Thanks for your response. With respect to number 1 and your response to same, like i noted the question applies to someone ALREADY in the pool and ALREADY has an ITA. If the principal applicant having an education assessment certificate number was a must, I do not think the system would have permitted entrance into the pool. To provide more perspective, I believe the principal applicant in this case has a canadian qualification as the highest qualification. The focus was with respect to the spouse, so to rephrase ... is the credential assessment essential for the spouse, where there is a score high enough to get an ITA and the principal applicant has Canadian qualification?

optionese:
1. the principal applicant MUST have an education assessment evaluation in order to enter the express pool. its an immigration service for workers. in order to work you need to assess your Nigerian certificate to get its equivalent in Canadian certificate .

2 on the issue of police certificate am sure its possible

3. on POF if you check the CIC website you will see that you need a specified amount of money in your account (if you dont have a job at the time of your application)
4. on the NOC for lawyers i think the appropriate one is 4211

Great thread here, very enlightening ...

I have a few questions:

1. If one gets an ITA without doing a credential evaluation, is it still necessary to do one? In other words, in completing your profile, you had noted that the credential evaluation has not been done yet but you still received a good score and got an ITA, do you still have to do the credential evaluation? What impact does the credential evaluation have on CIC's decision and are there any examples of people who have successfully applied without doing the evaluation.

2. What are the chances of getting a police clearance certificate without being physically present in Nigeria?

3. With respect to proof of FOP, reading through this thread I see people talking about average balance being what is required. Is average balance still what is required today or this has changed? I ask this because of this additional information I found on the CIC page

If you are applying for permanent residence in Canada, you must provide an official letter
issued by your financial institution indicating your financial profile. This must:
• list of all your bank (chequing and savings) and investment accounts, the account
numbers, dates each account was opened and the balance of each account over
the past six months,
• list all outstanding debts, such as credit cards and loans,
• be printed on the letterhead of the financial institution, and include your name and
the contact information of the financial institution (address, telephone number and
email
address).

The portion in bold does not state average balance so can any one advice?

4. Is there any lawyer qualified in Nigeria here who has successfully gotten PR through EE? If yes, in what NOC category did you apply?

I am grateful for insightful answers to the above. Thank you