was just for biometrics and nothing else. Anyway I was a tad hopeful.

Next morning I couldn’t sleep as I was expecting PPR mail but nothing, same with Tuesday. Woke up yesterday and saw the mail sitting pretty in my mail, it had arrived at 12:55am. Funny thing is I had my phone beep but I was of the opinion that PPR mails only came between 4:30am to 5:30am don’t know why.

Well submitted our passports yesterday and a new chapter of our lives is beginning to unfold right in front of our eyes. Lest I forget immediately I saw the mail I look at my children and I smiled and almost cried with the excitement that they wouldn’t grow up in this country.

I want to thank everyone for the selfless contributions to the thread. I gained immensely from them even though I wasn’t able to contribute a lot myself. I read all the threads from part 1 even though I joined in maybe part 3 or 4 not sure anymore.

Thanks a bunch to ARCUGO as he answered my first question on this thread.

As it has ended in praise for me so shall it be for us all.

AMEN!!!!!!

missKeri:
@ladymarshall Good afternoon, please I sent mail. Please check and revert back

Oopsy:
Pls did your school send your transcript via email or courier? There's this gist that ICES works faster with email. We need to know if the gist holds water.

Can anyone chook mouth for this matter abeg...

Gr8fulHeart:
Hello house. Gdafternoon. Have been a silent but albeit reader here and I always get confused. Hv tried reading from part1 still I confuse die. Well I tried the crs score and it was quite low. I was advised to add a certification course to it. I decided to do cipm but the cipm has 3 stages. Can I just do first stage and get the cert and add it to wes for evaluation. Aside wes is there any other that renders such service..Or can the house just suggest a one time course certificate. I'm just CONFUSED.
Cc madam ifeoma77.(do enjoy ur day sis) u hv been of good help in this thread.
Advice pls
Everyone. Anyone

Adunnee:
So, today is Ifeoma77's birthday!

Happy Birthday dearest Ifeoma. May your life be beautiful and joyful. May your joy know no bounds. May you live a fulfilling life worthy of emulation. May your life be blessed and blissful.

Have a joyous birthday celebration.

ladymarshall:
Amazing!!! Congratulations!!! I really love your script, easy to follow and quite funny.

Tempted to mark but it's Prof's week, he's coming for your script soon. Make I dey my lane before I lose my traineeship

iaatmguy:
hmm adunniade !!!!

the "IMMITRACKER"

Adunnee:
When is your birthday?

Kods1900:
I don’t know how to do all the bolded things you people do so please just take my write-up the way it comes, Secondly I’m going to be typing on my phone so please ignore any typos you see.

Timeline:


IELTS: 21 Apr 2018 LRWS 8.5/8/7.5/8
ECA: 14 Aug 2018
Spouse IELTS: 21 Apr 2018 LRWS 6/4.5/5.5/6
Spouse WES: 28 Jun 2018
EE Profile Created: 14 Aug 2018 CRS 443
ITA: 22 Aug 2018
AOR: 19 Oct 2018
MEP/BIL: 21 Nov 2018
Ghost Update: 24 Mar 2019
PPR: 27 Mar 2019
VO: Ottawa
No ADR’s
Family of 4

Decision to Travel:
This was late January 2018 when a colleague and friend told me he was dropping his resignation and relocating with his family, I started thinking of my daughter and unborn child and started pondering if Nigeria was the right place to raise them.

I heard about EE for the first time then and decided to try the CRS simulator and found out I’d get 443 because I had two B.Sc’s, This was in February 2018. Decided to pay for IELTS for my spouse and I and wrote the test in April.

IELTS
In as much as I appreciate this thread I’m actually glad I did not know about it until after my IELTS because as at the time of writing I didn’t know I had to max out the scores and if I had known about this thread I’d have been really worried.

I only practiced listening all through, practiced one test for reading and didn’t bother with writing and speaking. I was lucky enough to max out. It was after the test I realized the amount of Favour I had with the test. This was done with BC.

Wifey was heavily pregnant during the test and didn’t even bother practicing at all, it was a difficult pregnancy and she barely made it to the exam and taking it.

