Uk Visa /seychelles

I am  applying for a visit visa to Uk for my brother  here in Seychelles , he has applied before 14 months ago in (Lagos) Nigeria and he was refused and he went to erased the refusal stamp off his passport . i got  him a work permit here in Seychelles and he  has been working for  10 months here , with his work permit  and his kind of job it is easy for him to  get a UK visit visa  here ( His real intention is just to visit Uk and stay for 1week and return back to Seychelles) and also his actual age is 28yrs old but his Passport state 33yrs old. Please i need the following advice :

Is it possible that the  British embassy here in Seychelles  may contact BHC Nigeria and check if he has been refused visa before ? The refusal stamp he had before on it was cleaned out properly and no trace of removal .

Do you think it would work if i should  state his real age and submit a copy of his original birth certificate along side and claim that there was an error on his passport date of birth  ? cause i will really like  him to use his real age

All response will be highly appreciated

Hmmmm. Nigerians sha.

Let the truth be told. The refusal stamp was not 'erased' from the passport. What was done was that the passport page with the refusal stamp on it was smartly and carefully removed and replaced with another 'arrangee' page having the same passport number. . I am trying to remember the jail term for anyone caught mutilating nigeria's passport

Anyway, your brother should have just gotten a fresh passport before travelling to Seychelles. BHC keeps a central data base of all applications irrespective of the country where the fresh application will be made.

The problem now is if he applies with the same passport and the system detects he has been refused, they would probably ask how come the refusal stamp is not on it-unless he claims he knows nothing about it and all he was given was his passport/refusal notice. They might think the ECO forgot to stamp the passport. I doubt if they make sure omissions though-but they are humans therefore they are also prone to errors.

Another option is declaring the old passport missing. Which means he has to notify the Seychelles authority and get the work permit transferred on the new passport.

On the issue of discrepancies in his date of birth, that can be corrected on his passport. He should go to the Nigerian embassy/passport office with affidavit,birth certificate,etc and it will be stated on the 'observation' page of the passport that there was errors in his date of birth.

Funkybaby thanks for your response , yes you are right that there was no biometirc system yet when he applied , as per the removal of the refusal stamp i dont know how they did it. What if he says the truth that he has been refused  before but somehow the stamp cleaned off? Am sorry if  some of my questons sounds a bit stupid to you ,  but honesty i dont really know much about this UK visa thing , i am into hotel reservation and ticketing

The option of declaring the passport missing here in seychelles and getting his work permit on a new passport  is a very good option , but the problem is there is no Nigeria embassy/passport office here in the Seychelles , Funkybaby is there a way to apply for a new passport in Nigeria without appearnace ? if you dont mind  i will really like to have a chat with you , let me know if you will like to and i can send u my chat id.

@landis

Haba! You are too harsh. Lol. You would be suprised at the desperate things people do in a bid to travel overseas only to start regretting later.
 
The refusal stamp is already 'off' the passport and nothing can be done legally to bring it back.

@darkroll

The same guys who 'erased' the stamp can put it back. The stamp with the refusal number can be 'inserted' back on the passport page. Tell your brother to talk to the 'boys', it can be done.

There is absolutely no way you can get the new nigerian e-passport via 'non-appearance'. No matter how highly ranked the 'insider'  is, it is just not possible. I am freaking sure of this.

For the old passport - hmmm - maybe sha. This will probably be at states where the new e-passport machine have not been installed for use and they are still using the old machines to produce the old passports. 

@darkroll

I forgot to add. You cannot tell bhc that the refusal stamp just 'cleaned off' the passport !! How?

Their refusal stamp once it hr on a passport looks like a print on the passport straight from a printing press. Ten years after, the refusal stamp still remains 'kampe' on the passport. So that line cant work - try another

@darkroll

Lol. Alright then. If 'cyber police' catch you, no be me tell you wetin to do oh.

Seriously now, those 'boys' ought to have given him back the page that was removed so that he can keep it. That is the way such things are done just in the event of situations like this where the original page is needed . Anyway, keep me updated.

@darkroll

Lol. I find that hard to believe. Anyway if stamps can be washed off US dollars, anything is possible then.

They should 'arrange' another stamp on the passport then. Na that one easy pass. 

@landis

O ti gba oh. Ti peeeeeeee.
No mind these young boys of nowadays. Always ready to do anything in the bid to 'check out'.

The guy's brother is not relocating to UK. Only going for a week's vacation. He will be STUPID to go to the UK to get stuck there.

 @ landis

I yen ke?? A ti da ru ohhhhh.

No harm if the guy goes to UK for 'tourism'. After all, Big Ben dey there

Thanks landis and funkybaby,

Well my brother is only planing to stay for 1 week in the UK  , UK has been a dream place he wanted  to go for a long time . Seychelles is a nice place and comfortable working enviroment  but working and spending your vacation here  is not a good idea .

I just informed him to apply for a switzerland visit  visa and fashi uk for now untill he get another passport .

But thank you all for your contributions , it has really helped alot and have saved him from trouble with BHC.

Funkybaby you should open a travel consulting office oooooo , am sure you will make a lot of money from it 

o ye kan ni respect fun ogbeni Darkroll but nothing spoil ti o ba fe mail mi.

 

"Funkybaby i just called him to call the guys that did it for me"
@darkroll. why r u so desperate, and why is your brother not requesting this favor by himself, or doesnt he know how to use the internet? why wasting FB's time with your flopped up criminally intended attempt and economical information? its not your brother thats involved, but you. go and get a new passport and stop fumbling around with your morally reprehensible misdeed before the bhc sees this and begins to watch out for you. from the highlighted part of your quote above

Thats sad. He should just get a new passport then. That way he can make all the necessary correction in his Date of Birth.



No wahala. I will wait. 

@ Tegese

Which one be you own ? if am posting a thread here on behalf of my brother , do u have a problem with that ? My brother  made a mistake and i am trying to see if i can help him out . Please dont come here and put your anger on me ,it is not my fault that you dont have a brother , U better go ask your mother why she aborted the pregnancy of your brother.

You sounder earlier as if you dont brothers , so if you are trying to help you brother there is no big deal there (it is called sisterly love )

Well back to topic , I told him to spend his vacation somewhere esle  and when he gets his new passport then he can apply for Uk visit visa .

u should have suggested that he uses "ijebu stunt" juju since you believe in that, at least that can blind the eco from realising that the pali has been tempered you said you will ignore me, so please dont respond to this as a show of negligence. thank you