₦airaland Forum

Jocabasa:
Thank God ooo I jst received a fone call frm TLS now dat my passport is ready for collection....
AdvanceDNA i sed ur advise n comments always brings hope n gud result...

I thank u all for ur support, courage n advise,
AdvanceDNA, Hunee, Giselle, Mrmoney Mattle n all u great pipu on dis platform God bless u all for d work on dis platform....

I will u tomorrow for d ogogoro n pkomo after i my passport pick up...

xterra2:
I applied a month before travel, i was given $200 in cash and $3800 which i was able to withdraw when i travelled, maximum of $1,000 a day . so 4 days to withdraw all. for GT it is $3.50 per withdrawal fee and similar to UBA too

xterra2:
Just seeing this, it means it has been sent for review , it needs to be approved and then it would show approved, then it'd go to adb_disbursement so you would be added to a queue to await disbursement. Which is better if you talk to someone at the bank so it would be facilitated for you so you get it before travelling . I recently did and collected mine

Horlaidey007:
okay. Thank you. pls how do you make payment ($460) for the visa fee?

Umegoejiofor:
Congratulations bro,is this your first visa? Or na renew?

Standard Application with self uploads
2 years Visa

Tls center : Ikeja
Biometric: 24th Oct.
Transferred to VAC: 18th Nov.
Collection mail : 18th Nov.
4weeks of Processing
Passport collected: 21st Nov. with vignette sitting boldly.


All Praises belongs to God Almighty for this and more. Thanks for your contributions always.

NB:
-If you run a Company/Enterprise, make sure it’s Active on CAC
-Be free to do a Cover letter for a detailed application
-Ask for Mercy and Favour from GOD for a successful outcome, no be by confident, Good luck Peeps…

Horlaidey007:
Do I need to activate my Company back to Active? Even though I am not using the company bank account but I want to reference it as 90% of my income in my personal account comes from it. please advice

hunee:
You welcome.
All the best.

hunee:
Depends on travel date. This is peak season and it is expected for air fares to be high. If the trip is not urgent, you can travel after the festivities or you check airlines like Et, and Qatar. You may be lucky to find something reasonable.

Jocabasa:
Is Qatar airways frm 1st n 2nd week of December.

bardintentionz:
Chief, please any idea how long the biometrics process takes. Do they stick to time or one has to arrive very early.

Jocabasa:
Good morning guys...
I don com again ooo make una no say my blood dey hot oo... Although my blood dey hot truly..

I noticed flights from December upward ar daam expensive so am thinking of booking a flexible flight ticket on d last day of d 15working days given by d Ukvi for my passport collection...

God forbid if d 15working days given no laap den I can change d flight date ahead....
Nd if I get my passport before d date den i japkaa....

Pls AdvanceDNA, Hunee, Mattle n members if I make sense or not advise me

aomisola:
Hello my people,

I applied for a UK Visitors Visa and had my Bio on 6th October 2022. A friend of mine we applied and visited the biometric together same day got a refusal email notification a week ago.

I sent a paid email on Tuesday to UKVI and I was told they are still working on my application.

I tracked my application today and its already transferred to VAC but I didn't get any email to notify me of refusal or approval.

People with experience can you please share your opinion?

Thank you

Mrmoney90:
Good morning,
Like to know if someone who has a first 6 month Uk Visa can use 2months straight in the Uk, it’s her first visit.

Thank you.

yinksob002:
Hello guys,

I noticed that the DS 160 confirmation no on my interview appointment sheet differs from the initial one obtained at the point of applying for dropbox renewal but the UID no remains the same. What do i need to do as my interview is less than a month from now.

Thanks

OmoBendel24:
You can REschedule just only once, not twice please

edimalo:
Is reciprocity fees still being paid at Embassy?. Is it compulsory to be paid immediately at the Embassy. Asking for someone.

Thanks

Phemorinho:
Thanks

fkj950ax:
Yes on your DS160, you have to state how much you earn. Add them all up and divide by 12. There is no place where you separate your monthly pay from the annual vacation allowance on the form.

Why is your company paying for your children's vacation? They aren't employees of the company. That is a corporate governance issue. It's okay in Nigeria for MD to put his expenses on the company, but foreigners see it as abuse of office. I don't think this is a good idea. Just state you are funding the trip. You may need to evidence this.

Where is the other spouse in all of this?

This is the school resumption season, and you are planning a vacation with children. Your travel date needs to assuage this. Red flag.

More contributions beneficial.

fkj950ax:
You earn 250k and 320k? Don't make this error with a VO. Your wife earns Y. You earn X.
Find out vacation places in Virginia to visit with your family. You'd be asked.
Do you have someone in US can't be a No. Mention it even if it's another State.

aderemi166:
Good day house, I paid for VISA Fee for my 2kids and I when getting to book appointment I has applied the reference code I got after paying at the GTBank.
Went for interview, told to reschedule for another appointment that the barcode isn’t the same.

