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ijeshaoflondon:
Uk visa application process has really change compared to what it use to be, in the past you can fund your account with huge sum of money within a month, print your statement and apply for visa, and you' be given sharp sharp, but today, the Eco would see it as lodgement. if you apply for 6 months visa and you stated in ur application that you planned to spend 7 days in Uk, in the past, like 5-6 years ago , you can stay longer than the stipulated time, but these has changed, the Eco would see it as a breach of agreement or deception and its gonna raise eyebrow during renewal of your visa, As a tourist who claimed not knowing anyone in the Uk, where would you tell the Eco you stayed for 2- 3 months in the Uk? did you take a leave of more than 60-90 days from work? or you abandoned your business to stay longer in the UK, remember every info you fill on your application would be waiting for you at the port of entry, Let your 7 days be 7 days or not more than 10 days at most or you face the consequences during renewal !!. They understandball our pranks now . Cash salary payment isnt working again, borrowing money from people to fund your account so as to apply for visa not working again, Whatever you hear on here is 90% confirmed.

"Whatever you hear on here is 90% confirmed". These are the words used here that are misleading........ put them as suggestions not as authorities. AM OUT.

justwise:
You are actually misleading him and not people you insulted.

When you applied for visa and indicated two weeks or a month you are expected to stick to that stated number of weeks and not the whole 6months visa duration for so many reasons.

1. If you are applied as a worker to spend your one month leave and got the visa, you are not expected to spend more than one month because of your job back home and for the fact that you presented budget breakdown for that one month and not 6months.

2.What will you be doing in the UK for 2,3,4-6months if you are a business owner or work in Nigeria? How are you able to sustain yourself throughout that period?


Webmank will be likely sent back from the airport if the immigration saw that he indicated 2wks but holding one month return ticket, if he got away with it then renewing that visa will be a tough task.

Given 6months visa does not means that you should stay 6months when you should be back in Nigeria to your work or business.

I don't think I insulted anyone but I said the fact and out of experience. I am currently hosting someone here now on a six month visa but applied with 3 weeks. This is not the 1st, 2nd or 3rd successful invitation application and renewal. Don't say firmly based on isolated cases you heard without knowing the root cause. There is nothing wrong with staying one month in the UK no matter what you stated in your application my dear.

Webmank:
@brightingsus&bigbus,i have 6months visa already.but on my application form i wrote 2week but now d ticket she sent 10th oct to 7th nov..maybe i should ask her to reduce the stay to 2weeks?thanks for ur responses

Guys, some of the responses here are absolutely misleading and ridiculous and you guys give it as an authority instead of as a suggestion. There is nothing bad in keeping quiet when a question you are not confident about is asked so others can contribute.

If you put 3 weeks in an application and you are given 6 months means you are free to stay up to six months but not more than six months. Of course because of income consideration and cost of holidays and limited salary its better to put 2 or 3 weeks but you can stay more than that as long as you have a place to stay or prove you can pay hotel for the period you want to stay.

Again about filling London in the form and planning to stay in Edinburgh makes no difference. It is a UK visa. Of course people come to Heathrow on coach from 'Edinburgh to travel to other parts of the world because it is cheaper. Same applies if you fly to London first from Nigeria. That wouldn't raise an eyebrow.

Please guys know that this is online and people are reading from all parts of the world including the UK.

Jarus:
Thanks. 125 dollars or 121?

Cost of business visit visa is 125 USD today.

Why not try the payment with your card first my dear, If it goes thru good. I f not you contact your bank

(New changes are being introduced on how the Home Office calculates exchange rates for overseas visa applications. The new policy, which will benefit customers, will use a new set of exchange rates where payments for UK Visa and Immigration Services are taken in cash or by a bank card in a currency other than Sterling.

The new Home Office Exchange Rate Policy will provide a fairer and more transparent service to customers and will allow them to calculate in advance the cost of their visa application. The exchange rates will be reviewed on a fortnightly basis.

This change will come into effect on 2 October 2017.) copied from TLScontact website

justwise:
Sure i don't

I am sure we understand that none of us is a UK immigration ECO. These are just suggestions and what we think. Be polite please and don't give false hope or outright discouragement. UK visiting visa has no definite rule like PBS visas. I have invited many people with an overdraft in my account and written a good descriptive letter, provided my employment details etc. They were granted visa. Some have had 2yrs visa.

But no mago mago documents please. The ECOs are no fools and know that Nigerians are good at trying funny things. Make whatever you present as convincing as possible. No rush.

