slydog:
How long should Wes use in updating profile? Second verification of degree was done on 24th of January and Wes immediately confirmed that a new document was received. Yesterday was exactly two weeks after this, status is yet to change. I've sent mail, no response. What else can I do?

14 working days.

slydog:
How long should Wes use in updating profile? Second verification of degree was done on 24th of January and Wes immediately confirmed that a new document was received. Yesterday was exactly two weeks after this, status is yet to change. I've sent mail, no response. What else can I do?

Call them out on twitter

Alberta province accepts Administrative assistant, it’s part of their job in demand. Evaluate your degree, Write ielts minimum score is L8 R7 W7 S7
But I think pnp accepts low ielts score. Not sure tho
Alberta’s last draw was 350, so try and get 350 above or 400 and above. I’m also kinda starting so ask other people for enquires.
Ps: check page 1, use the crs calculator to calculate your score.



?.Am new to this and that's why am asking. pls I want to ask if work visa for skilled people( actually I operate 2 kinds of printing machines like ctcp and large format and I got my certification in printing). pls what kind of program do u opt for. I also have my hnd in accountancy with a year experience at DPR as an administrative assistance in the accounting department....pls which immigration plan is best for me.[/quote]

[quote author=Wendyok post=86480044][Track application on Wes ke....

I also finished from unilag ma’am. My tracking number which i copied from unilag records was used to track my transcript sent on wes.org after logging on. And i go the response as in the pic attached. And in my case within 48hrs it was uploaded and now am requested to send my certificate which i just sent yesterday via hellofax.
Although i know someone whose tracking number gave same response and its well over 48hrs and nothing has changed.
Note: i was able to get the screen shot now because i tracked with the other person acc and she got the tracking number before me.

missnigeria:
Good day all.

Am planning to relocate and work legally in Canada in the next few months. Please what advice can you give?.

Any useful information on how to go about it.
How difficult is it to get job? Life style and the settlement Pattern. How much should I budget for my basic traveling allowances (BTA).Any agency or Canada recruiter

Your useful advice is highly welcome

start reading from page 1

Good evening. I wanted to submit my application this afternoon when I discovered that I didn't include my Son's Middle name. I modified family information but its not reflecting! Will it still reflect later? If yes, when please? I have 2 days left. Or can I go ahead to submit my application? His names are correct on every document uploaded. Only that my express entry profiles shows only his last and first names

toastadeola:


14 working days.

What should happen in 14 working days pls?

[quote author=SoftWorking post=86486960][/quote] Madam or Mister. You don't track your transcripts or documents from Wes site, track from the courier company, DHL or UPS as the case may be. It will in 7 days time otherwise tweet at @ WesCanada . Peace

[quote author=SoftWorking post=86486960][/quote]Madam or Mister. You don't track your transcripts or documents from Wes site, track from the courier company, DHL or UPS as the case may be. It will in 7 days time otherwise tweet at @ WesCanada . Peace

You can track from WES website to confirm if they received it or not.

please I need people who have concluded their ECA with WES to help with this issue. my completion date for evaluation was stated as 7/2/2020. but till now still reflecting "we are evaluation your report" . please why has my status not change after this date has passed? please response highly needed

geezonaire1415:
please I need people who have concluded their ECA with WES to help with this issue. my completion date for evaluation was stated as 7/2/2020. but till now still reflecting "we are evaluation your report" . please why has my status not change after this date has passed? please response highly needed

Give it till Monday.

slydog:


What should happen in 14 working days pls?

That's the official time frame it takes WES to review ones document.

kiari:


You can go ahead with it, someone got ppr already on a WhatsApp group. She used WES which evaluated it as a Canadian diploma(one semester). Other evaluating bodies like CES & ICES also gave a positive evaluation.
cheers!

Please brother, add me to the group, I need help seriously.
This is my WhatsApp number 09070174294

Kekereekun123:
no need

Okay thanks alot.

Hello! Does my bank statement have to be for the past 6 months? What if I sold my asset like an inherited land and deposited the lump sum in my account..can that be accepted?

please who knows anything about writing ielts in dubai?

yemiciea:


I got letter of non indebtedness from GTB admiralty branch in Lekki and I never took a loan from them plus I don’t have a salary account with them.
I believe it’s how you approach them for it and explain what it’s needed for or maybe not all branches can give the letters

I also got from FBN but my account officer had to get it from the HQ. She said it could only come from them but any branch can request it fro their customers.

