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If your passport is not best, they can advise you sir to retake it. It is still in your interest because visas can be rejected for attaching a wrong passport size. They have specifications. So worryless about the 12k, and pray that your application succeeds. Goodluck

diehard:
I finally submitted my application today and saw the racket TLS is pulling on people. For example, your passport pix is not bright enough, and you'll pay them to retake it. There are errors in your application, and we can help you correct it. That's 12k and so on.....

beautyuche:
Good morning, please, I need clarity. I was given a multiple-entry Italian Visa which will expire 28 of May. I arrived in Italy for 4 days and have already booked my ticket for the UK. I want to visit Poland for two days before returning to Nigeria. I hope I can still do that.

Yes.
Proceed Dearest and have the best of fun.

auxtin1:
Have you traveled before? Or you are a first timer? Please what type of account did you submit and what was the balance?

Bros . If you want to apply for visa, come out and ask directly so people can guide. These your questions I don't understand.
No, I am not a first timer traveler.
I hope that answers your questions.
Goodmorning.

Kolapobossboss:
Hello.

Please how much is the visa application fee for Italy?

Total is around 220k.

Lance008:
Please what is diff between premium applicants and normal applicants

Money preference

i remember you. Congrats

Jane111:
Hello my good people, I want to thank you all for the support, you have been good with your responses, God bless you all.

Visa Type: Tourism:

Applied for 3 months with wify and we were granted 3 months exactly.

First Schengen visas for both of you.

Application Submitted: April 16, 2025 (TLS Lagos)
Email (that passports ready for pick up) 1st of May, 2025

9 working days
15 days all together.

Documents submitted:

Signed visa application form and recent passport photograph.
Original & copies of my biodata page of current passport, plus copies of previous visas.
Travel itinerary (flight and hotel details)
Corporate Affairs Commission (Company ownership documents)
Landed property deeds in Lagos
Nigerian Bar Association digital license (2025)
Proof of union (Marriage Certificate, pictures together, birth certificates of kids)
Bank statements as evidence of sufficient funds to cover the 120€ daily requirement.
Travel insurance valid for the whole Schengen Area for the entire trip covering up to 30,000 Euros for medical and hospital care plus repatriation for emergency medical reasons.
Car ownership papers.

If you are unable to pay for evisa before. Please try it again.
Let see

jetzyams:
Please, can you share the link to the Facebook where the complaints are been made I want to track to see when there will be a resolve

Join different groups on SA visa on Facebook.

Goodevening

firebreather:
This recommendation letter/affidavit of return, how do you go about it?

Kindly pay attention to the information.
You find how to go about it.
I just bolded it.

I always tell people to fix their applications first with appeals first before reapplying for France visas(in cases where they get rejected)

AdeGbuyi20:
Greetings all,

Applied for France Shenghen tourist visa and was not approved.

No travel history.
Applied with CAC
Bank statement showing over 7.

Reason for refusal.

"There are reasonable doubts as to your intention to leave the territory of the Member states before the visa expires "

What could be the likely issue? Nd next line of action. Thanks.

It is a technical approach towards a reapplication OR betterstill, send an appeal to their mail acknowledging your errors and informing them of your intentions to reapply in future when circumstances change.
There are usually different approach to this visa thing depends on your strategy.[/b]

On your reapplication, ensure to attach that email copy of the appeal you sent, a recommendation letter from the police station , YES , [b]a recommendation from a police station may shock everyone, but it is good approach too and an affidavit of return drafted by your lawyer(more like a recommendation letter)

If you follow this carefully, you should score a goal this time. This is the clarity you need (Proof of sufficient ties and recommendations)

adefreshguy:
Good Day Everyone,
please i will like to confirm if i am the only one having issues with payment on eHome Page for eVisa.
i get debited and still no successful message or failed message from the payment page to redirect me to the main page.

Don't continue with this 425 rands payment. It been like that for some weeks according to the report on the Facebook.

Funniest, Home Affairs being a notorious institution has not posted one single memo online about this.

People's monies keep getting debited.
Use VFS. All the best

Go the embassy and ask properly the second question, as for the first one, the embassy guys can also help with it. You have to go to the embassy.