Darla:
It just talks about the duration of a review. And you can't attach extra docs except it is requested by the ECO. Should the applicant wish to add more documents, a fresh application will have to be made + visa fees .
And the email address to send the admin review form to. The website to find the admin review request form, etc.
And that they don't take admin review request forms by post any longer.

I would encourage you to ask for an administrative review since they time frame for responding to you is within 28 days as stated in the letter sent to you. When an appeal or administrative review is granted means you ought to have been given visa but there needs to be more proofs. You do not lose anything by doing this review. It would be faster than a fresh application that stays 3 months or more these days and cost you more money. Just keep these additional documents handy and do a proper cover note in the form you are sending for the review.

About the communication, if your husband has been making more of the calls from a Lebara or Lyca or any other network in the UK, He can ask for his call logs (paper bill) to be sent to him which you can send along. Also if you have ever called him from MTN or so, you can request for you call logs and highlight your communications. Its all about your defense which is same as what you'd submit in a fresh application. Am sorry if I jumped in the middle, I peek into this place on my free periods. I wish you well.

wrongnumber:
Thanks to you all.

Standard visitors visa

Biometrics 14th June

Decision made and ready for collection 20th of September(After 64 working days)

Visa granted.

Congrats. It would be devastating and unfair to get a refusal after this long wait. Been waiting since 14th of July. Escalated and emailed twice. No show

[quote author=themusketeer post=60694968]Congrats. Would be devastating and unfair after this long wait.

Brightingsus:
Hello, let me just give you some info you might frown at. There are delays everywhere on whatever kind of visa applied for. It can be fast, it can be slow; it can be very slow even. A friend of mine whose wife applied for spouse visa waited for over two months AND THEY PAID FOR PRIORITY. YES, THEY DID. The biometrics was on May 2 and visa was granted in July ending. It was for his wife and their months old baby, paid priority for £500+ for each of them on top of the visa fees....

You are right dear. This is from MOVE UP publication:

As you are aware, Move Up’s role in UK travel industry serves to provide UK visa solutions for South African passport holders. Move Up therefore specialises in helping South Africans gain entry clearance, which can be seen as permission to pass through the UK’s border.

Move Up therefore specialize in cases submitted in South Africa that request permission to enter the United Kingdom.

Taking the above into consideration, Move Up deals daily with Pretoria’s team of Entry Clearance Officials (ECO’s). Entry Clearance Officials work for the UK’s Department of Visas and Immigration.

ECO’s are the appointed decision makers in UK visa applications. Their role is to assess visa applications and to decide whether to award permission to enter the UK or not.

Yesterday, Ryan Rennison, Director of Move Up, had a rare discussion with one of Pretoria’s ECO’s. For now we will refer to her as Tanya.

This discussion revealed further insight in terms of the UK visa process in South Africa.

Two important aspects were raised:

The first is that the UK’s Department of Visas and Immigration are experiencing a global increase in visa submissions. This increase of visa submissions is therefore not unique to South Africa but is being experienced globally.

The weakening Pound is a strong contributor to foreigners finding travel to the UK being less costly.

The second aspect is that the ECO’s budgeted allowance of workforce was based on the previous years performance. This allocation is being exceeded which means that ECO’s are now in a position where their work load has dramatically increased, however their work force has not (yet).

“We have noticed that there has been an increase in appointment availability in the last week. Prior to this, there was a delay in appointment availability of at least 1 week. We assumed that the increase of availability meant that the seasonal increase of work load was now managed?” Asked Ryan.

To which Tanya concluded that the increase of appointment availability does not mean that the work load has decreased on their end. The increase in appointment availability is due to an online system function to cater for the higher demand.

This means that ECO’s are now making provision for higher amount of applications to be received.

Given that Tanya did not specifically address Pretoria’s workload, we assume that the Department of Visas and Immigration are making plans to increase the number of visa officials involved in the decision making.

It would not make sense for them to increase the amount of applications allowed to be received without increasing the amount of decision makers.

The conclusion we are left to draw is that Pretoria’s ECO’s are faced with a high demand of visa applications.

Recent changes to the Settlement visas legislation is also putting strain on their decision making process.

Move Up has experienced delays in processing times to all visa categories.

