₦airaland Forum

Culnellie:
You can only apply for long stay visa at the Portuguese embassy in Abuja. You have to book an appointment. Please check online for the link .

c00la:
Get ready to spend money here before the Job-Seeker Visa application is submitted:
- 3 months Portugal minimum wage in a Bank account per person (€760.00 per month x 3)
- Medical Travel Insurance (MTI) for 1 year @ around 32K (I used AIICO)
- Police Character Report @25K official from Possap website (I am yet to do this)
- Authentication of Educational Certificates and other documents @ N600 at MoE and N300 at MFA per document. Add the cost of travelling and staying in Abuja for 2 few days. I spent around 25K in total for all the documents.
- Airline Booking (Only Qatar and Ethiopian Airlines allowed to book-on-hold that you can print). If you don't know how to do it or have access to a printer, you have to pay someone to do it for you.
- If you don't have access to a scanner, (colour) printer and/or don't have skills to convert digital documents to png/jpg/pdf, then merge them, then reduce the sizes to fit the requirements, etc. you have to pay someone to do it. Then upload to the Portugal Foreign Affairs website and fill the form. In short, if you are Technology-challenged, be prepared to spend money.
- Pay for Accommodation for at least 20 days via AirBnB or any such service. (This is what I know happens in Brazil. I hope the Portugal Embassy in Nigeria will also accept AirBnB). We saw some AirBnB homes for 1,600 euros for a month in Lisbon. The Booking is part of what is submitted in the Visa application.

After Job-Seeker Visa approval:
- Air ticket to PT
- Return Ticket to Nigeria (the fully refundable one that is more expensive)
- Accommodation in PT after your AirBnB expires

After going through all the above, my family decided to just get a Migration Consultant in PT to do all the work for us. It is expensive. All our documents/letters/statements are scanned and in PDF form. They will go through our papers and advise us. They will submit on our behalf and we will wait for our visit to the Embassy. We are also getting their House hunting Service so that we can rent a house for a minimum of 6 months to 1 year. If the Embassy denies us, their Lawyer will fight for us.

Since I know the next question is "How much?" The Migration Service alone is 800 Euros per person. Children are half that price.
It is expensive.

Next question: "Name of Migration Consultant"... If you read one of my previous posts, I shared a link to Migration Tuesdays by Expats Portugal on Youtube. I have been watching the weekly Show for over 1 year now. The Migration Consultant Gilda Pereira's company Ei! is the one we are using. https://eimigrante.pt/en/

Nnodimjoel230:
Hello family, please I want to know if Portugal embassy have started receiving Job seeker application appointment.
In terms of accommodation certificate, do they accept hotel reservation or a paid house rent receipt in portugal.
Lastly, I want to if my maternal cousin can sponsor me with his bank statement as we don't bear same Sur name.
Please I need a fast reply.
Remain blessed

itunuoye:
Currently now the embassy have not release any date yet. The last date I heard someone booked was December 26. Let just be hopeful a new date will be release

YeyeBoyfriend:
I applied for a visiting visa, which I stated in my previous post.
VFS doesn’t take job seekers application
I went with

1: invitation letter
2: police character
3: traveling insurance
4: flight itinerary (reservation)
5: copies of previous visas and copies of valid and expired passports data-pages all in color printings/photocopies

YeyeBoyfriend:
Submitted my visiting visa application on the 16th of last month,
Today being 1st of December, I got a parcel from DHL containing my passport with a visa stamp.

Good luck to everyone who applied already, hope y'all get positive response soon.

Everly14:
How are you today? Hope you've gotten your visas. I was in Paris yesterday and would be traveling to Barcelona tomorrow. Update us. Someone may find help from your update.

Dumba:
Hi all, please I need advice on next steps. A friend suggested this forum would be helpful.