PLSHELEP:
Not so silent reader all along.

ITA - August 14
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Full gist loading in a bit.

The guidance here was sos helpful... I don’t even know what I’m typing sef. Make Una wait, I Dey come ��‍♂️

Timeline:
ITA - August 16
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3 (Update of documents & VO)
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Where do I start from? Cause this Canada journey has started from as far back as 2011.

I finished NYSC and decided to go for masters in Canada with my 2.2, went to PFL (Preparation for Life - an education consultant) and they did their normal normal, paid for all and was advised to just go for a diploma. Money wasted with PFL, started my application for PGD by myself and got offers from Seneca, Humber and Cetennial. Oya Mumsy come and drop money for this Canada something o, na so story enter... long story short, she had other plans for me to join my siblings in the UK. This was already end of 2012, and the UK has just scrapped their post-study work visa (why I do not like Theresa May till date and was happy how she was treated with all this brexit nonsense, I digress)

Moved to the UK, January 2013... finished my masters degree, met the LOML, hustled a tier 2 visa, things still didn’t add up, I started looking towards Canada again. This was January 2015 already and I think ITA draws were around 700 at the time, so I fashied it. If you don’t know where you’re going to, please know where you’re coming from... so I packed my bags and Naija next flight.

Got a job in Naija in 2 months (Aug 2015) and I thank God for his blessings upon me. I stayed at my job, happy and content with no wahala but still used one eye to be eyeing Canada as one of my main line is “Never get too comfortable and always make your next move at your most comfortable”.

Struggles of life kicked in and I lost my Dad in 2017 (still feels like yesterday). He never understood why I came back to Naija and has always said I should go to Canada (you know how these parents want their children to be spread all over the world, sisters are in the UK and US, so he wants Canada for me. Maybe it would make him happier knowing that he has dropped his seeds at every corner of the world type thing) Anyway, upon his death, I revisited the CIC website and opened another profile, calculated my score again, checked my WES account (I already had one from my former waka with Canada). Requested for my masters transcript and got it going. Hence ECA was a breeze.

IELTS (The Almighty Writing)
I had written IELTS Academic once in the UK and it was easy, all scores above 8. So I thought “no be IELTS?” Mschew, I’ll blow it out of the park. Then I wrote the first General Exam in 2017 without even knowing that the Listening has to be 8. It came back and wasn’t up to scratch, so I gave it 6 months as I was not in a hurry. Then Feb 2018 I wrote another one, Reading came short, I’m like, do this people know who they are messing with, I’ve read masters o!!! How can I score 6.5 in reading?? I didn’t know the future was telling me to drop my shoulders. I took the test again, then Writing showed itself, this time I’m like “Me, writing?? Who helped me write my 18,000 word dissertation, this people must be joking”. I applied for a remark, nothing changed o. Gave it another go about 4 months later, writing came back at 6.5 again. At this point, I’m like “Eyin village people, una well done o”. I just fashied it and went on holiday with the LOML to gather all the inspirizle I could gather. Came back and wrote it again for the 5th time. This time I used videos and practiced... don’t still think I practiced enough but I was humble sha. Score came back at LSRW: 9,8.5,9,7

Ese o, Nagode... I’ll take it like that, all I need is 7 in writing. Almighty writing, thanks for humbling me o. God, I thank you.

ITA
I slid into the pool with my already created account at 473, was rest assured I would get it on a Wednesday in August 2019. The Wednesday came and I think it was during Ileya, I went about eating my meat as it should be. It didn’t come on the Wednesday It was supposed to come, but I wasn’t perturbed as I knew my score would give me ITA. It eventually came as a surprise, I think people called it Suprise ITA at the time as it came on a Monday or so. Well, I had already emailed both qlife and IOM, so no suprise anything, we been here a long time, let’s do this.

Medicals
Having mailed them both, I chose to use IOM although it was more expensive but I knew I didn’t want any time wasting as qlife gave me a later date. I drove all the way from the island to the mainland as early as I could and didn’t mind, got there about 6:45 and met a few people, went about it like normal business and was out of there around 11am. No fear, no scare... we thank God and we move.

