soleexx:
Sup guys, got a Question...Wana know if it's possible to travel to the Us with my Canada work permit... planning on traveling Tru road boarder...

Even with PR card sef, the answer is NO.

GozyNA:


If you really have 471, then like Topsmamen said, welcome to Canada!

LOL.. Thanks.

Are you an EE hopeful or you're there already?

Luceecarter:
Good evening house,
Please is 453 a good crs to enter the pool with next year? (Going by the trend of scores in recent times )

To be honest, only God knows.

LogoDWhiz:


LOL.. Thanks.

Are you an EE hopeful or you're there already?

There already bro.

Edit: Not in Canada yet, but I have my visa.

GozyNA:


There already bro.

Edit: Not in Canada yet, but I have my visa.

Awesome.

Can I send you a PM?

LogoDWhiz:


Awesome.

Can I send you a PM?

Yeah sure.

slushy:
Please I need help with proving work experience.

1. I intend to add my NYSC experience. I was an accountant. I will really appreciate getting a sample of a letter from someone that used accounting experience describing the accounting duties (under the correct NOC)

2. How do I prove the NySC allawee? My PPA paid in cash. Is using my nysc 19800 bank statement enough?
Thank you guys for all your help. See you in the promised land.

1. You have to state your specific duties as an accountant in the reference letter to be provided by your PPA. The best is to get a sample reference letter which you will adopt into writing yours. See a sample here.

2. Get your PPA to include in your reference letter that you were paid in cash. Also indicate that you were paid Federal allowance of 19,800 under the support of the Federal Government.

hipstar2:


Next year ke? Or is that when you’ll finish your post grad course?

Yes. That’s when I’ll be graduating

muyiroro:

Less points because I don’t have Masters yet so using WES would have only given me the points for two or more Certificates as I was assessing both LLB and BL. IQAS on the other hand is better for those of us without Masters as it’s assessment gives us the points of a Masters Degree. Since you have Masters, am sure you are fine.


Pls I want to confirm that that I will get the point of a Master Degree if I access my ND and HND through IQAS? If yes what is the IQAS time line and cost. Thank you

Capital NO u will only get 2 or more cert either with IQAS or WES
My advise go with WES for shorter process time

I have trills I bought in March worth 700,000. Do I have to show the statement of the account with the tbills? Please I’m confused

joo2018:
N3,300,000 + N130,000 gives N3,430,000.

I will however advise you to increase the figure by like 5-10% as no one really knows the exchange rate your visa officer will use.

You can provide Tbills alone as long as it covers your POF.

demshy:
I have trills I bought in March worth 700,000. Do I have to show the statement of the account with the tbills? Please I’m confused

KejiT1:
Good afternoon all.
Thanks to you all for your various contributions on this thread. May God bless us.

I will like to know if hse 1,2,3 certificate (like the one below) plus my BSc acceptable by wes as two or more degrees.
Please help a sister.

Please ,someone should help answer this.

Ifeoma77 ,ladymarshall, joo2018

FaskRolce:
I dived into the pool today with Crs score of 451. I pray the next draw is favorable.

#hopeful

Please can I speak with you on getting into the pool, I don’t want to make any silly mistakes

Thanks

Even with Canadian citizenship sef; No

GozyNA:


Even with PR card sef, the answer is NO.

Still Confuse about the noc (4033,4212, 4153,4155)to choose for the below responsibilities as I don't want to make any mistakes:
Provide support and inspiration to inmates in order to promote positive academic. career, social and personal development.
Provide educational and individual counseling on issues such as depression, substance abuse, family problems, relationship and interpersonal skills
Evaluate inmates’ abilities, interests, and personality characteristics using tests, records and interviews.
Teach classes and present self-help or information sessions on subjects relating to education and career planning
Saddled with the responsibility of teaching inmates English language,
Prepare reports on academic performance and progress of inmates.
Organized and facilitated career seminars for inmates in conjunction with my community development group.
Engaged in social work to get private individuals to donate aid and assistance to the inmates

please house, if i have a savings account that more than i stated in my application can the statement of account be used as my POF. this gift deed i am seeing i dont understand abeg

kfrosh:
Even with Canadian citizenship sef; No

Nah.. With a Canadian passport you can enter the US.

please house, is a savings account with more money than declared while completing the online form enough as POF. I mean is it okay to just get the statement of account and one is good to go

KejiT1:

Please ,someone should help answer this.

Ifeoma77 ,ladymarshall, joo2018

If there’s no precedent, no one can tell you till you try it yourself. Google and search other forums. If nothing, try your luck.

Gshun:
please house, is a savings account with more money than declared while completing the online form enough as POF. I mean is it okay to just get the statement of account and one is good to go

A letter from your bank in CIC format is the gold standard. If your bank can only give you a generic letter then you can add your bank statement.

