Hi there,
Congratulations on making your trip before the expiration of your COPR.
Did you travel from Nigeria please? If so, which airline?
Thank you

wharlay07:


Hi,

Yes i made the flight. Booked a short stay room online. Thanks for checking.

Thanks a lot for the response

Kekereekun123:
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For PR and Canadian Citizens there is special flight from Lagos/Abuja to Toronto on April 6th, 2020

Hello,
Which airline please?
Thank you

Hello house, I'd appreciate a response please.
Thank you

MrsEM:
Hello everyone, does anyone here live in Kitchener, Ontario? I'd appreciate it if you'd kindly share some information on decent areas to live (we have children aged 2 and 5). We'd appreciate your thoughts please.
Thank you

Hello everyone, does anyone here live in Kitchener, Ontario? I'd appreciate it if you'd kindly share some information on decent areas to live (we have children aged 2 and 5). We'd appreciate your thoughts please.
Thank you

Thanks a lot, I'm sorry I missed this earlier.


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Wow! 10 months is not a joke, I pray you get the good news very shortly.
Thanks a lot. Great to know that you found our story encouraging.
Cheers!

Hopesprings:

Congratulations! This resonates so much with me in so many ways as I am on a similar journey both with EE and personally. Your post gave me added encouragement for my personal transition and its relevance to Canada even as we have been waiting for the past 10 months.

Godspeed to you and yours as you move on to the next phase.

Hello everyone

Late COPR anouncement

Timeline:
AOR - August 3, 2018
BIL/Med pass - September 11, 2018
Remedical request - August 16, 2019
2nd med pass - September 20, 2019
ADR - October 1 (Request for new international passport for hubby, old one was expiring in 5 months)
ADR submission - October 7, 2019
PPR - October 16, 2019
Passport submission - October 21, 2019
Profile approval - November 6, 2019
Passport pick up - November 19 (No email received from VFS, had to call to confirm passport arrival)
Family size: 4


Salient points

1st Medicals - please read [https://www.nairaland.com/4657743/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/243#71022687]here[/https://www.nairaland.com/4657743/canadian-express-entry-federal-skilled/243#71022687]
2nd Medicals - no issues with HBP or serum creatinine but our son was just recovering from tonsillitis and had a bit of fever. We were asked to administer paracetamol and they took his temperature again after about 20 minutes (it was high normal but they recorded it like that). His tonsils were also quite inflamed and that was noted on the report. We did the medicals at Qlife on September 10, 2019 and sent the medical report form via a CSE on the same day. However, on September 17, we logged in to our account to see "Documents not received" which meant that Qlife had not uploaded the results despite our pleas. We followed up with several emails and phone and they eventually uploaded the results on September 18.

ECA Drama
Hubby and I both gained admission through direct entry (DE) and WES insisted that i sent in my pre-DE transcripts. Since i went to OOU, i knew that will be tug of war and tried convincing them to accept the transcript as i took all 100 level courses, albeit in 200 level. They refused la! I went to God in very deep prayers to get them to change their mind but the prayer only worked for hubby as his own ECA was completed without any request for pre-DE transcripts (shockingly!). Getting my diploma transcripts from OOU was a nightmare and it cost us a lot of money with the back and forth (there were weeks my hubby went to Ago-Iwoye from Ibadan up to 4 times). Las las, we sha received the transcript in June 2018 (we started the process around February 2018) and i observed that my "almighty" CAM Diploma in Marketing Communications was evaluated as "one semester" while my OOU Diploma was evaluated as a 1-year Diploma. Then, i understood why my prayer was seemingly not answered, if they had gone ahead with only my CAM Diploma, our EE plans may have been derailed because we were convinced (at the time) that CIC wouldn't accept a one semester certificate as an additional degree. At this point, i learnt again to trust that God's plans for me are always of good and not of evil.

The Battle for Passport renewal
Hubby already applied for a new passport in September before we got the request for passport renewal so we thought presenting the request letter would make NIS, Ibadan urgently oblige our request. Unfortunately, they refused to oblige the request and even insulted us, we went on twitter to humbly plead with NIS but we got no response, despite the fact that they were responding to other tweets. To the glory of God, we thought to explore the option of calling the phone numbers on their website and we were lucky to call during their nationwide servicom meeting, our case was tendered and they contacted Ibadan. My dear brothers and sisters, passport came out in less than 48 hours.

The wait
For some reason, i was convinced that our application was going to be speedy and we'd be out of Nigeria by December 2018 but CIC had grand plans for us. In January 2019, we ordered GCMS and observed that the officer noted that review was required for my job details, googled "review required" and i realised that we were in for a loooooong wait. Well, i wrote a letter of explanation clarifying the differences in terms used in my chosen NOC (0122) and my JD, I also described a typical day in my life covertly showing that JD was in line with the NOC. CSE was acknowledged and then there was utter silenceeeeeeeee.

Lesson learnt from the wait
The wait can be a blessing - I left my job in December 2018 and i included that info in my JD LOE. During this time, i have been stretched, i have grown, i have learnt and above all, i have rediscovered myself. Working in a bank for almost 8 years, i realised that i had lost myself and sight of my purpose in life and i felt an urgent need to change that as i bordering on the edge of depression; the deep sense of purpose and "what can be" made be mentally and physically restless. I know now that the phrase "nothing is impossible" is not a motivational phrase, it is a truth; nothing is impossible if only we can allow ourselves to dream and ACT in line with those dreams. I feel like 2019 has been a year of preparation and i definitely was not ready for Canada in 2018, no i know that.
Also, my kids have grown older and the older one can get into school right away, the baby sef don understand "sit down there", "don't go there" and i can codedly pinch her without feeling guilty

All the best to everyone still waiting and to everyone embarking on the journey soon. Please do not allow yourself to get lost in the hustle, pursue purpose and you will find fulfillment.

Thanks to everyone who has been contributing to the forum, i have been greatly blessed and i pray that you will be blessed too.

Landexpert:


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Dear LandExpert,

Thanks for the info on Sagamu passport office, could you kindly share the phone number of the immigration officer who assisted you?

luffyhaki:

Hmmm @ 1.7
Please advise him to reduce his protein intake..If he can go vegan sef e go better (just some advice for the future).

It was an artificial rise as we were on a fast (ignorantly) and he was dehydrated. Nevertheless, we have adjusted his diet; we've done a repeat test and the result came out normal (1.3). Thanks for the advice.

Hello everyone,
Seeing that the EE PR process has kinda changed and people are quite disturbed about the delay in passing medicals, I thought it fair to share this after gaining so much from this platform... MEP was Sept 6 with AOR - Aug 3.

Note: hubby is on BP meds, declared this and we were asked to do the serum creatinine test; came out at 1.7 whilst the EE threshold is 1.3. Trouble! Doc said we shouldn't worry that we will only be asked to do another test. At this point, did a mental calc of the additional funds and time that will be burnt. Hmm... Not funny plus the mental torture during the wait for MEP.
To the Glory of God no follow up test was requested.

Purpose of sharing - 1. To encourage anyone whose serum creatinine was high and is still on the loooooong wait for MEP. Don't torture yourself too much.
2. to provide statistics and ray of hope to the Aug AOR peeps still awaiting MEP.

Thanks everyone for sharing sooo much information, I have benefited immensely.