Congrats to the PPR clinchers.. So happy for you. May your journey be victorious. Go and possess the land.


Ps: where is Joo.2018? Been a long while. I miss him

Simulate your CRS scores and decide, depending on your scores

Holla3110:
Good morning, please can someone advise if there is a chance for a Diploma holder to qualify for Express entry?, your response will be highly appreciated.

Don't give up. We move no matter the extra ielts costs.

All the best in your next and final attempt

helphelp:


Unfortunately, my L 8.5 R 8 W 6.5 S 7.5 remained unchanged after EOR

My verdict, EOR is a 10-90% chance of changing

This Canada waka come tire me

I was about asking too o. I miss him too. He just got PPR and disappeared

Maybe he's landed and job hunting. That takes so much time.

Our chief researcher and analyst @joo2018 please come out of hiding and say hello to your fans

FaskRolce:
Congrats to the PPR clinchers.. So happy for you. May your journey be victorious. Go and possess the land.


Ps: where is Joo.2018? Been a long while. I miss him

aderibs:
MY TIMELINE

CAN'T REMEMBER ECA OR IELTS DATES
SCORE FOR IELTS LRWS 1ST ATTEMPT 9,7,6.5,7.5 ; SECOND ATTEMPT 8.5, 9,6.5,7.5
SPOUSE (PA) 1ST ATTEMPT CAN'T REMEMBER, 2ND ATTEMPT [/b]8,8,7,8

[b]ITA DEC 19TH, 2018
AOR JAN 15H, 2019
MEP FEB 28, 2019
BIL MAR 05 2019
ADR NONE
[b]1ST GHOST UPDATE[/b

Congratulations to you and your family. May Canada favour you

Huh? Are you joking

SonsOfLiverpool:
Or aim 10,10,10,10.

Page one has the answer. There are links on deciding which ECA body to use. Or you can also use the search function and type the keywords

Zanotee:
Which is ok. Wes or ICES?
Help a brother with reasons. Thanks fam in advance.

ladymarshall:
Huh? Are you joking

No I am not. I said “Aim”

There is no ielts 10 10 10 10 It's a band 9 exam

SonsOfLiverpool:
No I am not. I said “Aim”

ladymarshall:
There is no ielts 10 10 10 10 It's a band 9 exam

Exactly. Aim higher

Hephgirl:

BRACE YOURSELF IT'S A LONG READ

ITA 15TH NOVEMBER
AOR Jan 10
Mep and BIL Feb 22
Bio complete Feb 26 ( had to travel)
Ghost update: June 8
Ghost update : June 10th
Called on d 14th : eligibility not started... I literally went bunkers...
Ghost update : June 15th
PPR: 18th dated 17th June
Vo : Ottawa
Family of 4

Congratulations ma'am. It was a beautiful read. I totally enjoyed your script and learnt one or two things.
May the new country favour you and yours. Cheers.

Bros, band 9 score for listening is 39-40, please what's band 10 score?

SonsOfLiverpool:
Exactly. Aim higher

aderibs:
MY TIMELINE

CAN'T REMEMBER ECA OR IELTS DATES
SCORE FOR IELTS LRWS 1ST ATTEMPT 9,7,6.5,7.5 ; SECOND ATTEMPT 8.5, 9,6.5,7.5
SPOUSE (PA) 1ST ATTEMPT CAN'T REMEMBER, 2ND ATTEMPT [/b]8,8,7,8

[b]ITA DEC 19TH, 2018
AOR JAN 15H, 2019
MEP FEB 28, 2019
BIL MAR 05 2019
ADR NONE
1ST GHOST UPDATE JUN 7TH, 2019
2ND GHOST UPDATE JUN 14TH 2019
PPR JUN 17TH, 2019


For those waiting for PPR who read this message, May the blessing of PPR come to you soon, and may the Lord give you the peace and endurance to wait till it comes, because for me, it was not easy, and I thank the member of January AOR group, you guys are truly wonderful....

Amen!!
Congratulations sir.. It ended beautifully

The greatest of the greatest of the greatest! @Hephgirl congratulations ma. We have "read" so much about you. Lolz. May the journey ahead be filled with joy and gladness for you and your family.

On behalf of my childhood friend Prime Minister J.T, I say "Welcome to Canada"

Cheers!

@Topsmamen, nice intro!

Hephgirl:

BRACE YOURSELF IT'S A LONG READ

ITA 15TH NOVEMBER
AOR Jan 10
Mep and BIL Feb 22
Bio complete Feb 26 ( had to travel)
Ghost update: June 8
Ghost update : June 10th
Called on d 14th : eligibility not started... I literally went bunkers...
Ghost update : June 15th
PPR: 18th dated 17th June
Vo : Ottawa
Family of 4

Congratulations @aderibs, very interesting PPR story.
I wish you great success in the journey ahead.