My mom applied for a B2 visa and was recently denied under 214b. Thing is she has sufficient ties as my dad and siblings are in Nigeria, she can’t just leave them. Plus she’s not even interested in moving to the US just visiting, but she didn’t even have the opportunity to say that. I’m a permanent resident and I recently gave birth; I really need her here. We are thinking of applying again right away (I’m pretty confident I can get an early next year date as I wake & sleep on traveldocs page), but don’t how successful it would be if nothing has changed.

Questions she was asked
- Why are you visiting the US?
I’m going to the US to visit and spend some time with my eldest daughter and her family. I hope to spend the holidays with them and meet my grandson
- How long has your daughter been in the US?
Four years
- Have you been to the US before?
No, I have not
- Have you been to other countries?
No, I have not
- What do you do for a living?
I manage/run a retail shop where I sell food items, gift items, beddings…

That’s all she was asked before getting the denial slip. Can anyone provide insight into why she was possibly denied? Is it the travel history or her job or maybe even me being here for four years? I came on an F1 visa. Or Should she have specifically mentioned me giving birth? (I learnt that doesn’t even matter anymore as they see omugwo as trying to work).

damkanlinsin:
You are right sir. But does who reapply do they provide more additional documents to show they are capable. Like someone told me he said when you want to apply for visa try to hold back one documents and provide about 85% to show them you will come back and once you are rejected reapply by adding those documents you hold back to prove more reason why you will be coming back.

I just think everyone is trying not too sure

yankison:
Good afternoon ..are you also in my shoes ?

DaveWonder:
This is more of Ethiopia telling Faan, notice the letter head is that of Ethiopia airline

DaveWonder:
Hello house.
Biko is it just Ethiopia airline that has banned Ghana must go bag or all airline? Which kind wahala be this na

yankison:
Hello OP

Please can you help me seek for job in Portugal ..I'm processing a job seeker visa now and I have 120days to get a job when I land in Portugal so I can apply for a resident permit ...please I can work at the fishing company anyone ..cleaning . security

damkanlinsin:
I just feel whenever you apply and they reject you they want you to reapply. If you don’t reapply they believe your documents are fake that why you are scared to reapply. Just use same documents and let your story be same thing.

Noworries11:
I greet una elders
Please my mum, a 60th year old woman has got an appointment at the Lagos consular on the 4th of December for a B1 visa interview. Its her first time and she has only travelled to the UK once (early this year)
Elders what is her chances and what should we prepare her own?
I mean, Likely questions to be asked and appropriate answers.
Many thanks

Atatukseeker:
One thing I just discovered from This Europe is that. If they refuse you. And you didn’t reapply. They will think you are just a jerk. My brother if they refuse you. Reaply again and again and again. Their father.
They will get tire and give you the visa. I applied Germany and they refuse me. And I keep applying again. To France and I got them on balls.

Bombzy:
Congratulations brother, I thought you applied for evisa

horlorbah:
Okay, thank you

horlorbah:
I got this another email from vfs yesterday again. I really don't understand this people anymore.

girlchuks:
You’re really lucky. Goodluck with your interview.

Vitusmichael2:
Please can someone change his visiting visa after entering to France?

Africankel:
Very correct! I had at some point presented a 120k account balance and got the visa.

horlorbah:
Oh woow. But it's such an insensitive mistake on their end.

horlorbah:
Good afternoon house, I got the attached email yesterday afternoon. Then I went to VFS this morning with my passport for submission but I was told that it was an error email so they didn't allow me drop my passport saying they will contact me again. Please has anyone ever experienced this?? What was the later outcome??

Advans:
Am applying for one year Post Doc in S/A. I learnt I have to choose the Visitor's Visa section 11(1)B but this option is not available in the eVisa application when I clicked the dropdown list. The only one available is Visitor's Visa section 11(1)A which is for visitors spending 3 months or less. Dear Nairalanders, please I would appreciate your urgent assistance here. Thanks

Ashirioluwa:
Family dey. What about yours?

Peace

Ashirioluwa:
@hunee is our sister, not brother.

Levels1:
you are 💯% valid