I can't still believe this. Someone came to my office, cos there is an embassy in my office. He saw me at the door and told me he came to confirm if his visa was authentic. Without even looking at the passport, i took it to the consular officer, cos his secretary was not on seat. He looked at it and said that is a refusal. I went back to meet the applicant, and he said his agent applied for the visa for him after paying a deposit of N150,000.00 upon collection of the visa, he paid the balance.

Guess what the agent told him was his visa: A REFUSAL, and still collected his balance N150,000.00. Na wah oh.

megastu:

I can't still believe this. Someone came to my office, cos there is an embassy in my office. He saw me at the door and told me he came to confirm if his visa was authentic. Without even looking at the passport, i took it to the consular officer, cos his secretary was not on seat. He looked at it and said that is a refusal. I went back to meet the applicant, and he said his agent applied for the visa for him after paying a deposit of N150,000.00 upon collection of the visa, he paid the balance.

Guess what the agent told him was his visa: A REFUSAL, and still collected his balance N150,000.00. Na wah oh.

Gosh!!! I think a visa refusal will be drastically different from a granted one, how can anyone mix them up? But truly some don't really look properly at their visa. A friend's brother got to the airport only to be told that his visa was post-dated and he couldn't travel till like two weeks. The boy hadn't even checked the date of the visa but went to book a flight. Then on d day of departure arrived with all his luggage only to return home. I almost fainted laughing when I heard. So I guess anyone could make a mistake.

Its really funny how gullible people can be.

megastu:

I can't still believe this. Someone came to my office, cos there is an embassy in my office. He saw me at the door and told me he came to confirm if his visa was authentic. Without even looking at the passport, i took it to the consular officer, cos his secretary was not on seat. He looked at it and said that is a refusal. I went back to meet the applicant, and he said his agent applied for the visa for him after paying a deposit of N150,000.00 upon collection of the visa, he paid the balance.

Guess what the agent told him was his visa: A REFUSAL, and still collected his balance N150,000.00. Na wah oh.

Chei & Double Chei, if it's true,

@Poster, where is ur office and how come u were
chanced to meet a visa officer? Sounds somehow

As per d person, I fink he is dumb!

SHALOM

I dont understand

the person saw a refusal stamp or a 'refusal visa' for him to come and check if its real?

@igbogolo,

Yes oh. A refusal stamp and the agent told him it was a visa, and he fell for it and paid.

@susexx,

It doesnt sound somehow. The embassy is in my office. The consular also doubles as an employee in my office. Let me give you an instance. Do you know where dannish embassy is? it is at louis solomon; maersk house, and shares office with safmarine etc.

Dumb!!!!

Israel modifies plans to deport migrant worker families

The shy five-year-old speaks fluent Hebrew and is already in the school system.

But she is almost oblivious to the fact that there are some people in the Israeli government who want to deport her and other children who are fully assimilated into Israeli society, because their parents are here illegally.

Israel has approved plans to deport the families of illegal migrant workers, and government spokesman Roei Lachmanovich told the BBC the plan would affect some 400 children and their parents.
Vincent Uzoma Vincent Uzoma says Israel should recognise the birthright of children born within its borders

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the move was made because the country faced increasing illegal migration, which was a threat to its Jewish character.

Eustace's father, Vincent, is originally from Nigeria but came to Israel 14 years ago on a legal tourist visa.

Having outstayed his official welcome, he settled down here and a job, got married and had children.

"It's unfair and unjust," says Vincent of the deportation plan as he carefully watches his youngest daughter on the swings.

"These children are born here and speak the language. Israel should recognise their birthright."

For years Israel encouraged foreign workers from the developing world to come here and do the poorly paid, menial jobs that Israelis did not want to do.

Now, wanting to reduce its dependence on overseas labour, Israel says many of those workers must leave even if they have children who were born here.
'Bringing disease'

Campaigners like Noa Kaufman from the organisation Israeli Children says the recent sight of immigration inspectors conducting spot checks on people in the street is tantamount to persecution.
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"You can't simply put a child and it's mother, against their will, on a plane out of the country to somewhere the child doesn't know," says Ms Kaufman.

"They live here, they have friends here but now the government wants to separate them from everything they know."

Some Ministers in Israel's coalition, including Interior Minister Eli Yishai from the religious Shas Party, say they cannot grant more than 1,000 families permanent residency simply because their children were born in Israel.

Mr Yishai caused an outcry last year when he accused migrant workers of bringing with them "a profusion of diseases,  and drug addiction".
In need of reform

According Mr Netanyahu,

Immigration laws in Israel make it extremely hard for people to stay if they are not Jewish, but the scale of protest against these controversial proposals appears to have brought about a compromise of sorts.

Under pressure the government will now allow many children who have assimilated into Israeli society, those who go to school and speak Hebrew, to stay.



While there may be good news for five-year old Eustace and her family, others of a similar age will be sent to countries they do not know, with languages they do not understand.

By the government's own admission, Israel's immigration policy is unsatisfactory and is in need of reform.

Absolutely correct. I never did.

canuck:
@megastu

With your proximity and access to a foreign embassy declared on this thread, I won't be surprised if you will be bombarded with offers of N250K per visa!  O'lboy, no chop oh!!!