And amen to your prayers


For those waiting for PPR who read this message, May the blessing of PPR come to you soon, and may the Lord give you the peace and endurance to wait till it comes....

aderibs:
MY TIMELINE

CAN'T REMEMBER ECA OR IELTS DATES
SCORE FOR IELTS LRWS 1ST ATTEMPT 9,7,6.5,7.5 ; SECOND ATTEMPT 8.5, 9,6.5,7.5
SPOUSE (PA) 1ST ATTEMPT CAN'T REMEMBER, 2ND ATTEMPT [/b]8,8,7,8

[b]ITA DEC 19TH, 2018
AOR JAN 15H, 2019
MEP FEB 28, 2019
BIL MAR 05 2019
ADR NONE
1ST GHOST UPDATE JUN 7TH, 2019
2ND GHOST UPDATE JUN 14TH 2019
PPR JUN 17TH, 2019

STORY OF MIGRATION



For those waiting for PPR who read this message, May the blessing of PPR come to you soon, and may the Lord give you the peace and endurance to wait till it comes, because for me, it was not easy, and I thank the member of January AOR group, you guys are truly wonderful....

On this join you need what is called *patience* else you would be scammed by agent.
N.B. agent charging 1.2m is quiet outrageous because he/ she won't help you write IELTS test. To start with this Canada processing you need to do the following:
1) evaluate your academic certificates (ECA) with either of these bodies ( WES,ICES,IQAS etc depending on how swift you want to move)Which in your case you need to just evaluate your Masters which is going to be your highest degree and you said it is in progress. *How soon would you be done with it*
2) write an IELTS exam with either BC or MOD and aim at having a minimum of 8 in Listening,7,7,7 for speaking, writing and reading. Go to page 1 you would see materials to practice on. Then for writing, if you feel you have difficulty in it you can speak to @johnnybravo he would be of help.
When you are done with 1&2 you can now create an Express Entry profile. Feel free to come back to the thread if you have any questions or clarifications. We are family here ready to help you but you need to digest page 1 well. Thank you

Magnifico2000:

I salute your prompt responses to questions. But I would appreciate if you break some terms down for we that don't really know much about it. It took me time to decipher that 8777 are scores for IELTS.

A lot of terms and abbreviations where used in that page 1 that took me off balance from understanding everything. That page 1 has a lot of info

Ifeoma77:
Hello from the other side

Ifeoma don land o . @yemblaze where are the shekere models na. No be only PPR gist we need shekere for o and besides remember she is our shekere Princess. All the best on your new sojourn ma'am. Make I go book space for sister thread dey wait landing gist. Grabs popcorn .

Magnifico2000:

This is exactly what is keeping me waiting... I'm waiting for my masters result to come out although na till December sha.

You can as well use your statement/notification of result if that will be ready before ur certificate comes out in December

Hephgirl:

BRACE YOURSELF IT'S A LONG READ

ITA 15TH NOVEMBER
AOR Jan 10
Mep and BIL Feb 22
Bio complete Feb 26 ( had to travel)
Ghost update: June 8
Ghost update : June 10th
Called on d 14th : eligibility not started... I literally went bunkers...
Ghost update : June 15th
PPR: 18th dated 17th June
Vo : Ottawa
Family of 4

Congratulations Hephgirl, and thank you for making the long tory 'unquotable' so ppl will not be quoting the whole thing again in ignorance. Although I expected more stories about your long interactions on nairaland sha.

Itzchord:
Bros, band 9 score for listening is 39-40, please what's band 10 score?

“Aim” when I read for an exam I aim more than max score, that gives me the moral to read and read like say world wan end. I made the statement because someone was advised to Aim exactly 8777. That’s by the way nothing serious

MamaAaron:
On this join you need what is called *patience* else you would be scammed by agent.
N.B. agent charging 1.2m is quiet outrageous because he/ she won't help you write IELTS test. To start with this Canada processing you need to do the following:
1) evaluate your academic certificates (ECA) with either of these bodies ( WES,ICES,IQAS etc depending on how swift you want to move)Which in your case you need to just evaluate your Masters which is going to be your highest degree and you said it is in progress. *How soon would you be done with it*
2) write an IELTS exam with either BC or MOD and aim at having a minimum of 8 in Listening,7,7,7 for speaking, writing and reading. Go to page 1 you would see materials to practice on. Then for writing, if you feel you have difficulty in it you can speak to @johnnybravo he would be of help.
When you are done with 1&2 you can now create an Express Entry profile. Feel free to come back to the thread if you have any questions or clarifications. We are family here ready to help you but you need to digest page 1 well. Thank you

Thank you very much for this concise response. I really appreciate. If all things are equal, my result should be out by December but you know Nigeria factor. My focus now is in preparing and writing the exams and getting those scores. So far, I haven't seen any materials yet.

