Hello and good morning to you all. I posted a previous post in this same tourist section yesterday, and i did get some help, but I may have not stated the topic well, so here we go, lol.

I'm a UK citizen of Nigerian descent, that lives in UK, i'll be travelling home in a few weeks time, (first time in loooooaadz of years, lol), and I realize that I have to apply for a visa at the nigerian embassy @ Charing cross. I've been made aware that the application is now done online, payment etc, fair enuff, I need some clarification on a few issues please.

Firstly, it seems to state on the webiste that a specific date will be given when i apply for me to bring all the docs, mu UK passport and submit my application,, as its quite busy at my workplace at present, and I may not be able to go on the date that i'm given, is there the option to CHANGE the date please  This is vey important for me as there is a huge possibility that i may not get the specific date off. 

Secondly if I apply online, how quickly do i get a date anyway?? The next 2 days i'm off from work are August 9th and 10, so i'm really HOPING that i can be given either of those days to lodge my application, lol

Thirdly, ive read on the website that I may need a letter of invite.  I know that they have procedures but a letter of invite to go to my motherland to see my family??  I do have a nigerian surname by the way, so will that make any differerence, lol

I'm not being paranoid, but i just wanna get there and things go smoothly, but at our embassy, u never know, lol

! would appreciate any suggestions, advice etc, from nairalanders out there, especially peeps that have gone through the new process of visa application. and may thanks to the advise on my previous post.

Warm regards
Okada_bwoy