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Estac:
My Darling Nairalanders,

It is with great pleasure I dance in to announce the arrival of my PPR!

Here is the short version.

Timeline:
AOR - July 14
MEP/IP1 – August 1
IP2 - September 21
PPR – September 25 (received 1.35am this morning).

I wish everyone a successful outcome on this journey. God bless us all

Singing... "Oya e fun won legbegbe. Oya e fun won legbegbe. Oya e fun won legbegbe"

Congrats to the ielts smashers. Mr and Mrs B, I see una oh. Congrats

babythug:
Awwww I wish I were in that axis. I’m almost at another end of Lagos!

Have you got that acaria plant though? *winks*

I'm afraid I dont have it

cooltony:
Hello guys,
1. The state hospital I worked with has no official email address. Can I use the Letterhead paper like that? or ask my supervisor to include his own unofficial email address in the LOE?
2. For POF, can I use Treasury Bill Certificate only. It covers the minimum amount required by cic.
Gtb is refusing to give me reference letter in the required format.
Thanks

Personally, i wouldn't allow a personal email in a professional letter. I would rather do an LOE and give that information. If your company has no online presence at all, I would advice you beef up up your reference letter with any of the following; employment letter, promotional work letter, payslip or bank account which shows the salary entry into the account. Clearly highlight same

Let others chip in as well.

smslive2:
Have you checked here?
You can also check here incase you need more information

Linker of life!

The belle of the ball. Lady Anthurium in pink

Such a pretty thing. I got 1 or 2 more but I'll stop here...

My fern plants. 2 different types

Hello flower lovers. This thread has given me so much joy and it awoke the love for flowers my mum planted in my heart as a kid

Due to an impending relocation and the fact I'm the only flower person in my home, I'll be giving out all my plants for free. If you stay around the Ajah axis in Lagos and you'll like to have them, feel free to pm me and we'll arrange a pick up.

I'll post some pics. That's my first plant.
She deserves to be posted first

Dreal4mula:
I feel I am the only whom they are yet to attend to. AOR April 08, 2018, IP1 April 17, 2018. CIO Sydney has been with my file since then.

I need to renew my rent. I am so frustrated and I feel like withdrawing my application. I am just so confused and frustrated. I do not know why mine went this way.

Hang in there
Have you ordered your notes-even though there appears to be a backlog at the moment
Are you on that immigration tracker thingy? Join April AOR and observe what's up with Sydney office. Try to be calm
That site helped calm me too

mcstan18:
Thank you for the birthday wishes sleekchic, Ifeoma77, Kmgb, teeteelardey, Mummychichi, Oluphilip2008, Natalie27, OgechiBae,
Aig842, Tojued and everyone that sent theirs by heart. I got them all.

-5+33=ITA in the end. Eyes on the prize still.

"Get in there!!!" That's the attitude
Eyes on the prize

Newmum0615:
Wow wow wow. What a beautiful day it is. Congratulations to our dear tambourine swinging sis. Today, we get to swing one for you. I celebrate with you. Go ye and flourish in the land.

Thank you dear

Tojued:
Congratulations! For all the shekere/maracas and tambourine you've played for others, here's your well deserved drum-roll!!!

Just seeing this
Beautiful. Thank you

beeodun:
AwwwwAwww....so glad for you dear. Congrats muchos. Reading your write-up was, in many ways,refreshing! Wish you the best moving forward and las las your ‘shyness’ wee run when we all see in Canny �

Congratulations to all those who just got theirs as well!!!

God bless

vcole:
it would certainly be a sensible idea to renew. Make sure you keep the old license and that your date of 1st issue doesn't change. Of course, I am assuming that the expired license was a biometric one.

It looks exactly like the one attached in your previous post. It was my first driver's license

https://www.nairaland.com/3617393/living-canada-life-canadian-immigrant/353#70464326

agates:
Brief Landing gist:

Arrived in Calgary yesterday.
Obviously I had missed my connecting flight but got booked on the next available one. Arrived in Calgary 6pm. I had gotten a furnished accommodation earlier in the month so just went home.