Tried booking with the same receipt numbers, got this message:

“No valid record can be found for the entered receipt number. Please validate that your receipt number is correct and that you have paid the correct amount for the visa which you are applying for”

Please house what is the solution to this... time is far spent. anyone in this kind of issues waiting for.
Way forward, kindly know that I paid for 3.

RubyN7:
ALHAMDULILLAHI! ALHAMDULILLAHI!! ALHAMDULILLAHI!!!
Which of the favour of Allah will I deny? ABSOLUTELY NONE.

Diary of a Favoured Emigrant…..Long post alert. Please ignore all typo errors.

Thank God and thanks to everyone who contributed in one way or the other.

Decision to Travel:
I have always wanted to live outside Nigeria. I thought I was getting close to my abroad dream when my father was processing admission for me in a university abroad, unfortunately I lost him to the cold hands of death and that affected my plans.
After my B.Sc. I started applying to schools abroad for scholarship to proceed with my MSc. Only one of the many I applied to responded with school fee of almost $12,000 and only $1,000 scholarship, where will I start from? I ignored and continued my life in Nigeria After a while, I discussed with my then boyfriend now hubby about my passion to leave this country, but he was of the opinion that Nigeria will be a better place on day, he said he was only interested in going for vacation abroad and returning to “his” Nigeria.
We got married and life goes on, this didn’t stop me from making my finding on how to leave this country and settle in USA legally, hoping that his eyes will clear one day.
As God will have it, a colleague hinted me about Canada EE and I was ready for it. I discussed it with hubby but he was adamant. On several occasions I asked my colleague to speak with my hubby but there was no much difference until one day when his brother (medical doctor) and his close friend who both earn well in Nigeria told him same Saturday that they have submitted their passport and expecting COPR. Gbam, my hubby eyes cleared and I made it an assignment to discuss Canada with him every day, gradually I started noticing his conviction.


IELTS PREPARATION AND ECA
We began practicing for IELTS in Sept. 2017. During our research we realised some people wrote once and made their desired score while some wrote upto 10times before getting desired result. Hubby insisted I write the exam first, I did and my result somehow made him believed it was possible….#wink

August 2017- We checked to know who was best to be the PA. At this time hubby had not completed his MSc. If I am the PA with 8,7,7,7 in LRWS we will be at 425 which was the CRS range for ITA as at this time.
August 2017, we initiated my ECA via WES.
October 2017- First IELTS, 6.5,7,6.5,7 in LRWS
October 2017- My ECA was ready
Jan 2018- Hubby and I wrote IELTS again
Hubby first attempt in LRWS was 7, 6.5, 6.5, 7
My second attempt- 8, 7, 6.5, 7 remark came back unchanged. I was sad.
Feb 2018- By this time hubby had completed his Master and we immediately ordered for his ECA via WES
Hubby ECA was ready by August 2018 so I created another profile for him. We had 2 different profiles hoping that one of us might get Alberta nomination from the pool.

IELTS HUSTLE
Hubby continued with IELTS struggles.(LRWS)
2nd attempt Feb 2018 (BC)- 8,6.5,6.5,7
3rd attempt Apr 2018 (BC) 8.5, 9, 6.5, 8 remark came back unchanged, I was sad and almost cried, can’t remember if I even did.
This was when we realised we probably need to pray more because we couldn’t figure out what he was getting wrong in writing. I began to fast when I can and prayed more.
I didn’t let hubby rest, always reminding him that he needs to go to IELTS (IDP) and bring home 9,9,9,9 for us and at the same time I began to pray for him not to be discouraged and back out of the journey.
4th attempt Aug 2018 (BC) 6.5, 6.5, 6, 7,
5th attempt Sept- 2018 (MOD) 7.5, 6.5, 7, 7.5 Hmn….at 3rd quarter of the year we have not saved enough funds as we planned for the year but our eyes were on the goal and the race continued.
6th attempt Oct 2018 (BC) 8.5, 7, 6.5, 7.5 remark came back with only speaking increasing by 0.5…the only benefit was that we got back our N15,000 after 2 months.
7th attempt Nov 2018(MOD) 6.5, 7.5, 7, 7.5
8th and final attempt Dec 1st 2018 9, 7.5, 7, 8 CRS jumped from 402 to 459…God be praise……I couldn’t sleep because I was so excited and couldn’t stop wondering why it took this long to make the desired score...
Apparently we spent over N700,000 on English language test (IELTS) alone, by this time we were sure we will get ITA at the next draw.