ECA
Used WES, didn’t know at the time that there were other evaluation bodies, only knew about BC for IELTS and WESfor ECA.

I was an unserious club boy during my university days so I graduated with a 3rd class after 7 years (A disappointment that later became a blessing) 2 years later I went back for another degree and graduated with a better grade. So with this I had 2 certificates. WES took 4 months because I had to evaluate my diploma, first bsc and second bsc.

Wifey’s bsc was out in about 3 months.

POF
I had some challenges with this because I’m one of those people who earn a lot and spends as much too. I work in an organization where you work hard and play harder.

Wifey had our second child 2 weeks post ITA so POF became higher. Eventually I used my savings, 85% gift deed from my dad, pension and gratuity.

I literally just lumped them all, didn’t put the exchange rate of the day, no breakdown tables nothing. Just loaded them all and decided to let them figure it out. Lol.

I had a scare with my POF because i submitted my 6 months payslip and a few months before, I took a 3m car loan from the office and I had it showing in my payslips, I’m not sure how this was calculated eventually.

JOB REFERENCE
Used the last 3 years in my latest job, Others were in personal history. Didn’t want any complications on this.

It was in CIC format and Newmum0615 helped also with confirming this. (Thank You). I also added my payslips, employment letter and work ID card to this. Pretty straightforward I might say.

MEDICALS
I had my medicals at Children’s practice. Had to take my newborn at 2 weeks old for his passport. This also was eventless. Booked ahead, I was really scared because I didn’t want anything to go wrong. I’m one of those people that gets really worried when I fall sick and start checking google which almost ends up giving myself an unnecessary heartattack.

Well thank God there weee no issues.

PCC
Used one inspector like that, paid 10k for my spouse and I and we were done with this in about an hour.

POST AOR
Shortly after AOR I got promoted at work, hmm I was just looking at them because whether they liked it or not I was going to leave eventually but it was all good though. So I settled into my new role which is pretty tasking and took a whole lot of my time.

I ordered GCMS in February and got it in 11 days, this was a big surprise and when I checked the only thing that was completed was information sharing, criminality was in progress while eligibility and security had not started. I was also shocked to see that the last time my file was touched was in November.

After biometrics I also found out that it never became completed like other, it continued showing my biometrics was nit received bla bla bla even though there was a biometrics number assigned. I raised a CSE and got a confirmation that it had been received so I relaxed.

I also raised a CSE on wifey’s passport because when we submitted she used the one that had her maiden name and we realized it was going to expire sometime in July and we wanted to have enough time to plan after PPR so we got a new passport with my surname and sent a LOE and affidavit with the new passport. This was acknowledged received although it never changed in my profile.

PPR
I used to check my profile once or twice weekly max. So on Sunday I decided to check because the last time I did that was the previous week and I saw that my application/profile was updated. Ran to wifey and told her PPR was coming.

Opened my profile and saw that biometrics had changed to completed. Then, I became a bit worried because I would have preferred to see nothing change and it would then have been defined as a proper ghost update. I started overthinking things like what if the update was just for biometrics and nothing else. Anyway I was a tad hopeful.

Next morning I couldn’t sleep as I was expecting PPR mail but nothing, same with Tuesday. Woke up yesterday and saw the mail sitting pretty in my mail, it had arrived at 12:55am. Funny thing is I had my phone beep but I was of the opinion that PPR mails only came between 4:30am to 5:30am don’t know why.

Well submitted our passports yesterday and a new chapter of our lives is beginning to unfold right in front of our eyes. Lest I forget immediately I saw the mail I look at my children and I smiled and almost cried with the excitement that they wouldn’t grow up in this country.

I want to thank everyone for the selfless contributions to the thread. I gained immensely from them even though I wasn’t able to contribute a lot myself. I read all the threads from part 1 even though I joined in maybe part 3 or 4 not sure anymore.

Thanks a bunch to ARCUGO as he answered my first question on this thread.

As it has ended in praise for me so shall it be for us all.

AMEN!!!!!!

ladymarshall:
Please what app? I need it, submitting soon

iaatmguy:
"falentine's day"