Welcome to your new home and thanks for updating. I hope to land in Calgary too. Lets see how it goes...

@Vcole, God bless you for all your hard work here. My driver's license expired in September last year. Do I need to get it renewed before coming over. I'm thinking Alberta. Thank you.

Ogamazi001:
Congratulations. I read all and it's soul lifing and refreshing. I'm encouraged. IELTS must give way soon.

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Amen! Keep at it. It must give way

ysteph:
Congratulations.
You go pay me for reading this your long epistle.

Thank you all. Thank you. I love the sax. Shebi na sax abi na clarinet? @smslive2
@ysteph you were warned. you nor see abridged version ni? LOL

clock89:
Congratulations! All the best!
The gap between RPFF and PPR though... you must have been wondering WTH it took so long

I thot ppr would come soon after the RPRF but things are no longer the way they used to be. Just the way you have ip2 starting off the process these days. Things change i guess.

Testimony time; blessing time

First of all, can I just say here boldly that if you have two different job roles (e.g accountant and engineer) as long as it falls under O, A, B (within the last 10 years) then you are eligible for FSW program.

The work experience mustn't be the same job title or function. At the time I first asked this question on this thread, I was so confused. It is not now that the issue has been trashed severally and laid to rest. Then, when I spoke out, it was a lone voice (coachtrain) who responded to me and pointed me in the direction of some few individuals that had successfully done that. That response would end up being one of the most soothing for me on this thread. It led me to explore posts from individuals like Merrymum who had successfully done same. In my case, this was the difference between a CRS score of 420 and 445.

My time line:

IELTS- December 2017 L8, S8.5, R8 W7 (first attempt)
ECA- February 2018
ITA – April 11th 2018
AOR – May 19th 2018
RPRF- June 15th 2018
IP2 – Not really sure. First noticed September 17th 2018
PPR – Received the email September 18th 2018 although letter dated the previous day

Decision to migrate was made at the beginning of 2017 when an event made me realize I was better off starting afresh in a new land. Prior to that time, I had a friend who relocated to Canada via the old paper based system. This dear friend (bless her heart) would always reach out to me at least once every 2 months and ask, Stonecold, why don’t you take this Canadian thing seriously? It works. Try it.
At that point, I’d just returned from my masters abroad and for some strange reason, I didn’t believe I stood a chance. I didn’t take out time to even understand the system properly. Coming from a system where getting PR visa was hectic, I didn’t believe I could simply obtain Canadian one like that. Who dash me? Basically, I never gave it serious consideration.

Besides I’d just left one foreign country for home and I felt it was misplaced priority to start trying to jump all over again. I decided to focus all my energy on building a life in Nigeria or so I thought Yinmu! But when water pass garri in early 2017, this dear friend (as always) reached out to me again and this time, I ate a large chunk of the humble pie and begged her to send all the relevant information to me again. LOL. Since she left a while back, her information was not so current and that got me exploring online and I discovered NAIRALAND had a thread for it. I joined the thread in part 3 but began reading from part 2.

My case was far from perfect but God remained perfect through it all. I had a combination of a little over 3 years’ experience in two different jobs. One was from company X (11 months and 27 days) and the other in Nigeria (2 years and some months)

I was worried about 2 things. Could i combine 2 different job titles and what was my NOC from company x?

The job from company X was not quite straight forward in my eye. It was pretty hard to pinpoint an NOC for it.

I’d been following the thread as a baby and I knew one name was synonymous with NOC matching-Newmum. I reached out to (via email) and she was the first person that pointed out a completely new NOC which I’d never considered before then. God will forever bless her for this for if not for her impute, I would have gone with something else I believed was my NOC. Queen of NOC she will forever be!

Then like issues could not get more complicated, company x refused to give me a reference letter containing the job description. I followed what people had said here when such happens but my case was slightly different. I had been out of that job for over 5 years. The company had a high turnover rate and lots of people had moved on including my supervisor.