Theophinio:
Please how can I legalize and translate my medical report

And again they said my visa application form in both English and Spanish must be signed. How can it be signed

Thank You

Africankel:
UPDATE

Passport arrived yesterday with 3 months multiple entry visa. 10 days for each stay - to attend meetings and conferences only.

April 16 - Application submission

April 17 - Application arrived at High Commission

April 17 - Sent Speedpost requesting for expedient processing. Mail was not received because they had started Easter break a day earlier.

April 22 - Mail man returned with the letter (11am).

April 22 (3pm) - Passport request

April 23 - Passport submission

April 24 - Passport returned

My staff evisa is still under processing.

Kel, congratulations. It's now a tradition for us to get these visas.
That is what you enjoy when you're a frequent traveler, my last sa visa came in 5days too.

So, prepare and apply for a long term visa as advised subsequently. As for your staff evisa,I do hope he receives.
Keep us posted.

Chelseaboy101:
Guys, thanks for all your inputs, they were all very well appreciated. So, I made a new booking , dummy one .. Sent it the same day which was 3 days ago .. The hotel canceled it again last night and this morning , the visa came out .

The feedbacks are necessary, situations are not same.
Congratulations.

Sojeezy247:
How many months or years duration of visa were you given and for how many days of stay?.

2years, multiple entry, stay as i like.

Thanks

Ozeggy:
I'm speaking from experience. He can get the visa from France, just apply alone after few months and demonstrate socio-economic ties.

He can reapply with france but not immediately. It is stated in my submissions as an option.
thanks

sirrotex:
Many thanks. Reference letters are for corporate accounts i suppose?

All accounts

3 months, attach your reference letter

sirrotex:
Good evening guys. Please i require some clarification on whether its 3 months bank statement or 6 months required for France tourist visa

The visa will likely be rejected again

Ozeggy:
He should apply to France again, applying to other countries will appear as visa shopping.

What they can do is to resolve the issue of the denial with a remorseful appeal sent to nantes, france await the outcome of the appeal before reapplying to france.
Or wait for some time , gather more documents and reapply.

Cashmadam:
Valid means an existing booking. They simply check with your booking number to see if the booking still exists.

You can google the meaning of valid booking: A "valid booking" means a reservation that is accepted and confirmed by the service provider and is still within its period of validity. It's an arrangement for a specific service, like a hotel room, flight, or event ticket, that is guaranteed to be available at the time requested

It does not mean you are expected to pay for the booking. Please note that no sane Visa Officer will expect you to pay for accomodation and/or ticket when you are not sure you will get the visa. Which is why First world countries like UK and US will not even ask you for accomodation booking or ticket.

The essense of ticket and accomodation booking is to show your itinerary - not for you to pay and lose your money if you don't get the visa.

If he chooses to pay, then that's on him. In my entire life, I have never paid for any ticket or hotel to get any visa - and I have a number of them.

You are correct , I am also correct.

No dispute.


However, from experience when an embassy ask you to send a valid document for hotel, it is best to use a paid voucher to be on a safer side.

Technically speaking, If i am in same situation , understanding fully the stakes , i will gladly pay for an hotel for some days to get my visa.

Wisdom is key.

Thank you

They said Valid' , which means a paid hotel voucher, they can confirm. They know what they are doing. Technically, they should not use dummy reservations but an actual purchased voucher

Cashmadam:
Just book another Hotel or the same hotel on hold. Cancel after she gets the visa. Simple.

Africankel:
Thank you for your response @hunee. We've already applied for the e-visa via VFS tonight, hopefully we get a response soon.

Yes, I've actually thought of applying for a long-term visa, but this particular trip was unplanned.

Merci

All the best , keep us posted.

State in your next application that you want a long-term tourist visa to enable you to move faster due to your frequency in South Africa.
Attach all previous visas. It will be granted. That was what I did. I attached all my previous visas to substantiate my claims, and my application was granted.

@Africankel, sorry for not meeting up with time. I just returned home and slept off for a short nap.

This is the link to apply: https://ehome.dha.gov.za/epermit/login
Please start quickly if you know you will be traveling next week.

