joo2018:
Prophetic ministry back on track!

aworldcitizen:
Praise to the Lord the Almighty the king of creation!
Gather round people, it's PPR!

Nazor83:
IT'S PPR Guys.

Fabmummy:
It's PPR

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melaninpopping:
Praise God with me!

COPR 8 November 2018

joo2018:
Wawu!
The race is not to the swift!
Submitting close to 3 months deadline and PPR in 2 months!
Go and shine!

Newmum0615:
Hahahaha
You no well o
Congratulations jare. God don do am.

I hereby confer the title of 'Elder' on you. Tojued please put the medal on him.

Nazor83:
IT'S PPR Guys.

Below is our timeline.

Family of 5
CSR - 456
ITA - June 25
AOR - Sept 12
MEP/BIL - Oct 9
Biometrics Done - Oct 16
PPR - Nove 9

canadianxmas:



This is a big one. Congrats you'all.

joo2018:
Congrats to @gook and @fab. Go and excel! Happy wedding anniversary too!

MsDee29:
Congrats @fab and Gook! Go forth and prosper

Oakville19:
Congratulations and happy anniversary @fab and @gook

Josefuadjr:


Congratulations

Newmum0615:
Congratulations our in-law. Congratulations Fab. Go ye and prosper.

Tojued:
Congratulations fab and gook. Big smiles here, hardly gets more mushy than this

Happy anniversary guys, it will only get better.

raphrulz:
Ohhh what a wonderful God we serve!!

Nara nara oooo... nara ekele, nara-ekele m oooo


Wow awesome! COngratulations to you and yours.

Before i jump downstairs in excitement... let me rate your PPR exam scores.

You score 7.7/10... wonderful... ensure you share your landing experience in the sister group... that the project!!

May cannyland favour you ma. God bless.

fizzile:
Congratulation. Go and prosper. I can see you mailed OVO and got a response within 24hrs, please what magic did you use? Sent a pm to you please.

aworldcitizen:
Praise to the Lord the Almighty the king of creation!
Gather round people, it's PPR!

Below is my timeline
Decision to travel August 2017.
Family of 5
Visa office: initially London, moved to kyiv in August.
IELTS: September 2017.
My IELTS was written once and was perfect 9,8,8,8.
Spouse IELTS 7.5,7.5,7,7
ECA: Masters Nov 2017
Entered the pool Dec.
ITA January
AOR January 17th 2018
Medical Passed Feb 11th 2018
IP1 Feb 12th 2018
IP2 Feb 27th 2018
Then silence. Not even a single ADR.
Ordered 1st GCMS notes April 2018 everything looked perfect.
Then complete silence.
Ordered 2nd GCMS notes July 2018, this never arrived
Wrote Raplh who confirmed Eligibility and Security not yet started.
More silence, not even a ghost update
October 3rd 2018 ordered 3rd set of GCMS notes. Arrived Nov. 1st. Still same as April notes. My file had not been touched since March 2018. Eligibility and Security not yet started.
Wrote a 3rd mail to Ralph on Nov 4th who was gracious enough to respond (Ralph responds only once). He confirmed that my eligibility and security was not yet started and my application cannot be expedited.
Nov 8th, like a dream ! my PPR!

Checked email and profile this morning and saw nothing.

By 2pm during my lunch break, I saw a mail notification, I wanted to ignore but decided to check.

I saw a mail from donotreply@cic.gc.ca that I have an update on my profile. I was excited, that finally I am getting a ghost update / adr.

I logged into my cic acct and saw my profile was updated. I was so excited,thinking it was just a ghost update and that finally my file was receiving attention. I wanted to log out but I felt the nudge to proceed and click on view complete application which I did.

Nothing seemed to have changed, my background check was still in process, I was about to log out again, when I felt that urge to scroll further down to the mail section.

I saw I had a new mail, titled request letter. I already concluded that it was an ADR for fresh bank statement. Love and behold, it was the almighty PPR.

I wasn't expecting it to come without an ADR for updated POF since my application had been pending for almost 10months. I lost appetite immediately, and was was just screaming. I couldn't share the news with my colleagues, so I just lied to them that my husband got a new job!�.

I am immensely grateful to God Almighty who did not put me to shame. Delay is not denial. Though it tarries, it must surely come.

Thank you all for all the love and support.

Off to take my pictures and submit tomorrow.

