Orjforlife:
Anybody willing to help here


My wonderful people, someone should please help me with this

Thank you

tofo:
Hello Everyone.
I submitted my Application on Octover 23rd and did my Biometric Capture on October 24th . Got an email same day that my passport has been dispatched to the DMC.

It is 15 working days today and 3weeks since I captured and I am yet to here from them.

Anyone in my shoes that captured same or around the same time.
P.S mine is the standard and not priority application.

JDQueen:
Timeline LAGOS

Application submission and Biometrics:22/10/19
(Priority and Assisted service option)
Decision Email: 7/11/19
Passport Ready for Pickup email: 12/11/19
Passport picked up: 13/11/19

Visa Approved.

Orjforlife:
Please somebody should help out with this
Pleaee help

@justwise
@giselle237I am planning to apply for a tourist visa soon and will like to confirm if submitting an evidence of 300k fixed deposit along with employment details ( payslips, employment letter,letter of intro etc) will show strong ecomonic ties? 
Or should i add family pics to show more ties to my home country as i am single and still staying with my parents....i have an acct balance of 1.1m ( excluding the 300 FD)

Thank you

Orjforlife:
Please somebody should help out with this
Pleaee help

@justwise
@giselle237


Good evening beautiful people...please i need advise from gurus in the house .

I am planning to apply for a tourist visa soon and will like to confirm if submitting an evidence of 300k fixed deposit along with employment details ( payslips, employment letter,letter of intro etc) will show strong ecomonic ties? 
Or should i add family pics to show more ties to my home country as i am single and still staying with my parents....i have an acct balance of 1.1m ( excluding the 300 FD)

Thank you

Necky101:
I did priority passport still not out.
Timeline
Biometrics: 18/10/19
Decision email:23/10/19
Up till now, passport still not gotten.
Called home office, no reasonable response received.
TLS has said, they’d escalate, it’s been 7 working days. No word.


I feel so frustrated right now. I don’t even have an idea what next to do. I need my passport.

justwise:


How much is your salary?

giselle237:
Boss u are applying for visa to the uk... ofcourse u should submit any and every document to strengthen your ties
For ur family members u can submit birth certificates of ur siblings to show parents names, work ids and/or student id cards of ur parents and siblings to show that they are all in Nigeria and wud be in Nigeria during d period of ur trip.. add all family pics u want and staple to a paper with description of who and who is in each picture underneath and then scan
If ur parents are elderly and any of them has a medical condition, and u have paid their medical bills before or u take them to the hospital for follow ups, you can use this as a tie as their carer and cnt abandon them..
show proofs of everything especially if u are a 1st timer.
Do not submit any false documents. I hope the savings money u have 1m something has no lump sum or abnormal gathering slate.
Also hope u have a good paying job with company credits as employment tie is very important
Good luck

BizBloke:


Looks better to me.
I'd like to add this: perhaps you chip off £20 from Transport & add to either Shopping/Feeding/Hostel.

Here's why: I'm not sure you're going to spend more than £35 on Transport within 5 days except you do a Coach Ride or Train Ride from one town to the other.

And you used a £1 = NGN445.65 exchange rate (correct?) I'd suggest using AbokiFx too, alongside Oanda. Actually, I think it's better to have a margin of error by overstating an exchange rate than understating it - in order to manage currency fluctuations.

Good luck!

buddie:
Hello All,

Orjforlife:
Please somebody should help out with this
Pleaee help

@justwise
@giselle237


Good evening beautiful people...please i need advise from gurus in the house .

I am planning to apply for a tourist visa soon and will like to confirm if submitting an evidence of 300k fixed deposit along with employment details ( payslips, employment letter,letter of intro etc) will show strong ecomonic ties? 
Or should i add family pics to show more ties to my home country as i am single and still staying with my parents....i have an acct balance of 1.1m ( excluding the 300 FD)

Thank you

ganasy:
Pls i have a question.
Me and my wife want to visit the uk for about a month (feeding & accommodation will be provided by the person inviting us). My wife is an applicant and also a student in a fashion school and based in Nigeria while i am a student in an european country. I will apply from here for myself and I have visited uk before. I will provide flight fares and all other expenses because she does not have any personal saving.
How should I go about it pls

ozymes:
How did you accumulate the N1.1m?

Ashirioluwa:
My junior brother 6-month UK visa just expired. He got the visa in May this year and he used it once that same month. He was in UK for 5 night in May for vacation.

I don't want to mislead him because he asked me if he can apply for renewal now.

His next vacation is in March next year and he will like to travel to visit UK again.

He wants to know if he can apply for renewal now or not (6-month / 2-year)
Gurus in the house I need your advice

Good morning house and a special thank you to all the gurus in the house.

From my personal experience since his next vacation is in March of next year, why can’t he wait within 3 months of his intended date of traveling before applying.

He can apply in January,2020 and go for 2 years.

I got my first UK visa October,2019 and expired in April of this year and i applied for 2 years in August because my traveling date was October which was given.
In my own case, i used the same documents because my status did not change.

