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Please house, if your company is sponsoring your visit to the UK, do you still need to submit your bank statement? and For this question "How much money are you personally planning to spend on your visit to the UK?" , I was told on this thread not to declare any amount since it is a fully sponsored trip, but I tried filling 0 and it kept on rejecting, saying I have to fill a number.

Thank you for your response

Blessedsteph:
I did this today as I have plans of traveling to France on 8 June. Submitted my biometrics at tls Abuja and paid for keep my passport. It’s worth paying for because I applied for 10yrs visa, imagine if they delay and I have to withdraw the application so I could travel with my passport, it means I’d lose 1100usd I paid. Lmao I dey play? Moreover it’s not expensive

Please house, do you recommend the 'Keep my passport' service? I am considering using this service because I might have another visa application to another country very soon and don't want any hindrance.

Hello house, Good evening.
My company in the UK is sponsoring my visit to the UK for business, although I have some relatives and friends in the UK. I was advised on this forum not to mention that I have family in the UK and to keep the application strictly for business. My question now is when I get to the UK, I most likely won't be staying in a hotel but at my relatives' houses. With this info, how do I approach the 'Where do you plan on staying in the UK' question? Can I just state I will be staying in a hotel or private housing without no evidence of booking?

Hello Good afternoon everyone. Please I cancelled my visa application on February 10th on visas-immigration.service.gov.uk and I haven't gotten any response that my request has been successful or a refund. I cancelled because some of my responses were not strong enough and I want to re -apply. Pls who has been in this condition or knows anything I can do I have tried calling the UK numbers for enquires, all not going

Hello Good afternoon everyone. Please I cancelled my application on February 10th on visas-immigration.service.gov.uk and I haven't gotten any response that my request has been successful or a refund. I cancelled because some of my responses were not strong enough and I want to re -apply. Pls who has been in this condition or knows anything I can do

babylawyr:
Visa Alert!!

Priority (self service) - Business Visa.
Biometrics in TLS VI was for 12noon 11th of Jan,

I arrived TLS at 11.14am. Parking is allowed outside the premises at #500.
Signed into the building at 11.22am. Everything was swift, no queues, happy I didn't pay for the Premium Lounge, would have been a waste.
I finished and was out of TLS at 11.45am. I was given a Lebara Uk SIM card upon submission of passport.

My Passport moved to DMC same day biometrics.
Received collection mail on 16th Jan 2023 at around 3pm.
Picked up 17th January 2023. No queues, I was in and out in 4 mins.

Documents submitted!
Introduction letter from employer.
Letter of employment.
Invitation letter of sponsorship from my company in Uk with reason for the business trip.
Six months Payslips
Six months bank statements
Scanned old passports with travel history- including UK.
Accommodation booking.

Good luck everyone.

Hello, please How can I contact you?

bellakay:
Is your company paying for your trip? Why will your company sponsor you for tourism?
Or your company is just sending you an invite?

Kindly breakdown the plan so we know how to help you

Yes, my company is paying for the trip. My company is sponsoring my visit there. I am being rewarded with a vacation to the UK. It involves meeting my colleagues in UK and sightseeing, I have relatives there so I definitely will be visiting them. The company sponsored some of my colleagues in India to UK last year.

giselle237:
your answers make it look like you have done no research at all. Why is your company sponsoring you? Is this routine? Did you help build up the company’s profit and as such are getting rewarded for it? How many other staff have been sponsored like this with proofs?
If it were me I wouldn’t mention my brother and cousin as it’s making your application all over the place.. caus in one breath you say your company is sponsoring the trip, in the next breath you are going to see your brother and cousin
Please think of ur answers and also think like a visa officer especially as you have no travel history
What else is going for you?
Are u married? Any assets? Any elderly parents? What will bring you back to Nigeria?
Also just saying sightseeing is not enough… show that u have researched on what it is to be a tourist… you say you plan to visit your friends, relatives and work colleagues… hmm ..
then evidence of support from ur sponsor.. your company should give you enough documentation including a well written letter on why they are sponsoring your trip, what would be sponsored, how much you will receive, how you will receive it, confirm that you are a staff etc
If they routinely sponsor staff like this for holiday then they should also mention this
Evidence of ur sponsor not been in breach of uk immigration- for individual sponsors usually they provide their resident permits or British passports here
Evidence of funds available to you- basically bank statements from your sponsor or like I said well written letter. If your sponsor is like a global organisation with good records no one will demand to see their bank statement but will work based on their ‘name’
U will also need to submit ur bank statement
The koko is make a project about why your company is sponsoring a staff holiday
Then you also in the same vein said you will be spending 800 pounds of your money.. why please?

Thanks for your response. I am being rewarded with a vacation to the UK, the other staff that have been sponsored are Indians, I am the first Nigerian. I mentioned visiting my family because that's the major thing I will be doing there, so I innocently filled it. But from what I have read on this thread, I guess I shouldn't talk about family.
Are u married? Any assets? Any elderly parents? What will bring you back to Nigeria?
No I am not married, no assets and my parents are here in Nigeria, but I have a business I just registered last year.