Elektra008:

You can as well use your statement/notification of result if that will be ready before ur certificate comes out in December

But someone on this thread told me Wes don't evaluate statement of result. Only certificates that are ready.

Gen76:



OOOOOOOOM!
This one dragged me out of my shell!
Infact I feel like starting an "OPERATION QUIT DASHING BC/MOD IDP YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY".

Okay, take a deep breath, calm down and type what you want to type! (Calms self down!)

First of all, shout out to @Johnnybravo, @wasseynewest, @Topsmamen and all the great people who have been helpful on this thread. Na trailer una dey use pack rewards o. God bless you all!

So I've been reading about folks taking IELTS 4/5/6/...8 times with this tight economy?!
Haba! E good for our eye so?!
If we start pooling the money our fellow Nigerians have pumped into IELTS it will reach POF o!

On a serious note now, I'd like to note a few observations I've made so far as the possible causes of this trend:

1. BC/MOD IDP is both an examining body and a business venture, don't be deceived, they love your money! So they won't go easy on you.

2. Most of the people on this journey are super busy with work, with little or no time to prepare for exams.

3. Failure to reach the required score in one or two modules ignites a "spiritual" desire to quickly take another one and prove that you're not a failure without adequate preparation.

4. We read IELTS, ITA, PPR and even LANDING GISTS and are eager to get to where others got to within a minute without realising that Rome was not built in a day.

5. Fear of Failure. Chai! Fear is wicked!

6. ETC.

NB: If anyone knows any more possible causes, kindly add it to the list as one of the keys to solving a problem is the identification of the causes.

Here are the possible solutions that might be of help (I'm sorry I'm not sharing IELTS tips o, them plenty online).
1. Take time to PREPARE OOOOOOOOOOO!!! We know you know English but humble yourself and take time to know it "IELTStically". I feel every prospective test taker should be prepped enough to know their weak points and improve on them even before the first attempt, unless it was done years ago. While you prepare for your test, do other things like your ECA evaluation, getting your documents together, researching for more info.
YOU DON'T WANT TO DASH THEM YOUR MONEY DO
YOU?!

2. I say eat, sleep, breathe, think, work, walk English the IELTS way before your exams. Get yourself speaking buddies, writing buddies, clean your ears to be used to hearing and deciphering correct info quickly, practice reading exercises like you're playing a game.
ONCE AGAIN, NOTE YOUR WEAK POINTS AND IMPROVE ON THEM!
SEEK HELP IMMEDIATELY IF YOU NOTICE NO IMPROVEMENT, DON'T DECEIVE YOURSELF! WE ALL NEED HELP IN THIS LIFE!

3. You are your best examiner, unless you lie to yourself. If you're satisfied with your preparation, meet one of our gurus here to finalize, trust me, you'd make it easier for them to coach you when you have prepared well. Then go and conquer!
The confidence wey you get from your preparation will knock out any fear of failure.

4. My brother, my sister, life na turn by turn. One step at a time, one day at a time. All of us go reash where we dey go.
If you hurry too much, you go fall. If you take time calculate your moves wella, even if you fall, you go stand stronger and better!

5. Lastly, pray to your God to bless your efforts, He rewards good works.

6. AOB (Hehehe...)



Please elders of our land, add your input.
I know say we don overflog this issue but e never still die!

Together we win!


I AM "APOLOGETICALLY" SORRY FOR THE LONG POST.
(kikikiki)

What does this mean? BC/MOD /IDP

joo2018:
Welcome to Canadian Express Entry/Federal Skilled Workers Program Thread - Part 8



SISTER THREADS



cc: @justwise, @raphrulz, @ifeoma77. @Topsmamen, @ladymarshall

Me that I own a business here in Nigeria, under which category do I belong to?

joo2018:
SECTION DEDICATED TO IELTS

I own a small registered business in Nigeria and I know how to make hair. Where do I belong to under the federal skilled worker class 0, A, B or C?

Hello Good people,

Please I'd like to join March AOR WhatsApp group, could someone help me with the link please?
The wait is something else!

Thanks and God bless you!

