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What courrier did you use to send passports to VFS VAC Abuja from PHC?

This was a very quick application timeline. Congratulations.

A couple of questions:
- Was the destination province ON, AB or BC?
- Was the destination city very urban (more than 100,000 people) or less than 100,000 in population?
- Was this for a spouse only, or a spouse and child(ren)?


Congratulations again!
We are waiting for medical request.

Jenykech:
Hi everyone, how is it going here?

We have finally gotten our COPR and I wanted to share our timeline, hopefully it encourages someone as the timelines shared previously encouraged me while waiting.

Civil wedding: April 24th 2025
Submitted Application: May 5th 2025
Confirmation of successful submission: immediately after submitting
Acknowledgement or receipt (AOR): May 27th 2025
Biometric instruction letter: June 4th 2025
Submitted biometrics at VFS Abuja: June 10th 2025
Qualified to receive pre-arrival services email: June 11th 2025
Eligible to sponsor email: June 12th 2025
Medical request: June 26th 2025
Medical tests at IOM Abuja: June 30th 2025
ADR for NYSC explanation, in-depth resume/CV, degree certificates: August 18th 2025
Submitted additional documents via webform because they explicitly asked us not to reply the email: August 21st 2025
Passport Request (PPR): August 26th 2025
Submitted passport at VFS Abuja: August 28th 2025
Decision envelop ready for collection: Sept 22nd 2025
Collected the envelop at VFS Abuja: Sept 26th 2025

We were soooo happy and grateful to God for how the application process went.

We submitted 10+ pages of texts including emails, WhatsApp chats and iMessage texts. I explained in a one liner what each conversation was about.
We submitted 20 pictures of us together at different places, including pictures of us and others. Explained where and when each picture was taken
We tried to make sure while filling the forms, the story of how we met and how the relationship has blossomed over the years was consistent with the documents, texts and pictures.
We provided the boarding passes and stamped passport as proof of visit and made sure the dates on passport, boarding pass and explanation regarding my visits were consistent.
We also provided bank statements to proof that we have had money transactions between ourselves
We provided screenshots of our friends posting congratulatory posts for us after our wedding on their social media handles to prove that our friends and family are aware of our union.

Prayers. Lots of prayers.

I wish you all the best!!

Hey Dee, are you based in Lagos or Abuja?

IF not, which VAC did you use and how did you submit and pay?

Dee4044:
Hello. My visa just got approved.
Submitted: Nov 4
Approved: Nov 26
Can anyone please give me information on passport submission. Thank you

If the parents already have a TRV, and the child is travelling with one or both of them, it is a straightforward submission.

Submit a visa application for your child.

tegaspencer18:
Hello everyone,

Please Help

I want to apply for a visit visa for my 2 year old, please what’s the process when both parents already have existing visit visas. Has anyone done this? Do we apply under our account, or we have to create a new account entirely? Would we need to submit bank statements for this? are there any new information we need to guide us? I would appreciate every assistance I can get, thank you

Is the Sterling Bank advertised correct?

I tried to pay online for the passport courier service, but no card (Nigerian and foreign) worked.

Has anyone used VFS Abuja's courier service within the last year? What were the steps if you're based in Port?

You will need:
- some space
- broiler chicks
- feed (formulated)
- bedding
- medication

Love800:
What do you mean by broilers, like 20 for Christmas. What is the business like?

You can do, or partner for 2/3 businesses:

- Broilers, like 20, for Christmas.
- Zobo and small chops
- Brother Put and one man restaurant

Think beyond in person tutors.

Preply has thousands of french tutors at different price points ($6/hr to $30/hr).

OladayoO134:
Good evening
Please can you recommend private tutor you used and is the person in lagos?

Please can anyone recommend a private tutor for TCF

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/05/28/germany-is-making-it-easier-for-foreign-workers-to-move-to-the-country-this-summer

Opportunity Card program starts 1 June 2024.

