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Ichiego:
Good day @justwise thanks alot for all the updates pls I would like to make. An enquiry. I have paid my entire skul fees but all dt is keeping me from applying for a visa is the bank statement. Is it possible to use a statement from a close friend who has more than the stipulated amount in his account as long as he approves or gives his consent that I use his statement?

Thank you

Hadampson:
Oga, there is a particular thread for that nah

https://www.nairaland.com/4116999/usa-visit-visa-part-3

Oga justwise, over to you sir

Isoiso:
Thanks alot for this info. But I someone should help me on the below;
1. Do I need to notorize the photocopies of my doc for visa interview?
2. Will I see a prepaid courier envelop at the embassy?

However, I had called the phone number from Germany website: 09029905159 relating an issue during my filling of the National Visa Application Form. Then I was told that, aside the appointment confirmation email, I will need to request for a gate pass (permit) from the Consulate General, and that the Consulate General will have to Authorize my appointment. And for this I am required to pay the sum of N30,000.00

The below account details were sent via phone to make the payment;
Bank Name: UBA
Account No.: 2113226928
Account Name: RICHARD EFE

A beg, guys, how we take do our own. Because, I dey smell fraud here oooo.

Thanks for your replies.

Heritagee:
@justwise @ekpotek and other gurus in the house, I need directions please. I've asked this questions previously but I've not got any concrete answer on how to go about it.

I'm on tier 2 visa, I came to UK in September and will be due for child delivery in March. I want my mum to come over to support me during the period. I have no issues with applying fpr my husband and son as my employer is ready to issue a letter stating that they will support my family.

My challenge now is I'm planning to start application for my mum in December but by then, I would have just worked for 4 months.I've been reading about how people said they presented 6 months payslips, 6 months utility bills etc.

I'm presently staying in a shared apartment where we pay the agent rent with bills inclusive. How am I going to present that? I'm also planning to move to a 3-bedroom apartment later in the year in preparation to receiving my family. All these have not amounted to 6 months, I'm so worried right now.

I'm completely a novice about all these application thin, mine was done by my recruiter. I only went for biometrics and visa pick-up.
PLEASE COME TO MY AID NAIRALAND FAMILY.
Thank you as I anticipate your responses. God bless us all

claremont:
That's perfectly fine in the short-term. The danger is that when people get involved in low skilled occupations, they inevitably get sucked into the rat race of surviving just to pay bills. What then happens is that the person will end up spending over 20 years (or a whole career) in the low skilled field. There are immense opportunities overseas to upskill qualifications into high paying careers. If a person isn't academically inclined, they can choose to learn a high paying trade e.g plumbing, electrician, Gas engineer etc, these trades all earn circa £50,000/year. Sadly, you are more likely to see immigrants working in care homes and security for minimum wage than in these trades.

Mille:
You are right. It is financially irresponsible as a single person.

claremont:
The best way to enjoy living overseas is to work in a professional field. All these low-skilled occupations are not meant for the average educated African, they are meant for people who lack the brains to go to school. The immediate focus for any immigrant who chooses to go overseas should be to get into a professional occupation regardless of how long it takes, you will be rewarded in the end. Sadly, I have seen quite a lot of highly educated Africans engaging in low skilled jobs to make ends meet, some of them end up being stuck in the low skilled jobs all through their life. It's not uncommon in the UK, Canada, Germany etc to see African/Asian immigrants with a PhD driving taxis for a living.

Mille:
Buhari and Atiku can burn for all I care. The reason I am waiting is just to see if there will be any brouhaha after the elections.

I'm only bothered about Security. Na to just find solar take console myself. Even if na 1.5KVA.

The thousands wey stay back for Germany. How are they faring. Most are into low-level Logistics jobs like Amazon or running from one temp agency to another. In all my sojourn in Europe, I have never met a Nigerian who could comfortably afford to rent a 3 bedroom with a car. Of what purpose is migration if I cannot live a better quality of life than the one I live back home.


Bros, I am not coming to search for job o. The one thing I am thankful of, is that Europe has exposed me to the many opportunities in Nigeria that I couldn't see before.

galazito:
any response on this?

eayobami:
Good work you guys are doing here. please my fiance sent me an invite to come visit her this December. to show proof of our relationship, do i print the whatsapp chat or screenshot them and print on A4. thanks

Pelaiye2703:
Thank you sir. Do i still need to provide all the aforementioned documents?

Ruthina000:
Be it birth centre or hospital, VO doesn't frown at any.
Provided you want to give birth. You can either use a birth centre or an hospital.
A colleague of mine was issued her visa and gave birth in a birth centre in US. In fact, according to her, she was given special treatment more like the hospitals.....
It's basically for birth....... So far, your intentions aren't away from giving birth...
Thanks for shedding more light Overload77.

