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Crummy:
congratulations sir, when did you marry your wife and did you go to Canada spouse unaccompanied?

I applied as single applicant, so I had to come back to Nigeria for my my court wedding months after.

This is my Testimony…It can only be God


Timeline (6 months post AOR)
CIC created – 20th March 2018
IELTS 5 attempt: LRWS – 8.0,7,7.5,8.5
ECA: WES -BSC and Masters
Score: 464
ITA: 5th September 2018
AOR: 15th October 2018
Biometrics: 14 November 2019
MEP: 9 January 2019
PPR: 10 April 2019
COPR: 25 April 2019
Landed in Canada: 11 June 2019
First Job- 12th August 2019
VO: Ottawa
Single Applicant.

I began to take the Canada hustle serious when senior colleague I really ire immigrated to Australia and Canada.

So, I had to do IELTS and WES simultaneously, ed for WES and I paid the prescribed fee which was to cover both my B.Sc from LASU and Masters from Unilag - I discovered the difference in fee between doing just B,Sc evaluation and both B.Sc and Masters is considerably low- I needed to establish in both schools to make the process easy, WES took about 3 months and finally concluded on 30 October, 2017. IELTS ridiculed me for my ignorance and lack of time as a banking professional, I think I wrote this exam about five 5 times, 2 of the times I missed the speaking test and finally here was my LRWS (8, 7, 7.5,8.5), armed with both WES and IELTS I applied and got my ITA on 5th September 2018


Am a bit meticulous, so I had gathered my initial documents even before acing my IELTS, documents gathering was straight forward as I was a single applicant even though I was in a serious relationship to the woman I eventually got married to.

So perhaps the most challenging after POF was my medical as I have a history of TB 13 years ago, after further checks and extra medicals I was cleared in January, 2019, medical cost about #100,000 for me, other process was going by the side, did my biometric in record time.

The Golden mail dropped around 11:30pm on April 10, 2019, I screamed 7 halleluyah and give God the glory, the first thing the next day was to go submit the port at VFS and I received my COPR within 20days.

I booked my flight through Ethiopian airline, I almost confused Ottawa (YOW) for Toronto (YYZ), thank God for this will have been a major mistake. My flight experience was sweet, I had good in-flight entertainment and overall experience.

So, I arrived in Canada on June 11, 2019 and was welcomed to Canada with little haste, I only brought USD4,000 into Canada and spent USD1,000.00 before getting my first Job to the Glory of God and of my friend became brother.

I started applying for jobs from Nigeria and I did my first interview on telephone though when I reached Canada the Job was gone but through friend referral, I did Job test same week I arrived in Canada- I had to choose between two(2) offers, yea, LinkedIn helped in Job search and so is personal referral (Personal referral is actually the best and can be established using LinkedIn).

Today is April 18th and I have already spent 10months of great experience in Canada...I needed to share this because I promised God to give this testimony on this platform

This is my Testimony…It can only be God


Timeline (6 months post AOR)
CIC created – 20th March 2018
IELTS 5 attempt: LRWS – 8.0,7,7.5,8.5
ECA: WES -BSC and Masters
Score: 464
ITA: 5th September 2018
AOR: 15th October 2018
Biometrics: 14 November 2019
MEP: 9 January 2019
PPR: 10 April 2019
COPR: 25 April 2019
Landed in Canada: 11 June 2019
First Job- 12th August 2019
VO: Ottawa
Single Applicant.

I began to take the Canada hustle serious when senior colleague I really ire immigrated to Australia and Canada.

So, I had to do IELTS and WES simultaneously, ed for WES and I paid the prescribed fee which was to cover both my B.Sc from LASU and Masters from Unilag - I discovered the difference in fee between doing just B,Sc evaluation and both B.Sc and Masters is considerably low- I needed to establish in both schools to make the process easy, WES took about 3 months and finally concluded on 30 October, 2017. IELTS ridiculed me for my ignorance and lack of time as a banking professional, I think I wrote this exam about five 5 times, 2 of the times I missed the speaking test and finally here was my LRWS (8, 7, 7.5,8.5), armed with both WES and IELTS I applied and got my ITA on 5th September 2018


Am a bit meticulous, so I had gathered my initial documents even before acing my IELTS, documents gathering was straight forward as I was a single applicant even though I was in a serious relationship to the woman I eventually got married to.

