bunmioluwa:
Dear Nairalanders, Kindly help me o, I need to clarify this "Yes, I had created my EE profile long before I sat for the first attempt of ielts, but didn't enter the pool until I got the required points for ITA. In other words, incase if that's what you want to know, you can create your profile right from the world go, provided you already have those documents you are claiming and not in anticipation. But for entering the EE pool, I would suggest you first of all ace the Ielts.". Before now, I think when you create an EE profile, you are in the pool. How does one enter the pool after the profile has been created? Do we need to do any other thing to enter pool aside creating and submitting the profile.

Creating an EE profile and entering the pool are one and the same

sibabe25:
They have refused to send it in writing that they will not give me reference letter. Although i have audio recordings.. I will go ahead with the other option. Many thanks

it's not that serious. Just get the reference from a colleague and notarize it. Then add LOE that you couldn't get an official reference letter from your HR. You can add payslips and offer/promotion letters

Thank you!

DrMrsCK:



Creating an EE profile and entering the pool are one and the same

No, it's not. You can create a profile and not be in the pool (useless but possible). It's only when you submit the profile that you get in the pool.

bunmioluwa:
Thank you!

jmnsimone:
No, it's not. You can create a profile and not be in the pool (useless but possible). It's only when you submit the profile that you get in the pool.

If you started filling the forms and didn't submit, then you didn't "create" it.

Sweet story.

Congratulations dear, I am really happy for you. I wish you speedy recovery in Jesus name.[quote author=Kemzyebony post=76033108]It’s PPR / COPR ☺️����

Our 2 years Immigration story ( Long post Alert)

Ielts - Nov 11, 2017
Wes started - October 6, 2017
Wes completed - March 6, 2018
Entered pool - March 24
ITA - May 23, 2018
AOR - July 1st, 2018
Medicals Passed & IP1 - July 17,2018
Ordered 1st Gcms notes - September 8th, never came till November 23rd
Informed CIC of marriage- September 11th,2018
Sent a reminder - September 20th, 2018
ADR request - September 20th, 2018, some-hours after sending reminder
Submitted ADR - September 29th,2018
Sent reminder - October 5th,2018
Spouse UCI updated - October 11th, 2018
Sent mail to Ralph - October 23rd, 2018
IP2 - October 26th, that’s when I saw it
File transferred from Ottawa to Accra - October 26th, according to 2nd gcms notes
Interview request - Jan 14,2019
Interview date - Jan 28, 2019
PPR - Jan 29,2019
Passport Submission - Jan 30,2019
Application Approved on cic account - Feb 15,2019
COPR - pickup - Feb 19, 2019


Appreciation: (to all those on nairaland that helped in my journey one way or the other , from WES till PPR, God bless y’all)
@kontagious @fanyeofori @jergins @fusion23 @newmum0615 @mummyjaygirls @cochtrane @happytbaby @nusetron @threadstone @einsteino @teecan @deesmama @4barr @lordsebastian @mcstan @ronnie1209 @threemg @tojued

My younger sis used to work with Diamond bank and she is using this for her work experience. She won't be through with her PGD till July.
So she's expecting ITA any time from September (when the statement of result will be ready)
Do you advice she requests for work reference letter from Diamond Bank now or wait till later (Diamond bank will be Access bank by then).
Pls I need your suggestions.

DrMrsCK:


If you started filling the forms and didn't submit, then you didn't "create" it.

Too much sense will not kill us o . Actually, there's a difference between creating and submitting a profile. Submitting your profile places you in the pool, creating the profile does not.

[quote author=adenikeO post=76151203]Sweet story.

Congratulations dear, I am really happy for you. I wish you speedy recovery in Jesus name.[/quo



congratulations
please what documents did you submit for spouse when cse was raised for marriage

Please, I think I have read almost everything on page one. However, I want to find out these:

1. What is the exact document required to show proof of age? For those born in the late 1970s and 1980s? Can we use the Birth Certificate issues us at birth by the hospital and state government?

2. If you are moving with your spouse, does he/she require to show birth certificate?

bunmioluwa:
Dear Nairalanders, Kindly help me o, I need to clarify this "Yes, I had created my EE profile long before I sat for the first attempt of ielts, but didn't enter the pool until I got the required points for ITA. In other words, incase if that's what you want to know, you can create your profile right from the world go, provided you already have those documents you are claiming and not in anticipation. But for entering the EE pool, I would suggest you first of all ace the Ielts.". Before now, I think when you create an EE profile, you are in the pool. How does one enter the pool after the profile has been created? Do we need to do any other thing to enter pool aside creating and submitting the profile.

Creating your express entry profile and entering into the pool are two different things. You create a profile first and foremost in your journey to Canada �.

