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Happy new year fam. May God grant us all our heart desires this year. I declare an avalanche of pprs in 2019 on this thread by Gods grace. It will end in praise..x

SkyWalk12:
I know right!!! Both of you are prophets! @smslive2 Thank you!

Wow. I literally had to go back to look for this conversation.
After you shared your story smslive2 shared "If i were you, i will start looking for tickets cos if PPR did not drop this week, you will get it within 2 weeks"
and you responded "You underestimate the Accra visa office. Ralph told me my assessments were passed on September 18. This is November 8 and nothing has happened. Then they told me today that I should wait till early next year".
He responded "rather you are underestimating what God can do"and then you responded "Mehn I love your energy. Thank you. I won’t underestimate God!"...This was Nov 8 and then bam Dec 11, PPR came. Look at God.

I stand amazed in your presence God for there is nothing you can't do. After all the tears, anxiety and worry going through different phases of emotion. Chai
Such a huge lesson on trusting God and leaning not on your understanding. I'm so happy for you.

SkyWalk12:
Guess who got her PPR? Izzz meeeeeeee. God has freed me from Accra visa office!!! Story
loading tomorrow after I drop passport.

OMG!!!!!YASSSSS Girl! Thank you God for this testimony.
I remember telling u to be expectant and give thanks daily because it is on its way. I also vividly remember smslive telling you to pack your stuff. OMG!!!
Praise God who causes all things to work in our favour. It has indeed ended in praise. God is good
Congrats hun...x

Hi @SkyWalk12. Thank you for sharing your experience. You've shared a painful experience that some probably have gone through and reasons best known to them did not share but you have in bravery and courage so others can learn from it and I admire you for that. Everything will turn out fine. I think you've crossed the worst hurdle. Be expectant and give thanks daily because it is on its way...x

TEECANN:
I WOKE UP TO THE GOLDEN MAIL TODAY (20th NOVEMBER, 2018)!!! GOD BE PRAISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSED!!!!

NOTE: THIS IS MORE THAN A LONG POST- IT IS AN E-HANDOUT FOR YOUR READING PLEASURE
If you are not a friend of “PAGE 1”, don’t bother, just side-step it and waka pass- Just kidding
Kindly don't quote the full post as we want to reduce the speed at which Part 6 is throttling!

IMMIGRATION JOURNEY HIGHLIGHT

PHASE 1- IELTS (BC)- LRSW- 7.5, 8, 7.5, 7 (Sept. 30, 2017)- It ended in praise!

PHASE 2- WES ECA- Master’s degree equivalency (Nov 2017)- It ended in praise!

PHASE 3- IELTS (BC)- LRSW- 8, 8.5, 7, 7 (May 4, 2018)- It ended in praise!

PHASE 4- IELTS (IDP)- LRSW- 8, 8, 7, 6.5 (May 25, 2018)- It ended in praise! (Though I never used the result)

PHASE 5- ITA (FSW)- CRS 441 (May 23, 2018) (Draw cutoff was 440)- It ended in praise!

PHASE 6- AOR- (July 25, 2018) It ended in praise!

PHASE 7- IP 1/MEDICALS PASSED (August 15, 2018) It ended in praise!

PHASE 8- IP 2 (Oct 3, 2018) It ended in praise!

PHASE 9- PPR (Nov 20, 2018) It ended in praise!

VISA OFFICE: CPC-OTTAWA

ADR: NONE

FAMILY SIZE - 5



I want to first of all THANK GOD, for this journey thus far as He has given me and my family many praise endings on this journey!!

It all started late 2016 during my annual leave. The leave afforded me the time to think deeply about my life and future and that of my young family in this country and I concluded I have to move if for nothing but for the sake of my kids.