PCC
This was easy as Inspector Moshood made it cool and straight forward. Gave him 5,500 although I knew people paid less, but what’s 5,500 in this journey, you don’t want to know how much IELTS took from me. Also, didn’t want to waste time.

Since I schooled in the Uk and spent more than 6 months there, I also need UK PCC. That was a breeze, as I applied online and wrote my GF’s address ( same as the LOML, don’t be confused... Lol). Got it back in due time, asked her to scan (snap) and send, she did and sent back the black and white copy (I knew no better, wait till the end).

Both PCCs obtained, we move.

POF
Got it from my mama, God bless her or I mean I did the Deed of Gift from her. I thank God for all those who had my back. I didn’t want to fix or do any mutual fund anything cause at the time when I was applying, I heard a lot of stories about people who did FD, MF getting ADR for POF and I also thought well, if the minimum tenure for most would be 6 months wouldn’t that mean they would think you can’t access the money until after the period? Plenty overkaku sha but I opted out of fixing it. I put it in my salary account, got a statement of account, got highlighters and highlighted my salary one color and the tranches of deposit into my account to show as POF another color. Explained that in my letter of explanation and even used the color as color key in the letter. Also got my deed of gift notarized at the court, some say it isn’t necessary... I sha did it o.

Other documents
Got my reference letter stating who I be, what I is and what I do. Got pay slips for 6 months as well.

Application time
I wanted to make sure I submitted before August 2019 ran out. Got all the documents scanned and placed in folders on my google drive. Opened my CIC account carefully placed them there, merging documents with pdf2go when I had to and splitting documents when I had to. The application was fun. Added the LOE at the end. Checked about 3 times that I put everything where they were supposed to be at and then I prayed as I sent it, used the Holy Ghost and name of God to click send. August 31 AOR.

Post AOR
Then I begun looking for groups to join because knowledge is power. Joined a few with our Indian brothers in them but eventually got a Nigerian one. Was initially quiet but it was good to know that I ain’t alone on this journey.

CSE (webforms).... Three webforms
From my wakawaka on Nairaland and WhatsApp Groups, I realized my UK PCC should have been scanned colored... Haaaa this arabinrin of a LOML want to koba me ni sha... Eh Madam, please Oya scan colored and send to me Biko. We shall not hear stories that touch. So I raised my first CSE, uploaded it and got response about 10 days later that it has been added to my application and I would be contacted if any further enquiry is required. I say Ok!!!

Then I also read that Misrepresentation can lead to rejection of application and ban for 10 years. Jesu Kristi, God forbid bad thing... Err Acshually, there’s one time that I applied for one visa in the uk and I didn’t use it but I got it and I... the story is complex and complicated. I sought advice from a few guys online and via the WhatsApp groups and I got sound advice. God bless them all. I raised another CSE to that effect and got the same response about 10 days later. This was already getting to the 2 months post AOR mark.

Birthday was approaching and I was thanking God for everything, can the golden mail come on my birthday, well with God all things are possible but statistically I knew it was less likely as it would barely be over two months.

I stumbled on threads where people complained about Accra VO and NDVO being the worst... Hay God. What’s my VO bayi o? I proceeded with requesting for my VO and in another 10 days, it was stated to be Orrawa (if you know, you know). Thank God!!! We move

3 months POST AOR
The only ghost I saw was when my UCI changed, apart from that I check my account almost every other day. Don’t blame me. I had read that it’s beneficial to request for GCMS notes after the 3 months mark, it wouldn’t change anything other than you know what’s going on with your application. So I ordered for one at about Mid-November, instead of ordering the much delayed GCMS note, I order for the CBSA note which was a bit more expensive but what’s that in this journey.

May I add that the man has stayed low key all through, no extravagant anything. Just sit in my house during the weekends, watch football and cook (no money for eatery abeg). Then I decided to go on holiday during my birthday and it felt like the right time to get engaged, so that happened. May God continue to guide us to make the right decisions. We move... prayers continued

So I followed up with the WhatsApp group of my Indian brothers and I noticed a trend, this was mid December already. These men were impatient and they had started calling IRCC to know the status of their application. I carefully analyzed like 5 of them’s cases and noticed that they were getting PPR mail about 2 weeks after calling. Bear in mind they submitted their applications around early August, so most of them were past the 4 months mark at this point.

