Ifeoma77:

Congratulations!!!!! May your new home be blessed

Lalaan:
Hi guys. I need proper guidance.this is my profile.
1. I'm 34, married with 2 kids, masters degree in the UK. 4 years working experience with Guinness as a facility co-ordinator. I'm an entrepreneur now and my business has been very good since 2017.
2. My husband and I don't live together. Let's just say we have been separated for 2 years. Still married legally but we don't talk.
3. He is uneducated.
4. I have always taken care of everything financially, from school fees to bills without him(even when we were on good terms) . There's proof of this.
Now my main concern is this:
1. I don't plan on applying with him for the express entry program because this would mean increase my proof of funds. So do I just get his consent for the kids?
2. Do I enter the pool using my previous work experience or use entrepreneurship?

dedalove:
Hello house. Thanks for all the responses all the time. Really appreciate this forum. Please I will like to ask a question. I am the PA but as of now all I have is almost half of the required POF for a family of 4. I just want to know if it's not too late post ITA to get a gift deed from my mum or can my hubby transfer the balance to me then and hope his account statement will not be needed for documentation. I am pre-ITA but hoping for one soon but have no lump sum in my account, only Tbills for part of the POF.

Felzy309:



Wow congrats,

Can you please explain more on dis proof of funds part.

Please don't be offended, i want to know because I thought you need the money to be in your account until all security checks is done?

Topsmamen:


Congrats Sasuke-kun!

Uchihasasuke19:
It's a PPR. Glory be to God the omnipotent father.
I give him all the glory and honor..

Chibuiked:
Ladies and gentlemen please here's our Timeline

Family of two
My wife is the PA
FSW (inland)
CRS: 456 (0 pts from me)
IELTS 1st attempt LRWS: 8, 6.5, 6.5, 8.5 (IDP).
2nd attempt LRWS: 8, 8.5, 7.5, 7.5 (BC).
No ECA, we used her Canadian Masters degree.

ITA: 2nd September, 2018.
AOR: 30th September, 2018.
Medicals: 17th September, 2018
Medicals passed: 30th October, 2018.
Biometrics: 31st, October, 2018. (only me, she still have valid biometric).
ADR: for letter of consent from me regarding parts of the POF in my name; 5th December, 2018.

PPR!!!: 31st January, 2019.
Ottawa VO

AOR to PPR: 121days (4 months approx.)

Documents submitted

1. Marriage certificate
2. Employer's reference letter (CIC) standard,
3. Her SOA
4. Letter of no indebtedness for her credit card.
5. My 6months SOA from two banks (this is because I transferred bulk amount from my GTB to Stanbic-IBTC to makeup the amount there.
6. TB certificate
7. Letter of no indebtedness from GTB (Stanbic-IBTC no gree give me this one).
8. Gift deed from parents.
9. Letter of no objection from me.
10. Her MSc.
11. Our PCC (note she didn't use Canadian PCC, both are done here in Nigeria).
12. LOE (we used this basically for clarification, like explaining the over lapping dates in my history, etc).

We entered 1P2 from day one of AOR

ADR: 5th December, 2018. and submitted 7th December, 2018. This showed NA just few hours after upload. Later changed to "we're reviewing the additional document you provided" around 25th January, 2019.


NB. We ain't sure why the ADR cos we had submitted same letter that was requested. Although the 1st letter of consent from me wasn't notarized. We had to notarize it and resubmitted same.

It wasn't easy for us. My wife (Sweetgirl, as I humbly call her) travelled since August 2017 for study. We were dealing with staying alone without each other, which was unexplainable. To make the matter worse, we lost my job on March 2018 and my side hustle wasn't steady. Well you can only imagine the emotional trauma.
At a point, around early December last year "i" stopped checking our CIC account, nairaland and even Facebook group page. This is because "I" needed to take my mind off this and handed it over to God.

Wait a minute, did we tell you that it affected my health?
Oh yes, it did. No wife, No work and No PPR. Chaii! It's well.

When she informed me that our application has been approved with the recorded call she made with IRCC agent, I didn't understand it honestly, but after some time while on the video call with her, I found myself dropping tears.