Non-expedited visitor visas are experiencing an average 4 week processing time (19 working days), as opposed to 2016’s average of 3 weeks (15 working days).
Expedited visitor visas are experiencing an average of 8 working days processing time, 2016’s average processing time was 3 working days.
Non-expedited Ancestry visas are experiencing 4 week processing time (20 working days), the average processing time in 2016 was 3 weeks (12 working days).
Non-expedited Settlement visas are experiencing the largest delay. A lot of current cases are being put on hold until the new legislation is up. At this stage, 4 month processing time is expected opposed to 2016’s average of 3 months.
Expedited Settlement visas are experiencing 6 week processing time (double that of 2016’s average).

This insight therefore serves to help create awareness of any future applicants, looking to apply for UK visas in the remainder of 2016, that the process is delayed.

Further to this, we encourage all South African travelers (leisure or immigration cases) not to make any paid for travel arrangements. Paid for flights for example, is not a visa requirement.

Applicants should first prioritize their visas before they consider making any concrete travel plans. (COPIED)

https://moveup.co.za/2017/07/26/delayed-uk-visa-processing-times/

chilez:
5th June.

I hope after all the long wait Visa was granted?

chilez:
Finally after 3months decision has been made. And to say the least, i tried using the UKVI site to check the status of application and the page is still saying reference number not recognised. Thanks to everyone for their contributions. For the waiters you will surely get yours.

That's good to hear. when did you apply?

skybird1:
Hi guys...
Applied since June 20th..Nothing.
Business 6 months
Was supposed to travel on the 20th of Aug.
Eventually when they make the decision, when would the 6 months start counting.
Also, can I travel to Wales from England to see a family member for a few days with that Visa??

Cheers

Wales, Scotland, England and Northern Ireland make up the United Kingdom. It's one country. As for when the visa will start counting, I wouldn't authoritatively say my dear. UKVI is the more you look, the less you see. Some people that applied for settlement here in the UK since July 2016 are still waiting. No emails, no information, nothing. Its so bad to treat humans as piece of object and still cry wolf about human rights!!!!

sandraa:
Same shoes with us ..... sisters wedding 26th of August. Applied 21st July. Sister called, emailed for escalation for where same story.
They should sha return person passport .
It's very heartless of them to make people miss important events.

I made same mistake contacting and paying for the email services which they responded to only once. I forgot that these their 'cash machine' call centres are crap. Same thing happened when I applied for my daughter's passport born in Nigeria. The call centre was like in Scotland while the processing office was in Newcastle. They only read information entered into the computer by the processing officer. So if nothing is entered into the computer in your case....... end of story.

Stop wasting your money in calls and emails and escalations. Its useless. They were only responding each time I called...'Your daughter's passport application is going through security checks'. It took some constant calls and use of certain desperate words to get my passport back to travel to Naija to see my new born baby. I had to drive down to their office in Newcastle a day before my travel date to collect my passport ( a journey of about 100 miles. Its absolutely ridiculous.

kayzuz:
good to see someone that feels the same way I feel. I will say it again, this ukvi service is really horrible; no matter what, people should not be treated this way alll for a visit visa

My dear, I am now planning to visit Naija instead. Would cost me less if the person visits me here. At least I don't' need a visa from UKVI to visit Naija. Shame on them

Joyce27:
My husband applied since 20th of June to come and visit for 2 weeks, I called home office three times and escalate his application twice. the second escalation was made 3 weeks ago we are still waiting for update.

Its too poor. Has the ECO called you at all about the application? I applied for someone since 14th July and got a call on the 26th of August. That was it till now. Its shear wickedness.

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What a trash. I invited someone to come visit me here in the UK. Appointment was on the 14th of July. I have been called on the[b] 26th of July[/b] and spoke with whoever about the invitation and all the Sh*t. I have done email enquiry on the 23rd of August and got a reply two days after asking if I want it escalated and all the bullsh*t. Then they went dead.

What an insult after taking one's money and treating them like a piece of rubbish. I have had to keep everything on hold (annual leave, travel plans etc) waiting for the outcome of this application. Its horrible. Absolutely horrible.

SmartyPants:
There was no evidence of abuse from the mother. Try to read first

Uk Govt has a guideline for Safeguarding. Seeing an abuse and not reporting it makes you an accomplice. Be it Domestic violence, Sexual abuse, financial exploitation, etc.

How could a mother witness such treatment on her baby and not cry out even to her husband in Nigeria. Not fair on the poor child. I don't think they deserve to see the child.

Check out the nature of injuries. The Baby must have been smashed with an object. These are not even smacking or beating type of injuries. They are not also normal areas children hurt themselves during play. These are naturally protected areas of the body. Again the UK authority has a duty of care to protect children and vulnerable people including women who are victims of domestic violence and rape. Nigeria has no place for such. In Nigeria these are norms...........