From EE Profile to PPR – The journey!!

Hi everyone,

Its only been a day since we had received our PPR (Passport Request). Hurray!!!

And I couldn’t wait to share my experience over here. Because straight from horse’s mouth is a way better method to understand than googling away for hours.

So,

We began the process accidentally when my husband clicked a random link, while browsing, which asked him to fill in his details to check eligibility for a PR (Permanent Residency) to Canada. Him, being a college professor in spite of his Master Degree in Mechanical engineering, had settled to think that a life abroad is not his piece of cake, considering the little demand for Asian educated lecturers in western world. But for the fun of doing it, he filled in the assessment form and booom!!!

“Your are eligible to apply for the PR

Your NOC (National occupation code) code is currently open in the province of Nova Scotia.”

This message literally strik’ed’ against his screen!!

Then followed the days of researching about the process of Express entry immigration to Canada,  the expenses and how wise it would be to hire a consultancy.

We ran quite a few searches through the internet to find a reliable consultancy and also used some of our contacts to find a reliable one. During the process a lot of people discouraged us from the idea of hiring a consultant as the IRCC ( Imigration, refugees and Citizenship Canada) website is pretty self explanatory about the process. But then we didn’t want to take any chance, so anyway we hired one, after a month long search.

The divisions in which the IRCC give you CRS ( Comprehensive Ranking System) points are:

• Age (25-29, highest point)
• Education (Phd has highest point followed by Professional education or Masters)
• Work experience (at least one continuous year of experience is mandatory)
• IELTS (It is the major part – L-8 & R,W,S- 7 each is a sure shot score)
• Parents/siblings/ spouse settled as a PR in Canada
• Canadian education
• Canadian work experience

So our first step was to get the ECA done ( Educational Credential Assessment done from MCC and WES respectively for me and my husband.

Steps for getting an ECA done from MCC …ECA from MCC  

Steps for getting transcripts and ECA by WES…Transcripts and WES

Then we gave our IELTS. Luckily we got 8, 7 , 7, 7 in our first try. ( Ieltsliz.com and ieltsbuddy.com are too good for the preparation)

Once ECA and IELTS were done, our CRS point was calculated and it was 478!!!.

It gave us a head start and we went on to create our EE (Express Entry) profile.

A EE profile needs you to submit a lot of your details from the past 10 years or from the age of 18 years.

Which includes:

• Educational history (details of schools and colleges attended)
• Personal history (all activities undertaken like studying/ period of unemployment/ employment/ any other activity)
• Address history 
• Any association membership history
• work experience
• NOC code, job role and duties

The histories should be filled such that there is no gap in them. Any missing history may raise suspicion during the immigration.

All thanks to the lord almighty, we submitted our EE profile and got our ITA (Invitation to Apply) in about 2 weeks.

Once ITA was received we had 90 days to submit the required documents including Medicals and PCC (police clearance certificate).

Medicals included:

• Blood test for viral markers (HIV, HBsAg, HCV),
• Vision testing,
• Chest X-ray,
• Urine testing
• A whole body examination by a physician.

The result was uploaded directly to IRCC website by the hospital and we were given a receipt which we had to submit along with other documents.

Obtaining the PCC is a job done at your local passport office. If you have had a passport issued in less than a few years, the PCC will be issued on-the-spot ( in India). We had renewed our passport recently, so we received it on-the-spot ( again luck!!).

You are required to submit a PCC from every country you have lived for more than 6 consecutive months. Steps for attaining PCC from each country is given in the IRCC website…. How to get a PCC

Once you have the above two, then, the other documents required are

• Educational documents ( all educational documents including your higher secondary, senior secondary, bachelor’s and above)
• Educational Assessment Sheet from WES or other respective Agency
• IELTS Marksheet.
• Work experience letter( which should mention your years of experience, job role,duties you perform and working hours).
• Proof of settlement fund (a bank statement issued by bank).
• Photographs.
• Passport pages copy (all pages including blank and stamped).
• Marriage certificate (if applies), if you are applying along with your spouse then get ECA, IELTS and all other documents for them as well.
• Letter of explanation can be given if you have any mismatches in your documents like difference in initial of name,last name, lack of experience certificate etc
• !!! if you do not have an experience letter then do not claim points for it instead include it in personal history and explain in LOE!!!

The day we submitted our documents we received an AOR ( Acknowledgement of Receipt).

After about 12 days we received our Medicals passed status and in 56 days,our golden mail, the PPR!!

Everyday passed like an year when we were waiting for the PPR.

And now we are anxiously waiting to embark on our new journey.

Thanks for reading.

Good luck to those who are trying for the Canadian immigration. 🙂

A more elaborate version of the process can be read from my another blog: Express entry canada- an overview of the process

Note: please find our entire timeline below:

ITA : January 10 2018

AOR: February 16 2018

Medicals Passed: February 28 2018

PPR: 11 April 2018

Pic courtesy: Reader’s digest/google

Disclaimer: I am not an Immigration expert. All my posts are based on what I had experienced from being in the process or during some research done during the course of the process.