Ruthina000:
It's okay if you want it at a birth centre....
You can go on with it, no fears....
Yes, most atimes, only birth centres do the water birth thingy and it's fun.....

Topethepr0:
I've notice they are a lot of scammers out here, and also many so called agents over charging and taking advantage of people looking to get out of Nigeria in hope for a better life. I am here to help anyone who need help preparing documents, and advice. I am currently residing in Lagos, lived in USA for over 25 years. They are many things we don't know about traveling

toyeengbemi:
Good day All,
first post(apologies for the long post). i have traveled numerous times to the UK in the past 15 years or so. and i schooled in the UK(Masters degree)also been back and forth on work training .my first attempt at a USA Visa was successful when i applied for a B1/B2 in the year 2015( i was never asked if i was pregnant). I found out after that i was pregnant and decided to have my baby in the USA. I asked about changing my visa to a medical one and was told it covers for medical. i was advised to send a change of intent letter. i did and proceeded to the USA. At the point of entry even before i was asked i declared my intention and was sent to secondary inspection. that took less than 5 minutes. the officer asked me for the bill and how much i had with me. i told them the bill (hospital and doctor )which amounted to about 6000+ dollars. the officer was surprised at the total and i reminded him that i was self pay and so got huge discounts he laughed, agreed, stamped me in wishing me a safe delivery.
fast forward to 2017 it was time for renewal so i opted for drop box. less than a week i was called and immediately handed a 212g and asked to show up for a follow up interview. when i got there i greeted, got no response the lady had a very stern expression and demanded to see my hospital bill which i presented (the bill was from Atlanta) she barely looked at the paper and said no way will you get childbirth for 3200. i explained that it was self pay. she asked for my doctor bill which was about 3000 and was OK with it. she now said if i cant prove that it was self pay she wont grant the application. on my zero bill it showed the adjustments. i now begged please if you don't believe me can you call or investigate. i think this annoyed her further because she snapped and said it wasn't part of her job. and shouted NEXT!
fast forward to 2018 this time my main purpose was family visit with my kids (the first i had in the UK as a student, the 2nd i had here in Nigeria and the last i had in the USA)my husband couldn't join us because he had work commitments. this time i got another zero balance saying fee was adjusted from hospital. as soon as i got there another very stern reception. he asked if all my kids were present i said the last one is a US citizen so needs no visa so i came with those needing visa. he asked where i worked and where i was going. i told him. that was it! the next thing he said was that i wasn't qualified. HAH!. i was qualified before what has disqualified me??
They didn't ask for my zero balance which i believed to be the reason for my refusal the last time.
I have a clean travel history
i truly paid all my bills and rigidly forced the doctors and hospital to hand them over before leaving the USA
i have never taken any govt aid and always advised people against it
could i have taken my Son to interview to prove i didn't leave him in the USA?
Just confused and hurt and i also noticed that all my friends who previously had kids in the USA around that time were all refused renewals. i have been honest in my application and for me to be refused twice in a row after initially getting a visa is quite depressing. have i been marked to never get visa? is there a way i can find out reasons for my repeated refusals? as i plan to apply early next year again. HOUSE PLEASE HELP.

ayodejicrown:
Thanks for the feedback.

[b]I intend to write "Visa refused on consular discretion" or simply "Consular discretion" what do you think ?

[/b]Justwise
Also, I will like to talk to you about something else. How can I reach u pls?, email or any other mean will be appreciated.

Thanks to revert

enigmang:
Hello gurus in the House..
Please I need some advice here.. I am inviting my friend for my graduation in the UK.. so all documents on my part are intact he will be staying with me. I have letter from school
Tenancy agreement
My tier4 VISA etc.


On his part however, although he is working and earning about 180k problem is that the salary gets paid from a ‘personal account’ (I know Naija business and anyhowness) although it is shown constantly over the months.

2. Second issue there has been huge inflow and outflow over the past months over 80m through the account with a present balance of about 1m (he handles projects hence the amount) again transferred mostly from personal and sometime corporate account.

So question is: will receiving salary from a personal account be a problem and does he have to explain all the random transfers through his account.

Wil this show sufficient ties to Nigeria?
Ps:the only travel history he has is Russia World Cup.