Oh well, I guess it’s about time i got to work. I had already downloaded FreeTone or something and wasted money but then I inquired further from some Nigerian brothers and was told Dingtone would do it... Oya let’s go!

Downloaded it and made a call on the 18th of December, spent about 15 minutes on hold then I got through to an agent who spoke French and English... Err Je parle Anglais s’il vous plait (Still learning on Duolingo, gimme 6 months and I’ll be flowing)... He asked a couple of security questions to which I responded and I then asked for status on Eligibility, Criminality, Security. He responded that medicals was passed ( I know that already), criminality passed (a dupe o, we no be criminal), eligibility recommended passed (huh, what’s that?) and security (not started). Would you want to know any other thing , he asked, No, that would be all for now I responded with a deep sigh of relief. I had read that recommended pass meant that junior officer has checked and recommends that your profile is eligible, it just then needs the approval of an Oga at the top to give it the final go ahead... that’s good!!! We can work with that, I thought.

I shared the news with a few egbons on the journey and they congratulated my that my golden mail would drop soon, I didn’t know if I should start jumping for joy as I was like Err it’s only more than 3 months o, the countdown in my profile is 6 months o... e ma gbe mi mora o. Anyway, there’s nothing God cannot do.

I knew what my plan was, at this point I was more Indian than Nigerian, so I decided to call again on the 24th of December, I got through again under 10 minutes of waiting... this is because I call as soon as it’s 8am Orrawa time. A lady picked up and we did the normal dance of security questions to which I obliged her all she needed. Then she asked, when last did you call, I acted dumb for a second and said 18th and she exclaimed... Really? And I’m like yuhhhh (ogbeni it’s me that know where the shoe is paining me in the leg o, you’re sitting down in your pretty office in Orrawa and I’m here having to call Ejire the mokalik to manage my kickstarter for me because ain’t nobody gonna buy a car at this quarter to leave Nigeria time)... anyway, yuhhhhh was a more concise response. She went on to scold me and told me not to call every week as my application is looking good and I should call again around the 6 months mark. I haff hear o.

Shower of blessing
So I noticed a Bureau Veritas profile checked my LinkedIn page. I had noticed this some months back but didn’t pay any mind to it but people stated that it could be a background check. IRCC checks your name on search engines to see what pops up. I resumed back to work on the 27th of December having had one of the most boring Christmases but that’s fine. When God wants to bless you, he’ll take chicken away to give you bokoto. I logged into my Cic account that morning and I saw Application/profile updated, I was like huh But how possible is this when yesterday was a holiday, so I went into my profile and came back to the place where I saw it and it has changed to submitted... HaaHa, so this is why it’s called a ghost. I ran to my WhatsApp group, eyin temi(my people) I saw something o, it do like this and then did like this. They were laughing at me... are you sure that’s what you saw? Walahi, it saw it. Ogbeni you couldn’t have seen it, yesterday was public holiday. Oh well, maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me but I told my people and we moved on. Some said then it’s not long anymore, our watch shall be over soon.

I got home, thought about sleeping then changed my mind and thought again that I would be better to stay awake till 11pm when the golden mail is known to drop in people’s mails. Oh well, man cannot come and kill himself, I’ve been at work all day and sleep did it’s thing. I woke up around 10:45 gerege and I caught the mail... I swear I caught when it dropped in my box, the time wasn’t 1m ago or anything, it stated “now”. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I opened it and I couldn’t read. I took a picture... sent to the WhatsApp group and the congratulations rolled in... the feeling is surreal I must tell you. I couldn’t sleep till 4am as several thoughts came to my mind.

So I had to submit my passport at the nearest VFS office, but I got the mail on a Friday and I had to wait till Monday... felt like the longest Monday ever. Yet again I Dey my house through the weekend, it’s that time that they will say that it was when... God forbid bad thing, I sha Dey my house. Monday shall come and it did come. I submitted the passport without any hassle, paid the N7430 or so (I hear it’s free now) and wished my passport farewell. Now the 3 weeks wait begins. Patience in this journey is key! You’ll learn it if you don’t have it...

Part 2 of my story to continue
Teaser: I’ve gotten COPR already and my trip is in a bit, but my fingers hurt at the moment and a man gotta chill!

