ekpotek:


Unemployment is only acceptable if your mother is looking for work. Home making/housewife is preferably if she is an elderly person. What was her status in her previous application in 2011? Just explain in your cover letter why your mother is unemployed.

You budget line should only be for her flight ticket and perhaps £100 for incidentals. Accommodation and feeding is free. She coming there to see her grandson, so all those expense like shopping, etc should be eliminated. Move money to you current account and re submit both current and saving accounts and explain to ECO to show you have access you saving account, you have moved £2000 to your current account. Then you can also credit your mum account with flight ticket money and £100 pocket money.Again move the fund from your savings and explain to the ECO that you doing this so that you have access to this account and she can buy her ticket from Nigeria. The ECO want so see that you have access to your saving account, so show it.

edmasta01:


Thanks very much ekpotek. I mentioned that she is unemployed because she is a housewife. She does not have a job. Or am i wrong to think that being a housewife is considered a "job"?

The only source of income she gets is what I send to her account directly every month (same with dad). My dad is in his 70's and closed down his business too without any source of income.

Kindly advise.

How do I address the budget in the new application? Should i create a new budget stating only that I am paying for her travel expense?

ANy chance you can help with examples of how to deal with this please?

I am happy to present my savings account alone. But won't the ECO want o see proof of my earnings? hence why I include the current account in the first place?

Thanks for your help on this.

Endlessgrace:
I have said it before, the VO most times do not consider funds in your UK savings account when they process visa applications. To them, funds in a savings account is not readily available to you so they will only consider the balance in your current account which in this case is already in debit as stated in the letter. This i feel is the major reason why she was denied the visa.

monchat:


Since, they can not invite y mum, ps I will advice her to just apply as a tourist with the intention to visit the UK for summer holiday.

There is no place in the application she is asked to write reason of visiting. What is asked is purpose of visiting, she picks the purpose from the options in dialog box. My advice again is that she should book hotel reservation as where she will stay, bc if she mentions she will stay in y sister's house, your sister has to provide all her details, which I guess, she might not have all, bc the ECO will like to see that y sister is capable of accomodating her during her stay in the uk and also if she state y sister address as where she will staying, y sister phone number will be included in the address of the place she will stay and the ECO might wish to call her to verify if she is expecting some one, who is the person to her etc, and the ECO will also wonder why letter of invitation is not included in d application, so to avoid all these complications, she should just book hotel or hostel in booking.com, as soon as she gets the visa, she cancel it. When she is ready to travel, she can book again bc, of when she gets to POE, she might be asked where she will staying, when she finally gets to y sisters house, she cancel d reservation.

Also when filling the application, she will come across the place that is asked if she knows anybody in the UK, will she be visiting? The person status in the UK, so it is left for y mum and sister to decide what she will answer there . But, I do advice pple if u are not very sure of the person status in the UK and if the person is not ready to provide relevant documents about his/her self, ps just click NO and avoid any complications and denial. All the best to y mum

Julify13:
Hello everyone.

Please i'd appreciate if anybody would help me further with a uk renewal visit visa i'm currently completing for my mom. she visited in the past on a 6month visa. i stated that she'd stay for two weeks but she ended up staying for 4months -do I need to address this in this next application? if yes,how please.

secondly,considering the first question above, will it be ideal for me to increase her stay time this time around or just stick to the initial two weeks?

will it be sensible if i went for a two years visa? sorry for all these questions, I get really nervous and anxious when it come to visa issues.... would really appreciate any helpful response. many thanks.

olystic:
Hello everyone, justwise and co
I intend to apply for a U.K. Visiting visa as tourist, I am a single male with no relation in the U.K. But my profile is : work experience of 5 years as a production technician in a multinational coy. I have traveled to Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Ghana, UAE. I have been denied schengen visa 3times and USA visa once. I earn about 200k per month. I intend to apply for the visa by early May 2018 to be on vacation in the month of August 2018 for 6 nights. But the issue is that I am still single at the age of 31 when I will apply with and I do not have any landed assets. I do hope to apply with an account statement of abt 3million NGN strictly from my monthly salary. Please how does my changes of getting d visa stand

teeewai:
Hi Guys,

Can anyone assist to review this refusal letter for my mum, She applied on the 1st of Nov and picked up today

1.) She provided a GT savings acct which has a balance of abt 200k which I sent to her in July. She mistakenly missed a cover letter explaining I transferred this to her.
2.) And also a Zenith Bank where she receives her monthly pension (73k), This was was stated as her monthly income in the application, the only unexplained remit in the account is about N1,435 which she paid in herself before printing her statement (wondered why she did that though).

So my Questions are
- is it advisable to apply asap (this coming week) with a cover letter explaining the above transactions, also with a transaction statement from me showing I transferred 200k in July?

- Does she need a new set of docs, her bank statement and my bank statements as the sponsor?

- Does she need a new invitation letter from me as we stated in her application she'll depart Nigeria Nov 18. I actually invited her over to celebrate her 65th Birthday with my family nextweek.

Baywood:


Thank you.

So, since have a friend who is inviting me and who will accommodate me in his house, I should simply sponsor myself for other expenses?

My host has sent:
* Passport data page
* Invitation letter
* Utility bills

I will sponsor myself. I have:
* 6 months payslip
* 6 months bank account statement
* marriage certificate
* Cover letter for my other source of income
* letter from my employer

Baywood:


Thank you. This gives me a head up.

I will have to sponsor myself.

