₦airaland Forum

My brother got an email for the opportunity card visa interview next month, I need the house for Information s on the visa.
1. Which of the Ielts is required, General or Academics and can a 5.0 work?
2. My brother operates Domiciliary account (USD) in Nigeria, can he use it as bank statement for the Visa?
3. Check on the Anabin website the course of study was there but they made a mistake a typo error on the University he graduated from the city has both federal and state university but they wrote both in the federal university but differentiating them as state and federal university, what's the solution to this?
4. Is there anyone who has gone for the interview?

Mccollins042:
Has anyone been called for interview please? And how long were ppl given to wait when they applied for visa. For me I wasn't given any time frame.

Has anyone been able to book appointment since 25th June?
When are expecting the next appointment s.

We are yet to see or hear of any, so what's going on.

hunee:
Can anyone confirm to us if they were able to book appointment yesterday?

I think this whole thing may be offline now.

Marvis20:
The problem is with VFS , I think they have not solve their system glitch that happened the last time or maybe it just a trick , there might be that the limited slot is sold offline

But there's no national there, only long term-job seeker

Marvis20:
No there is no payment for job seeker category , if you pick the right category ( national ) and sub category job seeker

After getting appointment are we paying instantly.

Marvis20:
Job seeker category is not under long stay- job seeker. It under national and sub category is job seeker

The vfs site is not working, am wondering, what are they trying to do, I want to book appointment for someone.

How can someone get statement of comparability and do they accept IELTS academic s as proof of English?

ihavesense:
Anabin database is not exhaustive enough and you might not find your degree type in their database even though you find your university.
This was my case which was why I opted for the statement of comparability from ZAB.
Did you apply for the opportunity card already?

Can someone help to interpret what this man sent.

Tbexy:
Please I saw this message on the VFS website,

Customers who booked an appointment for Job Seker Visa Category can only hand in their Visa Application. If a customer booked an appointment under Long Term cannot hand in their Visa Application and they are requested to raise a refund for the payment of service fees (if paid online while booking an appointment).

What do they mean please?

Please can we use Ielts Academic s for the proof of English?

kclee:
For Current working class with years experience or minimum bsc degree..

1. German A1 or IELTS
2. Block account or work/job offer..

That's all.

I said It earlier, we must go into production, arresting BDC officers, shutting down binance is like taking panadol for typhoid or malaria. It's so sad the govt has not done anything to fix it, not even one poliçy has been directed to fix electricity, security, transportation all this will reduce cost of production and create environment for investors and business to thrive. It's so sad that all Nigerian s should go back home and prepare for more hardship and suffering the days of manner falling from heaven and praying for unprecedented success and Economic growth without working is over. Until the government sit up and implement policies to solve this problem s we should forget about success as a nation.

onatisi:
soon they will start blaming pdp , atiku and peter obi . if that doesnt work , they may even blame the social media or nairaland for disseminating negative mes .
we keep telling people , apc in its entirety has nothing to offer . i never knrew buhari could have an oga in dullardism , until tinubu came into power . so somebody can be duller than buhari ! whaooo this is indeed wonderful

It's not the BDC that's putting pressure on us, we are in this situation because dollars supply is low, that's why it look like the BDC is relevant, if u can enter any bank and get forex for any purpose easily and cheaper the BDC will suddenly go out of business, I said this earlier. The only speculation I see are those keeping forex outside the banking system, Finally any policy that will not help increase dollar supplyis what is required now, any other is a waste of time it's like taking Panadol to treat malaria.
We are here let's see in the next six months how the policies implemented so far can help. From a professional point of view, all I see is blunders things may get worse in the next six to eight month.

routed:
Patriot, you are a fine Nigerian. So soothing engaging someone like, you are a sincere and truthful individual.

This hardship is expected and it will endure for a while if we will speak the truth to ourselves.
Nigerians don't deserve unproductive and too cheap living despite our to do ability and productive population.

Our economy with huge subsidy, debt and over 50trillion naira liquidity of printed money with meager productivity is bound to collapse in totality if this needed surgery is not done.

Again, federal government has huge debt of 30billion owed to the CBN. This trajectory would've sank us by now as the previous governments was printing money to pay salary and for government businesses.

All these liquidity must be cleaned up for healthy fiscal and monetary policies implementation.
This is exactly what the CBN is doing as of now.

Meaning, CBN is not advancing credit to the government for now, no sharing of dividends by bank and no subsidy for the citizens to clean up the mess.

On the BDC, you know BDC is not printing money and the bulk of the money that BDC hold is from the CBN. CBN is the source of all foreign currency that BDC hold.

Try understand this, bro. If you as a diaspora Nigerian send dollar to family from US. Nigerian banks get wire money, not physical dollars but physical dollars was advanced to your family member by the Nigerian bank.

A staff of the bank gave a BDC number to call to your family member. The BDC operator collected the physical dollar from your family member and gave him Naira equivalent at speculative price that he feels favors himself not your family member.

Remember, the dollar you sent never leave the US but wire instructions to pay. Who then find the physical dollars to pay your family member? Yeah! You are right. "The CBN".

Mind you, CBN can't print dollars, he has to earn it from the sale of crude oil and export from other hardworking Nigerians that bring 8n foreign currency.

Why do we have to pay the diaspora remittances in dollar that didn't get to Nigeria, which eventually get into speculative market of BDC that put pressures on you and me. So the need to pay in Naira.

This policies will bring in more dollars because the market is uncapped, bank can sell as they feel it makes good profit margin to them in willing buyer and willing seller transactions.

