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tasho105:
Pls on the UK visa application form...The question: Total amount of money you earn per annum

1.is it only my salary OR

Total salary + bonus and allowance?

2.Heard from visa agent that they don't accept hostel booking anymore....said it's better I book hotel. True?

Attention Justwise, ekpotek and other gurus in the house.

bencowhite:
My husband who is resident in the UK has done that and they have replied. The response was positive in our favour. The degree is confirmed equivalent to UK degree. With NARIC's response, we filed an appeal but up till now, we have not heard from them. Its been over a month now. We did the initial application that was refused ourselves but we are using a lawyer to file the appeal. Our last discussion with him last week was that he has not heard from them.

What could be the problem and does it take this long for them to respond to an appeal?

Gideonaigbe:
He just sent his pay slip...do you think its too late to apply now as its takes 15working days and Xmas is by the corner.

Shadyz:
Good morng evryone @justwise and every other person who made a contribution..God bless u all..however,i wud like to revisit my issue again and seek clarifications before reapplying this week,i wish had found this thread before making the silly mistake of involving an agent to assist with my Visa application,which at the long run,he ruined my chances becos he cud not ask basic questions and went ahead to do what he felt was right..
First and foremost,d issue the eco raised was for no travelling itinerary,like places I'd like to visit,and activities I'd like to do during my 7days trip..which i wud input while reapplying,my first question is this do i have pay for a tour package or just state the places I'd like to visit daily?
Also,there was a question asked for salary after tax,however the agent divided my annual gross pay which is #3,710,040.00 by 12 and came up with #309,170.00.However,that was a wrong input because my bank pays monthly salary every 12th #79,769.30 and 24th #47,968.45, which makes it a total of #127,738.05 monthly which is paid into my staff current a/c,however we get paid quarterly allowance at the end of every quarter(paid into staff savings account)and upfront(paid into staff current a/c),which is paid at the beginning of every quarter,which if added amounts to about 402k,asides leave allowance and 13th month salary...my question here is how do i explain that i made a mistake in my salary inputas my salary is about #262k after summing up my monthly salary+upfront+quarterly(after tax)
I am planning to attach my payslip(for six months) for my net pay and gross pay..which was not included previously
Also,as regards the inconsistent funds issue raised by the eco which seems like a money packing technique,most of the funds transferred to my staff current a/c where from my staff savings a/c....which where the two statement of a/c i presented,and my quarterly and upfront payment from the bank as well,however there was a transfer of 800k to my a/c from a junior colleagues frnd,who sold his car,as such amount wud be questioned if it enters his(my junior colleagues) a/c,so he asked his frnd to transfer to me,since d buyer wanted an a/c from my bank(since d buyer uses d same bank) and i transferred d money to the acct they wanted to send it too immediately,infact it was d same day..,since i am permitted to transfer high amounts outside my a/c to another banks a/c and d money left my acct sameday and this was in may..asides funds paid in by my some of my colleagues who patronise me for business,i sell hair and perfumes,as side hustle,but the payments where less than 50k and not up to 3 or 4times,other few transfers i did were low amounts from my diamond acct(from me to me) but the agent stated in my application that i had no other savings(does this mean i have no other a/c elsewhere) and i depend strictly on my salary because he wanted me to keep my application straight,my question here is do i go against what was inputted in my application?or explain that i do side business,although not registered,but d funds transferred to my a/c where more of cash deposit lodgement and few transfers which d highest amount was about 45k or even less.I had a closing balance of #1million100k plus in my current ac and about 200k plus in my staff savings a/c as at when i printed my statement,Do i use the same statement of a/c or print a fresh one?
Do i also need to do a fresh hotel reservation and ticket booking,as my date of visit was lastweek,or i just use the same details to reapply,since it is not up to 28days that i got refused?
Also,i feel the eco didnt judge me fairlly to have said he doesnt think i have enuf ties,as i have been working with the bank since since 2015
Documents i presented:introduction letter from HR(which showed my date of employment 2015),tax clearance,staff ID card,offer letter(from the old bank,as the name as currently changed of recent),offer letter from the new bank(pls note that this is still d same employer,we just transitioned to the new bank of recent),letter of admission into d banks training sch,confirmation letter,statement of of both my staff savings and current a/c,travel history(dubai)
Also,he stated that i wud be spending 1650 pounds for my trip and i spend 200 pounds monthly,although no issue was raised as regards this by the eco,should i still cut down cost??or stick to this same amount??
Please revisit my issue and advise me accordingly..i wud be attaching d refusal note again..sorry for the long writeup..

bencowhite:
Hello Justwise.

I am the person in question. The reason given was that they can not prove that my degree was taught and researched in English.