Gurus Please Advice

ayodejicrown:
Dear Justwise and all the gurus in the house,

Pls I need to ask a question about application for 2-year UK Visit Visa. Got the 6 month Visa last year Sept i.e 2017 (first time application), went to UK in 2017 and spent 11 days hols and came back, though branched in Dubai just for 2 days,Thereafter was denied US Visitor Visa with mum under Section 214(b) in Dec 2017 (No specific reason explained by the US consular) and now wants to do the UK 2-years for self only. In the sections asking if you've been refused before- ticked Yes but further ask to give more details in a box. Can you please help on what can be filled here? NOTE: Nothing has really changed since the 6-month Visa was granted except the US refusal. Thanks to revert ASAP

Pelaiye2703:
Good evening to you all. I intend visiting my Uncle and probably spend the Christmas with him and his family. He lives here while his family resides in UK. I have a steady job which brings in 65k every month, but lately i decide to start a poultry and catfish farming which is yielding a reasonable but NOT STEADY income. I’m just confused when my Uncle said he’ll be attaching his passport with mine in order to stand a better chance. I have the following documents to back up my profile;

1) Employment letter
2) Salary account statement
3) 2 Personal account statement(s)
4) Tax receipt for my business
4) CAC docs for my business
5) I’ve been to Ghana twice
6) Getting married next year but engaged

Please is it really possible to attach my passport with his?

folla:
Hello everyone in the house.

I wish to salute Justwise, Ekpotek and all other gurus on this forum. Well done for the selfless service being rendered to humanity. I have been a silent follower for years, but decided to make this post in the hope that some persons will benefit therefrom.

My wife and I applied for UK Visit Visas and we were both given. She applied for 6 months, while I did for 2 years. She is a 1st time applicant, while I have been to the UK once, like 7 years ago. Then I was given a 2 year HSMP work visa, but only travelled once and stayed for 14 days. I have other international travel histories, though.

Our time lines are as follows:

1. Submitted online applications at about 10 October 2018;

2. Biometrics was done at the TLSContact Ikeja on 18 October 2018;

3. Emails received from TLS informing us that applications have been transferred to UKVI for processing on 18 October 2018;

4. Emails from UKVI informing that our online applications have been received on 24 October 2018;

5. Emails from TLSContact Ikeja informing that our passports are ready for collection on 1 November 2018;

6. We picked up our passports at the TLSContact Ikeja on 6 November 2018 and found that the passports have been stamped with UK Visit Visas.

Our Supporting Documents are as follows:

1. Letters from our respective employers showing when we were employed, our annual pay and plan to travel to the Uk;

2. Our payslips for 6 months;

3. Our salary account statements for 6 months. She had a credit balance of about N500k, while I had a credit balance of about N1.1m;

4. Photocopies of all our international passports [in colour];

5. Our respective retirement savings account statements;

6. Our respective fixed deposit statements. She had N6m, while I had N7.5m to mature in early December 2018;

7. Letters explaining that the funds in the fixed deposits would be available to us for our travel;

8. Our hotel reservation on booking.com;

9. Marriage certificate;

10. 2 family pictures;

11. A schedule of our itinerary in London which shows all the interesting places we planned to visit in London;

12. Breakdown of our respective costs of travel, i.e feeding, tickets, accommodation, intra-city transport. We ensured our respective costs were not up to our 2 months salaries;

13. Our children's birth certificates;

14. Our landed property document, jointly owned; and

15. Rent receipt for our present accommodation.


I do hope the information above would assist, at least, one person in his visa application.

I wish all the UK Visit Visa applicants success.

OMOLARAFE:
Hello Gurus in the house.
Please I need your expert views/inputs as regards the history of my previous visa applications and the new one I am about making.
My first family visit application to go visit my husband who is resident in the UK (we got married traditionally plus church blessing in January 2014 but no court (legal) marriage until October 2018)was denied in January 2017 reason given as in the attached document. So in my first application I referred to my husband as my "unmarried" partner.
I made another application in August same year (2017) and got a similar response. I can't readily place my hand on the refusal letter for now but will upload when found.
Now I want to attempt it again but this time around with our baby girl of almost 8 months old.
Your kindly advise is needed on what I could have been doing wrongly in the past applications and how to avoid another refusal.
Our baby was born in the US and I know she does not require a visa to go to the UK so my other question is do I include her passport in my own application as accompanying or make an application for her as well.
Thank you

Ngosoo:
It all depends on how business moves...from 400k above

qmd24:
I need help on this pls.

My wife applied for visiting visa about two weeks ago to come over this December and I saw two missed calls from Sheffield Centre today.

I tried calling back severally but not getting through.

What should I do pls.?

Chibabe4Christ:
Thanks so much Justwise.
My reasons for applying for 2 years is that I have planned courses to attend within the two years and also the visa application centre is far from where I stay and will not have to expose myself of risk and stress of travelling every 6months for visa renewal. PLEASE IS THE REASON OK OR ARE YOU INSISTING I APPLY FOR 6MONTHS.

PLEASE OOO I HAVE STARTED MY UK APPLICATION BUT WISH TO CONTINUE, I COULDNT BECAUSE THE THEY GAVE WENT TO MY OFFICIAL MAIL WHICH I CANNOT HAVE ASSESS TO WHEN AT HOME. PLEASE CAN SOMEONE SEND ME THE LINK ABEG OOOOOO

PLS I WILL APPRECIATE YOUR QUICK RESPONSE