After about 2hours from the time she called CIC on the said 31th January, 2019, at about 17:32pm GMT, THE GOLDEN EMAIL DROPPED.
Na so your brother in the Lord lost it in praise, no key, no Davidic note or octave your brother no sing that day ooo!

We ordered GCMS note which should be due by 15th of this month. Well they can keep it and also the change. Lol!
Anyways, the GCMS note was at 0$ cos it's free when you apply from Canada.

Well from our experience and other people's experiences, I can say that the preparation, application processing duration and positive outcome is all by God's Grace 100%.

However, please make the work easy for the VO by submitting a simple but detailed documents.

I only wish we all will continue this way in Canada by sharing information without bringing our Nigerianess along.
Na so Chinko people take dominate Canny-land ooo.

To all those still considering starting the process, please take a leap of faith IF IT'S GOD'S WILL FOR YOU. ECA (WES) dey call your name o.

To all those battling IELTS, please don't give up. One more try can change the story.

To all those in the pool, please open your arms to accept ITA

To all those gathering documents + POF issh. Please don't worry trust me, the way God will do it will surprise you.

To the Masters waiting for the GOLDEN EMAIL, please start writing your timeline cos you're the next.

And for those still hanging in Ghana VO, God has started breaking the jinx. Expect PPR rain from GHANA soon.

All these I humbly pray and ask in Jesus Name. Amen!

IT ENDED IN PRAISE.
YOURS SHALL END IN PRAISE TOO. AMEN!

ConfirmD:
Please fam.
I need help! I am taking the ielts the fourth time this Friday and my problem has been writing. Few days to the exam, I am still not sure of what's happening with my writing. I would appreciate if anyone can take time to help review and assess my writing, so I can know which areas to improve on.

Thank you all.

Anikulapu:
morning NL please is it advisable for me to use my passport which is less than 6 months when submitting my application tho i am not the principal applicant

Beauideal:



Hi everyone.
I dont know if this is the right platform to ask this but pls I'll like to know where to notarize my documents and which documents do I notarize under spousal sponsorship application for Canada.
And I came across a question under language that says have I taken a test at the designated test agency. I wrote Toefl in English earlier do I tick yes?
Thanks.

jhoci:
When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The Lord hath done great things for them.
The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. - Psalm 126:1-3

Finally, it's PPR!!

VERY LONG POST ALERT!

IELTS – March 2018 L9 S7.5 R8.5 W7 (British Council)
ECA – Nov 2017 to 25th July 2018
ITA – 8th August 2018
AOR – 16th August 2018
MEP/BIL – 13th Sept 2018
Biometrics done – 14th Sept 2018
1st GCMS – received 23rd Nov 2018
2nd GCMS – ordered 3rd Jan and yet to receive it.
Ghost update – 23rd Jan 2019
PPR – 25th Jan 2019 (dated 24th)
Passport submission – 28th Jan 2019
VO – Ottawa
Single applicant.


Decision to relocate – I’ve never really wanted to relocate; my wish was to have enough money to travel whenever and wherever I wanted. My brother left for Canada with his family in 2015 via the old scheme and before he left, he said to me, you need to get out. He sent me links, but I never really looked at them. I kept giving excuses until we got a mail in the office about an impending retrenchment exercise, still I didn’t do anything. My job finally ended October 2017 and I traveled to my school in November to process my transcript.


IELTS – I wasn’t afraid of the exam, in fact my main motivation was to score higher than my brother (sibling rivalry things). I’m not much of a talker and I knew I stood no chance with my brother in the speaking test. I decided that I was going to beat him in the other sections and have a higher average, but it was never to be. I started with writing task 1 and it was great. As I was writing my concluding paragraph in task 2 a bell went off in my head, I had written a whole four paragraph essay on something different form the question . From a distance I heard, ten minutes more as the sweat started leaking out from my braided wig . What in the world would have made me make this type of mistake? I don’t use the cramming method when studying, so it wasn’t a case of copy and paste. I studied more about the techniques of writing IELTS and what the examiner expects, then just a few practice questions. Except the Listening test which I found exciting to practice, it felt like putting together pieces of a puzzle. Anyway, as the sound of the bells in my head calmed a bit, I looked at the question again and started writing down points to expand into paragraphs. The I remembered how long it took me to decide on a topic sentence for my introduction and saw that writing a fresh essay will be a futile effort. I settled for giving a great conclusion to the essay I had already written and hope for the best.
It was while I was doing a search about low IELTS score that I came across this thread. I then knew I had to also evaluate my master’s degree to make a good CRS point.
Study materials; IELTSLiz, Road to IELTS (BC) and I also did a free IELTS course on Edx.


