[quote author=Mummy4life1 post=122390046]My Son is celebrating three years Birthday today.

After waiting for 9years with one ovary, Only one embryo was transferred. it can only be God.

One of my ovary was mistekly removed during Fibroid operation in Nigeria. Lost all hope but God came and gave me wonderful Son afterwards!

Congratulations. This is encouraging

uche13:
I feel so devastated. This cycle was cancelled because the scan today showed only one follicle increased to 9. The doctor however said I have many follicles but I just was not responding to the medication.

My protocol was:

Buserlin and gonal f.

Pls who has any advice to give? I just read someone who said buserlin is not the best

Dear People,

Pls any response? Also, is there a group for those undergoing this procedure where we can learn?

I feel so devastated. This cycle was cancelled because the scan today showed only one follicle increased to 9. The doctor however said I have many follicles but I just was not responding to the medication.

My protocol was:

Buserlin and gonal f.

Pls who has any advice to give? I just read someone who said buserlin is not the best

Hello Mamas,

I need your advice. I’m presently stimulating and this is day 4. I did a tvs and the doctor said there are no present changes. The first tvs she did before the stimulation showed I had many follicles and she was impressed.

Is there any reason to be worried? Has anyone experienced this? She increased my drugs dose and asked me to return on Saturday but I’m frantic

Visa: Standard Visitors Visa
Biometrics: 29 March 2022
Branch: Ikeja
Transferred to UKVI: 29 March 2022
Collection email: 11th May 2022
Collected: 12th May 2022.

I sent 1 paid mail and also made a paid call yesterday and same day, collection mail dropped.
Thanks as always to everyone here for all the support.

Good afternoon All,

Please how do I call UKVI? The instruction says "input your card details and press dial" I have tried adding the # and * key but it is not working. I also inserted only the details and waited but it keeps repeating "press dial". Please who can help?

SunshineD1:


Let me add to others:
DO NOT ALLOW YOUR COPR TO EXPIRE. Having said that, go and buy tickets if you haven't and land. People that have expired COPR dey hear am now, IRCC "never pick their calls" for extension.

The problem is the fact that people who were issued PPr after March 18th cannot travel at the moment. Last week, I even received a mail and call from IRCC as a reminder to this effect.

The order was "don't travel yet till restrictions are lifted"

magd:
Submit your passports, when the baby is delivered get a passport and update ircc they will inform you of the next step and make sure you have enough pof as at the time you update them. Congratulations on your PPR

I think this is very risky. If their passports are submitted, stamped and returned efore the baby is born, I am not sure IRCC will be able to do anything again. They'll then need to travel without the baby and later sponsor. They are so unpredictable now. My passport was processed in 10 days which means this can be the same case for them or even less.

It is better to go with the advise of waiting for the baby to come before submitting passport

TemTon:
Hello everyone, particularly to the lawyers in the house. I am confused on which NOC to use, either 1242 or 4112.

My duties are arrange for seminars, conferences and meetings for staff and employers

Please advise on the most suitable NOC.

Thank you all.

I will go with 1242 based on your JD

LordAA:


Hello
Please did you put a return envelope while sending the Accra?

No I didn't at all

Defjamb:

Thank you very much for the information, i really appreciate.
My passport already has less than 6 month to expire due to the long wait. Will it be advisable for me to renew it and send the new one for stamping?

Please renew o. The mail said 6 months validity. Let us do everything by the books. We have already come this far. My husband had to renew and it took us less than 3 days

Defjamb:
Good Morning all, pls it’s urgent... Anyone that recently received request for passport email. How did you go about it, I’m in lagos.
Pls I need a swift response

I learnt VFS office is now collecting passport in Lagos. I guess that makes it easier for you. So you just need to submit your passport, pictures (pls follow strictly the specifications), PPR mail and consent letter they gave you when you did your biometrics

@peejay68,

No you don't have to. The 331 GHC covers everything

@ Lao4389,

I agree to everything you said apart from payment for return shipment to DHL. That amounts to double payment and it is not necessary. the GHC 331 you paid covered the cost of VFS returning your documents to you. I only paid that and DHL delivered my documents directly to me. So please nobody should pay any other amount to DHL apart from the cost of courier from Lagos to Accra plus the insurance bit (very important)

The journey for this phase is over!!! All glory to God.

