Firstly, I would like to thank everyone from this group. Me and my husband created our profile on March 2018 and we had 437 points. During this period, it was extremely nice to hear comfortable words from everyone and to realize that there were more people in the same situation as we were.
We both had a CBL 9 on IELTS after three attempts:
Principal applicant:
L 8.0 R 8.0 W 7.0 S 7.5
Second applicant:
L 8.0 R 8.5 W 7.0 S 7.0
Score: 437
When we applied, we thought we would be in the pool for one or two months with that score.
However, each month was harder when we realised that last year's pool was not going to repeat in 2018.
After losing hope for many times and reading a lot of advices here like "try to upgrade your score" "try IELTS one more time" we decided to take the IELTS one more time in August. I took it (principal applicant) and got the following scores:
L 8.5 R 9.0 W 7.0 S 7.5
That allowed us to upgrade our score to 440 last monday.
Today, we received our ITA!
So, we would like to thank everyone here for the support! For everyone who is still waiting: we know it's hard but don't loose hope! Try to upgrade your IELTS score! I am sure we are going to see everyone in Canada next year!