I started out with the Canadian Study route (whilst I thought [at the time] that the Express Entry route was a long thing and difficult to achieve) God bless friends that I spoke with who encouraged me to give Federal Skilled Workers Class [FWS] a try.
(In retrospect, to imagine that the 3 schools that I applied to rejected my applications...Don't even let me talk about what I have spent hustling that route....God would have been looking at me and be like "yinmu" at me)

I and wifey wrote our first IELTS with almost similar scores...but we couldn’t use the score to climb into the 440s CRS range)- I got bad advice that I shouldn't waste money re-writing IELTS, that I should just pack into a PNP and coast to nomination for an eventual sure ITA- I did and till tomorrow, I didn’t know what made me take that advice (Don’t even let me talk of how much I have spent [and obviously wasted] on this PNP hustle talk less of bad advice that I recieved to cut some corners that would have marred my Canadian dreams ultimately by now). Thank God I didn’t heed the advice and faced re-taking my IELTS.

In Oct, 2017, I submitted an application to SINP. As at Dec 2017, I hadn’t received provincial nomination, little did I know that I was setting myself up for frustration and delay...unending test of patience for months...(You guys here on FSW can never understand what folks on the PNP route go through just to get the same ITA that we celebrate here on a regular) Here, many are even yet to understand the acronym- MEP- and before you say Jack Robi...., its PPR for them!
Frustration and lack of movement on my PNP application made me resit the IELTS and God did it enough for us to climb to 441!! (I can never forget friends here who advised against procuring an EOR for that IELTS as I had proposed to do so as to have a higher CRS than 441, they said that the score will drop and that I should wait it out…days after their advises, it did drop and I clinched an ITA on May 23, 2018)
I promptly withdrew my SINP application and bid the provincial program farewell for good. They acknowledged my intention to withdraw with a formal letter of withdrawal.

Yet again, another hiccup; My first EE profile of October 20th, 2017 became ineligible on the April 30, 2018, I missed ITA of May 9, 2018 though I had enough CRS points but because of the tie breaking rule pegged at Dec 2017, I couldn't clinch one then (as my new profile of May 1, 2018 didn't qualify- it was painful)

We did medicals in Qlife and it went smoothly. No issues. We passed medicals 3 weeks post-AOR.

We uploaded Schedule A form as part of our e-APR documents. CIC didn’t ask for it but because myself and wifey had some UK tourist visa refusals between us, we thought to note it in a Schedule A instead of being distracted with an ADR that may come later.


THINGS TO NOTE FROM OUR GCMS NOTE:

1. POF: I submitted GTbank letter in CIC format capturing my current and savings accounts balances and the fixed deposit that I have with the bank.
I also submitted the Fixed Deposit Investment letter from GTbank and letter from Stanbic IBTC pensions with my Pensions Statement of Account with a LOE stating that I have 25% available to me 4 months post resignation.

Case Officer noted all that I submitted including the 25% of pensions balance and converted naira to CAD and recommended POF criterion MET.
NOTE: 25% of my pension total sum was about about 60% of our POF, it was not a POF buffer in our case, it was a large chunk of our POF and it was passed.

2. CHANGE OF WIFE’S SURNAME POST-AOR: We got another passport for wifey though her maiden name passport was still very much beyond 6 months validity but we wanted her CoPR and PR Card to have a uniform surname as the rest of the crew. So after AOR, we applied for a new passport for change of name at Ikoyi, the passport came out after 4 weeks later and I raised a CSE for it. The name change reflected 48 hours later in my profile and the changed surname also reflected in our GCMS note.


I thank God because it was a generally smooth and issues-free application that took a total of 117 days post AOR.

I came here, I saw, I learnt and I made friends…too many friends to start mentioning you one by one, those that I have met one on one, those that I have built affinities with here and even those that don’t know me but are generally men and women of goodwill who always wish me and my family well...I thank you all for your encouragement, support and faith keeping.

Permit to specially recognize MAY 23RD ITA CLINCHERS (whatever time you submitted)…you guys made the wait fun, this is not the time to loose hope, infact everything is still on course and the eagle is getting nearer home with the golden mail; we shall all celebrate your PPRs before Christmas BGG!

** My heart goes out to those who are yet to clinch the ITA especially those on the border line of 435-439, and those awaiting PPRs, you know how we do na- keep the faith up, do all you have to do to improve the CRS legitimately because one thing is certain, iyanu ma sele soon and it will definitely end in praise IJN!


All that end well is that that end in praise!