PPR Mail- 12th September, 2020
Passport dropped at DHL enroute Accra- 25th of September, 2020 ( Wrote several mails to find out where to submit since Lagos VFS does not accept passport. Also had to renew.

29th of September, 2020- Passport arrived VFS Accra and a mail was sent the same day that the documents have been forwarded to IRCC

5th of October, 2020- Received a call from IRCC asking whether we can travel before 31st of March, 2021. I said yes, but subject to the travel restrictions and the lady said sure.

8th of October, 2020- Mail from VFS stating that the decision envelope has been couried via courier partner (DHL). Profile was updated same day with counterfoil generated. (Passport spent 10 days in Accra)

14th of October, 2020- DHL delivers the parcel

I am still in awe and grateful to God for the journey.

May this go round to everyone who desires. May the draw today bring smiles on the faces of many people

mokarios:
Hi Ma'am,
Thanks for your post. I have gone to check it.
I thought to ask, if you have been able to send yours through to the Accra VO.
Regards.

Yes I have and they have acknowledged receipts and also despatched to IRCC

mokarios:
Pardon, I meant to write PPR.
Is there a way out, with VFS not accepting passports presently?

But I just posted the message from Accra VO, on how those in Lagos can submit passport. I believe that should cover your question.

Thank you everyone for your many kind messages. I pray I get to rejoice with everyone soon. The flood gates is open, and we can only smile as we overcome all obstacles from ECA to IELTS to POF etc.

For those who have gotten PPR or know anyone that has gotten, let me share what I received from Accra VO when I contacted them, since Lagos CAC has not resumed collection of passports.

MY PPR STORY. ( A bit long though)

The story of MERCY!!!

ECA (Mine)- 25th January, 2019
ECA (Spouse)- 20th August, 2018
IELTS (5 January, 2019)-LWRS- 8.5,7,8.0,8.0
IELTS (Spouse)- 27th July, 2019-LWRS- 9,6.5,7.5,7.5
ITA-20th AUGUST, 2019
AOR- 10TH October, 2019
ADR (Schedule A)- 25th October
MEP- 31st October, 2019
BIL- 1st of November, 2019
RPRF- 14TH May, 2020
PPR- 12th September, 2020

Decision to Migrate
I really didn’t have any spectacular reason that spurred me into undergoing this journey. I have been trying to remember any special event, but I just can’t. However, I remember hearing of people relocating and all, and decided to give it a shot. I spoke to my husband and he said some of his colleagues are doing same and they are using agents. I told him I read here that we can do it ourselves. He said if I don’t want us to pay, I should be ready to own the process. I agreed.

ECA
At that time, I only knew about WES and he quickly paid for his. The same day, I stumbled on a post I think from Iphie where she advised lawyers to use IQAS and I quickly decided to do so. Hubby’s WES was smooth. Mine was not. That is why he got his ECA almost 6 months before mine. I used a contact in school who seemed to know it all for my transcript. However, she mistakenly sent only the transcript without accompanying documents. As usual, IQAS won’t respond to you till they receive full documents, and even at that, they usually delay in acknowledging receipts. When I heard nothing from them, I bombarded them with mails and they finally informed me they only have transcript. I was so shocked and quickly called the contact. Anyway, I quickly faxed all the accompanying documents, and that is when the real count down started.

IELTS
I asked a friend how long is needed to prepare and she said two weeks. I practiced for about that time. However, during the writing exam, I made an error I later realized. I got ready to take the exam again. However, I maxed out all the areas except writing that I had a 7. So it was only one ielts from me and spouse. I have seen people I consider very brilliant writing multiple times, so this was just grace at work.