Kdamnhot:
please house, who has experience with treasury bill certificate? i did treasury bills for my pof, but when i asked my bank for certificate , they just fowarded a document to my mail for me to print. is this how the certificate should be? i mean shouldnt it be stamped or something to make it official?

please my elders, i still need clarity on this

Please has anyone here evaluate his or her degree obtained from Uniuyo with ICES, I just want to be sure before going ahead.

Congrats once again.

Hephgirl:

BRACE YOURSELF IT'S A LONG READ

ITA 15TH NOVEMBER
AOR Jan 10
Mep and BIL Feb 22
Bio complete Feb 26 ( had to travel)
Ghost update: June 8
Ghost update : June 10th
Called on d 14th : eligibility not started... I literally went bunkers...
Ghost update : June 15th
PPR: 18th dated 17th June
Vo : Ottawa
Family of 4

ladymarshall:
I was about asking too o. I miss him too. He just got PPR and disappeared

Maybe he's landed and job hunting. That takes so much time.

Our chief researcher and analyst @joo2018 please come out of hiding and say hello to your fans

thank God am not a fan of him









I am his self acclaimed BROTHER.
we are "brathers"

Is like we will transfer them to the sister thread oooo...Make @joo2018 and @ifeoma77 give gi ahead...

majamisile:

Ifeoma don land o . @yemblaze where are the shekere models na. No be only PPR gist we need shekere for o and besides remember she is our shekere Princess....shekere QUEEN .All the best on your new sojourn ma'am. Make I go book space for sister thread dey wait landing gist. Grabs popcorn .

Praise God my people, it's PPR.

Please bear with me as this is really long.

WES ECA started: May 7th 2018
IELTS: June 2nd 2018, (BC) - LRWS - 8,9,7,8
Medicals (IOM) - November 22nd 2018
WES ECA completed: December 18th 2018
EE Profile created: December 18th 2018
ITA: December 19th 2018
AOR: January 30th 2019
BIL/MEP: March 13th 2019
Called CIC: April 30th 2019. VO was ottawa. Eligibility met. Others not started
Ordered GCMS Notes: May 10 2019
GCMS Notes Arrived: June 14 2019 (Eligibility passed, Security and Criminality not started)
Ghost Update: June 19 2019
PPR: June 20 2019

Single Applicant
Ottawa Visa Office


Background
So my eldest brother got his PR at the end of 2017 and advised me to begin the process. I used the CRS calculator and my points weren't looking very good as I only had a few months of post NYSC work experience. I had just started a new job after some months of unemployment. He alongside my mum continued to persuade me to begin the process referencing my pre NYSC and NYSC experience. I researched the Australian immigration process and it looked bleak for me. I later joined this thread and researched a bit on the work experience issue and confirmed that my NYSC experience could be used. After some more research from the cic website and canadavisa.com, I also confirmed that the pre NYSC experience was also valid for the process. Though I was skeptical of the possibility of getting the work references, I decided to start the process.

ECA - WES
I paid for my WES evaluation at the beginning of may 2018 (Used WES because my brother used same).
Sent my statement of result to WES using hellofax and paid for the transcript from my school. Lots of challenges here. After over two months my transcript hadn't been acknowledged by WES. While searching for solutions I got someone's number here and decided to give him trial. Needless to say he was God sent. Within a month my transcript had gotten to WES. They then sent the verification letter which became the next battle. Contacted him again for the verification. This time the story was different however. Different stories came up from the school and almost 3 months went by. Cutting the long story short, my school eventually verified the results to WES early in December and it turned out to be in my favour as my months of experience were increasing. The ECA proceeded and I got my evaluation on the 18th of December 2018.

IELTS - BC
After paying for WES, the next step was IELTS. I booked on the mainland with British Council (Didn't know about MOD till much later) for June 2nd 2018. Had about 3 weeks to prepare. Traffic was really pervasive at the time and work didn't give much room either. I got tips from a friend on the general overview of the exam. I prepared for listening with a random site I found as well as the main British Council Ielts website. I studied speaking with ieltsliz.com, also practiced answering the questions with my mom as the examiner . For writing, I used the training on the British Council ielts site. Finally for reading, I watched a video my friend gave me where the lady advised not to read the passages but to go straight to the questions and try picking out the answers. In all honesty, the preparation was quite shabby. Whenever my brother saw me playing video games he would sound a warning of how people prepare hard for IELTS and how people write IELTS multiple times to get the right score. At some point, I accepted I wouldn't pass as the time was too short so I just zeroed my mind on another exam, even blamed him in my mind for making me book early as I planned to book for July.
Eventually the date of speaking came on the Saturday prior to the main exam. The examiner was really nice and her voice cast away all my tension. Luckily for me the first question she asked was the very question IeltsLiz treated in the tutorial she gave ("Do you live in a house or an apartment?" and my fictional answer was on point. The rest of the test was fine. The second leg of the exam was scheduled for June 2nd. My brother travelled to CA that day so unfortunately I couldn't see him off to the airport. During the listening I lost concentration and missed one of the questions . I also started the first section of my writing with pencil then wrote with the pen once i was ok with it. Unfortunately this took a lot of my time and I was still writing with pen when I heard 20 minutes left. Quickly jumped to the second second and barely finished it. I went home praying and hoping for the best whilst also prepared for another test. I was up playing video games in the early morning of Saturday the 16th of June 2018 when I decided to check the IELTS website for the result. God was really merciful to me. Results were LRWS: 8,9,7,8. I immediately chatted my brother up to give him the good news.