Most people I knew were former students like myself who had long returned home after their study visa ran out. The rest people I knew had moved on from the company. I tried to reach out to some current employees via linkedin but it didn’t go anywhere because they didn’t know me ke. I reached out to a previous manager but that one jejely blank my side. Oh linkedin can be such a cold cold place. LOL

So I decided to use an ex-colleague like myself to help write my JD. I was worried as I’d never seen an example like this on Nairaland. It was mostly previous boss or current work colleague but I trusted each case will be judged on its own merit. Now I think of it, someone had simply written their job description on a piece of paper and notarized it. I should have done this but I didn’t realize this option was available to me then.

I was so scared this employee reference letter issue would mar my application and for quite a while I kept stalling hoping CRS scores will crash like 2017 and I’ll enter with my 2 years’ experience only. I knew I wouldn’t suffer any sort of employee letter hassle at my current employment – that was a given and so I began to wait for CRS scores to fall. LOL. I wait nor be small. I wait tire.

Then one morning by 4am, I sat up and spoke to myself. I looked at the CRS trend and saw what was happening. That morning I borrowed myself sense. What harm will it cause me to be bold and use a former colleague to write my JD? Why was I so worried? How can I just throw away a year’s worth of experience because of fear? If CIC declines, at least I can say I tried and it didn’t work. If I fail, I can put in again the following year when I clock 3 years at my current job. I felt calm in my heart and I decided I would go with my 3 years and get an ex colleague to write my JD! My decision was final.

This former colleague also gave me his old employment letters to use as proof that he was employed by company X at the same time with me. I notarized his letters. I also included the email where company x HR stated they don’t include job description then I tied it all up with an LOE.
Even then, I was worried. This was the only snag in the application. But God gave me calm.

Today my story is different. I want to encourage everyone here at one stage or the other – hold on- keep at it, victory is at the end. Victory is sure. Don’t tell lies in your application. Don’t rush it and do a shoddy job. Same date of ITA does not mean you must submit same time. Each to his own. Use your time to prepare a perfect application or at least one that wouldn't make you lose sleep.

Make page 1 your friend. Read testimonies of those that have gone ahead of you. You may see something therein which resonates with your own story (I practically read all the PPR testimonies since part 1) plus it’s so uplifting.

I was once here. I once asked silly questions too. I sat in the valley of confusion and brooded over things I didn’t need to worry myself with. I sat down worrying if I had indeed chosen the right NOC. I rejected about 2 ITA’S because I was waiting to clock over 2 years in my current job since I had 11 months 27 days in company X. At the end of the day, from my GCMS notes, CIC calculated company X time as over a year. I’m still not sure how they came to that decision but that made me realize that sometimes our headache is not their own sef. Try not to worry too much.

No matter the stage you are in, try to be positive and rejoice with others who have gone ahead of you or hit a milestone. I rejoiced with those who rejoiced and I knew one day, my turn will come. One day, your turn will come too.

I wish to thank everyone who ever responded to my queries. I particularly thank Coachtrane (thank you for speaking up then), Newmum0615 (NOC queen), Glitteringstar (ever helpful, compiling the most impossible and hard list to make life easy for us all) Ethelia (for the legal angle you throw in every now and then) ysteph, happytbaby, dtush (for your encouragement) Kmgb (toh sure!) Nozzle (for helping with my reference letter question) Osaze007 (for the plenty laughs brought on by worrying from Dubai) Mcstan18 (for selflessly carrying on with all your hard work to keep this thread alive. It has not gone unnoticed. We shall be back to celebrate with you on that day) smslive (for the plenty links you post to guide people; hilarious as they may be sometimes) Ifeoma, Tojued, and SO many selfless people who have given their time on this thread. I can’t mention all names. This thread is a goldmine – do not take it for granted. Mine it very well.

God bless you. God bless your journey and may all our heart desire be met in the country of our dream. God bless Nigeria. God bless Canada our new home.