As for the issues with home affairs, it is even more serious in South Africa right now.
We will revisit the many problems of home affairs at a future date.
Congratulations on your visa but how about applying for a long term visa rather than always applying for 90days Visas.
I have a long term tourist visa i applied for last year, this has saved me from multiple tourist visa applications like before.
All the best and keep me posted.
Regards

NO

Arymed777:
Dear All,

I want to confirm if someone who has visited Turkey, Tanzania, Dubai and Saudi Arabia can be classified as frequent traveler for France visit visa?

SCHENGEN, UK, USA MAYBE CANADA

Africankel:
@hunee

UPDATE ON MY STAFF VISA APPLICATION.

1. After the back and forth exchange of correspondence, the High Commission went mute for weeks. This forced the event organizers to postpone the event by a few weeks, giving the importance of our participation.

2. We immediately contacted the High Commission with the new date, our letter was received the same day (one day to the old event date). That evening we received an email from VFS indicating movement of application (this was an indication that the visa had been denied, as we didn't submit his passport). We received the package two days later. Reason for denial was that the event had lapsed. The adjudication was wrong. Even if they didn't take into consideration the new date which we communicated with them, how could they claim the event had lapsed when the old event date was April 8, and the adjudication was made April 7. We sent an appeal - no response yet.

3. I had to apply for myself last week Wednesday to personally attend the meeting. Application arrived the High Commission the next day, Thursday. This afternoon I received a mail to submit my passport. Process took 2 working days.

4. I want my staff to apply for e-visa via VFS, kindly share the link. Any idea what the processing time is? Event is on Monday and I need him to travel this Saturday.

Ok
I will be back 8pm.

Chelseaboy101:
Good day guys ! Please ooo , I'm helping someone apply for France visit visa and the initial travel date is 24th of April .. But today, she received an email to send a valid hotel reservation....

The initial hotel reservation I used for the application has been canceled.

My question is , do I changed the hotel date/travel date or go ahead and book for the 24th again ?


A quick response would be greatly appreciated.

You had better pay for some days for that hotel. There is a reason why they asked.

No argument on this, MJ

Judawoo:
Schengen visa this days become like Gold! But you get your visa finally?

Not me o. I am just feeling for those with pending applications. E pass Gold!

Judawoo:
France remain the best in timeless but my Spain visa I got it in 3 days!
Imagine Even South african, I work with south African in offshore here to them to get visa to come in Nigeria is very easy and is in next 48h, our leader should make this visa will be reciprocity

The issue is about how these people take us. Respect is key. Alot of them come to Nigeria and enter freely as they like with no hassles. Yet they subject our people to untold things on their own money.

Respect is all we ask for. They should be Respectful and responsible else people will start calling out these diplomatic missions soon. I forsee that. Enough of the nonsense!

Judawoo:
but what I hear from the guy I sent in consulate is they change office another level to other so they shifted many documents and software installation that is make delay from last December till now and they are not give Closer appointement for first time traveler too.
All the best

It's shows how disorganised they are. The embassy is not first to shift consulate or office. The excuse is not tenable. We take and tolerate too many nonsense in this Nigeria. From your experience traveling around the world, have you not noticed that these people do not joke with anything that concerns them?

Africans need to wake up and stop this " we are at your mercy" syndrome. Like they are doing us a help. Do you know how much is generated daily from visa applications? How many do they usually approve? Yet they will make people look weird on their hard earned monies.

So far so good. I think France is still the best and most coordinated.


Is it U.S embassy we want to talk of, they can reject like 100 visas in 10mins. Do you know how much that is? We should stop encouraging these things that Foreign missions do to us.

It's not acceptable . That is it. No other words.

Processing time is 3 weeks , maintain it.

Look at South Africa too, that is even an African country. Those ones too have been notorious for long tho , but see how many months they took to process tourist visas recently. You can go to the section to read comments. Some have been waiting since December 2024 and January this year. So what are we encouraging or saying ?

Let speak the truth and call a spade a spade please.

This is the narrative that Burkina Faso Leader is trying to correct.

I wish all those waiting all the best!

Goodevening Guys,
To contribute to your discussion
As I learnt, italy is very notorious for visa delays. I saw a post online sometime ago where someone was complaining bitterly.

Why take people's document and keep them inside a place for so long.

People need to start calling out these diplomatic missions for real, because in their own countries, its unacceptable to do this kind of things.

I also support you guys to send a clear warning to anyone willing to apply for their visas. You had better be aware unless your trip is not urgent.

All the best.