Log on to cic.gc.ca to create your profile.

[quote author=saxyminia post=76151766][/quote]

Scandinavian02:
Please, I think I have read almost everything on page one. However, I want to find out these:

1. What is the exact document required to show proof of age? For those born in the late 1970s and 1980s? Can we use the Birth Certificate issues us at birth by the hospital and state government?

2. If you are moving with your spouse, does he/she require to show birth certificate?

Yes, you can use the birth certificate issued to your parents by the government at the time of your birth.

I used a sworn affidavit, collected when I gained admission in 2001 into Yaba Tech. Though, I did the attestation of age collected from the national population commission, with my wife, but we didn't use it eventually.

CoPR pick-up, today, Tuesday, 26th February, 2019.

Alhamdulilah!

Expected date of departure, July, 30th 2019.

Destination: Toronto, Mississauga.

Would appreciate any link up for Jobs

mbhs139:
CoPR pick-up, today, Tuesday, 26th February, 2019.

Alhamdulilah!

Expected date of departure, July, 30th 2019.

Destination: Toronto, Mississauga.

Would appreciate any link up for Jobs

Congrats bro. Pay a visit to the Living in Canada thread here.

Kemzyebony:
It’s PPR / COPR ☺️����

Our 2 years Immigration story ( Long post Alert)

Ielts - Nov 11, 2017
Wes started - October 6, 2017
Wes completed - March 6, 2018
Entered pool - March 24
ITA - May 23, 2018
AOR - July 1st, 2018
Medicals Passed & IP1 - July 17,2018
Ordered 1st Gcms notes - September 8th, never came till November 23rd
Informed CIC of marriage- September 11th,2018
Sent a reminder - September 20th, 2018
ADR request - September 20th, 2018, some-hours after sending reminder
Submitted ADR - September 29th,2018
Sent reminder - October 5th,2018
Spouse UCI updated - October 11th, 2018
Sent mail to Ralph - October 23rd, 2018
IP2 - October 26th, that’s when I saw it
File transferred from Ottawa to Accra - October 26th, according to 2nd gcms notes
Interview request - Jan 14,2019
Interview date - Jan 28, 2019
PPR - Jan 29,2019
Passport Submission - Jan 30,2019
Application Approved on cic account - Feb 15,2019
COPR - pickup - Feb 19, 2019


Appreciation: (to all those on nairaland that helped in my journey one way or the other , from WES till PPR, God bless y’all)
@kontagious @fanyeofori @jergins @fusion23 @newmum0615 @mummyjaygirls @cochtrane @happytbaby @nusetron @threadstone @einsteino @teecan @deesmama @4barr @lordsebastian @mcstan @ronnie1209 @threemg @tojued


My story is a long one and I’m grateful to Almighty Allah for the progress so far and his blessings on me and my fam.

The Beginning - I first heard about express entry in 2017, my boss got it, my colleague was about to get it then. I did some research and then decided I think I want this, an amazing life for me and my kids. I told my baby ( my then bf , now hubby).. he wasn’t interested then o, said you can make it in naija, kinikan kinikan , hmmm . I tried to convince him then, I just said let me start first . Started my WES October 2017, wrote my ielts a month after( passed in one sitting).

WES - Then I mistakenly or just mumuly decided to use nipost for WES just to buy time , maybe baby would agree, that’s how my village people caught up to me o and strike started . The up and down ehn , sorting people , spending money, Wes finally came through.

Work experience/CRS score - Then the wait for 3 years experience nko as I just wanted to use one workplace to claim points. Finally it was complete, then another wait for crs to drop to 441... oh I forgot, Passport expired in between all of the above (after ielts though)

Passport matter - Then the debate to wait and do court with change of name or just renew like that, by this time baby was already feeling the Canadian waka small small , he had gotten his Internationàl passport, even did ielts, he passed,but his score wasn’t up to mine(maxing out the ielts score )...

Single Or As a Couple ? - Back to me doing this alone at first. So I said babe let’s do court na and apply as a couple, baby was like no o, everything is a process, I must propose, then do intro, then court can follow, I said babe hmm adding spouse in between is one kind o. But I can’t propose to my self abi or do court with myself, i sha continued.

ITA - Well, ITA showed up, I didn’t have issues with POF ( used First bank treasury bills, stanbic fixed deposit , stanbic money market investment funds), Alhamdulillah... I sha chilled till July, so I can add my love in between, so it won’t be too early .

AOR - Hence my AOR July 1st, then the race began, constant profile checking, oh lest I forget , before this I met amazing people in our May ITA group , TEECAN , my brother Threemg(love you bro ), my sissy deesmama(AOR mate) and now close friend, we’re plenty small in that group and I hope our prayers would all be answered soonest.

