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Ezyp:
@chidexwap18

Happy New Year
Oga you just registered to nairaland 19th Dec ( not even up to one month on nairaland) and your are writing about assisting someone with SL. @Justwise take note of this guy pls.

ferhyntorlah:
I can't believe I finished reading this thread from beginning to the end.

Wow wow wow

Well, I'm not surprised. The average Nigerian is highly gullible. So I'm not surprised they were duped.

Nigerians don't think deeply; the culture and society does not encourage critical reasoning. It's a follow follow reasoning that's prevalent here.

Kudos to Justwise and Co who stood their ground.
You guys are heros.

Powersurge:
Governance is all about he interest of the majority. It's obvious that your stance and your friends' are in the minority side. Seeing that Trump won the election without the approval of your likes.


You cannot be a reasonable leader and allow someone to plunder your country. Something that is greatly missing in Nigeria. Where Nigeriens, Camerroonians and Chadians invade Nigeria territories. Countries that ought to be at our whims.

lantres000:
500K

Doublej805:
Boss you're not always online.. and i wanna start my application next week.. please i need ur contact please�... would be waiting boss@justwise

EmagNig:
Thousands of Nigerians will miss their visa appointments as the United States, US embassy in Nigeria, located in Abuja and its consulate in Lagos have shutdown indefinitely.

This implies that persons who have applied for tourist, study, business visas, immigrant visas or any other travel document will have to cancel their plans.

The US embassy in Nigeria said in a Facebook post that the development was caused by the government shutdown in the US.

The statement read,

“Due to the current US government shutdown, the American centres located in the embassy, Abuja and Consulate-General, Lagos are unfortunately closed. They will re-open once the US government shutdown is resolved. Sorry for any inconvenience to our valued patrons.”

The executive arm of government led by President Donald Trump and the legislative arm have been at loggerheads for nearly two months over Trump’s attempt to build a wall along the Mexican border.

Building a wall was one of Trump’s major campaign promises as part of efforts to curb illegal migration and crime.

He had boasted during his campaign that the Mexican government would pay for the wall.

However, with the refusal of the Mexican government to fund the wall, the President approached the US legislative, asking the bi-cameral institution to provide $5bn which would be used in funding the wall.

The Congress, however, rejected Trump’s proposal.

On December 11, Trump held a televised meeting with Speaker-designee, Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader, Chuck Schumer, in which he asked them to support $5bn in funding for the border wall.

They refused and Trump said:

“I am proud to shut down the government for border security … I will be the one to shut the government down. I’m not going to blame you for it … I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down.”

Three days later, Politico reported that Trump was willing to sign a bill that delayed a government shutdown into 2019 and the new Congress.

On December 19, the Senate unanimously passed a continuing resolution, the Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2019, lasting until February 8, 2019.

https://lailasnews.com/us-embassy-in-nigeria-closes-indefinitely

lalasticlala

Time2Smile:
Very misleading topic and the reading comprehension of a lot of people on this thread is disheartening. It is " the American center" in the Embassy that is closed, not the whole consulate or the embassy. This does not affect visa issuance and other consulate activities not involving the American center.
America Centers are cultural /research centers that are part of the embassy. That's why they apologized to their patrons(members). Are visa applicants patrons of US embassy, Consulate, or American Center.? Lalasticlala, Justwise or other mods should please correct this so as not to mislead people.

Righteousness89:
[s][/s] People who know nothing of World politics run their Mouth!

Under Trump! The USA is being Heavily Respected!!

EVILFOREST:
Here is a LEADER saying he wants to FULFILL his campaign promises, and the Congress men and women are saying NO, he should take it easy.
Meanwhile, NIGERIA is the OPPOSITE.
We beg our EEDIOTS to fulfill theirs....
We even remind them their LIES

shawlar:
I just want to say a big thank you to all the contributors to this thread... With the information you all provided, I was able to apply for my UK visit Visa in the first week of this month and I was granted the week after (paid for priority service) I have a fair travel history, good job and pay and all my other docs were in order but without this thread I wouldn't have known of the cover letter or the need to explain all other major deposits to my account.Thank you all once again and have a wonderful new year ahead..

lantres000:
Hello Justwise and poca4real

Am about to apply for a tourist Uk Visa on a 10 days Visit. I am presenting and account with a closing balance of 2,400,000 and i intend to spend 1,285,125Naira on the trip. Below is my expense break down.

Airline ticket 280,000 x 2 =560,000 (1,174GBP @ 477 Conversion rate)
Hotel Accommodation for 10 Nights (400GBP) @40 GBP Per day
Feeding for 10 Days @ 60 GBP Per day (600GBP)
Cash at Hand (700GBP)
Totalling 2,874(GBP)

My Question is do you think this break down is fair enough? and if not how much more do i step it up with.

Secondly i am sponsoring the trip wholly and i want to know if i would need to assign some money to my wife on the application because her salary is pretty low and i doubt if her closing balance will amount to anything.How much should i assign to my wife as her own travelling expenses.

I will so appreciate your response

Zoey1:
Please anyone ever used TB Result from Lagos in Abuja or the other way?
Was it accepted?

wonlasewonimi:
I realised the secret is to add your bank account card details to the app. Once you do that it takes less than 10 minutes even on a weekend.