Well this forum is still here, in the next 6-8 months we will see how far, I told some people few months earlier when subsidy was removed and till now nothing to show for it only hardship. Govt is rich, banks are rich but the common Nigerian s can't feel it, to me it's useless. It's so unfortunate majority of those money from subsidy is used to finance government. I still refused to accept there's any policy that can help without government creating an enabling environment for investors and empowering Nigerian s to start up businesses, factories etc, at least let's start with us producing what we can consume after sometime we will be big enough to export. If the govt is serious they should do this, shutting down BDC will create more scarcity because CBN and banks cannot meet with the demand now, floating or devaluing naira when we don't have goods and services to give out, any attempt to discourage remittance from diaspora would be disastrous I think it's the only supply of forex now ( which is poor for Nigeria as the giant of Africa). It's so unfortunate no policy has been implemented intelligently so far, I think we should go and prepare for more hardship and suffering. In Economics matter there's no magic, voodoo or prayers.

routed:
My brother, be sure this is not trial and error. This is one of many other policies still on the way to take hold of monetary and fiscal control of the Nigerian economy.

It has never work in the past, all along it has been a window dressing by previous governments. The reason Nigerians poor population has been rising.

We have population, productive one at that, but our output is weak and our population will no doubt live life far from quality and poorer household will forever emerge.

With some of the policies, Nigeria banks are getting richer, government is getting while economic saboteurs are taking the real heat and pounding.

No doubt, Nigerians purchasing power is fast diminishing because of the subsidy removal from both ends of oil and currency devaluation.

Where are the money saved from the subsidy at both ends? The truth is that the Nigerian banks are soooo rich now and so is the government.

CBN has halted banks from sharing any dividends at this time, and the reason government is cautioning from pumping the huge savings into the economy by way of palliative and wage increase is to not worsening the already problem of excess local currency liquidity that chase few dollars.

The CBN is currently doing a lot mopping up this liquidity, because we have so much Naira chasing few dollars that Nigerians are unproductively statching away.

I expect with time that government will set a minimum wage that is above 100,000 naira and introduce robust consumer credit program, to set out a consumer driven economy that will spur productivity and drive employment for our teeming youthful population.

As far as I am concerned BDC is not the problem here, if there is enough dollars in banks and they sell at cheap rate for who ever needs it for international trade, education or any other reason who will patronise BDC, BDC has been existing for years how come they are the problem now, because 10-15 years ago the supply side of dollars was higher then, the BDC are only taking advantage because the supply side at the macro level is low. The only speculative purpose I see as bad here are those keeping dollars in their houses, or safe outside the banking system, dollars in the dorm account is still in the system like the naira u keep in your account. The banks can use it for Normal banking functions. The problem is the supply side which is weak. And govt must work on it to solve the problem, any other solution is trial and error and am 100 percent sure it will fail, this forum is here and in the next six months I will come back and show you the damages this trial and error policies has caused.

routed:
Why will government support foreign education of rich Nigerians and few opportuned middle-class at the expense of hundreds of millions of teaming Nigerian poor and middle class.

Are the knowledge acquired by these people repatriated back into the Nigerian economy to make a difference.

Well over 85% of foreign remittances from Nigerians abroad never get to the country and the bill is settled by the CBN from dollars earned from crude oil sales and dollars earning through export-mostly agriculture-from hardworking Nigerian people.

By my study, most of the BDC operators that help people change dollars that was sent to them from their folks abroad were introduced to these people by the Nigerian banks staff. Meaning, most if not all of these dollars find their ways to the black market that gives speculators the strength to wrestled the control of monetary policies from the government. We are talking about billions dollars here.

This policies affect me as individuals because I earn in dollars and spend in Nigeria but I don't care because I'm just an individual, and the goal here is robust economy for our nation.

Any policy that will help production and export, one thing the govt don't know is that Nigerian s must demand for dollars, almost 200,000 Nigerian s left Nigeria since the past two years to study abroad, none left Nigeria with less than 10k pounds, I don't want to talk about the figures of those for medical treatment or importers who import raw materials and even those selling finished goods. I have seen all the policies implemented so far all has brought more hardship and dollars is almost 1500, and a lot of Nigerian s are applauding them. Tax exemption for any entrepreneur and producer, Govt loans, electricity, security. If there's is increase in supply speculation will not matter.

Any policy by CBN and Govt that will not increase production and export will lead to more crisis later, it's like someone is sick of malaria and u are giving the person Panadol to take which will only kill the symptoms but the malaria is still there, am yet to see a strong policy to help increase the supply of forex. I studied Economic s this is another policy that may lead to more problem s at the long run.

The effect of Converting dollar to naira in dorm is temporary, what Nigeria needs now is a stable currency, for example 1 usd to 1 naira will be equal to 800 naira for the next 5-10 years, this can only be achieved with balance of payment, our export has to be higher than our import. Let's ask our selves this question what has the FG not done to stop this naira issue, (1) they v devalued Naira twice thinking it will bring investors but who will invest if currency is not stable, at least let it be stable in the official market, beside no security, electricity and government experimenting with policies. ( 2) floating the Naira when u know your power to export is weak (3) trying to unify currency, after unifying the currency very few weeks later we went back and the difference btw parallel markets and others is wide, (4) trying to convert dorm account to Naira, economically I don't see how this can restore the market, or make our currency stable which is the most important and can attract investors. This policy will even make Nigerian s in diaspora stop remitting Fx and make investors lose more confidence, if there's enough export and demand for the Naira in the first place there can never be hoarding. FG should face policies that will help our balance of payment ( export) without that any other policy will destroy the market and cause more hardship for Nigerian s at the long run.