Praise the Lord, everybody. He has done great things. Amazing Grace, in the manner of Barack Obama's speech at Charleston, South Carolina yesterday.
At 10:19am yesterday, our passports and CoPR landed at my doorstep safely - relieving me of my misery in tracking them from AVO through DHL Accra to DHL NG between June 19 and yesterday. It was an awful experience. In the process, DHL dropped someone else's AVO shipment at my residence along with mine. Anyway, all that was sorted out yesterday and DHL came back for them - after my wife contacted the person with the phone number on the shipment to let him know that the docs. were with us, unopened and safe but that DHL and DHL alone should come to retrieve the shipment.
Anyway, we bless God that this Nigerian end of our Canadian expedition is ending in praise.
Below, I have updated my timeline:
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Edionwa said:
Sorry, I forgot to add my timeline as provided hereunder:
Application sent to CIC-CIO, Sydney, Canada - July 14, 2014
Application received by CIC-CIO, Sydney - July 18, 2014 (confirmed by DHL online tracking delivery evidence and eCAS)
MasterCard debit card charged for Application Fee - November 5, 2014 (confirmed from bank statement and SMS alert)
PER Email received from CIC-CIO, Sydney, Canada -November 24, 2014
MR Email received from CIO office in Ghana (AVO) -May 19, 2015
Traveled by air out of and back to Lagos to bring my son from boarding house for medicals -May 21, 2015
Medicals done and RPRF paid - May 22, 2015
Traveled by air out of and back to Lagos to return my son back to the boarding house after medicals - May 24, 2015
Additional documents (original PCC, RPRF receipt, family pics, etc) sent - May 25, 2015
Additional documents received at AVO - May 27, 2015 (confirmed vide DHL tracking)
AVO updated eCAS to notify receipt of medical results - May 28, 2015
Application processing at AVO commenced - June 8, 2015
PPR Email received - June 11, 2015
Passports sent to AVO via DHL NG - June 12, 2015
Passports received by AVO - June 15, 2015
Passports pick up email from AVO - June 19, 2015
DHL NG instructed to pick up passports from AVO. - June 19, 2015
DHL NG sent an email along with their RPA form to DHL Ghana for pick up but mail held in DHL outbox over weekend due to DHL NG system upgrade - June 19, 2015
DHL NG finally succeeded in sending the email and RPA form to DHL Ghana - June 22, 2015
DHL Ghana picked up passports from AVO. - June 24, 2015
Passports delivered at my residence by DHL. - 10:19am Nigerian Time, June 26, 2015
To God be all the glory for the great things He has done and is doing.
Thank you so much to Pipis Husband, first, for creating this forum and to everyone else that pitched in to offer one advice or the other. A great TEAM we are - Together Everyone Achieves More. I didn't use any consultant. You all were my consultants - a case of more heads being better than one. My eldest son said to my wife and I that something that started like a joke is ending in this unimaginable reality. It can only be God.
Now, we set out sights on preparing to move to Canada.
Thanx everybody.