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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 10:10pm On May 09, 2021

giselle237:
evidence to prove source of income includes but not limited to
1. Payslips
2. Introductory letter from HR or managemnt staff stating who you are, how long u have been with them, how much u earn etc
3. invoices from business
4. Message/whatsapp conversations with documentary proofs
5. Pension letter
It is not a one size fits all, every one’s
circumstance wud determine what document they would provide

Spot on!!!

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:09pm On May 09, 2021

Chpelu:
Thanks fisherlala. But I will like to clarify something. I couldn't understand wat the ECO was talking about at first paragraph in the refusal letter.
1. The 1500 pounds in my application is for me own personal trip expense my husband's own is not included. My husband expense for his own trip is 1800 pounds. And our daughter is a year old (nfant), infant sit on lap in flight.
2. My uncle has a 5 bedroom apartment which I submitted his home insurance and utility bill.
3. We didn't state my uncle as sponsor. He is only providing accommodation for us.
4. We had more than twice the amount of trip expense in our closing balance each.
5. For the monthly expenses of 50k I already explained in the additional page
of the application form that there are some month I spend more than 50k.
So I was wondering what happened.

Thanks for throwing more light to this, the only thing I can see again according to the letter is maybe the case worker did not see clearity in your husband’s source of income, maybe the name of his employer wasn’t reflecting consistently in his bank account with the amount he claims he earns (118) every month end and he didn’t explain his other sources of income with appropriate documentations. Note if you are using multiple sources of income you will have plenty explanations to do.
On your own part are you sure after your monthly 50k expenses you have cumulative increase in your bank account leading up to your balance. I think your husband application might have affected yours.
If all these are done I would strongly believe your family have been treated unfairly and you can seek redress.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 10:23am On May 09, 2021*

[quote author=Chpelu post=101508068]good day, justwise and all the gurus in the house. i applied for uk visit visa with my husband and daughter. My uncle is sent us invite letter and stated that he will be responsible for our accomodation and upkeep while in the uk. I am employed with monthly salary of 145k and also recieve monthly salary from me and hubby business. I submitted my marriage certificate, all our birth certificate, employment letter, introduction letter from my boss, leave approval letter, my personal bank statement where i receive my salary and me and hubby's company bank statement. My husband is self emeployed and he pays himself 180k monthly from the company acct. he also work part time for an international company and he recieve 165 dollars monthly fixed. he also works does freelancer project for a multinational company in Nigeria but his payment is not fixed and only receives wage according to the project he does. He submitted our company bank statement, personal savings account and is personal current dollar account where he recieves 165 dollars monthly, introduction letter on his bussiness letter head , Contract letter and payslip from the foreign company, Frelancer contract letter., business name registration, local government permit , house rent agreement and receipt.
At the part which say 'is anyone paying for all or part of your trip' i stated my husband will pay part of my trip and they asked how much will he give me i said 200 pounds . I already said i intend to spend 1300 pounds for my trip. The section where i was asked how much i spend for my leaving expenses i stated 50K of which i wrote it at the additionally information page that the 50k is an average since some month are more and some months are less, but the eco still refused me based on that.
My daughter was refused because her parent where refused and we stated that we are the one she is travelling with.
The ECO jst refused our visa in a rush ,he/she made alot of typo error even saying my husband intend to travel with his wife and children intend of child, our employer and my uncle was not even contacted. we went for biometric at ikeja tls on 27th of march in 8 days decision has been sent to us via mail.
I cant still figure out what the problem was. kindly help me review the refusal letter[/quote