Can you assist with the process you used in calling Ottawa's office

PLSHELEP:


Timeline:
ITA - August 16
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3 (Update of documents & VO)
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Where do I start from? Cause this Canada journey has started from as far back as 2011.

I finished NYSC and decided to go for masters in Canada with my 2.2, went to PFL (Preparation for Life - an education consultant) and they did their normal normal, paid for all and was advised to just go for a diploma. Money wasted with PFL, started my application for PGD by myself and got offers from Seneca, Humber and Cetennial. Oya Mumsy come and drop money for this Canada something o, na so story enter... long story short, she had other plans for me to join my siblings in the UK. This was already end of 2012, and the UK has just scrapped their post-study work visa (why I do not like Theresa May till date and was happy how she was treated with all this brexit nonsense, I digress)

Congratulations man! May Cannyland favour you!! Waiting for my COPR to land so I can come tell my own story in full.

Good morning everyone,

please my spouse and I have only done court marriage and our parents weren’t in the picture. Would it raise red flags?

Even though we have answers to other questions but we are worried about this. Please if you have added your spouse with only court marriage, kindly provide a cue.

PLSHELEP:

Timeline:
ITA - August 16
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3 (Update of documents & VO)
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Part 2 of my story to continue
Teaser: I’ve gotten COPR already and my trip is in a bit, but my fingers hurt at the moment and a man gotta chill!

Congratulations!!!! I enjoyed reading your story, yep we cannot be buying new car on this journey we will continue repairing all the repairables

Pwinkle1:

Congratulations!!!! I enjoyed reading your story, yep we cannot be buying new car on this journey we will continue repairing all the repairables

Thanks. Yes o. Now I can repair it even better for sale

Hello good morning, please what do you advise? I want to start a Career in Office Administration as an Administrative Assistant

Please which province do you advise is better for me to move to and start this career path?

ONTARIO or ALBERTA- CALGARY?

Thank you in advance for your response

author=Gifty28 post=86486888]Alberta province accepts Administrative assistant, it’s part of their job in demand. Evaluate your degree, Write ielts minimum score is L8 R7 W7 S7
But I think pnp accepts low ielts score. Not sure tho
Alberta’s last draw was 350, so try and get 350 above or 400 and above. I’m also kinda starting so ask other people for enquires.
Ps: check page 1, use the crs calculator to calculate your score.



?.Am new to this and that's why am asking. pls I want to ask if work visa for skilled people( actually I operate 2 kinds of printing machines like ctcp and large format and I got my certification in printing). pls what kind of program do u opt for. I also have my hnd in accountancy with a year experience at DPR as an administrative assistance in the accounting department....pls which immigration plan is best for me.[/quote]

PLSHELEP:
Thanks @LadyMarshall, I don't know if i should claim my spot here and pray that God will answer my prayer in this thread. I'll stay hopeful and have Faith (like LadyMarshall) that it will come in this thread.

Faith works wonders ! Haha me and my stalker ways

Congrats bro

PLSHELEP:


Timeline:
ITA - August 16
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3 (Update of documents & VO)
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Where do I start from? Cause this Canada journey has started from as far back as 2011.

I finished NYSC and decided to go for masters in Canada with my 2.2, went to PFL (Preparation for Life - an education consultant) and they did their normal normal, paid for all and was advised to just go for a diploma. Money wasted with PFL, started my application for PGD by myself and got offers from Seneca, Humber and Cetennial.



Part 2 of my story to continue
Teaser: I’ve gotten COPR already and my trip is in a bit, but my fingers hurt at the moment and a man gotta chill!

Congratulations @PLSHELEP
Go on and enjoy your new country!


I'm just waiting for the alakori that will quote the entire PPR story

PLSHELEP:


Timeline:
ITA - August 16
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3 (Update of documents & VO)
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Congrats to you and enjoy the maple land. I can't wait for the PART 2 yarn. This tori sweet me gan

55emem55:
Congratulations @PLSHELEP
Go on and enjoy your new country!