A points system that gives points for C1 English or/and B1 or B2 German, under 40, field of study, etc

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/05/28/germany-is-making-it-easier-for-foreign-workers-to-move-to-the-country-this-summer

Opportunity Card program starts 1 June 2024.

A points system that gives points for C1 English or/and B1 or B2 German, under 40, field of study, etc

https://www.euronews.com/travel/2024/05/28/germany-is-making-it-easier-for-foreign-workers-to-move-to-the-country-this-summer

Opportunity Card in Germany.

Have C1 English. B1 or B2 German, etc.

You sef pity your gf.

She did everything to get you over, it didn'twork, then you just give up?

You want her to be doing telephone relationship, possible but not easy unless marriage is certain and around the corner.

Go through the details yourself and try again. Or take a decision, rationalize the decision, and stick to it.

Lifeinbits:
Updates!!!!

It's a year since I made this post about how i feel cheated by girl friend because she doesn't want me to travel with her to the US after she got a fully funded offer .
Well, after a year my girlfriend helped me secured an admission to a school in the USA even with my low grade. She tried her best with securing admission, searching for dates and even paying someone to help me with mock sessions.I didn't do anything, even mailing the school for i20 , paying my sevis fee and all that is needed she did everything including getting my transcripts from my undergraduate.
However, my visa was denied because I was nervous and couldn't defend my case very well.
I know i really messed up during the mock sessions, because whenever she corrects me i will just feel someone and tell her not to worry that i will handle it . When I came back from the interview, she was really angry when she asked me what transpired between me and the VO . Later she asked me to reapply but I have been adamant and I told her that her that I don't want to look desperate. The current problem now is that my girlfriend said she is no longer interested in the relationship and I feel that she is not breaking up with me because of the interview but I think she has gotten a new guy over there. This break up has been affecting me mentally and I have been unable to concentrate on my work.
Please what should I do ?

This is almost definitely a private estate.

Kushites:
This is Abuja.

Why can't these useless state governors build their streets like this?

This is how a normal street looks in a sane environment.

Covered drains. Sidewalks.

It's not rocket science!

https://thingstoknow.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Crown-Court-Estate.jpg

I will actually disagree with the difficulty level for that course.

I gave taken the course and imo it is a B2/C1 level course.

79733139:
You can use the videos in that course to improve your listening skills and learn more vocabulary if you are at a B1 level in reading, follow these steps:

1.) Watch the 1st video without the French subtitles

2.) Watch the video again but this time activate the subtitles and locate all the words and phrases that you don't understand, afterwards use Google Translate to check their meanings and jot them in a notebook.

3.) Watch this video again while anticipating the areas where you either didn't know the vocabulary or you had difficulties deciphering the spoken version of the word or phrase.

4.) Download the video and convert to audio so that you can keep listening to it whilst doing other things - keep French playing in the background.

5.) Move on to the 2nd video and repeat the process.

ALL the course videos and other resources on Coursera are free, however to be able to do the graded tests and get your results, you will have to pay.

That's the point.

I took it quickly for 1 week to check the quality and I think it's good as a starting point.

79733139:
This program is for French beginners (A1 - A2). It's not very comprehensive but you will still get some benefits. You can access the videos and course materials for free, but any extra stuff will require a paid subscription.

Canada has put caps, made changes to international students.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/miller-cap-international-students-1.7090779

People can be dramatic.

Just set guardrails. No sleepover, maybe reduce how often she comes to the house (3 days instead of 5 days).

Work with her so you get to know her.

Block any chances of hubby help meeting.

Non mechanized farming is usually a huge waste.

Not just because of costs, but also spoilage.

1. I'm not religious.

2. Become one/are in agreement sound like the same thing to me.

Kobojunkiee:
In agreement, not in some mythical spirit or soul like Africans or your gods of men like to fill your heads with through their many fables.

When husband and wife are joined together, they become one.

