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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 5 by farnet: 7:33pm On Mar 02, 2024

Hello good people. Please pardon me for asking already answered questions. I can't really start reading all those thousand pages. It's my wife's graduation and we are inviting her sister. The sister is not working, so we are funding the stay. How much is needed in the account? We intend using both our accounts as one may not have much funds. Hope that's possible? She's going to be staying in our house, a 3 bedroom house. So, how do we write the IV letter, both of us signing one letter or my wife writes and I write another showing my consent and support? About home ties, is one having a 5 year old enough ties, if it is, what evidence is needed?

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by farnet: 7:22pm On Jan 25, 2024

Wow! Tough one. Well, not just me per se. I mean yes , I had same issue, but it's sorted. Have got a lot of other people asking same so I say let me throw it here. Will share the responses here. Thank you guys

Chreze:
The bolded is a very difficult pill to swallow. It’s the best decision if no other means to get the money, But very very difficult to swallow. It’s far better than having a dent on their young fresh travel history. it’s very very hard.

@farnet have you tried getting a loan here in the UK?

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by farnet: 4:05am On Jan 24, 2024

Please people, has any of the below happened, and what are the implications?

Parents applied for Graduate visa and couldn't do so for the kids, all less than 6years old, because of fund.

Particular questions
1. Is there anyway it affects or will affect the parents visa?
2. In what specific ways does it affect the children?
3. What if the family doesn't have long term plan living here. Looking at moving elsewhere in near future. Does it matter or wouldn't it be a waste of scarce money ( let's say that have it) applying for children that won't be needing a brp for anything or right to work?

Travel › Re: Living In The Uk-life Of An Immigrant (part 3) by farnet: 8:54pm On Oct 12, 2023

Please good people, what's the passport validity for someone onshore here and applying for another visa? I can't find any info on the ukvi website about this. Looking at switching student visa to work visa come November, but the passport is expiring 1st week of December. Paid for renewal on 1st September but only got December 6th as capturing date, not taking about the delivery now. Current visa student visa expires January 2024

Phones › Re: The Xiaomi Thread. by farnet: 4:47am On May 26, 2023

Somebody help me here please. My redmi 9 can't connect to mobile network, but can connect to WiFi. I have reset the apn , no way. Found the apn enable/disable greyed out although it's set at enable. Is that one normal too?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 4:47pm On Sep 08, 2022

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
High cost of flights have pushed many of us to consider going after our course start date, but while that actually doesn't affect our studies much, it mars our eligibility for the Graduate Visa. This affects those studying one year course. Even as we hope to switch visa, avoiding Graduate visa for it's obvious high cost, it remains a good last resort we have to keep in case. So please, if you re for 1 year and wish to protect your eligibility for the Graduate visa, do endeavour to get to your school on the Start date on your CAS.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 6:03pm On Sep 01, 2022

Well, I didn't mean it that way, missed what I wanted to say. I meant to say that the fees conversion you should rely on is on the Oanda rate for the 1st day of the payment month, not the particular day or any other day. If we check well with the image I posted, the �441 he's complaining about, is the conversion at 1st of August. Every payment falling on that month will be that amount until it changes to what the rate is at today 1st of September. The rate today will remain for the rest of the month till another month. It goes down in that order.

dduchess90:
Hello

@thebolded,the fees on Gov.UK can be relied on and are set unless when reviewed and adequate notification will usually be provided

So I assume you are referring to subsequent conversion

Cheers

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 4:35pm On Sep 01, 2022

I think those fees on the UKVI ain't to be so exactly relied on. There are certainly some + and - they employ in the conversion rate. Instead of trying to align with the fluctuating rate every day, I think they possibly stick with what the rate is at the beginning of the week or beginning of the month. So, if you want to check the conversion, you may need to set the Oanda date to 1st day of the week or month.

See the attached. NOTE too, they use this also for POF. Setting the date to your date of application. It's this rate they use in calculating your POF and not the rate it is at the time they are looking at it

Sunshyne007:
Thanks duchess. I actually checked the conversion on google, with the official rate, and 441 is 379. My confusion was just that the gov.uk site says that visa fee is 363. The ihs i paid was also some pounds over what i calculated on the gov.uk site. So i dont know if the bank was even involved in the extra fees.

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 4:36am On Aug 24, 2022

Cheaper flight tickets.

https://punchng.com/nigerian-travellers-devise-ways-to-buy-cheaper-tickets/

Maybe some people can try this, and please give us feedback afterwards

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 4:33am On Aug 24, 2022

No, they don't require that

carik:
Anyone with any information about university of Essex

I need to find out if they wont require financial statement before CAS is issued. The statement in offer letter says some checks will be carried out after deposits and before Issuance of CAS

It is a January Intake
Thanks folks

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 9:11pm On Aug 21, 2022

You re greatly mistaken dear friend. One can either be self funded (relying on own money, parents or partner's money), Sponsored (being on scholarship or grant) or relying on loan. Don't know how else to explain that. Sponsored is same thing as being on scholarship. OP relying on partner's funds is fully self funded .Maybe @justwise can help explain further

dduchess90:
Hello

How is that self funded when there is an option of sponsored??
Can you also provide reference for that??