I'm just waiting for the alakori that will quote the entire PPR story

I almost did ... meanwhile give it some days and one Vico moniker will

Congratulations. Kindly share the methods used in acing your ielts exam. Please help a sister. Thanks

PLSHELEP:


Timeline:
ITA - August 16
AOR - Aug 30
ADR - NIL
CSE - 3 (Update of documents & VO)
CALLS - 2 (18 Dec and 24 Dec)
Ghost Update - 1 (post MEP), another 27 Dec
PPR - 27 Dec
Family of me, myself and I
To God be the glory!!!
It ended in praise...

Where do I start from? Cause this Canada journey has started from as far back as 2011.

I finished NYSC and decided to go for masters in Canada with my 2.2, went to PFL (Preparation for Life - an education consultant) and they did their normal normal, paid for all and was advised to just go for a diploma. Money wasted with PFL, started my application for PGD by myself and got offers from Seneca, Humber and Cetennial. Oya Mumsy come and drop money for this Canada something o, na so story enter... long story short, she had other plans for me to join my siblings in the UK. This was already end of 2012, and the UK has just scrapped their post-study work visa (why I do not like Theresa May till date and was happy how she was treated with all this brexit nonsense, I digress)

Moved to the UK, January 2013... finished my masters degree, met the LOML, hustled a tier 2 visa, things still didn’t add up, I started looking towards Canada again. This was January 2015 already and I think ITA draws were around 700 at the time, so I fashied it. If you don’t know where you’re going to, please know where you’re coming from... so I packed my bags and Naija next flight.

Got a job in Naija in 2 months (Aug 2015) and I thank God for his blessings upon me. I stayed at my job, happy and content with no wahala but still used one eye to be eyeing Canada as one of my main line is “Never get too comfortable and always make your next move at your most comfortable”.

Struggles of life kicked in and I lost my Dad in 2017 (still feels like yesterday). He never understood why I came back to Naija and has always said I should go to Canada (you know how these parents want their children to be spread all over the world, sisters are in the UK and US, so he wants Canada for me. Maybe it would make him happier knowing that he has dropped his seeds at every corner of the world type thing) Anyway, upon his death, I revisited the CIC website and opened another profile, calculated my score again, checked my WES account (I already had one from my former waka with Canada). Requested for my masters transcript and got it going. Hence ECA was a breeze.

IELTS (The Almighty Writing)
I had written IELTS Academic once in the UK and it was easy, all scores above 8. So I thought “no be IELTS?” Mschew, I’ll blow it out of the park. Then I wrote the first General Exam in 2017 without even knowing that the Listening has to be 8. It came back and wasn’t up to scratch, so I gave it 6 months as I was not in a hurry. Then Feb 2018 I wrote another one, Reading came short, I’m like, do this people know who they are messing with, I’ve read masters o!!! How can I score 6.5 in reading?? I didn’t know the future was telling me to drop my shoulders. I took the test again, then Writing showed itself, this time I’m like “Me, writing?? Who helped me write my 18,000 word dissertation, this people must be joking”. I applied for a remark, nothing changed o. Gave it another go about 4 months later, writing came back at 6.5 again. At this point, I’m like “Eyin village people, una well done o”. I just fashied it and went on holiday with the LOML to gather all the inspirizle I could gather. Came back and wrote it again for the 5th time. This time I used videos and practiced... don’t still think I practiced enough but I was humble sha. Score came back at LSRW: 9,8.5,9,7

Ese o, Nagode... I’ll take it like that, all I need is 7 in writing. Almighty writing, thanks for humbling me o. God, I thank you.

ITA
I slid into the pool with my already created account at 473, was rest assured I would get it on Wednesday in August 2019. The Wednesday came and I think it was during Ileya, I went about eating my meat as it should be. It didn’t come on the Wednesday It was supposed to come, but I wasn’t perturbed as I knew my score would give me ITA. It eventually came as a surprise, I think people called it Suprise ITA at the time as it came on a Monday or so. Well, I had already emailed both qlife and IOM, so no suprise anything, we been here a long time, let’s do this.

Medicals
Having mailed them both, I chose to use IOM although it was more expensive but I knew I didn’t want any time wasting as qlife gave me a later date. I drove all the way from the island to the mainland as early as I could and didn’t mind, got there about 6:45 and met a few people, went about it like normal business and was out of their around 11am. No fear, no scare... we thank God and we move.