Fadia:
LONG POST AHEAD

The Lord is good and His mercies endureth forever.
His praises shall continually be in my mouth for He truly is too faithful to fail.
It’s finally here, the long awaited COPR! I keep going back to stare it

IELTS – 14th October 2017
ECA – December 2017
1st EE Profile – 5th May 2018
1st ITA – 9th May 2018
2nd EE Profile – 31st May 2018
2nd ITA – 25th June 2018
CRS - 443
AOR – 8th September 2018
MEP/BIL – 4th October 2018
Biometrics completed – 4th October 2018
RPRF – 16th January 2018 (Paid without an official request from CIC and raised CSE with payment receipt)
1st and only CIC Call – 5th February 2018 (The agent said security and criminality were not yet started and I felt really bad and decided I wasn’t going to call again or order GCMS Notes till after the 6-month mark, if PPR wasn’t here by then)
PPR – 14th February 2018 (God gave me a wonderful Valentine’s Day gift)
Submitted passport – 25th February 2018
COPR – 20th March 2018

No ADR

Ottawa Visa Office

SINGLE APPLICANT



DECISION TO TRAVEL
Lol It was initially more of my mum’s decision than mine. I was meant to go for my masters in the U.S. and then work on getting a work permit and staying back after. Lol little did I know I was deceiving myself.

My EE journey officially started in July/August 2017 with my mum constantly researching and hammering on the entire process. Some family friends had recently relocated and had advised my mum to use a lawyer to avoid mistakes and blah blah. I was so uninterested initially and constantly felt she was bugging me over unnecessary things and the lawyer’s fees also did not make matters any better.
Few days after later, my mum contacted the lawyer and connected us together. She (My mum) would constantly call me at work to ask if I had called the lawyer and insisted on being copied in all email correspondence between the lawyer and I. She even offered to pay the $200 dollars for the initial consultation fees and that was how I kick started the process.

IELTS
registered with BC and wrote my exam on the 14th of October 2017. I majorly used the free 30 hours of practice and some days before the test I browsed through some study materials the lawyer had sent me. My speaking test was the Monday before my Saturday writing exams and it generally went well.
The night before the writing exams, God just led me to one of the videos on the BC Practice page and I learnt some tricks to passing the reading exam without necessarily reading through or wasting much time and that was how I got 8,9,8,7 in LRSW in my first and only attempt.

ECA (WES)
I started in October 2017 and so I didn’t encounter the WAEC wahala. My aunt is a lecturer at my University and helped apply for my transcripts and covered that aspect. Then I sorted my CIPM transcripts myself. I had to send the CIPM transcript myself though because they won’t do it for you. I sent it in their name sha.
Verification was also very easy with my school because they have a proper process in place for all that.
ECA came out in December 2017 and was evaluated as two degrees (CIPM certificate was evaluated as equivalent to a 3-year bachelor’s degree)

4-MONTH LONG HIATUS
By the time my evaluation was over, I was in the process of moving houses and still had a number of other bills to settle so even if they shook me and threw me up and down, they won’t have found shishi on me to pay the lawyer as processing fee. Unfortunately, because neither myself nor my mum knew that we could successfully continue the process without a lawyer, I felt like I was at a dead end so I completely stopped thinking about the process and went back to reconsidering my U.S. masters. I also started considering schools in Canada sha with the mindset of “at least one must click”.

EE PROFILE
In May 2018, a close friend, who I had earlier told about EE, called me to ask how far with my process. She said she had entered the pool and gotten ITA the week before and that I should better forget about the lawyer and start my thing myself.
(I remember when my mum and I told her about it in 2017 and she said she didn’t have any money for a lawyer and wanted to do it on her own. I Kept discouraging her and saying she shouldn’t use her hand to spoil her application and I even started getting angry in the process).

After the call, I called the lawyer and told her to send me all my documents that she had with her, that I was no longer continuing with her. She tried to persuade me and asked if we should come up with a payment plan to make things easier, I haven’t replied that mail till today.

I created my first profile that weekend and got ITA the following week, on the 9th of May 2018. Man, that was the beginning of the joy and me starting to take things seriously. After getting ITA, I kick-started my own research and somehow stumbled on this thread in Part 4 and became addicted.

*I said first EE profile because I ended up deleting it. I had created it using an additional fake work experience to give me additional points. After ITA, I became so uncomfortable and my conscience couldn’t take it anymore so on the 31st of May I declined the invitation and deleted the profile. Fortunately, I created another profile with a new email and with all the correct details immediately and guess what? I had the EXACT same CRS of 443. I felt so silly and upset with myself because I could have saved myself sleepless nights and unnecessary headache by just using the correct information from the very beginning (I didn’t know about the CRS tool before creating my profile).
Unfortunately, I didn’t meet the cut-off for ITA in the next draw and when another draw date came again there was no draw. Then on June 25th, one very fine Monday evening, my friend called me and asked if I had gotten my ITA, that there was a draw that day and it was 442 (so close! Thank God!). A few hours after the call, I got the wonderful mail.

Then the main journey began…

REFERENCE LETTERS
I had worked in 2 other places before my current job (thankfully, I worked in HR in both companies so I had direct access to the people preparing the letters). My current company was the easiest because I was the one to do the letter myself hehe (it’s a very small company and we’re very few). I prepared the letter and gave it to my boss to read and sign.