Mancala:
I am one of those that expressed a contrarian view to Justwise and I am not banned, at least not yet . Disagreeing with a point of view does not equate to disagreeing with the personality and should not degenerate to disagreeable behavior. I was taken aback by the aggressive personal response from the banned party to Justwise, but chalked it up to the usual lack of online decorum that is unfortunately typical here. Did not know there was some history behind it

Being a relatively new poster on this site, I have noticed a tendency for discourse to quickly degenerate into attempts to disparage and belittle. It is not unusual for Nigerians to do this in face to face conversation, but we usually have accompanying facial expressions, body language and hand gestures that reassure the listener that it is all done in jest and no offense meant! In online conversations, these add ons are not present and the discourse comes across as petty and disrespectful. Many posters on here do not realize this.

So, what's the point of my diatribe? Some words of advice given in good faith to all posters on Nairaland. When you post something, please go back and review before hitting post. Ask yourself if it addresses the topic at hand or is drifting into the realm of personalities or starting to sound like an attack.

I think Justwise did the right thing when the poster asked for offline contact, especially since there was a history of illegal conduct. This is a private site with a reputation to uphold, anyone and everyone can be banned at anytime and for any reason. However, it is incumbent on site admins, including Justwise to be fair and appear impartial in wielding the big stick so that this site does not die away with time. But Posters should not be surprised when they get banned. I believe I was banned once for a few days, just a few days after I started posting and I still have no idea why.

Justwise - How about this idea. To be more transparent, how about a quick posting when a moniker is banned stating reason for ban and the duration? This may also serve as a deterrent to others. Happy Sunday to all.

Gideonaigbe:
OK sir,
when I gave my brother a call ,he told me to fix 10pounds per day(extra expense) for the two weeks visits that's making 140pounds, adding up ticket fee I made a rough estimate of 450 pounds.
Do you think its befitting, also I don't have his utility bills,I only have his house tenancy papers ,his private bank statements,his joint bank statement with his wife, work papers,passport.
what's your say sir.

Ojoaccess:
Okay sir. But please do i need to get them any document from my office which shows how they changed their name or i can just explain that my company recently changed the company name and that is why the salary narration and the letter head paper to be used for Recommendation letter changes? Thanks. Please a brother in my church asked me today if he can apply for UK visit visa because he started his job 1 year ago so he is thinking 1 year is not good enough to apply but I told him I will help him ask here.

Domistic:
Dear Justwise ,

I have patiently followed this page. This is my first comment on Nairaland. I need clarification. I and my wife and kids want to vacation in the UK During Easter. Our circumstances are as follows
1. I work in a financial institution with salary of 400k disposable after monthly espenses is 200k. Wifey is an officer in one of the Sec. Agencies with take hope of 150k. I have saved for 5 months. We have a side hustle for govt contracts. We did one arround August and just last week , we were paid over 20m. .after espenses what will remain is 4m. We intend using 1.5m for ticket for 6 of us. The question is this, should we transfer this 1.5m to wifys acct as she is the sole signatory to the acct. What do we term it. Profit sharing or vacation for family.. .we intend to use this for ticket while my salary acct cater for living expenses for the family

yemiosinbajo:
When you called him out last week, he didn't respond, but nobody knows if you had banned him at the time. How are we to know exactly the time you banned him?



Exactly, so why did you ban him right now?



It's either you don't understand me, or you are pretending not to. What I'm saying is that there are scammers everywhere including this forum, but you don't ban people because they are scammers in real life, you ban them because they have broken a rulle. Mark Zuckerberg will not delete your Facebook account because in real life, you stole someone's money; he will delete it if you break a Facebook rule. My admittance to him being a scammer not not is to lay emphasis on the question of why you didn't ban him at the very time he was scamming people using Nairaland? There has to be a Nairaland rule someone breaks at a particular time for you to ban them. If you knew he was scamming people at particular time using Nairaland, and you did not ban him at the time, then you did not do your job- that does not validate banning him at this time. Who did he decieve at this time? Who did he scam at this time? Why did you ban him at this time and then kept talking about him?



What it seems you are missing is that you think I am attacking you for banning him. No, if we agree that he is a scammer, then, has to be banned. My question is why did you ban him at THIS TIME? With emphasis on "this time"? You are sure that he attempted or used Nairaland to scam people at some point in the past -- yet you did not ban him then when he actually broke Nairaland rules-- so why exactly did you ban him now? Who did he scam now? What was his offence now? His opinion was not different from others, and you confirmed that others attacked you on the same subject, so why did you choose to single him out for banning now? I'm asking a harmless question, if you can give me the reason which is right,then I will keep quiet. Saying you banned him at this time so that he will stop deceiving people makes no sense, are you saying he deceived someone just now? Why didn't you ban him when he did? Or are you saying Nairaland gives people power to postpone people's ban to whenever they please?

yemiosinbajo:
When you called him out last week, he didn't respond, but nobody knows if you had banned him at the time. How are we to know exactly the time you banned him?



