PPRRRRRRRRRR IS HERE O
It can only be God. After 10 months and 19 days.
This is my story:
IELTS- 3 times . I passed on the 3rd attempt
ITA- Jan 18
AOR- March 25
ADR- 3 times for ECA- IRCC was not able to verify my IQAS on their own system.
On my ADR third request, I finally had to request for another copy of my
IQAS to be sent to IRCC again and I also faxed it
MEP May 1
IP2- I went to IP2 same day
No movement, I applied for GCMS note in July and got it early August. That was when I knew my visa office. Criminality for hubby was is in process since Apr 30 and had not started for me.
Eligibility and security checks had not been initiated either. In August I raised CSE to ask about my application. A summary of their response below:
We verified the information you provided and are pleased to inform you that everything appears to be in order with your application. All the required documents and information have been received by the responsible office for the moment.
September 1st week, I raised another CSE, now to London VO to ask about my file and on September 19 I got an email from Kyiv VO saying- Your file has been transferred to our office for further processing. Kindly note that files are processed based on original reception date. I was sad and happy at the same time. At least there was movement. September 25 we passed the 180 days application processing timelines.
October 24, I mailed the office of Goodale, Ralph E. - M.P. I got the mail on their official website. I just googled. I did this because I have read on various platforms that they mail him blah blah. Anyway, I just said to myself it is worth a try. At least he will tell me something and it will let me know whether there was any movement on my file. I didn’t say in my mail where my visa office was so that I could confirm that his office actually checked it. That same day, they replied and I got the same information/ status on my GCMS note. My file had not been touched. The only difference was that he mentioned that my file was in Kyiv.
Two days after I got the 2 Do Not Reply email in my account in the morning. I thought it was the same mail so I opened the recent one – It was an ADR for Updated financial documents. The letter says I should disregard the letter for passport request that the correct one was an additional document required. I was still trying to understand whether they sent a PPR mail and I didn’t see it. Then after few seconds, I got another mail from my visa office in Kyiv – Please find attached the letter concerning your application for permanent residence in Canada. This is the correct letter which was sent to you via My CIC account as well.
It was the next day I realise that the 1st mail was a letter saying my visa was ready to be issued.
Quickly, we got right into work to get our documents. On October 30, we uploaded.
We waited and waited and waited
January -3rd GCMS note
Eligibility passed.
Criminality still in progress for Spouse
Part of Updated financial document was verified with Pension Company.
February 7
Added to POF (statement from another account) because we thought they might have a problem with the buffer from the pension (N500,000)
Today at 3.10pm, it was the correct PPR mail. .
Truly the journey was not easy but God made it come true.
Sorry for all the typos. Abeg I am too excited
For everyone waiting at one stage or the other, God will make your dream come true, AMEN!! 115 Likes 3 Shares |
Wow. Congratulations. I am so happy for you. Please which visa office are you? olajide21:
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER……………. (MY EXPEREINCE)
Alhamdullilah; its PPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! To Allah belongs all praise!
Say He is Allah; The One,
Allah; The Eternal,
Allah begets none and was never begotten,
We; the entire universe and what is within it need Him, while He in His majesty needs no one!
He is The First without a beginning and He shall be The Last without an End; The Inheritor of all.
The Creator of All and The One who appoints everything in its appropriate time, I am full of gratitude for your Rahma.
I testify that there is indeed NO deity worthy of being worshiped except Allah and that Mohammad is His last and Final Messenger to all Mankind. May Peace Be Upon the Prophet of Allah; Mohammad, his household, his companions and all those follow his teachings and ways till the end of time.
AS TO WHAT FOLLOWS......................................... IT'S MY TIME!!! VETERAN'S TIME TO PICK UP THE MIC!!!
HELLO, PEEPS GATHER AROUND, PAY UNDIVIDED ATTENTION!... The Time has come!
Alhamdullilah for the time has come and PPR is here! It took a while, probably one of the longest ever posted on this thread but not the longest application, even in the slightest of thoughts. Most delayed applicants would rather receive their belated PPR and move on. No excitement, but I decided to do otherwise as in time, we are all same. Hopefully, my post would give strength to the weak and hope to the one who is almost losing it. We are quick to express frustration and disappointments if our timelines aren’t aligning with our plans/dreams, we need to learn to keep calm as The One who is greater than everything else is in charge. We should learn to be thankful and appreciate every opportunity God gives us. We should realize that for some reasons some can’t even apply for the Canadian FSW EE program. That being said, let me take through my Journey to PPR. It took 12 months, 0 Week, 6days, to get to this stage. I am still filled with gratitude that it came. So whatever stage/level you are in the process, be calm and let God lead.