Sorry about your situation but I can pick plenty things from your refusal letter, the caseworker talked a lot about the inconsistencies on your bank account which you will be in a better position to understand that, but let me talk about your monthly expenses and what the caseworker might observe, let’s say you are receiving 100k per month and the spend 50k that month by the end of next month give or take the caseworker might be expecting to see 150k and the next 200k ..........and you should note that the case worker must have noticed significant high spending than 50k in certain months according to the refusal letter.
Let’s go to the second error I noticed, you have 1500 pounds available for your 21 days trip I.e 900,000.00 naira, if you are buying your travel ticket to UK each of you will spend about 350k subject to the itinerary you have provided in your application, so multiply 350k by 3 you will have over a million which is more than the funds you made available for your trip .
Thirdly I will talk about your sponsor, I believe he must be a very rich man in the UK to be able to provide upkeep for 3 people, they will expect each one of you to spend at least 40 pounds per week on feeding for 3 people is 120 pounds then for 3 weeks is 360 pounds, let’s say your uncle drives and he will take you around so transportation is not needed, let’s say he has a spare room so accommodation is sorted.
They will consider his own financial engagements in the UK, how many children has he , his basic salary etc.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:40am On May 01, 2021

Sweetjam:
Hello house,I want to apply for tourist visa to uk.How many months statement of account do I need?Pls kindly help me with the other documents I will be needing and is it advisable I use an invitation letter ?

You should submit 6 months bank statements that clearly show your monthly salary and financial commitments. Try to avoid any unexplained large deposits of cash also let your total savings be at least twice or significantly more than your proposed UK trip expenses.

The documents you will put together will depend largely on your situation but you may need certain general documents I will recommend
Hotel bookings if you do not have a sponsor providing you with accommodation
Flight reservations
Employment letter
Leave letter
International passport with at least 6 months validity and 2 blank pages for visa
Marriage certificate and birth certificate of children if applicable
Prove of property ownership etc...
It can be more depending on your situation.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:27am On May 01, 2021

mekaboy:
Hello Gurus in the house. Can someone in UK who intends to provide accommodation for a visitor, send invitation letter, bank statement and other supporting documents directly to the embassy in Nigeria.

While the applicant references the documents in the application.?

The sponsor should send their invitation letter and any supporting documents to the applicant so the applicant can include these documents in their visitor visa application. The sponsor should not send any documents directly to a British Embassy or High Commission.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:23am On May 01, 2021

kcfastshooter:
Good day house, please those in u.k if I want to drive In the u.k can I make use of my Nigerian driver's licence or I have to go for the driving test. because I intend buying a car because of the distance of my job, pls people in u.k that knows about it should highlight me. because in the home office portal it said I can use my Nigerian driver's license for one year. Thanks

You can apply for international drivers licence in Nigeria before you leave but this will only permit you to drive in the UK for a period of 12 months it is suitable for visitors, if you are staying in the UK for a long time you might need to apply for your provisional license.
Pls note your international drivers licence becomes void irrespective of the validity date on it once you apply for a provisional licence in the Uk.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:00am On May 01, 2021

Chinlin:
If you haven’t heard of uk Family visa then please use google...

Like I advised earlier,you have the right to extend your family visitor visa based on certain reasons e.g if you want to send more time with your sick family member which you could get an extension of 28 days.
You can also extend based on exceptional assurance due to COVID 19 if your leave to stay expires by June 30 2021..you can stay in the UK legally once you have your application logged in pending response, but if you still in doubt you can ring the home office explaining your situation they might tell you to come and get a temporary stamp till a decision is reached.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 11:17am On Apr 27, 2021

Chinlin:
Hi, a friend of mine who came into uk with family visa valid for 6 months, applied for an extension since feb but still not heard from home office. The visa is due to expire next week but still nothing from home office. Can he stay while awaiting a decision or will that be considered overstay?

If he is applying under exceptional assurance he can stay the following rule has made provision for that.“During the time in which your request for ‘exceptional assurance’ is pending you will continue on the conditions as per your current or most recently expired visa”.
If he is applying on the basis of wanting to spend more time with his probably sick family members and he has a pending application with the home office he can stay too till decisions is reached.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 6:33pm On Apr 25, 2021

sgtponzihater1:
Chiefs my brother in-law who is waiting for service want to spend few months in the UK for visit. No job, but was able to save 300k or so from parents allawee and possible overhiked school fees. What are the chances of him getting an invite from me without the same surname. Any idea or help?