ECA – I used WES. I hadn’t looked at the express entry process in detail, so I felt I could just use only my first degree. That was before the IELTS incident. Besides I have plans to continue a career with my first degree as my master’s degree is in a completely different field.
My ECA report came with a comment that the date of birth on my transcript was different form what I filled in my form. My school had increased my age by four years! The excitement of getting my ECA just died when I saw the comment. I wrote to WES via the contact form and twitter. I also faxed copies of my birth certificate, WAEC certificate, international passport and even national ID card, all showing my correct date of birth. WES replied me after one month saying my school must resend my transcript with the correct information before they can send me an updated ECA report. Thanks to the good people I spoke with who assured me that I could go ahead and use the report like that. So, while I waited for WES to respond, I had gotten ITA and submitted my application. After seeing their response, I was glad I didn’t wait a whole month to continue with the process. In my application I attached all the documents I sent to WES to prove my correct date of birth and explained the mistake.

PCC – Superintendent Moshood to the rescue.

Medicals – this was done at IOM and I requested for a copy of my result which was sent via email

POF – One good thing that came from my retrenchment was my pay off . I changed it to dollars and put in a domiciliary account, I wanted to make it less accessible to me and avoid exchange rate issues.

NOC – I spent two months trying to find a matching NOC for my last job role to no avail. I shared it on the thread but couldn’t find a code for it. Following Newmum0615’s advise I decided to use my previous job role as my primary NOC since it spanned over three years.
Visa refusals – I had two UK visa refusals which I mentioned and attached one of the rejection letters. I was concerned about this because the reason for the second refusal had to do with the VO doubting my employment details. And the same job turned out to be the one I couldn’t find a NOC for. My fear was that It would give more weight to the UK VO’s comments. So, I got a reference letter from my company even though I no longer worked there. I also wrote a LOE addressing the comments by the UK VO and attached other documents relating to the said job.

Others – After I got my first GCMS notes and saw that the issue about my date of birth was not mentioned, I felt relieved.
- I called a couple of times before November 2018, since that time I haven’t been able to reach IRCC.
- I also sent a couple of mails to Ottawa VO and they always gave the same generic response.
- I sent a mail on the 24th after the ghost update to enquire what the update was about, and I got the passport request mail the next morning
- Losing my job was the wake up call I needed. I was depressed for some months (still comes and goes) and I would lie in bed until noon. I have always been independent so losing my job was like being stripped naked, I didn’t want to go out or be seen. My younger brother called me and encouraged me to continue with the Canada immigration plan (I had already registered with WES). I will never forget his words, approach this thing like you’re escaping for your life, like someone is trying to strangle you and you must fight. My ECA took eight months to complete and anytime I would return from Unilag or call IMSU without any positive news, I would just break down and cry. I was and I’m still out of job, my savings depleting and I always have this fear of having to ask for money to sustain myself.
I can’t thank God enough for this new lease on life he has just given me. It still feels like a dream and sometimes I check my mailbox to see if the email is still there. God never disappoints and his timing is always perfect and the best. I was worried about having to renew my rent soon, and I can imagine God smiling down and saying, my daughter you too worry! Cast your cares on him and have faith (not easy but doable).
I am grateful to 40manlappy, Newmum0615, ddymples and Hakeemgp for their help and suggestions. Especially Newmum for her patience. May God grant all your heart’s desires.
I appreciate everyone on this thread for all the contributions, whether na fight, joke or information. I want to specially mention joo2018, Ifeoma77 and Tojued, you guys are great!
For everyone here who feels like there’s no hope, I went from asking God “why me?’ to proclaiming “who am I Lord!”