When my ECA came out, my points without hubby’s ielts stood at 444. Shortly before my ECA came out, people received ITA with 438 so I felt he would not really need to take it. During my birthday, I lost 5 points.

Honestly, at this point, life got in the way and somehow, this project was abandoned. Occasionally, I will just check the points for a draw and noticed it had started climbing. Suddenly, the Hand that shapes the destiny of men, pushed me into coercing hubby to register for ielts. For someone who had “slept” from January I took mine till July, I cannot really explain the push. He said he was not ready, I just teased that “you know you ae brilliant na…” though I was not so confident about writing for him. Anyway, he registered, and I can confidently say we sailed on the last ship.

The day of his exam on the 27th of July, 2019, I had a program in church so decided to follow him drop him and go on my way, then pick him later. This plan later saved the day. If he had gone alone, or if we went in different cars, that would have been it. Remember I said that ielts was the last chance for us. What happened? As we got to airport road, that was the day air force officials decided to block the road to do their exercise. I mean total closure oooo. The nerve! We were stuck. That day, I saw flight attendants walking in confusion, people carrying their luggage to make their way into the airport. As I was not the one driving, I quickly jumped down, ran to look for a bike. They were not in sight at all. I finally found one that took 4k from Airforce at airport road to GRA, Ikeja. He left while I stayed put for hours, till they opened the road. If he was the only one, this won’t have been possible.

His result came out and he scored 6.5 in writing. I recall asking him why he wasted points in listening. He should have saved the 0.5 for writing jo. I told him to get ready to retake but he said no and I said he must o. As soon as the result came out, I quickly went to MOD office on the 15th of August to pick up the TEF. I kept wondering why I felt the need to be urgent. I picked on a Friday and there was already a draw that week, so why the hurry? When I got it, I could not access my profile to update. I did not know about clearing cache and all then, but I kept trying. At a point, I asked someone to help me, and I was on the phone while she did so. Again, I did not realize why I felt the need to hurry.

When she was done, we stood at 457 and I was like let me chill and get ready to convince him to write ielts and possibly write myself to max the last 3 points. In short eh, we argued about this over the weekend. Surprisingly the next week, a friend asked if I had gotten ITA and I was shocked. He insisted that there was a back to back draw with 457 and I was shocked. My husband’s exam was the last before this draw. Just like that, at the final chance we were given, we got ITA with the exact points that was the cut off. Since then, 470’s have become the old 450’s that made people super confident.

With the way scores skyrocketed, even with him doing ielts and me maxing out on the last 3 points, it would have been impossible to get ITA without learning French. I would have also regretted the months we just abandoned the whole thing. But this was God apparently.

I shared earlier my concerns about medicals and how I put in so much to help us ace it. When he was invited to do x-ray the second time, my heart sank as this was the same “life” that made us abandon the project. However, it was a smooth sail and we got mep in 21 days.
There was a mild drama on my part during medicals. I was preparing for a very important exam in then, and my passport was with the embassy. I was so consumed at the exam preparation that I could not think well. When I remember how I had to combine this process and that exam without breaking down, I am grateful.

A night before the medical test, I tried organizing my documents and stated searching for my passport till I remembered I applied for visa. I sha took a copy and went to Qlife. They told me they will indicate I did not come with original passport and I asked them to go ahead. I wrote an LOE, explaining everything with proof of the exams and evidence the passport was with the embassy and I felt confident. I believe with good explanations, they will always bow to the voice of reason. Someone even advised I decline ITA because of it. As if it is bought in the market.
After we did biometrics, we heard nothing at all.

MERCYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

I became worried and from time to time, I would check all documents. From webform, my eligibility was not yet passed as at February and I wondered why. I tried to be careful oooo, honestly I did especially regarding documents. I was so sure it would be void of error, but you see, no matter how careful you are, you are still human.

