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FetchUK:Not sure I understood what you just wrote up here. Kindly re-explain ... |
youseuph:You'll need to do this for six months to be able to achieve a healthy bank account . Doing this for a few weeks will most likely attract a rejection except your salary as a civil servant is good enough at a level that the total cost of your proposed trip will not exceed your two months salary |
FetchUK:is that possible? Cause I heard that most times these peeps claim to have run out of forex and am avoiding a situation where i'll have naira that I cant change or will be forced to change at the black market whose rates are not favorable |
youseuph:You got to be paying yourself a fixed amount monthly from the company via bank transfer (not cash). On the visa form there is a clause that asks for other sources of income from friends, family, stocks, investments....In that section you write down the amount you get from your company monthly |
Good morning all, In view of the current forex scarcity, exorbitant price of foreign currencies on the streets and the suspension of PTA by banks, is it fine to travel to the UK with no cash and rely on withdrawing cash from the ATM at the airport? In 2010 I had the ECO at the airport ask how much cash I was carrying and demanding to see the cash. However, the bank rate via gtbank naira mastercard on friday (19/02/16) was 320 naira = $1 while it was 393 naira = $1 which makes it more economical to opt for the bank rate. However am also aware of the need to show the availability of funds for the duration one's stay in the UK thus will like to seek advise from recent travellers to the UK/US/EU on nairaland. |
bleek147:Nobody on nairaland can guarantee the issuance of a visit visa to you. Nevertheless you'll need to confirm that your friend is a legal resident in the UK and you have to prove that he is indeed a close friend thus necessitating your proposed Visit . On the other hand you got to prove that your financial and social circumstances in Nigeria are superb to eliminate the idea of a possible recourse to public funds or overstaying |
Icesnow:You don't need any tax certificate to apply for the UK visit visa . I don't even know what the tax certificate thing looks like . Just try your best to submit documents that will convince the ECO that you'll come back to naija after your visit and during your visit you won't have any need to get money from the UK government to survive |
Burger01:Please what's their contact information in Lagos ? |
wearnfit:Banks maintain some level of confidentiality and are only able to verify the authenticity of account statements submitted to ECO. By law your account balance and other confidential details regarding your account can only be made available to institutions such as ICPC and EFCC among others. Nevertheless, consider the ECO as a human being whose instincts could ask certain questions such as "why was this applicant's statement printed long before his appointment date?" , "could he have borrowed money just to display for purposes of obtaining an entry clearance "?... If the ECO finds it unconvincing, he/she could deny you an entry clearance . Also bear in mind that the ECO's have more powers to deny general visit visa applications than the point based applications as a result of their current laws. Will advice that you submit a recent bank statement if you have nothing to conceal from the ECO. |
uuspace:Okay thanks . |
wearnfit:Try and print a bank statement covering up to the 19th of February. For schengen countries the rule is that the statement be not older than 10 days. Am assuming the ECO will have a similar expectation |
worry359: |
[quote author=wearnfit post=43075636][/quote]You can't print your statement a few days to your submission date but if you can make it not more than one week to your appointment date |
Bummi101:Have you collected your passport? |
nairacountry:The interbank rate (NGN284 to a dollar) is still too high compare to the NGN199 to the dollar official rate. Probably should search for banks that still offer PTA.. |
On the other hand what is the best way to get pounds (PTA) or at descent rates? GTbank has stopped issuing PTA and the BDC's seem to be charging outrageous amounts (almost 500 naira to 1 pounds). |
akyiremlouis:If he does a bank transfer his wife's name will show up on his statement as the source of the funds and he wont have any issue especially if he states that at the additional information section |
akyiremlouis:Well that was what i put up there in my application (9 days) . Hostel fee (not hotel) £150 flight fee £600 and shopping / miscellaneous £250. I had a seperate document listing out what i plan to do while in uk and the cost of each of these activities including my eating spots. Everything summed up to £117 so you can see that the £250 pound budget was even too much. When i was residing in uk i use to apply for schengen visas with just £500 or thereabout in my account and never got denied. In december 2014 I applied for schengen visa in lagos (france) and had 273k in my account. Visa was granted. |
youseuph:You can tell your wife to transfer the money to you and submit your bank statement to reduce unnecessary complexities. |
Bummi101:Yep . They don't usually except clarifications are needed. If the "decision made" email was from Sheffield then You may get your package one week from today or earlier |
akyiremlouis:Budget was 600 for flight , 150 for hotel and 250 for feeding/shopping . Also added an itenary of my planned day-to-day activities |
youseuph:Accumulate your salary and avoid money lodgement. Even though huge sums were deposited into my account weeks before the application my account has always been recording credits from another source monthly however I spend the money as it's coming which made it hard for me to accumulate money over time . In addition make realistic travel budget as my budget was barely £1,000. Lastly I was a UK resident till January 2015 and never made recourse to public fund all through my stay there so all these may have made the ECO less stringent on my application.. |
hi everyone, pleas what is the average processing time for short stay tourist visas to germany in lagos? |
hi everyone, pleas what is the average processing time for short stay tourist visas to germany in lagos? |
Just returned from TLS in VI to pick up my package. |
vcole:Yea picked it up this afternoon. One week after getting the decision made email. |
jennytbell:roughly $499 or £346. In naira you pay whatever rate the bank uses though its not goin be the CBN rate |
You are likely to be denied for the same reason . Why not build your account for the next three months and then apply |
So UKVI Sheffield emailed me on Feb 10 to say "a decision has been made" and TLSContact emails me on Feb 15 to say "Your UK visa application has been received by UK Visas & Immigration and will now be processed in accordance with published timelines" . Lol Wonder who is giving the realtime information here... Teleperformance seems to be be updating one week later than they should |
I used a friend's card in U.S. To pay the 5 year few . Now cracking My head as to how to get $$$ at a good exchange rate to refund lol |
Rihannaola:okay |
Rihannaola:oooh k. There has not been any communication from Teleperformance VI since I submitted. Nevertheless I received two updates from sheffield including the decision made email yesterday... |
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