This year has been so challenging. hubby and I lost our jobs, all our money tied at POF, we were feeding from Hand to mouth and struggled to pay school fees. Infact this September, we had to change their schools to a very cheap school.

God bless you all.

Nazor83:
IT'S PPR Guys.

Congratulations our latest Elder. Cheers!!!
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Below is our timeline.

Family of 5
CSR - 456
ITA - June 25
AOR - Sept 12
MEP/BIL - Oct 9
Biometrics Done - Oct 16
PPR - Nove 9

I don't know where to start but I will thank God first for today. All praise belong to him.
I will thank all the guys here especially those who make out time to share information on the platform. I learnt a lot here. I was encouraged by other people's struggles and stories. I also got the link that helped with our major breakthrough in the journey here. I will not say am a silent reader but when I applied to be an elder Newmum0615, Macstan, Tojued and co did not consider me. How can Newmum0615 who is my junior in Engineering faculty in UNIZIK be an elder and I will not be an elder....lol. Thanks a lot guys. The company I enjoyed here throughout the journey has been superb.

Around April last year when we thought of this journey, I was not sure we will get enough points to get ITA so we wanted to go through the study route. It was at that point that I joined Nairaland study group. I convinced my wife to take IELTS which she did and did well and we applied to a school in Nova Scotia and got admission but later my brother who lives in Canada got his PR and the prospect of getting extra 15 points shifted our attention to EE again. We took IELTS (General) together and my wife cleared the thing. She has B.A in English sha. Along the line I also confirmed from the contact I got in NTI Kaduna that people have successfully validated their PGDE with WES and that finally changed the story.

For POF we used a joint account. We also had my PFA account statement but to avoid stories that touch the heart, the money we had in the joint account covered the basic POF needed. The PFA account was just added as extra.

The major challenge we had was hussle for 2 or more certificates. That is where I will always be grateful to Nairaland. I came here and asked if anybody had evaluated the PGDE from NTI. The first time nobody responded but when I asked again, a good friend here gave me a contact tin NTI, Kaduna. Prior to that, we went to their office in the city we live and applied for the transcript but the man there did not look like somebody that knows what he is doing. We applied in December, 2017 and till about February, 2018 the request had not been sent and there was no guarantee it will be pushed. This necessitated my question here for clue which finally paid off.

For those that are still in the journey, my advise is that you should persevere. We had our moments of doubt. We spent money to get things done but at the end success makes you forget what you went through.

ALWAYS FOCUS ON THE GOAL. FORGET ALL DISTRACTIONS AND DON'T BE DISCOURAGED.

Adaji26:



If you know anyone in WAEC Office, contact them to respond (or do small PR), otherwise just wait. Mine was NECO and it took about two weeks to get response from NECO and my University. But both responses were received the same week.

Tojued:


Lol. I think it's just evidence that Nigerians make up the bulk of their clients. They've found a way to reduce our patronage so their workload has reduced.

gook:


Spouse here....God has blessed your hand work.I remember being skeptical when she came up with the whole dream.Before I knew it she paid for ECA and got it done..Paid for my IETLS & so on...After a while, I woke up and we started chasing the dream together.

beeodun:


...all this PDA things just be making someone blush anyhow.LOL. Iyawo,you’re the real MVP. Double congratulations to you both!! Enjoy this new year of yours on a grand scale![color=#770077][/color]

melaninpopping:
Praise God with me!

Decision 10 Dec 2017
Registered for ielts and ECA same day (10 Dec 2017)
IELTS BC 20 January 2018
ECA February 2018
CRS 449
ITA 21 February 2018
New baby March 2018
AOR 21 April 2018
Mep/IP1 28 April 2018
Silence.............
IP2&PPR 5 October 2018
New passport for son 10 October 2018
Passports submitted 12 October 2018
Application approved October 2018
COPR 8 November 2018

VO Kiev
No ADRs
Family of six
POF cash in regular savings

Kmgb:
Been grinning from reading so many awesome news this morning. Congratulations aworldcitizen,melaninpoppin,fabmummy and gook,nazor83,pejuhazel,wassey and everyone celebrating

@SkyWalk12, I believe Accra is trying to keep u from disturbing them it will come this year by Gods grace.

@ijoseda,I sent them a similar tweet for my spouse ECA back then and got the same response. ECA came as scheduled,not even a day before,so you are lucky.