Exactly, so why did you ban him right now?



It's either you don't understand me, or you are pretending not to. What I'm saying is that there are scammers everywhere including this forum, but you don't ban people because they are scammers in real life, you ban them because they have broken a rulle. Mark Zuckerberg will not delete your Facebook account because in real life, you stole someone's money; he will delete it if you break a Facebook rule. My admittance to him being a scammer not not is to lay emphasis on the question of why you didn't ban him at the very time he was scamming people using Nairaland? There has to be a Nairaland rule someone breaks at a particular time for you to ban them. If you knew he was scamming people at particular time using Nairaland, and you did not ban him at the time, then you did not do your job- that does not validate banning him at this time. Who did he decieve at this time? Who did he scam at this time? Why did you ban him at this time and then kept talking about him?



What it seems you are missing is that you think I am attacking you for banning him. No, if we agree that he is a scammer, then, has to be banned. My question is why did you ban him at THIS TIME? With emphasis on "this time"? You are sure that he attempted or used Nairaland to scam people at some point in the past -- yet you did not ban him then when he actually broke Nairaland rules-- so why exactly did you ban him now? Who did he scam now? What was his offence now? His opinion was not different from others, and you confirmed that others attacked you on the same subject, so why did you choose to single him out for banning now? I'm asking a harmless question, if you can give me the reason which is right,then I will keep quiet. Saying you banned him at this time so that he will stop deceiving people makes no sense, are you saying he deceived someone just now? Why didn't you ban him when he did? Or are you saying Nairaland gives people power to postpone people's ban to whenever they please?

theoptimist298:
justwise i think you should heed to this.

Olalekank:
Nice one boss. I can bet Justwise wouldn't give an answer to this, he wouldn't!

I was also banned at one point for over 2 months, I still don't know what rule I broke. I told someone to send me a message at my number which was on my signature and bam, I was banned.

As if that was not all, my ban was extended.

Olalekank:
Nice one boss. I can bet Justwise wouldn't give an answer to this, he wouldn't!

I was also banned at one point for over 2 months, I still don't know what rule I broke. I told someone to send me a message at my number which was on my signature and bam, I was banned.

As if that was not all, my ban was extended.

justwise:
Yes i have that gofund link for months now but decided not to bring it out because it happened outside nairaland but when lucas99 asked the op to open gofund page i decided to comment because what i know about him.

When i called him out last week on that did you see him respond to that? Did he defend himself even as i did not paste the details here, his responds was to insult me just like every scammer do when called out.


Accusing me of abuse of power is just nonsense because a lot of people disagree with me on this topic and in many other threads and yet i did not ban or remove their posts.

Tell me those scammers and armed robbers you know here that i allowed to keep posting since you know them.

You admitted that he is a scammer and still you want me to allow him to keep posting and deceiving people?

Did you see me remove his comments about me? I can easily remove all his posts against me before many here will see it but i left it and still you are talking about abuse of power.

yemiosinbajo:
Lol, it's obvious that Lucas99 or whatever has an extremely questionable character -- I remember him back in the day on the US student visa thread when he first started talking about depression. I initially pitied him then, but I later figured there was something amiss. And with justwise's revelation now, it is even more obvious that there are other shady sides of him that we don't know about.

However, let's be sincere; what exactly was his offence AT THIS TIME for being banned? With all due respect and sensitivity, I see justwise's action as an abuse of power! Someone created a thread about moving back to Nigeria, several people came here with different opinions. Like them, lucas99 also dished out his own opinion which was not necessarily different from the opinion of several others. The only difference was that lucas99 attacked justwise in respect to his conflicting opinion, claiming that justwise would rather remain in the UK but advise advise someone else to move back to Nigeria. Now, here is the question; does this action of lucas99 warrant a ban? Did he break a rule on Nairaland for that?

Yes, he is a scammer, he is this, he is that. Is he the first or only scammer on Nairaland? Aren't there armed robbers, ritualists, fraudsters, etc on Nairaland and on this thread? Why was he not banned at the time he was scamming people on Nairaland, is this the right time to ban him simply because he called justwise out? If justwise was not a moderator, would lucas99 have been banned for any offence now? How do you just ban someone today with a claim that they were a scammer some years ago and you were aware of it then; does that even add up?