Just keep the faith!


And some others: I was worried about how I would tell my parents, especially my mum about my approval. My younger brother left the country first, then my older brother (she was greatly affected by that one), now her only remaining child here (plus only daughter kwa), me. I know she wants the best for us but would prefer us being in proximity to them. So, I called my mum yesterday and told her;
Mum: (shouting for joy) ehen remember you promised to take me out when you get approval. I want to go to Jevinik.
Me: Jisos! mummy I thought you’d be sad. (disappointed but relieved)
Mum: I’m sad you’ll be leaving but I know better now. This country holds no hope for you, look at how long you’ve been out of job. Go and find something new, just do my visa for me.

I am currently filling visa applications for them

juicebox:
It's PPR Guys!!!
Summary of Timeline:
26 April 2018- ITA
1 May 2018- AOR
15 May 2018- ADR to rescan PCC
15 May 2018- Med passed
Then the wait started, requested and received 2 GCMS during the wait
fast forward to today 28 Jan 2019- Ghost Update
28 Jan 2019- PPR
VO- ACCRA
Thanks everyone, the info on this thread was of immense help

Olalan:
Good evening everyone pls I need some one to put me through on all the document I need to get on ground before I start this application process. Pls i would sincerely appreciate if someone can volunteer to guide me in this process. I hope to start my application next month.

ebony9ja:
Ladies & Gentlemen, This is our PPR story !!

Profile Created on November 13, 2018.

BC: IELTS : PA ( June 2, 2018) : LRWS : 8,8,7,7
BC: Spouse( Oct 27: 2018 ) : 8,8.5,6.5,7.5 .
ITA – NOVEMBER 15. CRS: 461- CUT OFF: 449.
NOV 21, 2018 – eAOR
DEC 28, 2018 – MEP/BIL
DEC 29,2018- GHOST UPDATE
DEC 31,2018 – BIOMETRICS COMPLETED @ VFS, LAGOS.
JAN 11,2019 – RAISED A WEB FORM FOR VO STATUS
JAN 15,2019- RESPONSE TO WEBFORM QUERY
JAN 21,2019- ‘HOW TO GET A JOB IN CANADA ‘ MAIL
JAN 23, 2019 (Dated Jan 22, 2019) COPR/PPR -

Madam is the PA. I am the coordinator/chief finance officer (self assigned role).

ITA – NOVEMBER 15. CRS: 461- CUT OFF: 449.

Medical at IOM – Nov 16. (Family of 5).
Notes: Network issues at IOM on NOV 16. Wasted time but we insisted we could not come back as we are not based in Lagos .E- medical forms were not provided due to aforementioned network issues but were later sent to my email on Nov 19 (Monday).

Medical & Police report was concluded same day. We returned to base on Saturday.

APPLICATION SUBMISSION/PAYMENT – NOVEMBER 21.
AOR – NOVEMBER 21.

We didn’t enter the pool until November due to delay in Madam’s pharmacy verification by PEBC. I have earlier updated her PEBC profile with a new Canadian address to fast-track receipt of the ECA from PEBC.

We used the ECA delay to plan adequately and get all documents in place. Our medical timing is fallout of these plans.

POF: (bank account + no objection letter). I used funds from one of my bank accounts for entire POF. As the accompany spouse, I wrote letter of no objection. No transfer was done to the PA’s account and no statement of account was uploaded. However, I got the Proof of funds letter in CIC format from my bank.

WORK EXPERIENCE: My wife got the work experience letter in CIC format. As an accompany spouse, I couldn’t get my company to approve work experience letter in CIC ‘s format. I uploaded the following instead: The request letter I wrote to HR; the response letter from HR (request was denied anyway). I also included promotion letters, pay stubs. Please note I have only worked for one company since I graduated from University. My documentation was pretty concise for this reason.

LETTER OF EXPLANATION: None. I tried to keep the application as simple as possible. So I didn’t see a need to write a letter of explanation.

Travel Histories: We have multiple travel histories to all major countries including Canada. One of my children is also a US citizen.

In particular reference to Canada, I have just renewed one of my daughters Canada visit visa in June 2018 .It will expire in 2023. So I included the UCIs in our applications. I guess they will probably cancel the visit visa though.