Congratulations. God be praised. I will never forget how you came to my rescue with the Nigerian PCC length challenge I had saga. While others were condescending, you took time out to respond with a detailed & explicit way to scan it. May you & your loved ones always find help in your time of need. Enjoy Canada. God bless you...x

DBJay:
A not so silent reader here (Had to get a new moniker to avoid the village people in my office)

MY PPR STORY

Started the journey in may 2018 when a friend told me to give it a shot.

Registered immediately for IELTS & WES Evaluation, then went straight to page 1 of part 4 to digest all the info relevant to this journey.

June 2 IELTS
July 27 ECA
August 8 ITA
August 23 AOR
September 20 MEP/BIL
November 14th PPR (Didn't see it until yesterday 'cos my phone was bad)

I'm been amazed at the ease of my application & I owe a debt of gratitude to everyone who has walked this journey before me and were thoughtful enough to share their experiences on this thread. May God bless & reward you all.

This journey has been a breeze and the only hiccup I almost had was when I woke up late on the day of my tests (story for another day).

The last two years of my life have been traumatizing on a personal and professional level and I see this as God's way of giving me a new beginning and a fresh start which I'm grabbing with both hands.

For everyone here going through stuff you can't talk about, your testimony is just around the corner. Don't give up! It will end in praise.

And in the words of one of my favorite monikers here (una plenty o)...

Je m'appelle PPR!!!

Congrats. This is amazing. We have similar timelines right from IELTS to AOR.
I can definitely relate to "The last two years of my life have been traumatizing on a personal and professional level and I see this as God's way of giving me a new beginning and a fresh start which I'm grabbing with both hands.".... Thank God for this new opportunity for a fresh start and reinvention. God bless you...x

survivor1986:
Ok. I’m sorry about telling the world I cheated. Will tearing my test report form make you happy? I can do that if you really want, and re-write the exam to get even better score.

Kai. Nigerians.
Bro! You’ve been called out on your cheating that is absolutely wrong.
Modify your post, apologise & move on. No need for this grandstanding please.

Fyorgyn:
It's

PART 6

Lmao. I was already excited.

Thanks guys @ Popsicle, CanadianNaija, Chandler bing & Ifeoma 77. Clearly, im not alone. Thanks for sharing

Hopefully we all get our PPRs in this thread. Booking our space. Lol.

We will all testify...It will end in praise...Bleep

My fellow AOR 24 August people, how market?
@popscicle
@Jumziebabyy
@HR girl
@CanadianNaija
@Chandlerbing
@Chrisjordan2015
How are you guys keeping sane cos I'm beginning to loose it and it's barely 3 months. I thought I could move on with life and be occupied with work, life & my MAP but recently I'm going nuts . My anxiety is in overdrive and I honestly don't want to be a worry wart over something I cant control. Sigh

cutieplum:
A very silent reader with a testimony; not PPR though.
I honestly want to thank God for his faithfulness in my family's life today. It's really true that when your hour of decoration is very close, the devil will try in diverse ways to cut your joy. I've been on this journey for years, don't even want to go into those intricate details till my full announcement is complete. For sure I'd give our PPR Professor a run for his money. So this morning, at about 4am, while we were still asleep my husband suddenly woke up and opened the window, and behold all we saw was a reflection of an inferno from the Generator house! Immediately we started hearing Neighbour's exclaiming 'Fire! Fire oooo!!!' As I looked out of my window, behold the whole generator house was in thick flames. I froze at the sight and my husband raced downstairs with his nephew with a full pack of detergent and buckets to get water downstairs. When the fire was eventually put off, it was traced to the 'I beta pass my generator' that we had bought last year to save us the cost of fuelling our big generator which was rather too expensive to use all night while we slept. Moreso, this was one out of the austerity measures we had taken in the orhustle to secure POF. To make matters worse, the generator that caused this incident was on till about 4am as I recall that was the time that the light went off in my house, but it was shortly after that we started hearing the screams from Neighbours. So it then implies that this ill-fated generator was giving light to my house while it was burning! I still can't comprehend this even as I write this. We did loose our big generator and 2 others belonging to my neighbours. I'm I sad? Yes I am cos my hubby's mood at home nor be here! This is so not the time to acquire properties as we have even earmarked the ones we have for sale as soon as we get our PPR by God's grace. Will I continue to grieve? NO, God forbid that! No life was lost and God knows why this is coming now. I still don't know my fate with my neighbour's whose generators were burnt beyond recognition as I speak. But what I know is that this country has so failed it's citizens. Imagine me paying 13k monthly for NEPA and still have to worry about generating my own light, and yet some folks still try to argue Canada versus Naija. It is well o! I've prayed to God and told Him to use today's incident as a catalyst to grant us a speedy PPR in no distant time and I know IT IS DONE.I honestly do feel better now. Sorry guys for this long epistle, it wasn't the initial plan. I may not be able to reply comments ASAP as my phone battery is almost out too. 'There's no hope of getting a new generator' is the stern warning I keep getting from hubby. *sighs* see you all at 7pm when NEPA would give me light to charge my phone.
It will surely end in praise!