PCC
This was easy as Inspector Moshood made it cool and straight forward. Gave him 5,500 although I knew people paid less, but what’s 5,500 in this journey, you don’t want to know how much IELTS took from me. Also, didn’t want to waste time.

Since I schooled in the Uk and spent more than 6 months there, I also need UK PCC. That was a breeze, as I applied online and wrote my GF’s address ( same as the LOML, don’t be confused... Lol). Got it back in due time, asked her to scan (snap) and send, she did and sent back the black and white copy (I knew no better, wait till the end).

Both PCCs obtained, we move.

POF
Got it from my mama, God bless her or I mean I did the Deed of Gift from her. I thank God for all those who had my back. I didn’t want to fix or do any mutual fund anything cause at the time when I was applying, I heard a lot of stories about people who did FD, MF getting ADR for POF and I also thought well, if the minimum tenure for most would be 6 months wouldn’t that mean they would think you can’t access the money until after the period? Plenty overkaku sha but I opted out of fixing it. I put in my salary account, got a statement of account, for highlighters and highlighted my salary one color and the tranches of deposit into my account to show as POF another color. Explained that in my letter of explanation and even used the color as color key in the letter. Also got my deed of gift notarized at the court, some say it isn’t necessary... I sha did it o.

Other documents
Got my reference letter stating who I be, what I is and what I do. Got pay slips for 6 months as well.

Application time
I wanted to make sure I submitted before August 2019 ran out. Got all the documents scanned and placed in folders on my google drive. Opened my CIC account carefully placed them there, merging documents with pdf2go when I had to and splitting documents when I had to. The application was fun. Added the LOE at the end. Checked about 3 times that I put everything where they were supposed to be at and then I prayed as I sent it, used the Holy Ghost and name of God to click send. August 31 AOR.

Post AOR
Then I begun looking for groups to join because knowledge is power. Joined a few with our Indian brothers in them but eventually got a Nigerian one. Was initially quiet but it was good to know that I ain’t alone on this journey.

CSE (webforms).... Three webforms
From my wakawaka on Nairaland and WhatsApp Groups, I realized my UK PCC should have been scanned colored... Haaaa this arabinrin of a LOML want to koba me ni sha... Eh Madam, please Oya scan colored and send to me Biko. We shall not hear stories that touch. So I raised my first CSE, uploaded it and got response about 10 days later that it has been added to my application and I would be contacted if any further enquiry is required. I say Ok!!!

Then I also read that Misrepresentation can lead to rejection of application and ban for 10 years. Jesu Kristi, God forbid bad thing... Err Acshually, there’s one time that I applied for one visa in the uk and I didn’t use it but I got it and I... the story is complex and complicated. I sought advice from a few guys online and via the WhatsApp groups and I got sound advice. God bless them all. I raised another CSE to that effect and got the same response about 10 days later. This was already getting to the 2 months post AOR mark.

Birthday was approaching and I was thanking God for everything, can the golden mail come on my birthday, well with God all things are possible but statistically I know it was less likely as it would barely be over two months.

I stumbled on threads where people complained about Accra VO and NDVO being the worst... Hay God. What’s my VO bayi o? I proceeded with requesting for my VO and in another 10 days, it was stated to be Orrawa (if you know, you know). Thank God!!! We move

3 months POST AOR
The only ghost I saw was when my UCI changed, apart from that I check my account almost every other day. Don’t blame me. I had read that it’s beneficial to request for GCMS notes after the 3 months mark, it wouldn’t change anything other than you know what’s going on with your application. So I ordered for one at about Mid-November, instead of ordering the much delayed GCMS note, I order for the CBSA note which was a bit more expensive but what’s that in this journey.

May I add that the man has stayed low key all through, no extravagant anything. Just sit in my house during the weekends, watch football and cook (no money for eatery abeg). But it was on holiday as it was during my birthday and it felt like the right time to get engaged, so that happened. May God continue to guide us to make the right decisions. We move... prayers continued

So I followed up with the WhatsApp group of my Indian brothers and I noticed a trend, this was mid December already. These men were impatient and they had started calling IRCC to know the status of their application. I carefully analyzed like 5 of them’s cases and noticed that they were getting PPR mail about 2 weeks after calling. Bear in mind they submitted their applications around early August, so most of them were past the 4 months mark at this point.