PASSPORT
Ikoyi Passport office showed me PEPPER! I had less than 6 months at the time I was to do medicals so I paid for express but still ended up waiting for almost 2 months to get my passport.
I started the process with my old passport so I had to upload both. I created a table of contents indicating that there were 2 passports

MEDICALS
Did this at Children’s practice when my passport came out and it was pretty straightforward.

PCC
With our very own Inspector Moshood. I paid 4,500 for mine

POF
I used a gift deed then I bought treasury bills with the money before AOR. After it matured I left the funds in my account for a while then bought T-bills again in January but I didn’t raise any CSE for it. I also wrote an LOE and attached my account statement showing the day the money entered my account and when I bought T-bills.
I created a table of contents here as well and attached the gift deed, LOE, account statement, T-bills certificate, Oanda conversion on the date of submission and XE conversion on the date of submission.

AFFIDAVITS
1. I had some discrepancies in my name on my certificate and passport so my dad did a “one and same person” affidavit for me and I uploaded it in the “Legal Name Change” placeholder alongside my original birth certificate.
2. I claimed FSW points with my aunt and she didn’t have her birth certificate to show our relationship so my mum swore an affidavit of relationship (if I can call it that) and also went to NPC to do a letter of attestation for my aunt.

FAMILY MEMBER PROOF OF STATUS
I uploaded my aunt’s Passport, utility bills and 2 employment T4s.

With all these my uploading and uploading, I kept telling myself that my application is airtight and I’d get PPR in 2 months max LOOOOOOL. Anyway, COPR is here now and I have almost completely forgotten all the stress and I owe it all to God and the wealth of information on this thread.

I thank God for the unusual peace and patience I had during the entire waiting period.

MAY GOD CONTINUALLY BLESS EVERYONE FOR THEIR HELP AND INPUT IN EVERY WAY AND I PRAY FOR SPEEDY AND SUCCESSFUL PROCESSING FOR EACH AND EVERYONE IN JESUS NAME.

CONGRATULATIONS IN ADVANCE!!

Hello Fadia,

Thanks so much for sharing.

Please how can i contact you directly; i promise i wont be a bug.

Thanks.

You can use money in your savings account as long as it is readily accessible to you.
You need to obtain a letter from your bank in CIC format.

Letter(s) must

be printed on the financial institution’s letterhead
include their contact information (address, telephone number and email address)
include your name
list outstanding debts such as credit card debts and loans
include, for each current bank and investment account, the
account numbers
date each account was opened
current balance of each account
average balance for the past 6 months

Gshun:
please house, is a savings account with more money than declared while completing the online form enough as POF. I mean is it okay to just get the statement of account and one is good to go

Ifeoma77:

Lmfao, I'd refuse you too if I was the VO
On the bright side, you are ballsy

lol, it was d other way round o, the VO made d statement

Hobyno:


You say what

I swear, the thing still dey baffle me until today . as I wan talk , the VO don begin rap with that stamp sound , the next seconds, my PP don dey my front next to me na security , don dey lead me out.

Las Las ,Canada go sure .na d prayer be that

ans123:
Go back and ensure you get the Tbills cert on a letter head that carries the bank contact info. I .e phone number, website,email,branch address.Also insist it carries their stamp as you are using it for official documentation. Some bank officials can be lazy and ignorant about these things.

I also had an experience with my Zenith bank Tbills.. they wanted me to take a document that had only their logo on it but I insisted they use a letter head bearing all I mentioned above and even got them to stamp it cos I threaten to take my money elsewhere.

God bless you.

ladymarshall:
That VO was tripping. So in other words, what you're trying to tell us is, you're very fine

IDK oo, I felt like village pepoo where involved ,cos na dat kind word na favour dey always follow am . VO ways is not our ways

Please I'm trying to make payment and I'm seeing SIGN IN PARTNER and GC KEY... Please Which is used for payment. I'm just about creating my account

Fidesa:


Hello Fadia,

Thanks so much for sharing.

Please how can i contact you directly; i promise i wont be a bug.

Thanks.

Hi Fidesa,

Have you created your profile yet.

Pls note that you would better get answers to your questions by posting them on the forum which is way better than privately chatting select people.

Just my 2 cents.

All d best.

Luceecarter:
Good evening house,
Please is 453 a good crs to enter the pool with next year? (Going by the trend of scores in recent times )

Yes I think so
@453 to 490, one would expect the applicant to be young have master or 2ormore cert and a good ielts +been married . that's d best it can get , except ircc changes d criteria next year ,I see 450+ still been relevant .
the only thing that can beat it is siblings in Canada , Canadian work experience ,and Nomination
and not too many applicants have this criteria.
However , pls do all u need to do in other to increase your score .

smallzoo:
Please I'm trying to make payment and I'm seeing SIGN IN PARTNER and GC KEY... Please Which is used for payment. I'm just about creating my account

you don't pay while creating account , you only pay when you have completed your application post ITA.

chrisebsy:

you don't pay while creating account , you only pay when you have completed your application post ITA.

please i am creating my profile.
what do i fill for number of family members... i am single by the way.

please help.

smallzoo:
Please I'm trying to make payment and I'm seeing SIGN IN PARTNER and GC KEY... Please Which is used for payment. I'm just about creating my account

What are you trying to pay for?