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Ramj:
Cry na cry figuratively or actually.. Some cry outside some cry internally all na cry.
Even now i dey cry

Je m'appelle CRY

dumprep:
My great family. It has happened! The joy I feel right now cannot be described. My chest o!

#LONG FUNNY DRAMATIC POST. Enjoy!

It is called Timeline, not timetable. My ITA was May 9, AOR was June 13, MEP/IP1 was June 26, IP2 was October 9, ADR (Updated Bank Statement) was October 10, ADR submitted same day, PPR mail came in at 4:17 AM today (October 16), Visa Office is Ottawa, AOR to PPR is 125 days, Single applicant"[/i].

Thanks guys for all the invaluable information, helpful tips and encouragements. I love the spirit here. Such an atmosphere of friendly and pleasant people with positive mindsets. The collaboration, support and eagerness at which everyone helps each other is amazing. God bless you all.

Most importantly, I thank God for seeing me through every step of this arduous albeit exciting and interesting journey.

My announcement would NEVER be complete if I don't pray to God to immeasurably bless my altruistic and selfless brother @Topsmamen

Take a look at our beloved brother - smslive2, who was once a newcomer but now has over 2 million Nairaland followers and has built an empire in Nairaland City (Bro, no be shots fired this time o, na accolades fired. Lol. The calmness and patience you display in your responses to questions are laudable, please keep up the good work).

Mamaroon:
@Louie36 and @ijeaify

regardless of whether you already did biometrics as part of a previous student or visitor visa application....for permanent residence you need to do biometrics AGAIN....this is my understanding of this link (see below) ..sorry I don't know how to link it like @smslive2.

by the way @smslive2 pls can you teach me how it's done

....anyway it's only if you applying again for another visitor or student visa that you are not required to redo biometrics....

......hope this helps

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/campaigns/biometrics/facts.html

Sthill5:
My people!!!
September 29 was my 4th attempt (BC)
L-8.5
R-9.0
W-7
S-7.5

As soon as I saw it I told my husband "pack your bags, we are going to Canada" and i just cried
Please please if you are battling with IELTS. You CANNOT give up.
My WES and IELTS within 48 hours!!!

dumprep:
Boss smslive2. Oga Ifeoma77. Over to you sirs.

suzzyallen:
Evening everyone. Pls I need your help. My family and I received PPR this morn(thank God) and the email says we are to send our passports within 15days of receipt of the email. The issue now is that we can't submit our passports now because we are leaving Nigeria for Sydney on the 16th of October, 2018 to arrive Sydney on the 18th. My question is how do I navigate around this. Is it possible to submit the passports at VFS global in Sydney or I have to courier the passports to VFS global in Nigeria. Ur prompt response in this regard will be highly appreciated.

Sthill5:
I can finally share my first good news on this thread.

After a grueling 6 months of transcript and verification issues with OOU for my diploma attained in 2006, my ECA is finally ready. Completion date was September 19 but only God and WES knows why it took so long

Also my degree equivalent from the UK (British Computer Society ) was evaluated to be a canadian bachelors degree so I can now officially claim points for two certificates! So if you or someone you know has BCS qualifications in IT, they should evaluate it

Thank you newmum and happytbaby for encouraging me to go through the naija stress of evaluating my diploma. I spent almost 150k and 4 trips to ago-iwoye. Coming back home late at night with bad roads and crazy drivers. If you know Epe express way, you will understand. This is not ppr but its a breakthrough for me. Now awaiting IELTS tomorrow.

suzzyallen:
M so sorry. Been under a lot of pressure this week as am relocating to Australia next week. Actually have Aussie PR, so we done pop champagne before before. PPR came as a surprise. Started Canadian route in Jan, 2018 when the Aussie PR got delayed (13 months) and i started to loose hope of getting a positive response. Wrote IELTS- Feb 2018, verification of my credentials delayed so entered pool in April and got ITA in May. Applied for Canny visa July 20, but wasnt really expecting PPR so soon. It hasn't really sunk in as have been busy packing and trying to sell some of my stuff..... God has really wiped away all my tears. This time last year, I was in tears cos we received bad news concerning our Aussie visa application. See how God works. He gave us double for our trouble......Eyin Oluwa logooo!!!!!

Hi Newmum... Just saying hello!

Newmum0615:
Hi sweetie. No vex. You know that my 'illness'? It hasn't stopped yet. Working at a slower pace now. I'm with you.

Bimz89:
Its PPR guys...���. I am a silent follower. Been following since 2016 and this thread taught me almost everything about the immigration process so thanks to everybody and may you all get a PPR.