HOW IT ALL STARTED
Leaving abroad was never part of my plans. I remember being confident of my life in Lagos and telling myself I would never trade life in Lag to a life anywhere else in the country. I love the hustle and bustle, the noise of Eko Idumota, Eko Idumota, Apongbon! from my bedroom in Surulere. I moved to Abuja and everything changed. Less noise, ease of hustling, neat street (way back late 90s and early 2000s) and above all peaceful leaving. Since then, I can count how many days I have stayed in Lag. I was comfortable leaving in Abj, no real interest in leaving anywhere else in the world.
In 2012, had the opportunity to travel to Germany, Luxembourg, France and Austria (Project trip) all in 7days. This trip changed everything else. The serenity of life I felt in my short stay in these countries changed a whole lot. I returned to Nigeria with thoughts of going back to Europe (relocate) with my family. Wifey did not show particular interest until she travelled to Egypt same year thereafter, both of us wanted to leave. HOW and WHERE became our major hurdle. We kept the plan on the shelve never to be forgotten though.
AND DAVID COHEN CAME ALONG!
In 2013, I stumbled on David through my seldom search online on how to leave the country. He got my details and we spoke on telephone few times (I still have his telephone number sha). Unfortunately, he informed me that he would not be able to help at that time unless I am willing to go through school route, he also promised to get back when things change. We moved on.
Fast track 2015, I had the chance by the mercies of God to visit Dubai, UAE to attend the BIG 5 Exhibition. My dream of relocating outside Nigeria was immediately rekindled. In fact, I began applying for Architectural jobs in Dubai before I left. I spent a total of 6-7days in Dubai and returned to the country after completing my assignment without landing a Job. I got back home and narrated to Wifey how beautify Dubai is and together we dusted our relocation plan and started researching on WHERE and HOW again. At this time Canadian Express Entry has started but I did not give it any reasonable thought as I thought the process would be too difficult to overcome. At this time Zandora, Dupyshoo were the go-to person on the part one of the EE thread. Wifey’s friend who leaves in Canada out of no where just contacted her to ask if she was interested to migrate to Canada to which she answered in affirmative, this was in December, 2015 (Coincidence?). Mid 2016 i had another opportunity to travel to Turkey (Istanbul and Kayseri) for about 10days on project trip. I returned to Nigeria and again my interest to relocate outside the country became fresh, at this time I was more determined than ever. We began to look at the Australian thread and the Canadian thread closely. Late 2016, my younger brother told me he has already started the process and probably in the Canadian EE pool. He got ITA sometime in February 2017. We started our process in March 2017 with our ECA from FUT Minna and LAUTECH.
ECA: WES/LAUTECH/FUTMX
Our Qualifications:
Wifey (B.Tech and MBA), Schools (FUT MX + LAUTECH)
Mine (B.Tech and M.Tech). Schools (FUT MX + FUT MX)
Our plan was to make Wifey the PA for obvious reasons but LAUTECH refused to cooperate. The school collected my money for transcript but never sent anything to WES, consequently we settled for myself as the PA. Alhamdullilah, as the PA, we landed a CRS of 433!
We started ECA in March 2017 and Finalized in June 2017. Alhamdullilah!
IELTS
Dear Wifey and myself sat for the exams on August 19th 2017 and we passed it once, Alhamdullilah. The cost of the exams was around 62k per person. I hustle for the money and God blessed my hustle and 124k for the exams came through a commission I was about to get. In my account was about 50k or so then. I was aware I needed over 7m for family of 5 as PoF as at 2017, but kept faith with The One who never disappoints. Exam came and we passed!. Alhamdulillah.
My result LSRW: 8.0,7.5,7,7.5
Wifey’s LSRW: 9.0,7.5,8.5,7.5
THE POOL AND ITA
We entered the EE pool on the 5th of September, 2017 and got ITA on the 20th of September, 2017 with a CRS of 433. When God be for you, wetin fit be against you…… nada!!!! The Cumulative Ranking Score has not gone that low since our round till date! We got ITA and the real hustle began! To even think I toyed with the idea of rejecting the ITA at some point.
PoF hustle and its struggle
As at ITA, my account balance was about 50K (home and abroad). But as Allah would have it, I got 3 interesting projects whose payment begin to come in shortly after ITA. If ITA has come earlier, there wouldn’t have been PoF. so these three projects came, sold one of ours cars, borrowed small here and there and we got over the required PoF. The next question was how do lodge this money in my zenith bank account without issues of six months average balance and lump sum deposit. Well, we did what we can and God came to our rescue. Something miraculous happened, our bank letter came out “over perfect”.