As usual, one day I checked again and I saw it. I saw the error in saving document. I realized I submitted only letter of consent to use hubby’s funds without attaching the two TBill certificates. The meaning of this is I had no POF. I was shocked. Ha, I beat myself silly . I blamed hubby, I told him I begged him to take charge when my exam preparation got tense.

How then did I go through R10 and all? Why wasn’t I rejected since or mercifully sent an ADR? I raised webform, sent the documents and ordered GCMS notes. Now this is the miracle!!!

I don’t know but many officers passed my POF. I kept seeing “minimum funds- Met” and “Eligibility passed” This went on and on and on till one officer noticed it at the tail end, and included a note that indicated an error in previous eligibility reviews. She then inserted funds not met and parked the file. We know how serious POF is. She could have sent a rejection. I have seen people rejected for less issues than this, but my file was parked and status read RR. Please, do not neglect the place of ordering notes. It does not make you desperate at all. You may be saving yourself from terrible heart ache by doing this.

Hmm, I started reading about review required and how long it takes for them to touch the file. I saw people that had time line of 15 months before their files were picked. It was one sad tale after the other.

I quickly sent another webform, drew their attention to the fact that the amount on the two Tbills, were the exact amount indicated in the consent letter. I profusely apologized for the error and blamed myself. I told them I knew the cost of the error is rejection (can you beat a man who is already beating himself?” I showed SOA that showed how the funds entered when the bills matured and how it was invested (It is good not to touch your POF o, don’t gamble at all”. I now started waiting.

This was in April. In May this year, I applied for another GCMS and realized status was still the same. From it, I saw they had not even treated my web form. It showed “unable to verify funds” I was so worried over the weekend. I wrote another LOE, a stronger one at that and submitted the next Tuesday. On Thursday, before they even acknowledged receipt, I received RPRF request. From my notes, they did not even receive my last letter before sending the request. The time from when I applied for the notes and when I received was when they actually reviewed my file again.

I was so overwhelmed and thankfrul to God. It was so humbling to see God at work, shielding us from that kind of error. With the Covid and all, I removed the whole thing from my mind. Using my human estimation, I felt when they resume for outlanders, they will start with those who were approved since March before mine that as at May, I just paid RPRF and from the notices, it just showed they received a document named RPRF.

I have not recovered from the shock of receiving PPR. How? There have been others with longer AOR dates, many were approved long before mine, but mercy spoke. He made me the first to receive PPR on this part.
I know He will perfect the rest of the plans.

Thank you nairaland. The wealth of resource here is mind blowing. You cannot get it wrong by investing worthy time, reading through the parts especially page 1. I knew absolutely nothing about this, I did not join any WhatsApp group. All I knew, I got from here.
I am expecting more positive news from many others this week.

Thank you everyone .

I'll definitely come back to edit this post, with my full story.

Totally unexpected

It seems like they have started issuing PPR.

I just got mine now.

Seems like a dream

October 2019 AOR
Ottawa VO

@ ifyonline,

A friend in Canada helped me apply. i only filled the consent form and she paid $5 for it.

@ Kekereekun123,

Thank you very much for your response. Regards.

Good day All,

Please I have an issue and I'll appreciate responses if possible.

During the process of application, I erroneously omitted attaching my POF, I only included the consent letter from spouse because of wrong labelling ( very annoying mistake).


When I realised, I quickly raised CSE and did the right thing. I ordered GCMS GCMS notes before i realised my mistake so as usual, i was not shocked to realise my file was under review required.

When the treasury bill matured, i raised another CSE showing the statement of account and new investment. I applied for another GCMS notes and realised the officer had not reviewed my last document so it was still under review required.

I sent another LOE with comprehensive explanation and two days later, got request to pay RPRF. It seemed it came before they even reviewed my LOE.

I paid RPRF fees and I believed the request comes after approval, especially since my file was previously under review required for funds.


I checked status on web form and the response is still that eligibility is still being verified while security and criminal checks have been passed.