See you in Canada! Probably having barbeque on a sunny day or sipping on some creamy coffee from Tim Hortons! Highly doubt. I’m simply too shy.

Hold on. If you dont like long testimony, here is the abridged version

IELTS- December 2017 L8, S8.5, R8 W7 (first attempt)
ECA- February 2018
ITA – April 11th 2018
AOR – May 19th 2018
RPRF- June 15th 2018
IP2 – Not really sure. First noticed September 17th 2018
PPR – Received the email September 18th 2018 although letter dated the previous day

Newmum0615:
Where is our tambourine naa? Jemulsboy's wahala did not reach your side?

I don testify long ago say jelumsboy is next in line after guitarlife. Its a done deal. I don celebrate am already. Since september 8th. LOL

jelmusboy:
It is PPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Congrats bro. Good one
PS: no one rejoicing about ITA today? Wetin nah?
It is well oh...

grammy010:
PATIENCE IS VIRTUE all the times.

ITA: Dec 2017

AOR: Jan 31

IP1: Feb 12

PPR Sept 17



Thank you all.

Congratulations to your friend. For the sake of some who may be in this situation tomorrow or currently going through it, I only have a question, what exactly did he state in the CSE?

Newmum0615:
So, I heard the most bizarre post-PPR rejection story this week.

Stay woke guys. Stay woke.

Very strange one

Milllz:
Fam. I need help oo.
Please can someone advise what I should do?

But you've submitted already. Havent you?

What I would have done is get them to redo the letter with the missing information. If this is impossible, then I will get a supervisor to write something in a plain sheet of paper (confirming my number of work hours workd in a week) and tie it all with an loe.

If you feel too uneasy then do what gives you peace. In actual fact, that may end up not being an issue to your VO. Go with your gut feeling

Jennypharb1:
That's how my office addressed my letter of intro to canadian high commission in Nigeria. They even included I'll be going on vacation since my application coincides with my leave period. Is it not better if I did not receive the letter at all

It is well

folake4u:
He doesnt look short one bit.

I agree. I think its the chic who is very tall

Dizzy007:
Your PPR is on the way bro... 3 people I know with Ottawa VO got PPR in the 5th month. When was your AOR?

19th May

Dizzy007:
*** Exits silent reader mode***

Its a PPPPPPPPRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Early to Mid 2017, I was facing some challenges, I jammed an old friend who told me this EE, and the links to here.. I started reading from part 2 till date.
Decision to migrate Oct 2017
IELTS Dec 2nd 2017, LRWS 8.5,7.5,7.5,7.5 Studied for two months. Gave my experience righthere
Started ECA in Nov 2017. Got it April 03 2018 (Thank you NASU Strike )
ITA 11 April
AOR 04 May
NA1 05 May
ADR 11th May schedule A
MEP 17th May
IP1 17th May
Ordered GCMS Notes 03 July. Everything was fine. VO:Ottawa
IP2 22nd August
Ghost update 06 Sept
PPR 07 Sept

Single ooooo

Wow! Congrats bro. About 3 info on your timeline is same as mine. Ielts exam in DEC, ITA date and office

Guitarlife:
ottawa dey vex ganni, infact dem tro the thing e land for my side .
i see ready for visa .

Any way Aor 5th april, ip1 13th april, ip2 8th august, ghost 5th sept, ppr sept 7.

Meanwhile, any single sisters in the building ? I hear say the cold dey very brutal and unforgiving to a single guy over there .lol

Congrats bro.
Jelumsboy, you are next. Hang in there.

Amazing thread.
I've enjoyed this thread just like I enjoyed Franknetter's thread. Fantastic thread-an eye opener for people looking to school in Texas

Op you are not entertaining but most importantly informing. It is selfless what you are doing. God bless

Newmum0615:
I am not really conversant with other bodies but I intend to do mine with WES again but this time I am re-evaluating only my UK masters so that I hopefully don't have to undergo the WAEC stress.

Ahhh! Direct opposite of what I'm trying to achieve. Bless you