Documents Preparation
After the IELTS result was ready and the ECA was in progress I started sourcing for my documents.
Employment
This was the next biggest challenge. I started working immediately I finished school as I did my IT with the company and also worked part time with them in my final year. I then worked with them from when I finished school till i was done with my NYSC. After this I worked with an American company remotely for some months before I joined my new employer.
The current place wouldn't be a problem however the foreign company as well as the first were sources of concern for me. Without going into too much stories, God was merciful again and I'm grateful to all the companies as they were very nice and helpful. All provided me the reference letters in CIC format.

Medicals
Once my school verified my results with WES, I decided to book for medicals. At that time Qlife was booked till march and I was scared that IOM would follow suit. I went for the medicals at IOM ikeja. Got there early and I was done at about 11 am.

ITA
My ECA was ready on the 18th of December 2018 and I immediately created my Express entry profile. A draw was held the next day (439) and I got the ITA. CRS was 450.

POF
My mom came to the rescue here. She transferred the POF and signed the gift deed as well. I notarized the deed at Igbosere court, Obalende for 1500.

PCC
I did this with Inspector Moshood for 3000. Also had a bad experience as the gear of my car refused to enter into reverse . Luckily people around helped me push the car towards the road .

After all these, the last item was the work reference letter from my current employer. I was advised to wait till the new year to get it. Shortly after my one year anniversary I approached my boss for it and he gave me without any problems, also gave me lots of valuable advice.

Application
I created a OneDrive folder called cic. Inside this folder, I created a folder for all the components of the application. Employment, education, passport, pof, sibling proof etc. Inside each folder I created a folder called parts which contained the individual scanned documents. I used pdfmerge to merge the documents together. After each category's document was ready I uploaded it into it's folder (e.g employment). This way at every point in time and even after I submitted I could find out exactly what I had submitted.

Education : Submitted scanned wes eca, statement of result, and ielts result.
Employment : submitted reference letter for each company, offer letter for each company, last 3 months account statement for each company highlighting salary payments, payslips and confirmation letter where available.
Medicals : the medical print out provided by IOM
POF : used a fixed deposit for 60 days. Submitted the FD certificate, account statement of my other investment with the bank, account statement showing the transfers of the gift deed, account statement of my mum showing the debits of the gift deed and finally the notarized gift deed.
PCC : all pages of the police clearance certificate
Proof of sibling : my brother's PR card, utility bill, childhood picture circling him and myself, our international passports, our birth certificates and a newspaper clipping showing my dad's change of name
LOE : I explained what I submitted for employment . Explained why some of the payments were larger than expected. Also explained the composition of the POF .

I submitted my application on Wednesday Jan 30 2019. At this point I joined a number of whatsapp groups and couldn't keep up with both the groups and nairaland so I concentrated on the groups. After about a month and half I got the MEP/BIL request. Then there was silence. Decided to call them in April. I loaded skype airtime €5. I was able to reach them on the 30th of April. A nice middle aged lady said eligibility was met while others hadn't started. I took this with a grain of salt for some reason. In May I decided to order GCMS notes. Tension was getting much so I called on the 13th of June. Another nice lady said everything looked good without giving any further details . The GCMS Notes came on the 16th of June.
Eligibility was met on the 24th of April as the nice lady had suggested. The due date was 10th of June so I was quite happy as I believed my file was being worked on. On the 19th of June, there were lots of PPR announcement in the group and I decided to check my profile. I was quite elated to find a ghost update and quickly added cic.gc.ca to my allowed filters on gmail. I woke up the next morning to find the PPR mail sitting in my mailbox.

All glory to God for this great journey. I pray every one of us will get to Canada in Jesus name. Amen