Thank God for this testimony. Thank God that you are alive to share and no live was lost. It is well. It will truly end in praise

melaninpopping:
Praise God with me!

Decision 10 Dec 2017
Registered for ielts and ECA same day (10 Dec 2017)
IELTS BC 20 January 2018
ECA February 2018
CRS 449
ITA 21 February 2018
New baby March 2018
AOR 21 April 2018
Mep/IP1 28 April 2018
Silence.............
IP2&PPR 5 October 2018
New passport for son 10 October 2018
Passports submitted 12 October 2018
Application approved October 2018
COPR 8 November 2018

VO Kiev
No ADRs
Family of six
POF cash in regular savings

Congrats. I remember your post on doing things to occupy & keep one’s sanity while waiting. Enjoy Canada..x

SkyWalk12:
First off, I am girl. Lol

The interview was extremely difficult. I plan to write in detail about it cos I don’t think we have a wealth of information on interviews here. (But I can see why we don’t. It was harrowing and I don’t really want to discuss it in detail- at least till my PPR comes). Major issue identified was that she didn’t believe I had actually worked as a psychologist during my NYSC, she said I could have been a receptionist. Regardless of my BSc and MSc in Psychology from two goo Unis in the U.K., my reference letter and bank statements showing salary payments. I sha tried to convince her.

If Ralph said all my assessments were passed, do I still have something to worry about?

Hello love. Chin up and hang in there. You are def gonna come back here with good news. You’ve come this far. If Ralph says all assessments are passed, imo i dont think you should be worried about anything else besides the final decision. Keep being positive & optimistic...x

aworldcitizen:
Praise to the Lord the Almighty the king of creation!
Gather round people, it's PPR!

Below is my timeline
Decision to travel August 2017.
Family of 5
Visa office: initially London, moved to kyiv in August.
IELTS: September 2017.
My IELTS was written once and was perfect 9,8,8,8.
Spouse IELTS 7.5,7.5,7,7
ECA: Masters Nov 2017
Entered the pool Dec.
ITA January
AOR January 17th 2018
Medical Passed Feb 11th 2018
IP1 Feb 12th 2018
IP2 Feb 27th 2018
Then silence. Not even a single ADR.
Ordered 1st GCMS notes April 2018 everything looked perfect.
Then complete silence.
Ordered 2nd GCMS notes July 2018, this never arrived
Wrote Raplh who confirmed Eligibility and Security not yet started.
More silence, not even a ghost update
October 3rd 2018 ordered 3rd set of GCMS notes. Arrived Nov. 1st. Still same as April notes. My file had not been touched since March 2018. Eligibility and Security not yet started.
Wrote a 3rd mail to Ralph on Nov 4th who was gracious enough to respond (Ralph responds only once). He confirmed that my eligibility and security was not yet started and my application cannot be expedited.
Nov 8th, like a dream ! my PPR!

Checked email and profile this morning and saw nothing.

By 2pm during my lunch break, I saw a mail notification, I wanted to ignore but decided to check.

I saw a mail from donotreply@cic.gc.ca that I have an update on my profile. I was excited, that finally I am getting a ghost update / adr.

