₦airaland Forum

We need affected study visa applicants in the house to respond to this important message...

Treat as urgent....

OsikoyaTosin:
Very true

Please can Feb/march study visa applicant signify with their date of submission, so we can really know the next step to take.

I submitted my application on the 18th of February.

Are you a study visa applicants?

WillieFalconJnr:
I submitted March 16th!. I think we need to come together as a force to call them out! This is rubbish! Imagine people losing out on opportunities and important deadlines, just because some persons have decided to be lazy about their job! Or could this be as a result of internal corrupt practices? (If you want to be attended to on time, you need to pay some certain "agent" some huge amount of money to fast track your application. It's high time we trended these people on social media and call them out on their BS!! Who is in with me??

Response time is slow on Nairaland.
I would suggest that we create a whatsapp group and do some deliberations there...

Or should we wait till the end of this week?

Please affected applicants should speak up, I don't think this is the time to keep quiet...

WillieFalconJnr:
I submitted March 16th!. I think we need to come together as a force to call them out! This is rubbish! Imagine people losing out on opportunities and important deadlines, just because some persons have decided to be lazy about their job! Or could this be as a result of internal corrupt practices? (If you want to be attended to on time, you need to pay some certain "agent" some huge amount of money to fast track your application. It's high time we trended these people on social media and call them out on their BS!! Who is in with me??

I submitted 25th of February.....

OsikoyaTosin:
Very true

Please can Feb/march study visa applicant signify with their date of submission, so we can really know the next step to take.

I submitted my application on the 18th of February.

Well I donot know the nature of the internal issues however the embassy said it has been resolved.

We can make our request known by constantly calling the embassy. Their number is now reachable, although you have to be patient enough to call more than 3 times before you receive response from them (the issue about calling is that sometimes, when you tell them your enquiry is on study visa, they will want to forward your call to the consular unit, from experience, the consular unit has never picked our calls before, but the admin at the high commission has been very helpful in receiving calls)....

hmgkope:
Please what are the internal issues that they have and how can we make our request known?

I applied February, I have not gotten any response yet...

I have frnds who are still awaiting response...

@Ruchardeleke, Is your study a sponsored one, because I think some guys in March got response last 2weeks (I am not sure if they are under scholarship), although a frnd of mine who is under scholarship and applied in March didn't get response...

The silence here with respect to this study visa issue is too much...

Myself and some of my colleagues that are under the same scholarship already started following up....

We sent someone to the high commission in Abuja to make some enquiry on our behalf, it was then we realized that they had some internal issues but according to them it has been resolved....

If we can come together especially those for study visa, we could make some of our request known...

[quote author=Richardeleke ost=113705227]PLEASE IS THERE ANY STUDY VISA APPLICANT THAT RECEIVED MESSAGE THIS WEEK FROM VFS THAT THEIR VISA AND PASSPORT IS READY?
AM TIRED OF THIS DELAY..SINCE 16TH OF MARCH[/quote]

This is not totally the reason...

Please note that study visa and other visa less than 3 months is being reviewed here in Nigeria...

This news is old...

Businesstech just updated on their website, it's not a recent news.

I have followed that update on the website of other travel agency (they even provide link to the original news on home affairs website)

shigo04:
https://businesstech.co.za/news/government/594550/new-visa-system-introduced-in-south-africa/

I think, this is the reason why our visa is taking forever before approval or rejection. It sucks!!!

It is well...
Some of us applied since FEBRUARY...

PLEASE IS THERE ANY STUDY VISA APPLICANT THAT RECEIVED MESSAGE THIS WEEK FROM VFS THAT THEIR PASSPORT IS READY?

SOME OF US NEED THIS INFORMATION TO GUIDE OUR ACTIONS

Richardeleke:
Hello.
I applied for SA study visa around march 16th.
For my Master degree. Up till now.. Haven't gotten any info.
The school has already
resume since February..
Pls advice me..I don't know what to do..
Maybe I should defer the admission.. Pls advice..

Did you contact your school about the delay?

victorfineboyy:
Contact VFS embassy
VFS ( Embassy )
info.dhasa@vfshelpline.com
info.zang@vfshelpline.com

234 81 5018 8800


Or contact the high commission Abuja

South Africa high commission
AbujaHC@dirco.gov.za

Tel: (+234) 09 462 4200
After hours duty: 00-234-703-170-4733

Please those that received the message yesterday, what school are you going to in South africa?

Mine is Stellenbosch university and no response from vfs yet (February visa applicant)

I do not think the school has that influence. I have message my school on several occasion but their respond is that they can not expedite the process.

Did you send a message to your school?

If so can you share their response?

Did you email any other person in the embassy that you think we can also message for assistance?

drmorphine:
More reason I'm asking which school we are going to. I think the school has an influence on expediting visa processing - my personal finding!

Good morning everyone...

Those of us that received message yesterday on their study visa, could you please advice us on what to do at this point?

Like is there an email you can recommend that we mesage?

Those who submitted applications in the month of February in the house that received similar email, can you please indicate?

Please did you receive this message from from vfs or the High commission?

victorfineboyy:
“ Processed visa application reference No. is ready for collection at the South Africa visa application centre 3rd floor sterling building plot 1083, Muhammadu Buhari way central business district Abuja on Friday may 27 2022 collection timing is from 10am to 4pm “

I submitted in February, but I havr not received any message. I have also asked some other colleagues of mine who submitted February. No message too..

Please is how do you think we can go about this?

drmorphine:
March 14

How about you and which school?

victorfineboyy, which school too?