AOR - March 19, 2018
IP1- March 23
MEP- April 17
IP 2- Sept 17
ADR - Sept 21-Height and eye colour request ( submitted immediately)
PPR- Oct 9

...... watch out for part 2 ( ghen ghen ghen ghen) heheheh

@AzeD1 and @BOSS13 by the power conferred on Justin Trudeau and President Buhari, You are hereby commanded to kneel down, raise your heads, close your eyes and say the Lord's prayer .... Please guys, Both of you are not wrong as our senior below have rightly said. Please let is slide. Alot of people are looking up to you for advice on this journey. Biko

einsteino:
oh so I am not the only one who had to check twice that I wasn't on the wrong thread.

To be frank, I didn't see anything wrong with Boss13 question. Not a few times on the journey of Express Entry have we had to ask what would normally be intrusive questions, but these questions help one know the best for someone of that profile. It's much like how a doctor has to be somewhat poky to diagnose. if we all have to be assuming, we would go on giving generic answers that may turn out to be an ill advise.

A case in point, in making a choice of where to settle down, those I consulted usually start out asking my marital status/family composition. I have had folks say to me "Why choose to live in ZZZ like me, if I were single like you YYY is where I would have gone".

That said, in the absence of a context to inform the motive of Boss13's question, AZeD1 like most people may not have any choice than to infer based on the normal day to day experience. In that sense, it can only seem intrusive... but we should get accustomed to the fact that to counsel someone on a life imparting matter like the ones discussed on here, it is only wise to have all data that are crucial to decision making. More importantly, no one is paid for the service here and we do not want to frighten or punish people for attempting to aid us.

Communicating in text is hard, even for very good writers; lots of meanings can be misconstrued and it can easily cause the reader to be cynical of one's intents. However succinct our communication style maybe, conflicts and misunderstandings can not be extricated from human relationships, we can only reduce how often it occurs and resolve them when they do. I believe AzDe1 and Boss13 can resolve this squabble if they understand that they were only playing the role we all must play as pawns in the inexorable game of human conflict. It's no one's fault really, it's natural for things like this to happen where two or more humans are gathered.

crystalllllllll:
Is it bad to ask questions? I for one hate it when people tell others to go read from page 1. If you can't answer their questions, simply ignore. If you can and you think the question has been answered some pages before you can do well to look it up and then answer with a link to that page. Imagine being on page 389 and dwelling on page 1 info. Things change sometimes and we all know that. Plus people are busy with other things in life too, not just Canadian immigration.

purplerain:
Hi All.

Long post alert!

Its PPR guys. Yes o, after 7 months, London VO has freed me.
AOR: 4 March 2018
MEP: 13 March 2018
ADR 1: 19 Sep 2018
ADR 2: 2 Oct 2018
RPRF : 5 Oct 2018
IP2 : 9 Oct 2018
PPR: 9 Oct 2018.
.

19-Sep-18: LVO sent me 8 ADR requests. Yes, O, 8!!!!!

We compiled and submitted everything on 25 of Sept.


12pm today, it came o....

Finally!!!!


It sha ended in praise!!!.

CanadianNaija:
AOR - August 24th
MEP- Sep 19th
Biometric Letter- Sept 19th
Biometric done- Sept 24th
Biometric completed on profile - Sept 24th

I don’t know what IP stage I’m at, but I attached a screen shot of my profile.

I wonder when PPR will come, but I’m tired of the wait.

I’m always refreshing my emails and trekking all over the internet looking for Aug 24th AOR news.

nomad26:
My fellow future Canadians I am just starting the EE journey and I would really appreciate if the gurus could take a look at my plan and give advice.

I am married (we are both 33yo with no children) and we plan to immigrate together to Canada by God's grace. Our CRS currently stands at 442.

IELTS - I plan to use an existing IELTS general that I wrote for UK Visa. Please will this be okay? My score was L-9, R-9, W-7.5, S-7.5. However it expires first week of December and I really hope we can get ITA and submit e-APR by then so I don't have to write it again o. Is this a realistic target?

My partner will write IELTS in a few weeks to boost our score (already booked) and hopefully get his result by early Nov.

ECA - I have MSc and partner has BSc. We have already started the evaluation process with ICES (shout out to you guys for the tip!) & our transcripts have been received from our universities. Hoping we can get the ECAs by early Nov.

POF - I need advice on this one o. We currently have the required funds in a joint account by depositing money from our individual salary account last month. So we have only had the money there for just a month. I don't know if this is acceptable for POF. The other alternative is to use a cash fund that I have with my employer (similar to what Indians call provident fund). The money will be paid to me in full lump-sum when I leave the company. The amount meets the POF requirement too and I think I can get a letter from my employer to back this up.
Should I use both options, just to be on the safe side? Please advise me o.