So perhaps the most challenging after POF was my medical as I have a history of TB 13 years ago, after further checks and extra medicals I was cleared in January, 2019, medical cost about #100,000 for me, other process was going by the side, did my biometric in record time.

The Golden mail dropped around 11:30pm on April 10, 2019, I screamed 7 halleluyah and give God the glory, the first thing the next day was to go submit the port at VFS and I received my COPR within 20days.

I booked my flight through Ethiopian airline, I almost confused Ottawa (YOW) for Toronto (YYZ), thank God for this will have been a major mistake. My flight experience was sweet, I had good in-flight entertainment and overall experience.

So, I arrived in Canada on June 11, 2019 and was welcomed to Canada with little haste, I only brought USD4,000 into Canada and spent USD1,000.00 before getting my first Job to the Glory of God and of my friend became brother.

I started applying for jobs from Nigeria and I did my first interview on telephone though when I reached Canada the Job was gone but through friend referral, I did Job test same week I arrived in Canada- I had to choose between two(2) offers, yea, LinkedIn helped in Job search and so is personal referral (Personal referral is actually the best and can be established using LinkedIn).

Today is April 18th and I have already spent 10months of great experience in Canada...I needed to share this because I promised God to give this testimony on this platform

To God be the Glory now and always.
Got my PPR in approximately 6months(5days before estimated completion date).

IELTS messed me up like 3 times all because of listening, finally I had 8.0 averagely using MOD(September 2018) and had a score of 468 with my masters.

While attempting IELTS my ECA was already completed by WES.

AOR - October 15
Medical/BIM- November 14
PPR- April 12

Single applicant
VO- Ottawa

Kip on Trusting Master Jesus!

WhiteUlquiorra:
Hello nairalanders,
I decided to emigrate January 2018 and since then I have been a silent voracious reader of all Canada immigration threads. I'm not exaggerating when I say I probably would not have PPR today without the valuable information obtained here. Now that  the journey is at its end, I feel the need to share my story. Perhaps it would help someone out there. My application is a bit peculiar because my wife got pregnant with our second child sometime in May 2018, so we applied as a family of three with the hope that we would be in Canada by the time the baby is born. As God would have it, progress was slow, baby was born and PPR came a few days later. Instead of sending our ports, we notified IRCC of the change in family composition, provided POF for a family of four and other documents and a second PPR was issued. See timeline below:

WES completed - 03 Sep 2018
IELTS - 04 Sep 2018 (upon EOR of 3rd attempt)
ITA - 05 Sep 2018

Nice and thanks...Please what was the province you indicated?
AOR - 11 Oct 2018
Biometrics request - 08 Nov 2018
Biometrics completed 13 Nov 2018
First PPR - 28 Jan 2019
CSE to CIC & OVO - 29 Jan 2019
Request Letter - 31 Jan 2019
Submission of ADR to include new born - 15 Feb 2019
Second PPR - 19 Feb 2019

The lesson here is to not loose hope. Things did not move along as smoothly as described in the timeline especially with the WES and IELTS but that's a story for another day. Commit it to God, do your research, perservere and you'll be fine.

Blackbuddy:
Merry Christmas from the '6' See you around in the GTA.

Merry Xmas bro, Heard it's damn expensive to live in that Toronto city and the tax na die !

How do U cope ?

Still up for sale.

raptex:
Am I the only one here that finds it really hard to take pictures? Even when my classmates or siblings are taking pics,I just find a way to excuse myself or I appear in like 2 out of 50 pics they take. Is this common with other introverts or am I just weird?

share your pic lets see.

btw- U may need to work on your self confidence !

wasseynewest:
@ sheltec & daks: God bless u guys for this. I have been advocating that we can successfully organise and hold tutorials for our IELTS takers. This could be a wkend or two wkends prior to the tests. A public or private school can easily be approached at centre of towns such as Ikeja or Oshodi for Lagos residents and so on.
Plssss my belove people who've disgraced IELTS with ur intimidating & eye catching scores, it's time to rise to this occasion and a fellow in need.

Thumbs up..let's do this.