So far nothing tie your brother-in-law to Nigeria, his chances are very low.I would advise him to apply when there is a significant change in his circumstance.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 9:59am On Apr 25, 2021

Seslie:
For a business visa, I don't think your company's bank statement is necessary. I highly doubt that you would even get it - especially if it isn't a one-man business. You need to provide your own bank statements and payslips, letter of invitation, letter of introduction from your employer (stamped and on official letterhead, stating that you are employed by them, your employment date and so on) and evidence of employment (i.e. employment letters, promotion letters, etc). I have applied for a UK visa twice (the most recent in 2019) and did not have to submit my employer's bank details.

Like I use to say and strongly believe, there is no one size fits all when applying for visa it will largely depend on individuals circumstances and situation.
The writer states that he/she is applying for a business visitors visa that now falls under the category of standard visitors visa (business) with resisted activities like attending meetings, conferences etc, he has also stated that he/she will be financed by his company, for his company to sponsor his visa I believe what he is going there for will be of benefit to the company. Now let’s take attending conference for instance which he will learn more and come back to affect the company positively and the company has decided to sponsor him the company will be expected to show there financial statement being the sponsor.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 11:28pm On Apr 24, 2021*

[quote author=odugbemiopeyemi post=101069655]I really appreciate your gesture advise Mr Giselle,
Please can you explain what you mean by feel free to work on buckling up your business to present it as a financial, economic and asset tie to Nigeria.Pls I am only telling you what has worked for several, not that it is the clear cut way. Again this is strictly my opinion.

NB: Have been running my business with my personal account for over a year now which I have total amount of 8m. Please can you advise me how I can move this money to my company account after i open my company account ?

Secondly every month my income from my business is minimum of 500k gain at time I see 700k because I do sell like 2 or 3 used cars in a month plus sales of building materials .... So my salary from my business in a month is up to 500k to 750k .

I'm a family man with kids which my monthly expenses is range of 150k to 200k

Please advise me how I can later move the money I have in my personal account to my company account after I successfully open my company account?

The simple explanation is that you are going to the uk for enjoyment so you cannot rely on your business account's bank statements alone for your application because ordinarily the funds there should represent money meant for business expenses.make the funds meant for your proposed trip available in your personal account.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 11:09pm On Apr 24, 2021

nafitari:
Hi Everyone! for a business visiting visa, does my employer need to provide their bank statement since they will be covering the expenses for my trip?

Your company needs to provide you with bank statements, anybody acting as sponsors must provide financial statements.

Travel › Re: *** General Irish VISIT/TOURIST VISA Enquiries *** by Fisherlala: 4:47pm On Apr 23, 2021

seunny4lif:
I think no visiting Visa for now

I will advice people not to apply for tourist visa for now because Ireland is very serious and the lockdown rule, if you are coming from overseas naija includes you have to self isolate for 14 days at some designated hotels close to the airport and the fee for these hotel’s is much

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 11:14am On Apr 23, 2021

Angelxtol:
Immigrant Application Status says Administrative Processing. What does it mean??

When a person applies for visa at an Embassy or Consulate, the Consular Officer can issue the visa at or soon after the visa interview/ submition ... Administrative Processing means that the Consular Officer is sending the case from the Embassy/Consulate for further evaluation and screening.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:53am On Apr 22, 2021

[quote author=Chijiuba post=101008801]Greetings to the gurus in the house, please after submitting dependent visa my friend noticed her church marriage certificate had a slight misspelling in the husband name instead of Kodi it was Kaodi. But the court wedding certificate is correct, and every other document that Carries his name (I.e birth certificate of child, statement, etc etc).Please would this be an issue? Your advice is needed please

False representation and Information
Under paragraph 320(7A) of the rules , you must not refuse an applicant just because of mistakes in the application. For example the applicant has given an incorrect post code or misspelt a name on their application form. You must be statisfied that deception has been used or applicant intended to deceive.
I think you should get an affidavit to allay future fears.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 8:14pm On Apr 21, 2021

thatunilaggirl:
Hello everyone, a friend applied for a tourist visa in March 2021, and was refused. Below is the refusal email. Does she get a chance for an approval if she decides to reapply? And what can she do differently? I'd appreciate your responses.