I wanted my brother to sponsor me.

But, what if my employer sponsors me and explains it's my privilege as he's PA?

Baba1010:
Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to invite my dad over to the UK for 2 months, I'll be sponsoring his trip as he's retired. He has previously visited the UK but was denied US visit visa a couple of years ago. Can you guys help clarify the points below?

- I have £2k in a savings acct and will send my savings bank statement to him, unable to send my current acct as I don't leave money there. Is it advisable to state I'll be supporting his trip in the range of £1500-£2000 as this means I'm ready to use all the money in the savings acct, do you reckon the eco won't find an issue with this?
- is £2k enough for 2 months?
- I transferred about 200k into his savings late June, thinking of printing his statement after that transaction so we don't have to explain source or do I need to add a note that I transferred this to him?
- I'll state in the invitation letter that he currently lives with my Mum and 2 of my siblings with their Children lives in the same city with him and they are planning his 69th birthday upon his return. home country ties?

- Documents from me
- Bank Statement
- SU07 sponsorship declaration if required, can someone confirm if this is required?
- BRP & Data Page
- Invitation letter confirming sponsorship, accommodation. This will also indicate he's been in UK previously and he didn't break any immigration laws
- 3 months payslip

- Documents from Dad
- Pension docs, retirement letter
- 6 months Bank statement where pension is paid into monthly (no money in this acct)
- 2/3 months - Savings bank statement with about 200k in it.

Do I need to add anything to the above docs?

Many thanks!!!!!

Brightingsus:


@Biza, I somewhat agree with you apart from your last sentence. Someone on this forum recently posted the refusal letters for her mother inlaw that had low funds in her account. It was gonna be sponsored by the UK resident. The ECO stated categorically that the applicant, a grandmother even, only submitted bank statement with low funds as the only evidence of her personal/financial circumstances. Borrowing from your logic, why did they even consider her bank statement and her funds

More so, like you rightly said, a younger adult in employment has their job as their primary tie to their home country. If one's livelihood coming from their employment is from low funds, they consider that tie as very shaky. It is not auto refusal though, like u said, but you must be on point on other factors. Once the young adult is employed with relatively low income, the ECO would consider their living and scrutinise the income whether it is enough to ordinarily take care of such a one in a monthly and if it is deemed as insufficient then the ECO may not see the applicant as genuine. As you talked about common sense, what stops one with low income in Nigeria from refusing to come back to the same home country and low funds after their trip abroad, when they could hide and remain in the UK and look for illegal work This is how the ECO reasons. We do not need to reason it out with common sense but to go into the mind of the ECO and beat them to it.

ekpotek:
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Sponsorship notwithstanding the ounce is on the applicant to demonstrate sufficient fund to also cover the trip with or without a sponsor if the applicant is in employment. You undoing was that you did not show enough evidence that you can cover the trip on your own just in case

missoredipe:
Dear Ekpotek and Justwise,

Thank you once again for all the three Uk visas I applied for in the past and all the three were successful. Please I need your help for one of my good friends she contacted me that her mum's visa has been denied 3 different times. Her husband is British and she is on spouse visa too. Could you please kindly advise us on what to do. Please find the three refusal letters attached. I would be awaiting your response and other people can contribute too. We are hoping to apply for her Mum by the end of the year and we don't want to make the same mistake again. Thank you all.

shugachris:


my own is since April 4th. ���

TatPat:


People that have been refused in the past takes longer.

expertman:
Hello dear Nl UK experts ,

Please My mum was invited by my junior sister to visit her in the UK.

The visit start from 8th of August according to the invitation letter sent to us.

Just for 2weeks visit.

So my junior sister called me just now that the UK embassy called her last week Wednesday but she couldn't pick because she was at work then.

She is actually working as a nurse.

And so she missed the embassy call. But she has been trying to call them back since then without success.

Any one here with info if their email or phone number that she can call to reach the UK embassy and explain to them about the situation in ground.

Please kindly help out your fellow Nl.


Thanks in anticipation

Yommieyomi:
I applied for my kids since June 15th......update no new about decision being taken. Can somebody advise on what to do now?....this is tiring.

Brightingsus:


Do you know the balance a sponsor could have to be able to invite the mother inlaw to visit and stay for like 3 months? The house is mortgaged.

Brightingsus:


Council tax bill bears both their names; I suppose a council tax bill alone suffices for proof of address? In that case the sponsor which is the husband will write the invitation letter inviting the mother inlaw and sign it. The wife will also sign.

justwise:


Please see response below your questions

We have discussed this far too many times here. Sorry I can't find what I need hence my question,

1.Is your business registered?

Yes the business is registered . And has a CAC/ all registration paperwork

2. Do you pay income tax?
The tax for 2016 has just been paid, still awaiting the "certificate" from FIRS.

There travel have is in 6 weeks and there is need to put in the application asap. Is there a risk if they don't submit the tax certificate if it doesn't come at by the time they are submitting the application ? They have been waiting for this for almost 4 weeks now.

3. Do you have business account and savings or current account?

Yes there is a business account. But the guys wants to submit his personal account with sufficient funds as that is where the funding for the trip will be coming from . Is there an issue if the business account isn't submitted?

Lease note the husband isn't travelling with them

Lexusgs430:


It appears like you want to squeeze 4 people in a spare room ? How big is this spare room or is it a box room ? I think its best you kuku go down the hotel reservation route (for the purpose of application). If you know what am saying ?