Siblings: My brother is a Canadian citizen. We claimed the statutory 15 points.
I also have a sister who is a PR holder. I once posted a story of my sister whose application was cancelled due to non-acceptance of ICAN certificate presented by her husband. You all knew how the ‘protest’ letter sent by her husband got the decision upturned culminating in the successful approval of their application.

$2700 - N765541= 283.533/1 CAD. – GT_RATE @ NOV 21.

MEP/BCL: DEC 28,2018. We got the email notification at 9.51pm. It came with the statutory biometric letter for madam and I.
1ST ghost update: DEC 29, 9.51pm. We got email for an update in our account profile. I checked. Nothing. I told madam she has just experienced her first ‘ghost ‘ update.
Biometrics was done at VFS Lekki on December 31, 2018.

I am a member of the NOV AOR whatapp group created by ‘RAMJ’. The group is quite active with constant engagement and banters on wide range of immigration related topics. I raised our first webform on January 11, 2019 to enquire about the VO treating my case, as this was a hot topic on the platform. CIC responded to my query on JAN 15 that our file is being treated at CIO (central intake office in Sydney, Nova Scotia; ‘‘the responsible office is currently verifying if our application meets the eligibility requirement’’.

Jan 21, 2019, I received the famous ‘ How to get a job in Canada form ‘. Again, in reference to our NOV 2018 whatapp group, we have had discussion on the significance or otherwise of this particular letter to the whole Canadian immigration journey. Some reported, and rightly so, that their files were transferred to another visa office, mostly the infamous ACCRA visa office a day after receiving the letter according to their GCMC feedback.

I started writing this story on receipt of eAOR , Nov 21, 2018 . It is humbling to conclude the final chapter in Jan 23, 2019 – 63 days post AOR. We thank God.

Jan 23 at 1:00AM Nigeria time: (dated Jan 22,2019) . COPR, PPR mail

That we shall succeed is as sure as God reigns!

Bhury:
good day everyone, pls what is the first step to take on this journey.

Walegy:
Which of the two should I click. Sorry to bother you.

Cc:joo n all.

Millalorinzzz:
Hi, please I need advice
I am 23 years and single.. my fiance and I plan on getting married this year then put in for express entry.
Is it advisable we get married then do it or we just apply as singles
He has a law degree and law school certificate while I have bsc.
we both have 2years+ work experience
Pls which will fetch us more points..single or married
and do we have good chance

P.S we are taking our ielts exam very soon

Godisincontrol:
This may be useful

https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/folders/1zgomGVjmRm7S0iUxyARsw8LnU1EOofhy

joo2018:
For clarification, for the country you are currently residing in, the PCC must not be expired.

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/express-entry/apply-permanent-residence/police-certificates.html


cc: ifeoma77

ready4glory:
Good evening people, please I need your help. I'm currently uploading my post-ITA documents, and I'm having doubts concerning the document to upload for my Police Clearance Certificate. Is it the long white document with my passport, or the smaller one? Also, my PCC says the certificate is valid for 3 months, however, I did it in September, so technically, it expired in December. I have read in some posts that it's valid for six months, what do I believe?
Thanks.

Uchihasasuke19:
Good morning all.
By the special grace of God, I'll soon be a legitimate member of this group.

I discovered that it takes about 7- 12 months to formalize APEGA registration and get your PE designation.

My question is, which engineering license should one apply for with APEGA - EIT or PEng as a new immigrants.
Which of these license has a higher prospect of landing a job as a new immigrants.

Can any engineer please share his/her experience praticing in Alberta.

yahooz:
Hi guys, it's PPR!!!

Single Applicant
IELTS- December 4, 2017 LSRW(8.5,7.5,7.5,7)
ECA- June 27, 2018
CRS- 475
ITA- June 30, 2018
Upfront Medicals- August 8, 2018(Qlife)
AOR- August 9, 2018.
Medical Passed/BIL- September 13, 2018
Ghost Update- January 18, 2019
PPR- January 18, 2019, came in 1:35am today.