@dumprep,thanks for your reply,still waoting to hear from them sha,session is next tuesday

canadianxmas:
Who told you I didn't find out? Ogbeni park welloo !!

Nazor83:
IT'S PPR Guys.

Below is our timeline.

Family of 5
CSR - 456
ITA - June 25
AOR - Sept 12
MEP/BIL - Oct 9
Biometrics Done - Oct 16
PPR - Nove 9


ALWAYS FOCUS ON THE GOAL. FORGET ALL DISTRACTIONS AND DON'T BE DISCOURAGED.

resa123:

Please @Adaji26 , I sent you an email, your response will be appreciated.

aworldcitizen:
Praise to the Lord the Almighty the king of creation!
Gather round people, it's PPR!

Below is my timeline
Decision to travel August 2017.
Family of 5
Visa office: initially London, moved to kyiv in August.
IELTS: September 2017.
My IELTS was written once and was perfect 9,8,8,8.
Spouse IELTS 7.5,7.5,7,7
ECA: Masters Nov 2017
Entered the pool Dec.
ITA January
AOR January 17th 2018
Medical Passed Feb 11th 2018
IP1 Feb 12th 2018
IP2 Feb 27th 2018

Nov 8th, like a dream ! my PPR!
God bless you all.

ijoseda:
Acronym Alert:

PDA - Public Display of Affection.

To the initiated, it can also mean Patent Ductus Arteriosus

Can someone add to page 1 pls?

Your head is there #IfYouKnowYouKnow

wasseynewest:
[On some issues dt has called for debate btw IDP MOD Vs BC, Personally, i feel both are very similar but one must admit the pressure is not much at MOD centres compared to BC.

On whether Nigerians are deliberately marked down especially in WRITING, I believe so because in Nigeria, u just cannot trust anybody. Common! this examiners are paid from these exams & if they passed every1 easily, these might affect their pay too. Or, are we saying Indians that has the highest number of Immigrants are better than us in English? Surprisingly, we have seen testimonies from people that sat for IELTS in foreign countries and had better result compared to when they had it here in Naija.

Finally, let no one feel he/she cannot pass IELTS, i feel the difference btw those who axed it once & we that passed after multiple attempts is d time dedication to practice & background. With constant practice, we will become familiar with all question types and best approach to tackle them. Especially Writing, u have to write at least an essay(after careful study) per day to develop d writing skills "as required by IELTS". Same goes for Listening and Reading. These I personally discovered to be d secret to my success in IELTS. I began to write 2 letters a day, 3 Listening practice on YouTube with max concentration & a Reading test each day. This really helped me in the exam cos there is hardly a question type I have nvr practiced, thus saving me huge amount of time to crosscheck my R,W & L. Above all, PRAYER IS THE MASTER KEY author=wasseynewest post=72809222]Alas!SUCCESS!!!
My people, like play like play,myself & wifey began this journey. We started with WES and IELTS simultaneously. Of course knowing fully well we needed to score d 8,777.
MAY IELTS(BC) : LRWS: 7,6,6,7 AND 7,5.5,6,7
JUNE IELTS(BC): LRWS: 7,6,6,7 AND 7.5,7,6,7
JULY IELTS(BC): LRWS: 7.5, 6.5,6,7.5 AND 8,7.5,6.5,7.5.
Around this time, d outcome of our WES came out & surprisingly, my Evaluation was 2 or more certs(HND), while wifey's B.sc was d normal B.sc. That was how we see say am more suitable as PA with anticipated CRS of 441-450 depending on IELTS. Although, I wasn't too serious with d IELTS thing initially as I knew even 6,6,6,6 would be enough for me as Sec.Applicant then.
To play it safe, I enrolled myself and wifey for a 4th IELTS(with BC) in August, our scores this time were LRWS: 8,7,6,Abs. & 8,7.5,6.5,7
I decided to call for remark for my wifeys' writing of both July & Aug hoping to at least be at 400+ if successful and jejely await nomination. Unfortunately, both EOR came out without increase. At this point, I have spent almost 1M combined, including our WES and Hotel bookings during exams.
A friend of mine introduced me to IDP MOD & I decided to register with MOD. This time i registered alone for Sept29th test. Result came out LRWS: 8,6,7,7. I was terribly downhrted cos I can't remember when last I have studied that much. I bet u there is no material I nvr used(with 85% concentration on LIZ), funnily, the reading module was my favourite cos in d practice tests I did prior to the exam I have been scoring 36&37 conveniently, even the reading module was the simplest for me during d exam & was expecting minimum of 8.5. These made me request for EOR(46K) and at the same time registered again with MOD Oct 27th exam. The EOR came out after 11days with d result unchanged. This time I have already sat for Oct27th awaiting the result. Trust me in btw there are times I felt completely drained and exhausted, I fasted & prayed and in all sincerity I cried at times.
Low & behold!! Result is out o!! LRWS: 8.5,7,7,7. Now at 444(CRS), I don siddon berekete for pool like landlord against Mon/Tuesday draw.
To all those thinking abt giving up? Abeg iffa hear?? We die there mehn!!! Cos Truth is, if my Oct 27th hadn't been fruitful, I would have enrolled for Nov10th again.
& did I hear u say "start gathering documents"(in Ifeoma's tone)?, I bet they are all almost ready.....lol