Scholarship in that case will refer to both local and foreign scholarship

The OP isn't self funded

Cheers

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 6:36pm On Aug 21, 2022

The first picture shows the particular question. This school guide states you should add the scholarship to the amount paid, that's in this case, 4500 +2000, = 6500. That nevertheless, I don't think you re wrong cos you have rightly followed your CAS, Financial Information (2nd picture). They sha will finally see the further details as captured by the CAS and that's what they will work with.

Tracedan120:
On my cas it showed the tuition fees
And also the scholarship so I didn’t know which to quote there

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 5:50pm On Aug 21, 2022

You are not wrong. That section asked about the course fee, then, amount paid, then the balance. Your course fee is 20350. Balance after deposit and scholarship is 13850.
Besides, regardless of what you put there, they have your CAS and will work with what is in it. So, don't worry yourself.

Tracedan120:
@duchess Please if you can answer
here’s the thing when asked on the application for course fees for the first year I put 20350 but I actually have a scholarship discount of 4500 pounds so the money I’m to pay for first year is 15,850 but now I’ve been feeling like it should be 15,850 I should have put there and not 20,350 please was I right to put the actual fee,I haven’t gone for biometrics yet

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 5:41pm On Aug 21, 2022

Wrong please. Parents /partner still falls under self funding.

dduchess90:
Hello

Sponsored

Cheers

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 5:39pm On Aug 21, 2022

That should be self funding. Very sure about it. Sponsored they meant there only referee to recognised official sponsorship like Commonwealth, Chevening etc
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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 4:37pm On Aug 14, 2022

I don't think there's anything to be worried about. Marriage Certificate alone is enough

Didi14:
Hello @duchess90. Asking for a friend. She mistakenly left out her affidavit of change of name, but uploaded her marriage certificate and newspaper publication. She’s scared that it may affect the outcome of her application. Please Advise

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 1:45pm On Aug 14, 2022

Hey, this your bio on the 15th will not work o unless you have paid 956 pounds or willing to pay it for super priority. Your valid date there is 25th.

payne4real:
Please, I need clarification !
We are a family of 4
MA bio Date is 25th August 11:00
Dependant 1 bio date 15th August 9:15
Dependant 2 bio Date 1st September
Dependant 3 bio Date no date yet

Now that the super priority and priority visa is out.

Can I pay priority visa for MA
And we all walk in ?
Or are we all going to pay priority and we all walk in?
Can Dependant with 9:15 buy priority and MA and the kids walk in?

Or what will you advice we do. I what our bio done next week unfailingly

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 8 by farnet: 6:14pm On Aug 11, 2022

Please @duchess90, justwise, et al, urgent advice needed.
Paid for visa on Monday for family of 5, got 24th as bio date, Abuja. Searched yesterday night and was able to get tomorrow date for a child dependent. Can't afford walk-in fee for the whole family now. Can manage just one join in. Will see if I can get atleast one date next week, every other members will join then, otherwise all will be that 24th. I suppose it will be most imperative the main applicant join tomorrow, right? Any implication for others doing another day, days/a week apart? The POF is not in main applicant account,but the partner. Any implication for the MA and others if the partner's application wasn't found while considering their application especially as it's already mentioned that they all are applying together?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 6:29pm On Aug 02, 2022

Please @duchess90 et al, how do one sort out this study gap period issue.
A 3 years period, aside 3 other years before it, was used for MSc here in Nigeria. There's no certificate or transcript yet for the MSc due to ASUU strike, but there's a cover letter and reference from the uni in this regard. School considered all these and issued CAS but have the qualification as BSc and having a further note that the applicant is exempt from Academic Progression rules being a first time UK study visa applicant. Didn't mention MSc though. How will this gap be sorted now? Which of the field; Study evidences or Employment evidence, is it proper to upload the school cover letter and references? Will it bring any confusion or kind of complications?

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 5:43am On Aug 02, 2022*

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 1:43pm On Jul 30, 2022

Congratulations

Please I sent you a mail

medicine98:
VISA ALERT

We serve a living God.