ThunderFireAgba:
I pity those men that use to give their girl friend or wife monthly allowance. If you can set up something for her to be doing, what she does with it no concern you. If she squanders it or grow the business tells you the kind of woman you married or have.

Okay sir.

Go and sin no more.

ThunderFireAgba:
Hope your pocket will be deep by then??
Don't bring kids into this world you can't cater for from your "One Man Sole Proprietor Business" and let them suffer unprecedented hardship.

I am married.

My wife isn't a housewife but if we have many more children, she will be.

ThunderFireAgba:
Woman wrapper sighted.
When you marry ,leave your wife for house make she dey do house wife. Mugu

Lool. I had a feeling #1 was part of what you were trying to highlight.

Also, i second the motion of business failures.

Even if they want to start a business, they should start small. With an amount of money that they can afford to lose.

Kobojunkiee:
I can't either but there are people who prepare that for reasons best known to them. It irritates me to hell when those people now return to complain about the woman doing nothing as if someone forced them to marry a "woman who does nothing" in the first place.

2. Start what exactly? Do you know how many end up having to continue pouring money into keeping the business afloat even after initial investments?

Woman wey don bmgive you pikin, come dey go market dey cook??

The OP only said the costs are high. Why are you people adding pepper and salt??

ThunderFireAgba:
I can't marry a woman let her sit in the house doing nothing. No contribution, just a liability: Her up keep for your head, Money for food even ordinary toiletries for your head. It can't be possible.
Better support her with a huge sum of money to start something.

Madam is cooking now but oga doesn't like the costs.

Let them work together to reduce the costs.

What is the big deal. This doesn't have to be a gender war.

Dyfynezz12:
So he will bring money for the foodstuff nd still cook the food by himself.
What will madam be doing?

Go and give iron hand to the wrong woman and she will show you pepper.

As long as love and respect dey, you CAN TALK WITH YOUR WIFE.

tbliss22:
Wooow.... This is exactly what most women needs... Serious iron hand

He can do it to show his wife how to reduce costs.

He can also do it to see that the changes needed mean that he and kids will start eating pork, or eating 1 meat, or drinking tea once a week.

Nikes:
I wanted to quote that person until I saw your reply. That person must be a lady who reasons like toilet. How can one expect a grown man who happens to be the bread winner of the family to retire back to domestic duties. He doesn't have work to do out there or what? He should leave his job and come and be running breakfast, Lunch and dinner na, mtchewww.

Oga,

Honestly, I think Kobojunkie is trying to help.

I think she wants you to either see the real costs that your wife is managing, or/and make you see the benefits of a wife who also brings in money.

You either need to take over the cooking duties to see the realities. A housewife may see that as a big insult so thread carefully.

I think you should follow up, in a loving way, with your wife for 2 weeks. Just to see wgat is going on. Then after that, you make changes.

vazsily:
For this life wey no plenty. I deserve better; a really partner who can meet me half way. I know been married is hard but earning a living in this current clime is biblical. So i can acknowledge a repeated waste over a decade. If I want to earn and cook for myself I would probably stay unmarried. My mum always says; "who shit dey forget, who pack am no dey forget"!

1. Go with her to the market for 2 weeks. Or at least, follow through on every purchase.

2. Talk about the expenses, jovially, every day for these 2 weeks.

3. After the 2 weeks, call her and tell her the changes (if you guys run a man is thr leader household), or you both discuss and agree on the changes (if you run a partnership household).

There may be some things you don't see. And the inflation. In Naija is really bad.

Plus Nigeria is owing Nigerian banks, Nigerians a boatload.

RenaissanceGuy:
If you're owing Mama Nkechi the sum of N50 and you're the least indebted person to her, but you're owing Mama Funmi N500,000, while your monthly salary is N17,000, does that change the fact that you're very much in debt?? In other words, if Nigeria is owing IMF less, but owing World Bank, China, France, etc - huge sums, does it make any difference??