Dec 19th ………………..we did PCC in preparation for ITA from the next draw. (Insp. Olufunke Hassan did for N3,500 at Room 70, Alagbon Police station)
Dec 19th ………………..The precious ITA mail arrived, which we called bronze mail
Dec 20th…………….started composing this love letter.
Dec 22th ………………Booked medical for Jan 10th,
Jan 10th…………………Medical done at IOM, we were the first to arrival at 6:15am and left 11:05am
Jan 15th…………………AOR and the wait began. I planned to submit and just move on with life but I couldn’t help but check immitracker and calculate when MEP will arrive for people with Jan 15th AOR.
Feb 22nd ………………..MEP
Feb 25th………………….Biometric instruction letter (BIL)
Feb 26th………………….Biometric done, spent like 2hours, the biometric itself takes like 5-10mins, but the process is like 15mins + X, X is the time you got there, people before you and other human factors.

POF
POF was in my account, so I got reference letter from GTBank in CIC format and 6months statement of account with Treasury bill certificate. All these were uploaded with a letter of no objection signed by me for my spouse to use fund for settling in Canada. Fast forward to Feb 5th, I noticed an error on the Treasury bill certificate. The maturity date stated on the certificate was Feb 2nd meanwhile, the actual maturity date was Feb 28th. I called my account officer and requested for a correct certificate, she sent to me and I raised CSE immediately to submit an updated certificate. POF was rolled over for another 90days upon maturity and investment certificate was submitted via webform.

WORK REFERENCE
In my organisation, such request is done online then assigned to an officer in HR department. It was easy for me to request and I picked up my signed reference letter in CIC format within 2 weeks.
My hubby (the PA) got his reference from his direct manager within three days in CIC format as well. Although his boss was aware of his plan, infact he requested for details to enable him start the process as well.

The wait
We raised CSE about 3 times to know status of our application and response was Eligibility and Criminality not started as at 3rd of May when we received the 3rd response, We sent a mailed Ralph, response was same
Called CIC, response was same,
At that point we decided not to check profile again but pray and believe PPR will show one day. I was only able to hold myself for 2 weeks- April 25th to May 9th when I checked our profile again. I was disappointed it still remained same as it was left 2 weeks ago.
I raised GCMS on 15th of May with no response, after 35 days I sent a mail to getgcms.
The wait continued and I was always heartbroken to see SUBMITTED, meaning no ghost update was so ever.
We called on the 12th of June and the agent who picked informed us that we have exceeded our due date which was June 2nd.She stated that she will minute on our application for visa officer to act on it. She added that this might take month to get a response. Haven heard this we tried to call on the 5th of July but the call discontinued just 6mins to the end of waiting time. Tried again on the 8th and we were told we couldn’t speak to an agent due to high influx of calls.
Hubby and I agreed that we will call and send mail on the 15th of July which was our due date for the 6month timeline and also my birthday.
Surprisingly, we saw a ghost update on Thursday morning and my birthday gift (PPR) arrived early same evening on the 10th of July………………..Trust me I cannot describe the feeling that comes with PPR (Golden mail) in words but I can say it is a great RELIEF.

This journey is not for the faint hearted, it requires a lot of patience and perseverance.
Thank GOD, may we never regret taking this bold step of relocating.

Zara01:
Culled from WhatsApp

"Affidavit is N4000 - negotiable.
Attestation is N4000 (Don't worry "Iya WES" has you covered for those two documents) - negotiable, only for gce.
You'll buy scratch card from her for N1500.
Buy two envelopes.
Try to get there early so you can go upstairs to the 7th floor (gce) or 2nd floor (waec) with your documents.
Remember to bring your filled WES forms with 2 passport photographs.
They'll sign your documents in the last room by the right on the 7th floor then you'll go downstairs to the 4th floor (first room) to pay N10000.
They'll give you a receipt and then you go back to the 7th floor to submit.
Lastly, you'll pay for the courier."

Fiwakewa:
My ten years visa was approved.Thanks to God and every one who has contributed to this forum, those who posted their successful story and those who posted their refusal letter. I did it all myself without any agent. I read from this forum that i can apply for ten years visa after my 2years visa expired and i did. My last two visa application i used 3 months statement and it was approved but this one i had access to my 4 months and some weeks statement so I just decided to use it. The only money i spent for this visa was #3,000 and my visa fee only,the 3k ws for printing,scanning and data subscription. If i can do it then you can,just make sure you pray and submit the right document. Prayer without work is useless.

tasho105:
Was only asked to say my name and dob...but was not asked to press any green button.
Pls what does the green button imply?

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I stay with my uncle that works with the Japanese Embassy so he wrote it and added his numbers,office email .
when I got to the interview room,I was only asked my date of birth,my name and where I live
..after wards I was told to press the green button while coming out.