P.s she'd like to attend her bestfriends wedding in June as she's the cheifbridesmaid and she also intends to apply for a student visa in September. If she gets rejected again, does it affect her chance in getting her student visa in September?

Once she meets the requirements of student visa the refusal won’t affect.

Travel › Re: *** General Irish VISIT/TOURIST VISA Enquiries *** by Fisherlala: 7:52pm On Apr 20, 2021

Yeah, if you are lucky maybe within 16months
You have apply as a visitor than once here, you can just go to the Garda office and apply for Stamp 4.
Is your spouse Irish?[/quote]Incorrect information...You don’t have the right to change your visitors visa to stamp 4.... No Garda will do that for you it’s against the law.

Travel › Re: *** General Irish VISIT/TOURIST VISA Enquiries *** by Fisherlala: 6:04pm On Apr 20, 2021*

[quote author=Keralis post=100849821]@Fisherlala, the application is that of parents of Irish child with passport. It's not the join spouse application. There is nobody to join in Ireland.

Okay, I guess the child is with you in Nigeria.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 10:24pm On Apr 19, 2021

readynow:
sorry Fishherlala missed your post, yes both myself and my wife are working.am on a spouse visa my wife is British citizen

Okay, I think you have been advised accordingly and fairly by others.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 10:19pm On Apr 19, 2021

sihamey:
Sorry I do not want to attend online

If they have online facility the caseworker might not understand why you have to be present there physically unless you write a letter explaining why you must be there in person.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 10:17pm On Apr 19, 2021

sihamey:
Yes the conference is related to my profession and i have given it a thought to book hotel but does the COE accept hotel reservation without pay ? Or I should pay for the hotel reservation?

Normally you are not supposed to pay for hotels but your reservation should be valid by the time the caseworker contact them but nowadays hotels do cancel reservations that is not paid for and they can do so without your knowledge.
Some hotels will require you to have adequate money in your card when booking they will hold the money they won’t take it out until you arrive the facility and you must go there with the card you used in bookings to make proper payment.
You can also search for book now pay at the property hotels they will normally hold your reservation for as long as you come and you don’t need to pay. Check for there terms and conditions because it’s different.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 9:40pm On Apr 19, 2021

giselle237:
you can attend the conference virtually/online

Unless the conference does not have an online facility which I doubt, make sure the conference is related to your business.
I suggest you book an hotel.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 9:35pm On Apr 19, 2021

damkanlinsin:
Please everyone, when you are required to do a security clearance (SC) before u can apply for a visa what does that mean and what kind of visa would the person apply for. Any idea is welcome

Security clearance is to check criminal records of individuals it’s normally applied for by their employers.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 6:52pm On Apr 19, 2021

Nchabuomo:
Perhaps a marriage certificate would suffice.

Since she is not underage I. E under 18 no legal requirement to submit consent letter from husband. I also believe marriage certificate is okay

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 6:21pm On Apr 19, 2021

readynow:
Hello good people in this forum please just a quick one.my wife(British citizen) is planning to invite the mother to the UK on a visit visa .she will be funding the trip 100 percent and providing documents all from her end here, from this forum I understand some document that she will have to provide include the following

1) (a)3months bank statement from me
(b) 3 month payslips
2) My wife UK passport
3) My birth certificate
4) Invitation letter from me to mum.
5 My mum bank statement having over 1.5 million in her account
6) Letter from me to ECO stating my intention to fully sponsor the trip
7 ) Reference letter from my place of work
passport data page
9) tenancy agreement

From the list above i want to know what documents we are missing. Please advice
Thank you

Are you the one working or your wife?