Okay, and where is the part to giving people the freedom to defend themselves. The only sense I see in justwise's ban is that if lucas99 wasn't banned, he would have been back on this thread to respond to justwise and defend himself (and probably "expose" or accuse justwise of certain things too) and this thread would have been heavily derailed, otherwise, I see no legal right to ban him at this time. And if that was why justwise banned him, then, it is extremely unethical of justwise still be talking about him. It's like using your power to silence someone from defending themselves, and then damaging their reputation leaving them to helplessly watch you. That is gross abuse of power!

The bottomline is that lucas99 broke no Nairaland rule at this time and shouldn't be banned right now. He should be given the fair opportunity to respond to all that has been said about him. If I am wrong -- maybe I am not aware of some nairaland rules since I am not a moderator -- then tell me what rule he broke at this time to be banned.

NothingDoMe:
It is official. You are member of British intelligence or some sort of IT network people.

It's even possible you know who I am. .

BuTiku2019:
https://www.wccbcharlotte.com/2017/10/17/mecklenburg-county-mugshots-october-17th-6/prince-uduka-disorderly-conduct/

https://www.mylife.com/prince-uduka/e102312334110432

claremont:
I think you should allow him to post, at least on humanitarian grounds.

Let's see what stories he will come up with to justify himself again.

Gideonaigbe:
hello everyone on here,
Am a student from uniabuja,23 years of age and will be sponsored completely by my step brother in UK,he has sent his tenancy papers, bank statements, passport etc.
I also have my admission letter, screening form,proofs to show am a school and my school is currently on holidays, am also trying to convince them that I shall return by Jan 6 before my school resumption.
am trying to apply for UK visa but am having little issues understanding how to fill the form like
.how much does my sponsor intend spending in total for my trip etc,
pls if u feel there's any other papers I can add to support the application u can as help and also help on advice on how to fill the form as I haven't summited.

Ojoaccess:
Good evening house. Please I have a question to ask. My employment letter shows the name of my employer as JOY VENTURES LIMITED but below that they wrote PHARMACEUTICAL DIVISION on that same letter head used for my appointment letter, meaning am employed to work in their PHARMACY department where they sell pharmaceutical products. But recently my company changed their name in the bank and whenever we are paid our salary it usually shows JOY PHARMACY AND SUPER STORE LIMITED. Hope this won't affect my application? Please I want to know before my application is made. Thank you.

ibksolar:
Hello good people!

It's my first time on the UK thread. I know next to nothing about UK travel procedures but I'm making enquiries on behalf of a big sister whose husband has been in the UK for a while and already has residence.

My big sister is his Wife, she's gone to visit him severally with their daughter who was born in the UK.

However, her application to join her husband was denied on some flimsy grounds and the "Lawyer" who has been in charge of the processing said they'd appeal
This has been on for a while now but I've referred her here as I'm confident she'd get accurate guidance on this thread.

Where should she start from? What does she need to do now?

Thanks people!

Omot123:
Good day all, pls I have an issue at hand and I will like suggestions from gurus in d house. I applied for my uk spouse visa on 6th aug 2018 did biometrics on 16th aug 2018. On 6th nov 2018 I received the not straightforward mail and since then I haven't heard from them. No call to sponsor nor me. It's been 76 working days. Your advise is kindly needed. I didn't know I have this kind of patience till now. Help a sis.

Godchangemylife:
I was just pondering hasn't he gone against nairaland rules and regulations. Why isn't he banned or sort.
No offence
pls just asking

dustydee:
Justwise!!!
How did you find out about this gofundme page? And he used the picture he had posted somewhere on Nairaland.
And to think I believed him on the other thread where he was arguing that he went straight from F1 to citizenship.

Only $10 in 5 months?
Amelikans don dey wise o.

LUCAS99:
This thread will be used to show off the Expensive lifestyle of Me and My Friends

We are all Charismatic and born into affluent homes.

We live a spectacular lifestyle & document it all via Social Media.

Sit Back, Relax & Enjoy as we advertise our lifestyle on Nairaland.

LUCAS99:
Op never made mention that he needs money...

The only thing Op needs is his Papers...

If Op needs money, let Op start a fund raising campaign & send me the link...

I will personally donate $500 to kickstart the donation...

I am only offering them a favour by giving them much needed information and advise studying in Ireland. Please you can verify if I have asked or made any monetary demand from anyone. I am already here in Ireland. I only offered to help but if it's resorting to some form of embarrassment, I will desist from doing that henceforth. Not just that, I am closing this account with immediate effect from now. I can only come here as a guest to read news and much more things going on there in Nigeria. I cherish my name and image so much. To my fellow Nigerians planning to school here in Ireland, it's a pity it's ending this way. I do not wish to be embroiled in smeer campaign of calumny targeted at ridiculing my image. Thank you and wishing you guys all the best in your endeavours.

partnerus:
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