Proof of funds was just a Treasury Bill which I did for 45 days a day before submitting the application. I didn't submit any 6 months statement, just the certificate.

Although, I submitted the statement of account of my salary account since inception under proof of employment.

Ordered GCMS notes twice, the second one is yet to arrive.

As at 2 weeks back, only criminality had been met, eligibility and security not started, called CIC to get the info.

All in all, God be praised!!!

nitrogen:
Hi People, please if am to upgrade my WES evaluation report with a foreign degree do I need to send WAEC details to them? Kindly note that initial report was for my BSC Nigerian degree.

Godisincontrol:
#ChangesPostAOR

IRCC states very clearly in the AOR letter as follows:

Quote:
Specifically, let us know if:
• your personal circumstances change:
e.g. birth or adoption of a child, marriage, divorce, death of a spouse, etc.
• your email address, mailing address or phone number changes
• you change your immigration representative
• you want to withdraw your application
• you lose a job offer or lose a provincial or territorial nomination.

Unquote:

So this means, if you travel after your AOR, you need not inform/update IRCC. (safe travels btw)

If you have any job changes after AOR, you need not inform IRCC, but if you feel anxious about your employment verification, you can obviously update IRCC about the change in your employment using the Webform

If you decide to take on a new hobby, or if your EE profile expires, or if your PCC/IELTS/ECA expires or if your Cat has littered �, You DO NOT NEED to inform IRCC.

Let your application takes its course.

The new processing timelines are trending between 5-8months.
Medical Pass updates are coming in 45-50days.
There is no such thing as IP1-IP2 or Unicorns.
Your CIC account is only an effective tool for online documents upload, and it does not reflect your application status.

So relax, take a deep breath, sit back and help other people in their application process.

#foreverhopeful

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Teamo2:
Hey,

Pls, I need your advice on what next to do.

Back in 2014, I evaluated my credentials using WES ICAP. This year I decided to upgrade my account for ECA and I was advised to open another application but my credentials will be transferred from WES US to WES Canada.

I was not aware of the WAEC requirement until recently, but on checking my account two days ago; I realized that it's saying "Application Submitted" and "Evaluation is in progress".

Currently, I'm in the USA about completing my Ph.D. and I will really be glad if I can avoid the whole WAEC result ish...

Do you guys think I should still go ahead and send the WAEC result/Scratch card?

Attached are the screenshots of my account status.

ChinenyeT:
Its PPR!!!!!!!!!
Wow, I don join oh!
Thank you Jesus!


JULY 7th IELTS L8.5,R8.5,S7,W7.5
ECA September 26
CRS 444
ITA October 15, Monday.
AOR 0ctober 18
IP2; from AOR, not sure though
ADR November 16, Schedule A for background info.
MEP & BIL November 19
BIL submitted November 23.
Ghost update January 13
PPR January 14!

Thank you Jesus!
Receive all praise Oh Lord!

Lastruct:
#Clears throat

My PPR Story is now done, make una grab seats and enjoy with me. Meanwhile, my writing skill no dey okay like that oh, una go just help me accept am like that noni .

Okay here we go!


IELTS - 1st Feb 2018 (L8.5 R9 W6.5 S7), ordered for a remark and it came out as L8.5 R9 W7 S7.5 - I used the Cambridge books shared on this forum. Wifey did not write

ECA - 25th July 2018 (I missed ITA on this day cos ECA came out around 2:30pm). Wifey's ECA was very fast though.

ITA - 8th August 2018

AOR. - 25th September 2018

Biometric Request - 24th October, Completed 29th October

Medical Passes - 2nd Nov. 2018

PPR - 5:58am 15th January 2019

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HTGAWM:
HELP!!!!!!!!!!

1. Please, how can I delete an express entry profile which I have submitted

2. Also, I just created my profile and it states ''I am no longer eligible to apply for the express entry'' How do I resolve this??


3. My husband isn't having his cert evaluated or taking an IELTS test because our score is high without him having to do that. Hence under education, do I fill ''No post-secondary study'' and under English test, do I fill ''None''? this is to prevent them including it in his CRS score calculation

I am trying to figure out why d profile suddenly turned ineligible

Thank you guys for your anticipated response