Ordinarily, your regular banks would want to confirm before the transfer is done but my starling and monzo banks make it stress free

tasho105:
@justwise
Just finished this thread...read from page 1 - end.
In fact It's the most intesting and hilarious thread I've seen on NL.
I respect and commend your view about the scam right from the start to the end.
Loads of lessons learnt from the thread.
Good job bro...

Doublej805:
My God will continue to bless u, tank's for the advice @justwise. .. i have all document listed.. apart from pay slips.....please what should he invite me as?? Or should he invite me as his brothers son or wot.... plesse advice me.....would be waiting for your favourable reply....

Inkredible:
I started using azimo based on your recommendation sometime ago on this forum.

Azimo is lightening fast for me. No jokes. Azimo will still be processing transfer on their app but fund is already chilling in my naija account. I don't wait for the transaction completed thing again. I just launch my Naija Bank app and there is the money sitting gorgeously

In my last 5 transfers, I've credited whoever in naija from my Access Bank app from the money I sent through azimo before azimo's app completes the transaction transcript.

Gerrard59:
It's a diary in the travel section. No be today diaries dey this section.

Regarding the bold, like seriously, who do you think you are to dictate to people to remain in Nigeria?

Gerrard59:
While it's possible to earn #750K in Abuja, it's rare to earn same in Calabar. A place where the economy is in doldrums? Who will pay you 750K?

Regarding the thread and general relocation, I believe people should comment only when necessary especially in a thread like this which is private. Yes, we know Nairaland is open for all to view, comment and share. But trying to argue that Canada is better than Nigeria or telling folks willing to relocate not to is ludicrous. Till thy kingdom comes, Canada is BETTER in every ramification than Nigeria.

Moreover, it's not only Nigerians that are relocating to developed countries. Citizens of China (residents of Hong Kong), South Korea and Singapore are doing same and these are well-off nations. How much more Nigerians?

Anyone who desires to relocate has the prerogative to do so as long as it's legal.

OP, ride on, I dey your back like hunchback.

nahinbdis:
Please o... This thread is not for Nigeria vs Canada, or to debate the propriety of a move to Canada. That one has been done and dusted, and no looking back. The moment you hear 'Welcome to Canada' as a PR and step out of the airport, the only thing you will be asking yourself is why you didn't do this sooner. It's not something that can be explained in a few words.

Having said that, the goal of this thread is to document my move to Canada and be frank with the challenges that I face and my daily hustle to grow my space.

Doublej805:
Seems i didn't explain well @justwise. .. I'm a male not a female... the person inviting me is just like a dad to me.. And he promise to cover all my expenses down there... And he said he would be inviting me as his son... because we bear the same surname... but the only problem i have is my previous application in 2017... so I'm thinking of telling the CO that I wasn't the one that filled the 1st application.. that the application was filled by a travelling agent... so that i can change the previous fathers name to his name ...I have a car here, I have landed property, and i have money with a cooperative firm that pays me interest... i can get a letter from NYSC to approve that I'm going for an holiday there.... Please all i need now is a good advice. Because the person inviting me adviced me to wait for this long which i did...so he is planning to invite me for the easter break..... please i need your help @justwise and other magnificent guru's in the house... please and please help a brother.

dustydee:
Ok, I have not used Azimo before. I have used world remit, transferwise, ping-express, Rhemito and Transferboss(used to have very good rates and quite fast until the CBN license issue for transfer operators, I have not used them in over 2 years and not confident in their services anymore)

ijeshaoflondon:
Just wise and other brains here ... I appreciate ur contributions at all times ... Have been offline for a while now and would be happy to have your View over a friends case.... she has applied for tourist Visa more than 6 times since 2012 and has never been granted the Visa at all... She was a salary earner between 2012-2016 until she started her own business in 2017 till date... she applied in 2018 September and reapplied again in October 2018 but Visa refused... First and second refusal letter attached... She has always applied for tourist Visa and would answer NO to the question is she knows anyone in the UK. now she wants to do apply next year February to visit her friend in the UK and the friend is willing to ro give all documents to support her application ... kindly advise on this . THANKS

Doublej805:
So are you saying i can't go? The person inviting me his paying for my trip down der.... i just want d embassy to know i have money in my account too.... I really need this trip like seriously .... wot and wot do i need for d trip den... if i can't go with 0ne million lik u said

dustydee:
Transferwise is very good and is what I use if rhemito is not available as they often have the second best rate.

dustydee:
I have been using them for about 2 years now. They had some issues with their system and were off for a long time but recently resumed transfers. It takes around an hour or less for the funds to hit the account.

dustydee:
Rhemito has the best rate I have seen so far.

https://www.rhemito.com/

iyimide:
When I apply visas, I never drop my passport.. just tell them to make a copy for identification and verification and when the Visa is ready, u will bring the passport for the sticker.. this step also makes u get visas much easily... it has worked for me.. UK visas, Finland and This Same Belgian..

peeps4u:
LOL, this is the same scam method being adopted by one ELLAS IBUKUN. They are promising Australian visa without skill assessment, ielts or any test. They are saying everyone that pays their 60k fee will get Australian visa.

NLers, watch out for these scammers; shona7439, stevesteve07, they are agents of ELLAS here on NL.

peeps4u:
Hello justwise, please share me the thread for this old biggest visa scam that happened here on nairaland.

I need it to show someone pleased.

Thanks