For the question 'How much money are you personally planning to spend on your visit to the UK?', which I previously answered 800gbp, I can just leave it blank right?

Lastly, can I cancel the application and re-submit again with better answers (ps I have not booked or paid on the tls platform).

Hi Good evening all..

I started my visa application (standard visitor visa 6 months) few weeks ago, I have paid the 100 gbp fee but haven't booked for biometrics, because I needed to confirm all the necessary documents are ready. I have several questions to ask and seeing rejections on this thread is getting me scared, so I want to be careful before moving on to the next stage.

Some background info before I continue pls, my company (based in UK) is sponsoring my travel and I have a brother who moved to UK September for masters, I reside in Nigeria working remotely.

1. For the question, 'Why are they helping to pay for your visit?', my response was 'It is a company sponsored vacation'.
2. I mentioned I have a brother and cousin in the UK and that I will be staying with them (at different times). I hope this doesn't make the ECO think I won't want to return back. And I keep seeing 'provide strong ties' on this thread, do I need to provide this in my case as I am not the one sponsoring my travel?
3. For the questions, What is the main reason for your visit to the UK?, my response was- Tourism (including visiting family and friends)
, What is the main reason for your holiday visit to the UK?, my response- Visiting family,
Give details of the main purpose of your visit and anything else you plan to do on your trip. my response- I plan to visit my relatives and friends as well as my work colleagues. I would also go sightseeing.
4. I stated that I have 2600gbp in my savings, and I plan on spending 800gbp on my visit (I earn 509gbp monthly; this is if worse comes to worst because like I mentioned earlier my company will be sponsoring the visit with a tentative amount of 1200gbp which I also stated in my application).

Is the above going to raise any issues? Please let me know before I pay for biometric etc.
The next part of my question is about the documents required. Please can anyone shed more light on what exactly is needed and how best to present the info
i. Evidence of support you will receive from your sponsor including details of what support is being provided and how?
ii. Evidence of the relationship, if any, between you and your sponsor- I guess this is my employment letter
iii. Evidence that your sponsor is not, or will not be, in breach of UK immigration laws at the time of your visit?
iv. Evidence of funds available to you, and which are clearly accessible by you- This should be my statement of account

Thanks in anticipation. Please note I have no experience applying for a visa, I never travel out of 9ja before so take it easy with me if my questions are too much.

infosoftlife:
No.
It is much better because they can easily verify the status of the company.

thank you

infosoftlife:
Yes, submit your salary account to back your claim you are working.
They want to see the inflow coming in.
Nigerians have used all the styles you can think of to japa. Even if you claim you are paid via cheque, submit your account statement.
Ensure the company is active on CAC registry.

What if the company is based in UK? And will tax be a problem

I will like to discuss this further with you.. How can I contact you please?

Janella12:
yeah, currently did my interview at Togo

Jayyjay:
Please has anyone here tried to get German visa from any of Nigeria's neighbouring countries?? Please help a lady in distress��

Please I need an answer

Alamsvcc:
I will only advise you with two options based on my own experience last year.
1. Accept the admission given to you if and only if ;
A. There is a possibility for you to enroll online,pay the semester fee and possibly take one or two courses with them online while waiting for your one year waiting period to elapse.
2. Accept the admission, then go for a LEGIT Residence Permit outside here bearing in mind that it will also take six months from the date of issuance before you can use it to apply for your student visa in that country. In my own case, it took three to four months for them to process it for me in one of the French countries I got their Residence Permit. It was digital and in stages. But the last stage was when I was called to come for biometric Data capture and submission of bank account statement of that country which they require a minimum of 50k CFa in the account.
Don't mind my long story. I'm saying this because your success tomorrow will give you the morale to advise another person.
On my day of interview at the embassy last week, they first of all collected the Residence Permit, qued in the number in their system to verify it's originality, they compared my data used for the Residence Permit with the one obtainable in my passport and that of my Nigerian national I.D card. They drilled me with various questions concerning their country all for the purpose of finding out if I actually live there.... but thanks be to God I spent a week there when I visited there the first time for data capture and opening of Bank account. So I was able to answer him confidently.
Imagine some questions like;
1. Where do you live in Togo? ( Remember he has the address you used for your Residence Permit in his system. He just want you to Bleep up by not saying another thing or even pronouncing the address wrongly.
2. When did you come here? (Bear in mind the time you started processing the Residence Permit because he is already seeing it in the computer and the date of the issuance.)
3. What are you doing in togo?
4. How much do you make in a month?

Remember after all these, we then started the main interview.
I spent about 45mins with him.

Pls in the name of God, go for legit Residence Permit or you wait patiently for one year here! Because your sin will find you out once you go with fake.
Trust Germany in data storage.

Please can you explain the process you went through in Togo, or can I contact you?

Please has anyone here tried to get German visa from any of Nigeria's neighbouring countries?? Please help a lady in distress��