I logged into my cic acct and saw my profile was updated. I was so excited,thinking it was just a ghost update and that finally my file was receiving attention. I wanted to log out but I felt the nudge to proceed and click on view complete application which I did.

Nothing seemed to have changed, my background check was still in process, I was about to log out again, when I felt that urge to scroll further down to the mail section.

I saw I had a new mail, titled request letter. I already concluded that it was an ADR for fresh bank statement. Love and behold, it was the almighty PPR.

I wasn't expecting it to come without an ADR for updated POF since my application had been pending for almost 10months. I lost appetite immediately, and was was just screaming. I couldn't share the news with my colleagues, so I just lied to them that my husband got a new job!�.

I am immensely grateful to God Almighty who did not put me to shame. Delay is not denial. Though it tarries, it must surely come.

Thank you all for all the love and support.

Off to take my pictures and submit tomorrow.

This year has been so challenging. hubby and I lost our jobs, all our money tied at POF, we were feeding from Hand to mouth and struggled to pay school fees. Infact this September, we had to change their schools to a very cheap school.

God bless you all.

Then sings my soul, my saviour God to thee. How great thou art.
“For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.“
OMG!!! Im excited on your behalf. I was gonna respond to your message this morning telling you to hang on but got carried away with work saying just an Amen to Tojued’s prayers only to log on later on this evening & seeing this. Woohoo. Thank you
Thank you for sharing your story. This is super inspirational and will enable others forge on. God bless you & yours’...x

OMG!!! Congrats to everyone who got their pprs. The vibe on the thread is so positive. You guys are all inspiring

CanadianNaija:
Just got back from a planning for Canada session held today somewhere at Ikeja. Guys make sure you register and attend this, I promise that the amount of research you have done doesn’t make up for the quality of information you get there.

I was just sad when I saw that a country that one haven’t landed in can organize orientation programs, pay for hall rental with feeding inclusive, employ staff and pay flight for them to travel city to city to enlighten people of their options before they land (All free of charge).
The government of Canada is doing this for people that are not even their citizens, trying as much as possible to ensure that you succeed, yet I can’t list one tangible thing that Nigeria has done for me.

Also I have to state that hopefully some people won’t carry their Nigerian bad character for flaunting rules to Canada.
One guy in my session kept talking fondly of laws he broke knowingly though he wasn’t caught, when he traveled there recently for child birth.

What I was saddened by the most was how he alluded it to Nigerian sharpness, this same sharpness, and apparent disregard for authority by lots of individuals, that has kept Nigeria in it’s current state.

It’s well.

Yeah. It was a super enlightening session and i really felt like i’m heading somewhere im wanted & needed. Cant say the same for dear old Nigeria. Guys, If you get a chance to, please ensure you attend the Planning for Canada session. Tons of information will be shared almost to the point of being overwhelming

clock89:
My timeline for reference;
AOR- Aug 2
Fake IP2 - Aug 2
MEP/Biometrics - Aug 27
Biometrics Completed - Aug 28
IP1/RPRF Request/How to get a Job.. - Sep 27
RPRF paid - Sep 27
ADR changed to Not applicable - Sep 28

Real IP2 - ??

Lmao @ fake & real IP2

Kods1900:
Hello Guys,

Please any idea what time Children Practice commences medicals daily?

8:00am

raphrulz:
Sometimes I just wish people could give an update on their timelines intermittently.. and not until PPR comes. Just to encourage new peeps. Would have been great though.

Ok. In the spirit of sharing timelines before receiving PPR, here goes mine

Invitation to Apply (ITA) received: Aug 8
Acknowledgement of Receipt (AOR): Aug 24
Medicals Passed (MEP)/Biometrics Instruction Letter (BIL): Sep 18
Moved to IP2(Background check is in progress): Sep 18
Biometrics Updated: Sep 25 (Did on the 25th and it was updated a few hours after)
IPI (Your application is in progress)/Notification on how to find a job: Oct 2

I hope this helps someone.

HRgirl:
Jumziebabyy please i still didnt get to be added on that WhatsApp group for august aor people..make una add me na so i can be getting updates..you know we are same day things..