Orjforlife:
Thank you @Ozymes,

I work and earn 192k as net income. I save very well monthly from my salary as i am single and still stay with my parents. the 1.1M is money i saved overtime...every kobo in my savings account can be traced back to my salary acct

buddie:
Hello All,
And the refusal letters follows after all the recommendations as shown below. Clearly many things were not put into consideration before reaching this decision.

1. Two bank statements were submitted for the application( One salary and personal account) with about 400K and 1.2M respectively why no reference was made to the other well funded account i don't know before reaching this decision.
2. A cover letter was also provided detailing all these information which certainly wasn't used
3. Documents regarding all the large deposits was explained in the cover letter and photocopies of all the treasury bills liquidated attached.

Is there a way of appealing this case as i feel the refusal is quite unjust?

Would i be thinking of applying for a trip and exhausting all i have saved just for a 7days trip?

Were the diligent enough not to have seen or noticed all the several other supporting documents i provided with this application?

Skrskr:


I understand you but would you prefer there was no avenue for complaint?
Not all refused visas actually do not have merit.
The ECOs are humans and I lowkey feel their job is to deny not grant visas from Nigeria.
When I posted my refusal decision, "gurus" on here (no offence) were asking me to not complain but wait a while till my circumstances change. Nothing needed to possibly change as I had good standings based on their rules. I am pretty certain there would have been a lot of people refused under similar circumstances to mine. Complaint is not an issue especially since it is a paid service.
To avoid everyone complaining, it's best they sit up and do their work to the letter.
I had an Australia visit visa refused in May, I couldn't complain because they refused based on facts. This UK refusal was based on laziness on the part of the ECO. I attached 50 supporting documents and could tell she probably checked two or three. Hence, I had grounds to complain. Who knows if he/she has refused thousands of other people by not checking their application thoroughly? They are not gods abeg. Even if everyone starts to complain, it's as simple as them taking a look and seeing if the complaints had merit. If not, they will probably uphold it.

I want to commend your courage for challenging the status quo. I did something similar which i shared here a while ago. Although i started following Nairaland like 2 months ago.

I applied for UK 2 years and i was given 6 months visa. People were like i should not complain that many people have been denied and i should count myself lucky(Not on this platform tho)
I lodged a complained that i need explanation why i was given 6 months instead of 2 years. I got an apology letter that i should return my passport which i did and got my 2 years visa.

This was in early october,2019. I have travelled and now back in Nigeria .

Another issue bothering my mind is people have been advising others to spend no of days stated on their application after been issued visa.

I started in my application last year that i will spend 5 days and ended spending 10 days due to sightseeing although i left the second day the conference ended.

Spending additional 3-5 days is not a bad idea in as much as your return ticket covers that but anything over that is not advisable.

Has anyone seen a refusal letter based on spending more days than what you stated in-your previous application?

Orjforlife:
Thank you @Ozymes,

I work and earn 192k as net income. I save very well monthly from my salary as i am single and still stay with my parents. the 1.1M is money i saved overtime...every kobo in my savings account can be traced back to my salary acct

Vicas2000:
I am trying to upload documents (self service) and need clarification:

1. Do i put all my sponsors documentation under "sponsor evidence" e.g. my sponsors bank statement, mortgage document, sponsors british passport, sponsor council tax etc under the sponsor evidence category

2. There is another category labelled as financial evidence and not sure if this is for the applicants financial evidence only? i.e. the applicants bank statement, or should this financial evidence contain the sponsors bank statement too?

3. Also under what category should the cover letter be on?

Anyone can advise on this please?

Vicas2000:
I am trying to upload documents (self service) and need clarification:

1. Do i put all my sponsors documentation under "sponsor evidence" e.g. my sponsors bank statement, mortgage document, sponsors british passport, sponsor council tax etc under the sponsor evidence category

2. There is another category labelled as financial evidence and not sure if this is for the applicants financial evidence only? i.e. the applicants bank statement, or should this financial evidence contain the sponsors bank statement too?

3. Also under what category should the cover letter be on?

Anyone can advise on this please?

Yuzee:
is there anyway I can know if visa was appproved? I'm getting really impatient ... DHL said estimated date of delivery is Tuesday next week...something that was given to them since Wednesday.

1blessing:
Hello @skrskr, congrats. Please did you state in your application that you were denied australia visa in your recent UK visa since they can access the info from their database?

Broadenyourhori:


I completely understand your point. I had the same issue when i applied for my ILR couple of years ago. Even though i went in for a premium same day service at the HO in Croydon,paid £3000 - the guy refused to grant my ILR because i didn't include a document. (document i used for other permits and was not even required) I took notes of all our conversations, his name and staff number, his manager's name and made a complaint. I got an apology letter for the stress and had my ILR issued.

On the other hand, the workload on these guys are too much. Most applications from Africa are handled by High school leavers especially tourist visas. They have a threshold they can't go beyond.

kazmoj:
I was refused on this basis to UK visiting visa ... Please, can someone in the house help me what next do?Check below picture ..thanks

josiahese:


Kindly share a comprehensive photo of the refusal.
We can't see your estimated expenditure you gave for the trip.

Skrskr:


It's called "funds parking" boss.
In April you had 900k, and a few months later, it rose to 2million+. That is an Extra 3000+ pounds.

Did you explain the origin of the funds?