Please, is it possible to receive RPRF request if my funds issue is still pending? Should I take it to mean that the request is proof that I have passed eligibility?


I heard webform update may not always be accurate. I will apply for another notes but another 1 month wait is.....

[quote author=uche13 post=86700537]Good day All,

I feel really really ashamed to type this because I tried to be very careful when I was applying and attaching documents.


Oh please, finish someone can just answer this.

Good day All,

I feel really really ashamed to type this because I tried to be very careful when I was applying and attaching documents.

Since AOR, I log in at least once a week to check and to also compare documents I submitted.

Just in Friday, during my routine check, I realised erroneously attached only the letter of consent to use my hubby's funds for POF. The document was actually saved as "POF and letter of consent" but when unchecked, i realised it was only letter and not the Tbills certificate. I felt cold immediately as i did biometrics since November.

Immediately, i raised a CSE and attached the right document which has the POF. Is there any other thing I can do? Should I call or any thing or is the CSE sufficient?

I'm really taken aback and grateful I didnt get a rejection mail as I know POf is such a big deal.

Last cse on status showed VO is Ottawa and eligibility is still on going.

Also, part of the funds in the Tbill matured this month. Due to the present Tbills rate, we invested it in ARM .


Is this ok?


I'll appreciate responses. Thank you.


N/B, please how can I be added to October 2019 AOR group?

@Yemblaze @TemiGee,

Thank you so so much

Hello everyone. I just feel so happy.

This isn't PPR story but feels like one. From updating profile he week b-b draw was done with the exact 457 point, it has all been so graceful.

I delayed the whole process because we are dealing with a medical condition that I feared would make us ineligible. So I felt " why bother?"


After ITA, we ( I and hubby) did medicals. I got a report from the hospital we are using which stated how much we have spent over the past three years, we also did a letter stating how the "condition" hasnt interfered with work and productivity, how we have never been out of job and all. Well articulated covering all points.


After the medicals, we got a call for one of us to come back and redo the chest xray . Ha! I checked, googled and all that night and couldn't sleep at all. It was almost like " I said it..."

That wasnt all. My passport was with the UK embassy when I had to do medicals. Qlife said they would indicate that I only came with a copy and I said go ahead because I didnt know how long my passport will be held. After that, I sought advice and i got many with some saying i should reject ITA. Haba! With my 457?

I sha did a letter explaining why i couldn't present my passport, the purpose for my trip and evidence of where it was. I also forgot to make a copy of my passport stamped pages. I sha decided to submit like that and as soon as i did, i got a message that my passport was ready for pick up. Lol


The next day, i got my passport back, raised a CSE with the stamped pages and mentioned that it would be willing to do another medical if required.



I just received MEP now. Cant express how I feel.

Timeline:

Submitted : 15th October, 2019
AOR: less than a minute after
MEP: 31st October


I know this isn't fool proof that I will get PPR in record time, but it is humbling. You dont know how long this health thing scared me.


Thank you

@Candybright,

I hold a different view o. Yes they have been a bit tardy of late, probably due to the high application rate, however, they won't deny you if you faqil to take benefit of the added services.

This my last renewal, I only paid the cost of the visa. I did self service, no priority, no premium lounge, no courier fees. Nothing at all. I didn't and have never even included a cover letter yet I got it

@Misstoffee,

Go on facebook and search for TLScontact. Send them a message on messenger and they will respond.

@Misstoffee,

Send them a message on Facebook
They will reply and give you status. I got concludes mail on the 3rd and sent them message yesterday. Same yesterday, I got pick up mail

@simpleworld,

keep checking fervently for deals. Check morning, noon and night. I took the risk of buying my ticket this week before getting my visa (not advisable). Check the airlines directly.

I got BA for 833 USD but the next day, it went up, VA was 938 USD for my date. If you don't mind the long distance, Emirates sold at 223,000 this week. You can consider other options like Turkish airline.