I've reached out to you on Whatsapp before. I got your number on here and messaged you but there was no response.

ChandlerBing:
I got the mail when I created my EE profile and when I received ITA. I'm still currently in IP2.

The whole process is totally unpredictable. I guess we should all just occupy our minds with other things and not worry unnecessarily. God's got it.

ChandlerBing:
Right now I'm on what was formally known as IP2. Have been since AOR. Of course medical passed and no ADR or interview.
We are processing your background check. We will contact you if we need more information.

Hi. I know I, JumzieeBabyy & you have the same AOR (Aug 24). Did you get the how to get a job mail in Canada? JumzieeBabyy & i actually have been moved to IP1 again. The whole process is all so weird now

Eddy4400:
I'm still stunned guys!!

Exactly 5weeks and #46,124 later, my writing was upgraded to 7.5. Now left with POF. Yasssss!

@Utonne u dont know this, but ur post on re-mark gave me the courage to apply. Thanks

Awww. You are most welcome. Thankful for this thread. The idea to request for an EOR came from here. Would never have been aware if i didnt stumble on the thread. All the best with the rest of your journey.

JumzieBabyy:
Awwh I picked in November! When will I get to meet you na? Same way we missed ourselves at VFS for biometrics

Lol. Dont worry we will meet in Canada

Supergirl1:
Jumzie what document did you use? I sent my ITA, BIL, RPRF request and receipt of payment. They just replied to ask for my PPR.

This is weird. I used my ITA only. Maybe that’s their new way of doing things. Sigh

JumzieBabyy:
Heyyy!! Utonne!

Got the how to find a job notification too yesterday. Let's start praying to pack too

Did you get a date yet for the planning to canada session? Finally got a response from them to pick a preferred date from a range.

Yes i did. October 16. Fingers crossed o

JumzieBabyy:
So got a notification now that my account has been updated.

The background check changed to : your application is in progress

Is this still ip2? Or ip3 or what now pls? Find attached pls

Cc: ifeoma77

Got the same mail yesterday. And then back to IP1. Let’s just hope we’re a step closer to PPR cos someone in the Aug group chat received his how to find a job mail on 27 sep n moved to IP2 and got PPR on Oct 2

Osaze007:
My people how every I got a full time role in Edmonton so I’m moving there

Wow. This is so inspiring. I remember how you were such a worry wart on the thread. And look at you now. Amazing. Thanks for always coming back to update us. Gives some of us hope. Congrats and all the best in your new job & life in Edmonton

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

Congratulations. This is amazing news. This was super fast

JumzieBabyy:
Oh boy! Am here too..was just about coming here to rant and saw your post. Aswear it's best to get out of this country! Nothing works! This is my third time here. Yesterday, was here all day and guess what? They claim their 'Network' was down all through!!! Today, the queue is so long still only two counters functioning. It's so disheartening.

Just imagine. After paying $85. I made up my mind after yesterday to have it done next week cos i imagined the backlog of the previous day will create some craziness. Pheww. Hope you sha got yours done today

CanadianNaija:
For biometric enrollment, if you’re like me that’s working, please don’t go from work thinking you will be done in an hour. I left from work, to meet my 12pm appointment thinking it won’t take more than an hour as I was told.

I had to leave and return to the office because my number is 196, and as at when I was leaving they just called 140 to the counter. They don’t have lots of people capturing, and then I will have had to wait or same number of people called before me to capture before it got to my turn.

So my advice, please take a day off from work, don’t assume it’s something you’ll breeze in and get done with.

The anger in my heart eh, the money I spent on cab now to and fro wasted.

Lol. Your experience was better than mine. I was there yesterday for an 8am appointment and up till when i left at 1pm, their network was down. My entire day was wasted achieving nothing. I literally had to race back to the office. You probably ran into the backlog of us from yesterday and thats why there were so many people. It is well

Congrats to everyone who got PPR.
Today wasnt a good day for Biometrics. Got to VFS Lekki for an 8:00 scheduled appointment today and the network was down. Nothing could be done except collection. I spent the entire morning up until 1pm and the network still wasnt up. Sigh.
Hopefully it gets sorted tomorrow