Oh well, I guess it’s about time i got to work. I had already downloaded FreeTone or something and wasted money but then I inquired further from some Nigerian brothers and was told Dingtone would do it... Oya let’s go!

Downloaded it and made a call on the 18th of December, spent about 15 minutes on hold then I got through to an agent who spoke French and English... Err Je parle Anglais s’il vous plait (Still learning on Duolingo, gimme 6 months and I’ll be flowing)... He asked a couple of security questions to which I responded and I then asked for status on Eligibility, Criminality, Security. He responded that medicals was passed ( I know that already), criminality passed (a dupe o, we no be criminal), eligibility recommended passed (huh, what’s that?) and security (not started). Would you want to know any other thing , he asked, No, that would be all for now I responded with a deep sigh of relief. I had read that recommended pass meant that junior officer has checked and recommends that your profile is eligible, it just then needs the approval of an Oga at the top to give it the final go ahead... that’s good!!! We can work with that, I thought.

I shared the news with a few egbons on the journey and they congratulated my that my golden mail would drop soon, I didn’t know if I should start jumping for joy as I was like Err it’s only more than 3 months o, the countdown in my profile is 6 months o... e ma gbe mi mora o. Anyway, there’s nothing God cannot do.

I knew what my plan was, at this point I was more Indian than Nigerian, so I decided to call again on the 24th of December, I got through again under 10 minutes of waiting... this is because I call as soon as it’s 8am Orrawa time. A lady picked up and we did the normal dance of security questions to which I obliged her all she needed. Then she asked, when last did you call, I acted dumb for a second and said 18th and she exclaimed... Really? And I’m like yuhhhh (ogbeni it’s me that know where the shoe is paining me in the leg o, you’re sitting down in your pretty office in Orrawa and I’m here having to call Ejire the mokalik to manage my kickstarter for me because ain’t nobody gonna buy a car at this quarter to leave Nigeria time)... anyway, yuhhhhh was a more concise response. She went on to scold me and told me not to call every week as my application is looking good and I should call again around the 6 months mark. I haff hear o.

Shower of blessing
So I noticed a Bureau Veritas profile checked LinkedIn page. I had noticed this some months back but didn’t pay any mind to it but people stated that it could be a background check. IRCC checks your name on search engines to see what pops up. I resumed back to work on the 27th of December having had one of the most boring Christmases but that’s fine. When God wants to bless you, he’ll take chicken away to give you bokoto. I logged into my Cic account that morning and I saw Application/profile updated, I was like huh But how possible is this when yesterday was a holiday, so I went into my profile and came back to the place where I saw it and it has changed to submitted... HaaHa, so this is why it’s called a ghost. I ran to my WhatsApp group, eyin temi(my people) I saw something o, it do like this and then did like this. They were laughing at me... are you sure that’s what you saw? Walahi, it saw it. Ogbeni you couldn’t have seen it, yesterday was public holiday. Oh well, maybe my eyes are playing tricks on me but I told my people and we moved on. Some said then it’s not long anymore, out watch shall be over.

I got home, thought about sleeping then changed my mind and thought again that I would be better to stay awake till 11pm when the golden mail is known to drop in people’s mails. Oh well, man cannot come and kill himself, I’ve been at work all day and sleep did it’s thing. I woke up around 10:45 gerege and I caught the mail... I swear I caught when it dropped in my box, the time was 1m ago or anything, it was “now”. I couldn’t believe my eyes. I opened it and I couldn’t read. I took a picture... sent to the WhatsApp group and the congratulations rolled in... the feeling is surreal I must tell you. I couldn’t sleep till 4am as several thoughts came to my mind.

So I had to submit my passport at the nearest VFS office, but I got the mail on a Friday and I had to wait till Monday... felt like the longest Monday ever. Yet again I Dey my house through the weekend, it’s that time that they will say that it was when... God forbid bad thing, I sha Dey my house. Monday shall come and it did come. I submitted the passport without any hassle, paid the N7430 or so (I hear it’s free now) and wished my passport farewell. Now the 3 weeks wait begins. Patience in this journey is key! You’ll learn it if you don’t have it...

Part 2 of my story to continue
Teaser: I’ve gotten COPR already and my trip is in a bit, but my fingers hurt at the moment and a man gotta chill!