jt2010:

i have an interview with norway embassy in nigeria for Spetember 14, 2010 for a tourist visa and i need advise/tips to ensure the success of this application. Here are the documents i intend to submit.

1) Letter of introduction from my Office
2) Letter of grating of leave
3) 3 months payment slip
4) Bank statements (with reference letters from the bank)
5)Air ticket reservation
6) Hotel Reservation
7) Travel Insurance
Letter of employments, promotion etc
9) stock statements
I will be including two statements of account (Salary Account and Personal Statement) to the application because i always transfer my salary after been paid into my personal account.

any body with tips or advice should contribute.

jt2010:

Vicjustice & other NL,

Please help with this appeal process.

Here is the link to the documents that i submitted:
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-501048.0.html


The Refusal Letter:

The directorate of immmigration regrets to inform you that the visa application has been rejected.

The request for a visa has been refused because you do not satisfy one or more of the conditions under section 10 of the immigration act. The reasons for refusal are also listed in article 32(1) of the Schengen Community Code on Visa (visa Code) which is implemented in the immigration regulation.

According to the immigration act section 10 second paragraph and article 32(1) letter b in the visa code, an application for a visa may be rejected if considered necessary due to immgration regulatory considerations.

Where our and the local schengen cooperation's experince with specific groups and nationalities indicated that many fail to leave Norway or the schengen area upon expiratyion of thier visas, it has become our pratice to issue a visa only in exceptional cases.

Probability of return is assessed individually and important is attached to both emigration potential in the applicant's country of origin and to the individual factors regarding the applicant.

We have noted that the applicants comes from a country with a great potential for emigration due to its social and economic situation. in our experience, many applicants from Nigeria wish to resettle in other countries.

The applicant is unmarried ands has no children. He is said to be engaged in regular employment as an information technology expert. however, the directorate does not give this decisive weight.  Reference is made to our experience that many applicants consider job and income prospects in norway or another country in the schengen area as more attractive compare with those of his country of origin.

After considering these aspects of the application, the directorate of immigration finds that the applicant lacks the necessary ties to his country of origin.

The directorate of immigration does not consider there to be sufficiently welfare reasons to justify tyhe issueing of a visa. We refer to the fact that the purpose of the visa is only tourism, and that he hoes not have any reference in norway.

The decision can be appealed, cf. the public administration act section 28 first paragraph. the appeal has to be sent to the directorate of immigration or the foreign service mission. the directorate will review the case, if the directorate does not find any reason to reverse its decision, the case will be sent to the immigration appeals board.

jt2010:

Here are my answer to your questions:

1) What is your marital status, any kids? Single with no kid(s). It is stated in the refusal letter also.
2) What age group do you fall in? (Say a group if you don't feel comfortable to specify your age; ie 25-30) - Am 31
3) What kind of job do you do, and what income level? Information Technology Expert - 200K Stated also on the refusal letter.
4) How long have you been working with your company? 3 years plus
5) How's your savings like, (the balance matters too). about 1.5M and 1.500 thousand USD but have landed and stock assets also.
6) Have you ever travelled outside Nigeria before? No

As per my documents, what i mean by revalidating is that: I can get my office to reschedule my leave period toward december because of the diffcults of getting the visa.

I think Vicjustice has given you a good enough advice. Your best bet seems to be re applying, with a letter addressing the refusal decision

But you also need to show CLEARLY why you want to go to Norway. They mentioned you do not have any Reference in Norway so what are you touring for? You state that you have about N1.8m, how much of this are you expending for this trip?

Be clear on this. The problem may well be that they are not used to having Nigerian tourists who return. I also find it strange a Nigerian will chose Norway over UK, US, Canada, France, Spain and Italy for tourism whereas he does not have any 'reference' in the place. If you had applied to the UK you would have probably qualified for a visa but if I am the Norwegian visa officer I would certainly have serious doubts

Good luck

dancewith:
. . . But you also need to show CLEARLY why you want to go to Norway. They mentioned you do not have any Reference in  Norway so what are you touring for? You state that you have about N1.8m, how much of this are you expending for this trip? . . .

Vicjustice:
   Thanks to your clarification, i didn't seem to fully understand the King James Version English in which the Norwegian authority wrote your visa refusal letter. Now, given the nature of your job as an Information Technology Expert on a monthly salary of 200 thousand Naira and the documents that you have presented to support same together with your company's back-ups, i think the decision to refuse you the visa in the first place was very, very unfair, you should have been given the visa without issues as your job alone is enough proof of home ties, an enviable obligation to return home for.
   Now that i fully understand the contents of that letter, and have managed to access your worth, i think you were unfortunate to have had your application treated by a biased visa officer who seemed to have generalised Nigerians rather than treat individual in his/her own merit. However, you do stand a good chance whether you make a fresh application or you appeal the refusal, If you don't have any other ties or obligations, You can make a written declaration capitalising on your enviable job which is good enough obligation to come back for: make them understand that you would never compromise the job for anything, not even the Norwegian passport.
   Honestly, with your job, your monthly income and all the measures you took to apply for that visa, there shouldn't have been this talk of appeal, it's very silly and arrogant for a visa officer to accord a person earning monthly salary of 200 thousand Naira in Nigeria as one who would travel to Norway and become an illegal resident.
   Anyway, write a typed letter (with the aid of Microsoft Word) and address the Home ties issue by capitalising on your lucrative job which is good enough to represent an obligation to return home for: and also the number of years that you have served your company is enough to guarantee that your job is secured. Capitalise on your job and capitalise on your job and capitalise on your job: that should see you through.
Please, if you need further assistance or you wish to get things clearer, don't hesitate to let us know. Cheers