My wife: MA
Myself and a child: Dependants

Submission of Application: 01/07/22
Biometrics: 08/07/22
Application transferred to DMC: 08/07/22
Application transferred to VAC: 28/07/22
Application received by VAC: 28/07/22
Collection mail by VI TLC: 28/07/22
Passport collection: 28/07/22

Documents submitted for MA
HND certificate/Transcript
Postgraduate Diploma certificate/Transcript
MSc certificate/Transcript
WAEC
POF.....2 banks
Affidavit of change of name
Marriage certificate
Employment history
Family pictures
Tb test certificate
Travel history to USA and Canada
Unconditional offer letter
International passport

For Spouse
International Passport
Tb test certificate
Letter of consent-financial evidence
Family pictures
Travel history to USA and Canada
Marriage certificate
Church wedding certificate

For Child
International Passport
Birth certificate
Tb test certificate
Letter of consent-financial evidence
Letter of consent for child's visa
Family pictures
Immunization records
School fees receipts
Travel history to Canada

I didn't upload POF for dependents and forgot to download, fill, sign and upload the online consent letters. I was afraid when I read here that those two mistakes are enough grounds for refusal. I read this part 7 everyday from page 1. But we really prayed that we don't want any NSF.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 1:14pm On Jul 29, 2022

Easy guy . First bank debited me last week o, and it took 5weeks from application

Khalifa022:
There was a time UBA was the fastest before they had issues. First bank is always the last and the most wicked. Go through the thread and see how many that has been successfully disbursed by that grand papa annoying bank. Everything about them is sole wickedness. Not just form A, that bank has a system to frustrate customers.

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 9:54am On Jul 29, 2022

The application is for the student, the Main applicant

Kalakris:
I am not sure that you are filling the correct application form. Ensure that you are filling the partner dependent form and not child dependent application

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 4:52am On Jul 29, 2022

duchess90:
Hello

Change the second question to No and see the options it brings out

Cheers

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 4:21am On Jul 29, 2022

Please duchess et al, how do one navigate this below. It's MA filling the form, and the POF is in Partner's account. Both traveling together. It's showing just parents/guardian, and then what evidence to prove. No marriage certificate option

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 3:42am On Jul 28, 2022

Interesting Updates coming soon
These are already rolled out but not fully. In a short while, it will reach us.

Evisa: no more passport submission, vignette, BRP. Visa will be a digital one via an online account which can easily be accessed and verified.

Biometrics appointment: Fingerprints biometrics can be reused if you have given that before, and you can do facial biometrics with your own smartphone.

So, in a short time to come, many of us will have no business with VAC/TLS
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/new-plan-for-immigration-legal-migration-and-border-control-strategy

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 2:28am On Jul 26, 2022

Please delete this. If you re not current, try to. Don't jump in from nowhere to draw us far back.

Teezee22:
Ukvi has said processing will take 6weeks bcuz of ukraine issue, for some it might be shorter and some might have to wait for those 6weeks, maybe your brother's case falls in this category

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 6:43pm On Jul 25, 2022

Just saw a similar shortage from my school receipt. £25. I have gotten CAS though, but with an earlier payments. But why will the bank (firstbank) do that when the funds are there, even in excess?
*Sigh*

Meogom:
@duchess90 and other gurus in the house
So I was debited for my Form A last week. When the school sent me receipt of payment, I saw 5913 pounds as against the 6k pounds I was supposed to pay, ( I still have extra funds in account) Please what do you guys advise, can I apply for CAS with this? How do I go about it please.
I await your advise. Thank you

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 5:44pm On Jul 25, 2022

I had same problem. That seems to need you to upload something. I can't say what for sure. I uploaded an empty file, a phone screenshot. After that, the Submit button became clickable. I submitted and that's it. na dem Sabi what now

DavidEkong:
Good evening Naira land members.

I have been trying to cancel my FORM A application but it’s not working. What I’m I supposed to attach before it goes through.

Thanks

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 3:47am On Jul 25, 2022

Please a clarification
The person finished Master's in 2017. If this MSc is considered and it appeared in the CAS, is the study gap not supposed to count after that MSc qualification?
I'm of the thought they always meant the gap from the last time you studied. Does it actually has to go back to your first degree regardless of further studies after that?

duchess90:
Hello

Please reach out to the schools you worked with between 2012 and 2014 and after 2017 for letters of recommendation

You can add them along with your NYSC for study gaps.

Otherwise you have to provide your NPower and CAC and Tax documents for your business and add that to your NYSC

Whichever route is easier you can take because you have a mix of employed and self employed years

Cheers

Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 4:15pm On Jul 23, 2022

Sorry, are you by this saying that opting for assisted service gets one a closer bio date than self service option? A confirmed case or your assumption?

Davidandgo:
Do an affidavit for peace of mind. Also, newspaper publication can be fast tracked. If you start now, both can be out by Tuesday next week. Pay for assisted service and have the documents uploaded during your biometrics (I’m assuming you want to book a date for your biometrics as soon as possible hence the recommendation for assisted service)

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Travel › Re: Uk Student Visa/tier 4 Pbs - Your Questions Answered Part 7 by farnet: 4:04pm On Jul 21, 2022

You can't change your course after visa.
You can do it now, before CAS or even after CAS. It's not much of a big deal. Just send a mail to the school admissions. You can only be asked to send a new SOP. Within few days, you will have an amended offer letter

fashgolden:
Good Morning House

Can I change my course when I get to the UK University? I’m having a change of mind and I don’t want to apply freshly so it will not extend my stay in this country and also I already got an offer for September and I’m working towards September admission. But is it possible I change my MSc Course when I get there?

Anyone please help
God bless

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