Jbelieve:
Please who has used Ethiopian air. I intend to book with them as they are the cheapest so far. Are there any down sides to using them? Please awaiting response urgently.

I used them, had no issues apart from it being so so long. If possible book the bulkhead seat early so your legs can have more room.

Made a new account to post this to protect my identity from my workplace. Not sure I will login to this account, so hopefully nobody asks too much questions. However, if you ask questions I'd try to answer but may not be timely. Not doing this for the scoring but to help people get an idea of how they too can go about their submissions (particularly concerning gift deed and wife change of name)

So I got my PPR yesterday

ECA: Done with WES

IELTS: First time was enough to get my wife and I up to 440.

ITA: Dec 19th with CRS score of 440. I was initially waiting to complete my spouse ECA but decided to just sit in the pool at 440. Scores were about 420 - 445 so I was just waiting for my wife's ECA to sit pretty at 448. A co-worker just said I should enter and see. I entered and less than a week later I got ITA

AOR: Feb 10th. Took a while to get all my stuff ready, plus I was not willing to spend too much money.

Reference Letter: Got my reference letter and job description NOT in CIC format, just my normal company's way of writing letters to embassies. My job description was a 6 page document, so just stamped it with a stamp from HR that just says Confidential and submitted. I also added payslip, employment letter, promotion letter and confirmation of employment letter. Added all this because I was a little scared my reference letter was not in CIC format

POF: Used Stanbic mutual funds after gift deed from my sister. Added my bank statement though for the past six months. Augmented everything with my pension, also with Stanbic. Got letters easily from Stanbic for both pension and mutual funds. As for my gift deed, I did not want to spend money or time on all the notarisation stuff. I then researched on usage of stamps to make things official.I was satisfied with my personal research then went ahead to put only a fifty naira stamp on the gift deed letter. My sister's signature and mine were across the stamp.

Change of name for my wife: I also researched this personally to see if marriage certificate is ok. I was satisfied with my research so I used marriage certificate and added newspaper change of name because we had done it earlier. I did not use any affidavit; like said earlier, I was not willing to spend money.

Every other thing was normal; police certificate for Nigeria and UK, medicals at IOM and passports at Abeokuta.

Ordered GCMS notes sometime in late May. Called IRCC first week of June. Did these two actions because my wife and I were hoping that within 100 days we'd get PPR, boy were we wrong. Personally, I think GCMS could have been a waste of 3,000 naira. Not sure I gained much from it when I received it early July apart from giving myself more headache and worry after seeing review required.

Anyways got two ghost updates on 12th July then got the PPR around 10pm on 15th July.