Olha:
After 8 attempts, God finally said Amen!
BC 5 times
MOD 3 times
3 Remarks with BC, and i got 1 refund

MOD Test on Dec 1st
L-9.0
R-7.5
S-8.0
W-7.0

Perseverance, prayer and have unshaken faith about the whole process.

I like your courage and resilience ...Wish the very best IJMN.

Chirolechick:
The joy in my heart eh.....it made me purge
1st attempt
L - 8.5
R - 8.5
S - 8
W - 7
While I was worried about my listening I blasted and narrowly escaped writing that I was sure of.

God be praised... I prayed the prayer of St. Joseph and God came through for me,

Congrats dear...U are not sure until you see result.

njbybrthnly:
I've been dreaming of ITA since January of this year and finally it is here!

I can't thank God enough for giving me the grace to study French and the TEF exam which elevated my CRS from 415 to 457 (was initially thinking cut-off scores will drop to last year's levels ...thank God I received sense fast)

To all those still expecting...keep the faith...it will surely come...and then the real work will start

_{I wonder how PPR mail will feel}

U actually started french afresh? Or u have d skill before now.. Pls share as i was thinking the frenxh adv only works for those with the background.

dumprep:
Hello my greatest fam

I have just landed in Toronto. The cold o! The sub-zero breeze that slapped my face and froze my lips the second I got down the plane ehn.
@Ifeoma, i hope you are now happy o. .

I will share my landing gist in the other room as soon as i settle in. Thank God for journey mercies. And thank you all for your wishes and prayers. We will ALL surely meet someday. God bless you all.

Prof @raphrulz: Awww. Thank you sir . I'm back.

#raphrulz#dumpreprulz#scriptsmarking#ifeoma3over10#joo2over10

Other room tho...

ontarioissauga:

Shey spamming threads is the preparation? Materials are everywhere, my friend.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B05iKVGb4P60TjMwYlQwbDBGNWs

kryptochats:
anyone got mail yet ? mine keeps showing pending!

Bros, aw do you guys earn this money. This na dollars mehn, show me the way biko.

Mcy56:

Uniondac already released their q3, waiting for FCMB this week.

Releasing q3 late is a red flag...what do you think?

drcynthia:
not bro MEP/Biometric request

Thanks sweetgal.

drcynthia:
yes I think he would get this week...some AOR OCT 13th got today according to immitracker.

Got what bro?...MEP,BIM or PPR.

SolutionsGuy:
Massive congratulations babe !!!

I so much love CIC. Obviously they were doing every other checks and processing while waiting for you to get the right ECA.

Thatz why we pay them...lol

ideyhere:
March 7...

Awww..... Same here dear.

chuckdee13:
I submitted September 8th, AOR was same day...urs?

15 Oct...lol

chuckdee13:
Please guys...the IP1, NA, IP2 stages seem blurry now. once biometrics has been requested and done, it should become NA abi? I'm still seeing "your action is required" and "we need your finger prints".

Abeg, when was your AOR?..Just to be sure my ship is moving.

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shuddyy:


I owe you immense debt of gratitude for finding time to honour me with a response. God bless you.

One more enquiry pls.

I have accessed the 25% of my RSA which is usually the case after exiting a job without a new one four months after. However I still have well over N4Million balance in my RSA (the statutory savings/deductions while on the job not voluntary savings). Can this in any way contribute to my POF?

Many thanks.

Give it a shot, someone once told me he used 100% value of his pension.

kapelvej:
Please guys , pardon my ignorance, after creating an express entry profile, is it possible to edit information like IELTS score, for example, if I decide to take another IELTS exam with a better score.
Thanks

Yes, it is.

You omitted somethings in your enquiry..
aw long have you known this lady ?
Any history of s*x between you two?

So, I can judge if this will be worth pursuing...

How do i trim my digital photo to cic specification......

The final frame size of the photo must be at least 35mm x 45mm.
The size of the head, from chin to crown, must be between 31mm and 36mm.

Will paint editor be sufficient?...pls

Good morning fam,

Please there seems to be huge backlog with medical bookings in the approved hospitals. On ing (2 out 3 recommended) was told the whole month is filled and will have to wait till mid October.

Any way around this hiccup please?

tolfa:
yes, you merge...don't forget ielts n evaluation report goes together with your certificate too...

Thanks a bunch.