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 6:13pm On Apr 19, 2021

Nielbaba:
House I need advice on covid test , my flight is for 28th April to arrive manchester 29 11:50
.I got a mail from turkish airline over the weekend that there will be a change , now I'm seeing the second leg instabul to manchester shifted to 30th 1pm. (I'm planning to get there evisa so I can spend the layover with my friends in town ) Does this means if I'm leaving the airport ,I will leave with my luggages or it's going to be with them. And I read I can get another covid test at the airport few hours bfr departure too ?cos the test from Nigeria may not be valid on getting to uk on the 30th , unless the don't check the test result in Lagos ,( would have said I will take d test around 4pm on 28th since my flight is 8pm

Your hand luggage will be with you, your checked in luggage will be waiting for you at Manchester airport.

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 7:38pm On Apr 18, 2021

[quote author=Fisherlala post=100910550]You are not applying to Canada, every application will be treated with it’s own merit , UK will not just refuse you just because you have a ban although the ban won’t look good and it might make them doubt your credibility,But make sure you don’t hide anything about the ban when applying.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 7:37pm On Apr 18, 2021

Adebayo82:
I have a friend in dilemma state and I want you guys to pls shed more light for him to know his hope in getting the visitor visa. He was inadmissible to Canada due to inadvertent mistake when his filling the form, and later get their response for mispresentation. 5 years ban applies since 2017, now is planning to spend his leave in UK. Can he go ahead and apply or not?

Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 1:28pm On Apr 18, 2021

odugbemiopeyemi:
Thanks very much fisherlala I really appreciate your kindly advised. I didn't have tax clearance but I will do as you said that I should the pictures of my business and if I may ask which other documents you mean that can strengthen my case sir ? I wanted to wait until the locked down would be ease in Uk before I will apply, Please Kindly advise me such document I might needed to included? This is my first time I will apply for Uk visa.

NB: about the tax clearance do you know how I can get it done? Please kindly advise brotherly

Go to tax office or FIRS office and get it done but I would suggest you pay for 2 years back because you don’t want it look like you quickly went to file for tax because of your proposed application.
Now the any other document part what I mean is any document that can demonstrate truly you have a legit business going on.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 1:09pm On Apr 18, 2021

[quote author=giselle237 post=100900217]not correct. I have personally benefitted from the hotel service, 4 star with awesome food. Very comfortable shuttle service to the hotel and back to the airport when it is time for ur flight.
If u have long transit hours of 13 hours or more and there was no other flight from turkish airline that is goin to ur destination and offering shorter travel time then u will get hotel, u however need to arrange ur e visa urself to be able to leave the airport.

Thanks for this....unless your stop over is not organic maybe he was the one that route his ticket to produce an artificial lay over.

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 10:06am On Apr 18, 2021

famzynet:
You will be given two meal ticket if you ask for it. No hotel for economy passengers.

Please kindly post the link where you got your information that no hotel for economy passenger on Turkish airline educate us more on this.
Thanks

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Travel › Re: General UK Visa Enquiries - Part 4 by Fisherlala: 11:01pm On Apr 17, 2021

[quote author=odugbemiopeyemi post=100882214]Please house I kindly need you advise on my case, I have a business I'm running for 3 years but officially registered a year ago. I'm using my personal account running the business with a good inflow and outflow which I'm planning to open company account soon, Please can I explain in my cover letter reason why I'm using my personal account running my business? I mine good to apply with my personal account ? Also is tax clearance compulsory ?

Please kindly advise me as your brother

You can use your personal account and explain why, tax clearance is not compulsory but including it in your application will make your business look good and makes you look like a good citizen that does not evade tax.
Maybe you can include pictures of your business and any other document that can strengthen you case.

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