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deyo19:
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Thank God!..pls dnt forget to com share Ur Goodnews!...Are U a frequent traveller too?

The visa was denied.
I wont consider myself a frequent flyer but i have travel history. I have traveled to France, Netherlands, Scotland and England.

Reason given for the denial was "justification for the purpose and conditions of intended stay was not provided".

The visa was to attend a one week annual KBS conference in Lithuania fully funded by the conference organizers. The same France embassy gave me a one week visa to attend the same conference last year but in a different country. They rotate the host country annually. Last year, I attended the conference and came back home. So i was wondering why the denial, this time around even when it's only one week visa i applied for.

I wrote a very detailed cover letter and provided all necessary documents about the conference, my presentation, full funding from the organizers, banks statements, introduction from my work place, leave letter from work, my home ties, flight reservation, travel insurance, hotel reservation, my one week itinerary (from hotel to conference venue) etc literally everything i felt they would need to make a positive decision.

They gave me the option to appeal. A tls staff mentioned they changed staff and advised that maybe I should apply again instead of appealing which will take long. But no need to be wasting money and time when the conference starts on June 1 and my travel date was to be 30 May.

I was shaa happy that the people they attended to before me got their visas. The smiles on their faces as they opened their passport and saw their visas made my day.

Wishing you all the best in yours.

Hello House

I applied 18th March. Have really been worried until I began following the thread and seeing people's messages on the delay.

Finally, I received a message this evening to come pick up my passport. So will go tomorrow or next.

Congratulations,You got a fast response on your application,was it just normal standard application processing time or was it expedited processing time ..

It was a normal standard application and I did my biometric at Ikeja.

[quote author=onile1975 post=135053167]Thanks Adaeze for ur response

Pls can I upload the following documents to collum, prove of application below? Or guide me in ur format that work for you

1) application form
2) documents checklist
3) passport datapage

Yes Sir, I uploaded 1-3 under proof of application.

U no in the UK documents checklist,at pages 6 it's required that you will write date and signed,and next part Is for Vfs staff to put date sign and tick the documents confirm column as you did, how did you do this part?

I can't remember now, but I remember taking all the documents I uploaded online, including the application form and document checklist with me for my appointment.

onile1975:
Congratulations Adaeze

Pls did you uploaded your documents by urself on VFS website?

Yes Sir, I did it myself.

Mrphilia:
Good evening everyone,

Tomorrow is my biometrics and I don't know if I should only carry the document on my checklist which were international passport and police certificate to VFS. Will that be enough?

Attached is my checklist

I carried the documents I uploaded online but nobody asked me for them. The only thing I was asked for was the vfs appointment letter, the one that has a barcode because they will scan it and my international passport which I submitted to them.

Standard visitor visa

Biometric Date: 24 March
Decision Email: 7 April
Passport picked up: 8 April

Thank you to everyone that posts, comments and provide guidance on this platform. It really helps. I read the thread and decided to submit a lot of documents because I didn't want to take chances. I am employed, single, have no children yet and so may not have strong home ties.

Documents submitted
Cover Letter (5 pages with sub-headings and detailed explanations)
Letter of sponsorship
All email correspondence with sponsors
Employment letter
Confirmation letter
Promotion letters
Letter of introduction from my employers
Leave Approval Letter
Staff ID
Birth certificate
Previous UK visa
6 months payslip from work. I also had to explain the change in salary reflecting in February payslip and bank statement in my cover letter.
6 months savings access bank statement and reference letter.
6 months savings corporative bank statement and reference letter
6 months salary account bank statements and reference - I explained major credits, mostly from my consultancy work and attached evidence.

Then I prayed for favour to be successful.

Going forward I have decided to have a clean salary account and limit inflow to only my salary and 2 major debits with clear narrations - Monthly Expenses, and Monthly savings, which I will transfer to another account. I started doing this from my March Salary and intend to continue with it.

Thank you everyone for your guidance that really helped.