I forgot to mention, baby proposed before I even got ITA, then we did a huge introduction ceremony and a small court wedding ceremony , all this while , my file was at Ottawa . Now it was time to add my hubby. Sent a mail, i got ADR, too many requests o, but we did it sha and submitted... they added my baby beginning of October or so..then I got IP2 some days after, Alhamdulillah, was so happy I buzzed deesmama straight that she should check her profile , she didn’t get that day, but got the next day and ppr the Monday afterwards... amazing period

The Wait - Then the wait started, where’s ppr nah, everyone was getting ppr up and down , but the thing didn’t reach me... hmmm...called an agent , the guy was super rude , was just using me to catch cruise...
I called like 2 weeks after again then I heard the dreaded news, file was at Accra, I cried ehn, didn’t believe my ears, I told my bro straight @threemg, he said I should not worry, meanwhile I ordered gcms notes, as the first one refused to come (ended up getting here later)...when it finally came all was passed but a section called « other Reqs » showed not started, the type of check was non compliance check, mogbe.. I researched, checked canada visa forum, nothing, my worry was now in full force...

Accra VO gang - Then I joined the Accra VO gang, I’m glad now that Accra VO is performing, there are rumors that they have a processing window of January till March, you might see a lot of PPRs from Accra this period.... I pray they extend this their window so at least they can attend to all, please release my people Abeg... . I Met a couple of friends and caring people in the group,I thought I was going to be depressed in the group, but the support was reassuring....anyways by this time I didn’t check nairaland again before I enter depression things.. @threemg added me to the group, then we all started surviving together...

Interview things - Fast forward to January 14th, request for interview , both me and spouse had to attend, we also had to come with all evidence of our relationship from the onset and they gave us just 2 weeks to prepare.. Ahhhh gbese, called hubby straight , called my bro @threemg... and as you’ve already guessed, I cried ehn, tears couldn’t stop flowing, so many regrets, but I never regretted ever adding my baby, most of the regrets was all around maybe waiting till IP2 or after PPr or adding more documents or something sha..

I must say this, I’m quite pessimistic as well, that didn’t help me in this journey at all...please let’s be optimistic in this journey o, very important Abeg.

My story is long abi, hmm it hasn’t finished o, keep reading...


Interview Prep- The documents gathering started, you know this modern day love na soft copies of pictures dey our phone, we used over 20k to print 200pictures... I went to airtel office for phone records between hubby and I, those ones used me to catch cruise too, said they could only give me 3 months worth of records, as a naija girl, i also applied at another office, so I could maybe get 6 months altogether, they caught me sha o ( but I still found a way out)... I took screenshots of our iMessage chats, we exported whatsapp chat, we printed hotel receipts of all our escapades, we printed pictures of gifts we ever gave each other that we snapped, what didn’t we get...hmm


The Interview ( Summary)

We took days off, we booked our flights, flew a day before , got in late at night to Accra, then we decided to eat something ( spaghetti and sauce), you see we thought it was familiar, what could be wrong right?.. well here goes, I couldn’t sleep well, I vomited the next morning, hubby was purging... ahh gbese...the devil can’t win naw, after we have come this far...

Meanwhile our Accra Gang they throway prayer for us, our interview gang too, my May ITA group too, my siblings, my friends.... their prayers were answered o .....

Interview went amazingly well... lady was nice, hmm... let me rest, would continue later...


Cont’d


Back to the matter!!

So we got to the embassy, right on time, they collected all phone, all wristwatches, most things sha, but I still went in with my bag after they searched thoroughly, we dropped our documents with the receptionists and held on to some other supporting docs. We could hear an interview going well, the lady ended up passing and was asked to either come the next day or submit her passports from Lagos. Kai we were happy for her o and gingered ....

At this time, just hubby and I were at the waiting room, we waited and waited o, they didn’t call us, I even dozed off small, finally after about 1hr 30mins of waiting... I was called, she apologized for the delay, such an amazing lady, she was nice as well... then the questions came o ( another story), highlight was that the interview was almost like a spousal sponsorship interview, i told her the truth, adding interesting information in between, she was just laughing, me sef laugh join...one thing was for sure I made sure all I said was the truth about our relationship, because hubby was next and our answers at least had to match small.....