AoR
We submitted our application on the 13th of December, 2017 a week before expiration of our 90days. We submitted with high hopes that our application would be processed in Ottawa so that PPR would come in record time. Well, our prayers were accepted and Ottawa did what they had to do.
The wait BEGINS……..
The first contact post AoR came through Med Passed on the 21st of December, 2017 (IP 1). Morale became very high and we were hopeful of an early completion of our application. We got NA2 on the 3rd of January, 2017 and I remember telling DW that come April 2018, I am out of Nigeria (No time to wait). IP2 came on the 23rd of January, 2018 with ADR for 6months pay slips. IP2 means PPR is knocking at the door, right? Well, that wasn’t the case here.
Security Screening (What did I do? Wetin be my offence?)
As PPR no show, we began to have an impression that something might be wrong somewhere. My first thought was my Bank letter. We joined numerous whatsapp groups, Telegram, canadavisa.com, etc. We began to hear about the possibility of us being under Extended Security Screening. We watched closely and got idea of how long it could take but then we thought our case would be different.
GCMS, CBSA, CSIS, RALPGH GOODALE, CSE, E-MAIL etc
In February 2018, we decided to order our first GCMS to see whats up. It came a month later and a whole full page was redacted!!!!!...... That was a key pointer for SS applicants. We begin to accept our faith and keep everything in the hands of God. We ordered CBSA and CSIS, while CSIS came a month later, CBSA came 90days later!. They confirmed our fears. Anyway, we still kept faith.
February – no contact from IRCC
March – No contact
April – No contact
May – No contact
June – No contact
July – No Contact (At this stage, I exited all groups except 1)
August – No Contact
September – No Contact
October – No Contact
November………………………………………………………………………………. It brought hopes and we got the first ADR on the 16th of November, 2018 for additional family information. We knew at this stage that the extended SS was over and done with. We submitted the ADR on the 20th of November and received ADR for Re-Meds on the 21st of Nov. The Re-Meds was done on the 27th and transmitted to CIC on the 29th of November. Day 1, Day 2, 3,4,5…… Week 1, Week 2 no med passed. Called CIC and it wasn’t successful (progress bar period). I decided to go to the med centre (Name withheld) to ask what the issues were. The assured me that everything was fine and our e-med tracking sheets have been forwarded to IRCC and that is it from their side. Tried CIC the following day and thank God I got through. The lady told me that the Med centre did not upload my DD’s tracking sheet and that is why they couldn’t act on our submission. I returned same day to the Med centre to inform them of my latest findings. The doctor scan through the system and did few abracadabra and told me again that no issues from them. Oga fun gbo gbo yi ooooo; (na wa for all of una). I called CIC again, and this time the agent told me that my DD’s sheet just got updated, seems the abracadabra the doc was doing before talking to me was a quick update of the sheet. Anyway, to God belongs all praises. We passed the med the following day after almost 3weeks.
Now that Med is passed, where is my PPR?
At this point, I began to race against time. If PPR is not issued by the end of last week, they could as well keep it till February 2019 (if you know, you know). On the 18th of December, 5 days after 1 year post AoR, I called CIC and very very courteous agent picked up. I told her that I need PPR without further delay, I explained my situations to her, she went through my application and came back to tell me that there is nothing she can do other than for us to wait it OUT!!! Chai, chai, chai. I resolved to faith and also hope that if Allah wills, PPR fit still come. I went to bed tired, woke up about 3am to pray. Somehow (In the moning), one of my kids said something about Canada and I decided to check my mail at that point………. Behold it was my PPR mail sitting in my box since 3am. My schedule for that day automatically changed. We took our passport at the Lugbe Shop rite and submitted in VFS in silverbird in CBD, Abuja. Praying for speedy CoPR.
The Summary of my Application:
AOR: 13th December, 2017
IP1: 21/12/2017
NA2: 3/01/2018
IP2 + ADR: 23/01/2018 (was a little happy that i was close to PPR here)
SS started: 24/01/2018
January – October (Ordered GCMS, CSIS, mailed Goodale, mailed Ottawa, raised CSE etc till I got tired)
November 16th – ADR for Additional Family Information
November 21st – Re – Meds
December 14th 2018 – Re Med passed
December 19th - PPR
Alhamdullilah that it ended well.
And to my man @issyman, not everyone can endure what you have on this journey. While most of us would have abandoned the whole process, you still remained strong in the face of the trials. Please be strong brother and keep your eyes on the goal.
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