Thank you so much dear. God bless you.

Josefuadjr:


Congratulations dear. Canada will surely favour you.

LADIES AND GENTS!!!!!!!! IT IS PPRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! (Semi-Long Post Alert from a silent reader )

DECISION TO MIGRATE: April 2018.
Got a call from a friend studying in Canada who encouraged me to apply for express entry. This was after Multiple attempts for PhD and second MSc Admissions in Canada failed. Second MSc, Yasss I was that desperate to leave Naija. I returned to Nigeria in January 2017, with a UK masters degree and was earning less than 100k as salary.

ECA: May/June 2018
Process for credential evaluation was pretty straightforward. My original certificate was faxed to WES, and having a foreign masters degree made the whole process seamless. My school sent my transcript over the next day, and whole process took about a month.


IELTS: June 30, 2018
One Attempt: LRSW (8.5/9/7.5/7) Overall band score 8.

Entered Pool: July 23rd, 2018. CRS: 453. Withdrew profile the next day (Passport was to expire in January). Renewed my passport the next day, entered pool July 25th, and missed ITA by a hairs breath. Had to wait till the next ITA.

ITA: August 08, 2018

MEDICALS
This was quite straightforward. Had mine at The Children's Practice, Ikoyi.

PROOF OF FUNDS(POF)
Used 100% gift deed from my my parents (Joint Savings Account). This was transferred to my savings account and transfer document for that was secured (Transfer receipt plus Teller). Other documents submitted include:
>6-month bank statement showing inflow of cash. I used a green highlighter to highlight the transaction for POF.
>LOE explaining source of funds and the reason I could not obtain Bank letter in CIC format
>Letter of Indebtedness
>Bank Reference Letter

PCC:
I applied for Nigeria and UK PCC. Applied for Nigeria PCC in Enugu (paid 15k and it took about 2 weeks to process)

EMPLOYMENT: Included Offer Letter, Reference letter in CIC format. NO PAYSLIPS, although I included 6 bank statements (on the day my salary was paid) (Payment from my company was highlighted again, with a highlighter).


ADRs: NONE

GCMS NOTES:
Ordered first set of gcms notes on the 29th of November, 2018, arrived in my mailbox on the 2nd of January, 2019. I got to know that my file was in CPC OTTAWA. Not a lot of progress seen. Criminality and Medicals Passed. Eligibility and Security Not Started. Info Sharing: Started.

Raised CSE twice, got generic responses. Called IRCC multiple times but was connected to an agent once in Early February, just after i crossed the 4months mark. (Agent also could not provide any info I didnt already know. Was told Eligibility and Security was in Progress.

Ordered Second GCMS notes after calling CIC (February 14th) because i wasnt satisfied with the responses i had been getting. Yet to arrive

TIMELINE:

ITA: August 08, 2018
AOR: September 23, 2018.
MED passed/ BIL: October 23, 2018.
Biometrics submitted: October 25, 2018
SILENCEEEE
NO ADRS
GHOST UPDATE: Feb 21st, 2019. I formed a habit of checking my account literally everyday after i crossed the 4 months mark. I logged in yesterday morning, and saw that my status had changed to Application/profile updated. No email, statuses remained unchanged (medicals, adr, background and the rest) and no message in my account. After I logged out and logged in again, status changed to submitted.
PPR: Feb 22nd, 2019. Ready for Visa Mail from CPC Ottawa at 2:41am (Dated February 21st, 2019). No message in my account.
VO- Ottawa
Single Applicant.

Thank you everyone for the support and useful information during the process.
Congratulations for all those who got PPR. Wishing everyone the best of luck, PPR is around corner. Hang In There and Never Lose Hope! It will surely end in praise