Work reference letter - I have only worked for one company but there was a break in my employment e.g. 2014-2016 working in Nigeria,2017 personal leave, 2018 working in UK for the same company but with a different job title. I want to claim 3+ years of experience so I am planning to request for just one reference letter that will state all the job titles I have had with dates and the r&r. Will this be acceptable?

PCC - in progress

Medicals - planning to do this as soon as we get ITA.

Thanks everyone, God will favour us all o!!

uzo009:
I'd also like to ask, is it advisable to put all my money in mutual funds, and use it as proof of funds when the time comes?

Ifeoma77:
I'd prefer we keep it on the thread. Others benefit more.
Besides, my wife doesn't like it when I get Nairaland PMs

mayour01:
Hello guys. Please I am a silent reader. Please I have a problem with our POF. I am the PA and took 2millon loan as part of POF. A friend advised that I divide the money to half and moved 1million to my other account in the same bank for other payments that we still needed to still pay (I have two savings account in the same bank). We planned using a letter from my cooperative society as part of POF and then Gift deed from my father to balance up. Albeit i initially taught of transferring the 2million to my father to add to the other he promised us and use GIft deed but with this development, please what is the best way to go about it. Thank you
Please note that I also plan using a letter from the cooperative stating the amount I have after collecting the loan(i.e I took 2M which I am currently repaying and then I have also collected a letter stating I still have 1.5m as my savings

mcstan18:
I kidnapped her but you didn't caught me

Clayrex101:
This is IP2.

You should receive PPR mail in less than 10days.

Congratulation.

armstead:
Very Short Post Alert

In another news!!!

Apologies this is coming late. It’s PPR!!!!

Timeline

Minimum invited CRS 441
CRS 450
FSWO
NOC 1111
ITA 25 April
AOR 5 June
MEP 18 June
IP1 19 June
GCMS note request 30 August (had to request as I was scared after reading some comments here about Pension fund not being considered by CIC for POF)
IP2 27 September
Ghost update 2 October
Received GCMS 2 October (everything looks fine and I remember sharing here my PF was considered as POF as minimum required fund was marked met)

Then the long awaited golden mail arrived!!!!

PPR 3 October 2018 at exactly 3:39am, can’t remember the seconds
No ADR
Family size 3
Ottawa VO


My prayer for all still waiting for IELTS, ECA, ITA, POF and PPR is that it will surely come speedily in Jesus’ name. Amen

This tread is very informative and is got selfless people always willing to share. May God bless you all.

Armstead

Sannisege:
Hi, I got a Ph.D. last November but I have been working as a university lecturer for 7 years therefore my NOC is 4011 (University professors and Lecturers). Please does it mean I can only claim one year experience since I was doing the PhD and working at the same time for 6 years?

mcstan18:
Congratulations bro.

As a side note, it doesn't speak well of anyone to come to this forum, benefit immensely and then bow out with the kind of PPR announcements we've been seeing lately, this one in particular. PPR announcements have their own way of boosting badly battered morale of some people who visit this thread. Sometimes, all one would need to continue to fire on is a visit to the PPR section of page 1 but very few would read the kind of PPR testimonies we see these days and feel "gingered". I won't be surprised if you've also benefitted from those long narratives of happy people here.

We can do better guys.

adesam91:
All thanks to God ... PPR

AOR - July 2nd
IP1 - July 20th
IP2 - September 26
PPR - October 2nd

Inception12:
Praise God saints, finally got my PPR in the night. Timeline below;
AOR....29th May
IP1.....6th June
IP2 and ADR.....20th Sept
PPR......3 October

ADR was for additional bank statements for pOF...i had initially only used employer pension fund statement. Thank God for this forum, I was stuck at CRS of 430 with only a bachelor's until i learnt of using ACCA diploma (for finishing papers F1 to F9) to get two or more certificate.

Thanks to all who answered my questions and helped in any way. May God bless you who are waiting for your PPR, you'll get there eventually.

ASEC:
Come and join me sing hallelujah, Jehovah Jireh has done me well...

It's PR!!!!!!!!!!!

Guitarlife:
Hi guys please can you any magnanimous fellow refer me to a post or link where someone used NYSC for application, I have tried searching but couldnt come out with much. I guess I am getting rusty lately.

Ifeoma77:
There is a popular theory that the job mail is what signifies that your application has moved from CIO to a Local Visa Office