Masekid:
Praise be to the ALMIGHTY GOD.

Silent reader here!

People I have passed IELTS at last.

1st attempt BC (Aug18): LRWS 8,7,6.5,7.5 Remark came back negative.
2nd attempt BC(SEPT27): LRWS 8.5,7,6.5,7.5 Remark came back negative today o.
3rd attempt MOD (OCT29): LRWS 9,7.5,7,8

Crs score @ 460.

The writing module almost made me go crazy, after going through almost all sites you can think of.

I wanna say a special thank you to @ArcUgo for the writing material he posted. It made a difference.

I wish everyone the very best in this PR journey. It shall all end in praise.

Fabmummy:
It's PPR

The journey that started with so much uncertainty has ended with praise. Thank you Jesus. 

1st  IELTS LRSW  7.5,6,7,7
2nd IELTS LRSW  7,6.5,7,7
3rd  IELTS LRSW  7.5,7.5,7,7.5
4th  IELTS LRSW  8.5,8,7,6.5
5th  IELTS LRSW  9,8.5,7.5,6.5

I asked for a remark on the 4th attempt, speaking got upgraded to 7.5 and writing also got upgrade to 7.
EOR came after 8weeks, just 2 days after I checked the 5th result.


NOC 1228 - reference letter + 6 months payslips

1 UK visa refusal- didn't fill schedule A upfront and it wasn't requested, Only answered the statutory questions and stated the month and year I was refused and a sentence on why I was refused.

NO TRAVEL HISTORY


SPOUSE:
IELTS -LRSW 7.5,8,7,7
UK travel history....provided UK PCC
No ECA for spouse

POF: We submitted 2 FD letters, generic GTB reference letter and statements of the days spouse transferred money to my account and the days bank debited me for the FD. Also submitted pension fund reference letter and statement bla bla for 25% access to buff the acct Incase of exchange rate


CRS 459


ITA...... 25/4/18

AOR...... 29/6/18

MEP.......... 14/7/18

IP1..............14/7/18

ADR 1...............08/08/18- RPRF

ADR (Submitted ) 08/08/18

 09/10/18- SENT email to OVO to notify them of our newborn

ADR 2......... 09/10/18- documents to add newborn

ADR (submitted) 16/10/18 . Also sent a mail to my vo that ADR has been uploaded ( being over proactive lol)

Additional documents (17/10/18)- changed to NA

NEWBORN ADDED-17/10/18

MEDICAL(18/10/18)- Changed to we are reviewing your medical results.

MEP............. 24/10/18

IP2.................25/10/18

ADR 3.......... 26/10/18 - FORM IMM 5406 FOR SPOUSE

ADR (submitted ) 27/10/2018. Also sent a mail to my vo that ADR has been uploaded

Additional documents (28/10/18)- changed to NA


ADR 4........... 01/11/18 - FORM IMM 5406 FOR SPOUSE( to fill an updated one)

ADR (submitted ) 02/11/2018. Also sent a mail to my vo that ADR has been uploaded

Additional documents (03/11/18)- changed to NA

GHOST UPDATE........... 08/11/18

PPR.......... 09/11/18 dated 08/11/18

Mail came in 4.39am

Family of 4

Ottawa visa office

Thank God for the golden mail. I stopped looking forward to weekends because of this journey... But am thankful it has ended in praise.