Folks! Please i really need your advice. Sometime in 2006, i was desperate to travel and i was advised to inflate my age to meet the initial U.K. travel ban on people below 30yrs. My application was denied on the basis that my international passport had been tampered with. I got a letter from the embassy telling me my passport has been sent to Investigations unit at Ikoyi.

Now, i am really to travel, but i do not know what my chances are after my experience some 4 years back. Additionally, i will be going to a closeby Passport office to get a new passport, but i really need to know what i stand against? Please, keep your feedbacks/contributions rolling, this brother really needs your advise.

I read on here somewhere that you automatically get a 10 year ban

Omo Alata:

I read on here somewhere that you automatically get a 10 year ban

wrong. not in this case.

funkybaby:

wrong. not in this case.

That's OK then. Sorry to cause panic OP

Gentlebabs:

Folks! Please i really need your advice. Sometime in 2006, i was desperate to travel and i was advised to inflate my age to meet the initial U.K. travel ban on people below 30yrs. My application was denied on the basis that my international passport had been tampered with. I got a letter from the embassy telling me my passport has been sent to Investigations unit at Ikoyi.

Now, i am really to travel, but i do not know what my chances are after my experience some 4 years back. Additionally, i will be going to a closeby Passport office to get a new passport, but i really need to know what i stand against? Please, keep your feedbacks/contributions rolling, this brother really needs your advise.

2006. biometrics was yet to be introduced then, so you are lucky.

did you use your full names on your passport? For example, 'femi' rather than oluwafemi?

well, you have two choices:

1. apply for a new passport using your CORRECT age, full names and original supporting documents. you do not have to refer to the previous refusal.

2. apply for a new passport, stating your correct age, etc and when filling the visa forms, admit that you had been previously refused a visa based on a fraudulent application and then proceed to apologise for this; that you were misled by a visa agent. there is no guarantee this will work (since they sent your old passport to ikoyi for investigation)

if i was in your shoes, i will go with 1. but this depends on soooooo many factors such as your host details you sumbitted with the initial application must be totally different from the one you intend to use, etc.
however, if you get caught, its a 10years ban !

Omo Alata:

That's OK then. Sorry to cause panic OP

he has every reason to panic
his passport has been at the special fraud unit at ikoyi undergoing 'investigation' since 2006

@ funkybaby,

Please help enlighthing more on this topic.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-472755.0.html

Thank U Omo Alata, what happens if i really admit and i am called for interview. Or better still, what are my best chances. Yes, when i first applied, i used my real names, only the age changed.

Funky baby? What happens if i really admit and i am called for interview. Or better still, what are my best chances. Yes, when i first applied, i used my real names, only the age changed

Gentlebabs:

Funky baby? What happens if i really admit and i am called for interview. Or better still, what are my best chances. Yes, when i first applied, i used my real names, only the age changed

interview you for what? where dem get that time? you wont be the first or last person to have previously applied with a tampered passport or with a falsified age

its either you are refused or you are given the visa.

you can get the visa based on the strength of your supporting documents.

i think its best you go with option 2.

jt2010:

@ funkybaby,

Please help enlighthing more on this topic.

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-472755.0.html

okay. i will post there later tonight.

Funkybaby is very right. Go with option 2. I had the a case similar with yours ( I don't want to go into details). In the application box just say you were refused for "inconsistent passport" or find another phrase, you don't want to be throwing the word fraud around. I'm also not sure about you writing an apology letter drawing attention to the age lies. . Most times these people weigh new application on it's on merit. But as what funkybaby thinks ?

kadman:

Funkybaby is very right. Go with option 2. I had the a case similar with yours ( I don't want to go into details). In the application box just say you were refused for "inconsistent passport" or find another phrase, you don't want to be throwing the word fraud around. I'm also not sure about you writing an apology letter drawing attention to the age lies. . Most times these people weigh new application on it's on merit. But as what funkybaby thinks ?

you are right.
he can omit the apology letter bit if he decides to. its not an apology letter per se. all he has to do is state in the section of 'personal statement' that he was refused based on inconsistent passport and that it was a travel agent that handled the application for him. he should state that he was misled by the travel/tour agent cos he was naive then.

i know someone that faced similar prob as the poster. he applied with his real age, etc and he was refused (based on the excuse of source of funds), no reference was made to his initial fraudulent application. he reapplied again providing more documents to support the source of his finances and he was eventually given the visa.

Waoh! U guys are just too much. Ur suggestions have been very valuable. God bless U and God bless Seun for this great website. Wish me luck guys. as i will surely keep U abreat of developments. Any final word(s)?

funkybaby:

you are right.
he can omit the apology letter bit if he decides to. its not an apology letter per se. all he has to do is state in the section of 'personal statement' that he was refused based on inconsistent passport and that it was a travel agent that handled the application for him. he should state that he was misled by the travel/tour agent cos he was naive then.

i[b] know someone that faced similar prob as the poster. he applied with his real age, etc and he was refused (based on the excuse of source of funds), no reference was made to his initial fraudulent application. he reapplied again providing more documents to support the source of his finances and he was eventually given the visa.[/b]

This person had exact same issues I had years back

@ OP another phrase you can use is "Passport Irregularities" or something of the sort.