The Verdict - Hubby’s turn, she asked almost the same things, it went well o.... then she asked hubby to call me, and then she told us the good news , that we passed , you need to see the way we jumped, then she said in that moment when I told you guys, I could see the love, mehn we beamed even more. She then asked when we were traveling, we said tonight, she said they can only stamp our passports and issue COPR tomorrow or we wait till we get back to lagos, hubby said when we get to lagos ..... sigh

Hmm, we sha told her thank you and left... I was happy and sad ( left to me , we go reschedule flight and collect our thing sharply next day), but hubby kept saying he had to go back, I cried and cried , kept wondering why he didn’t see the importance the way I did... hmmm... didn’t talk to him o... finally I couldn’t stand to see him feeling so bad, sha told him how I felt and we settled...

Off to lagos back, Shebi all is well that ends well, next day ppr mail entered, I was so freaking happy, called hubby straight, told my Accra and Interview gang, I sharply carry passport say make I go submit. Got to hubby’s car o, na so stomach pain start again( at this time I knew village people were really trying , but I also knew Allah was stronger than them)... hubby rushed me to the emergency room in the hospital o, took drip, hubby stayed with me for a while... then I went back home as I was cleared...

Then I submitted the next day...


I know my story is very long, I even missed out some part , so that people won’t get bored and to conceal my identity lol. This journey was something else...all my friends had gotten , people I put through, I knew the process to a large extent , why my journey was longer, I don’t know but I know Allah knows best ...

I didn’t call out advices, but I’m sure if you read my story well, you would have picked one or two...oh and if you find out you have an interview with your spouse due to addition or something, don’t be scared , you can also reach out to me...

I sincerely thank all my friends, my family, my newly made friends from whatsapp support groups, nairaland forum and friends made here.... without the support, I may have given up.

Now I pray for good health as we must get to our second country InshaAllah...

It ended in praise . Alhamdulillah!!!!!!!!!!!

is it compulsory that there would be an interview when adding spouse

Congratulations!

mbhs139:
CoPR pick-up, today, Tuesday, 26th February, 2019.

Alhamdulilah!

Expected date of departure, July, 30th 2019.

Destination: Toronto, Mississauga.

Would appreciate any link up for Jobs

Please what is the implication of declining an ITA? Does it scrap my profile? Or do I still remain in the pool?

johnnybravo1990:
Please what is the implication of declining an ITA? Does it scrap of my profile? Or do I still remain in the pool?

It has no effect on your profile. You'll still remain in the pool. Do you need help? Do you wanna share the reason you're declining your ITA?

Has anyone been able to check IELTS exam of 14th February 2019?

Josefuadjr:


It has no effect on your profile. You'll still remain in the pool. Do you need help? Do you wanna share the reason you're declining your ITA?

I may not raise the POF before the deadline.

johnnybravo1990:


I may not raise the POF before the deadline.

Wow bro! Thought you were kidding when you asked if anyone has 2M they're angry at. What was your CRS?

Topsmamen:


Wow bro! Thought you were kidding when you asked if anyone has 2M they're angry at. What was your CRS?

I nor dey joke o. You get any better for me? CRS 465

I think this is done boss mi.

peejay03:
Thank you. I will do the needful.

princesschuks:
My younger sis used to work with Diamond bank and she is using this for her work experience. She won't be through with her PGD till July.
So she's expecting ITA any time from September (when the statement of result will be ready)
Do you advice she requests for work reference letter from Diamond Bank now or wait till later (Diamond bank will be Access bank by then).
Pls I need your suggestions.

I think she should get it now

johnnybravo1990:


I nor dey joke o. You get any better for me? CRS 465

Ok. It's best to decline that ITA. I presume your deadline is fast approaching. 465 will definitely get you ITA in the next round.

Topsmamen:


Too much sense will not kill us o . Actually, there's a difference between creating and submitting a profile. Submitting your profile places you in the pool, creating the profile does not.

My bad

bunmioluwa:
Dear Nairalanders, Kindly help me o, I need to clarify this "Yes, I had created my EE profile long before I sat for the first attempt of ielts, but didn't enter the pool until I got the required points for ITA. In other words, incase if that's what you want to know, you can create your profile right from the world go, provided you already have those documents you are claiming and not in anticipation. But for entering the EE pool, I would suggest you first of all ace the Ielts.". Before now, I think when you create an EE profile, you are in the pool. How does one enter the pool after the profile has been created? Do we need to do any other thing to enter pool aside creating and submitting the profile.

Sorry for the virus

wasseynewest:
I think this is done boss mi.

Thanks boss. Ehen, my vocab is getting a little rusty chief. Should I fall in for some tutorials?

Ifeoma77:

I think she should get it now

Thanks for your response

Hello guys, great work y'all doing.
I like to know if i can use online certification like Alyson as Professional Certification in my application.

johnnybravo1990:


I may not raise the POF before the deadline.

Decline it. Sell off some things and see if you are close. Call family and friends too