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Mamatukwas:
Lol I know you weren’t hating. Braddy is really a hotbed of mixed experiences. The University is the best though! Would definitely recommend. Good to know you lived there at a point, who knows I might even have met the almighty and elusive Justwise

Ukprospect:
Pls can I get an overview like this too about Nottingham? God bless

Mamatukwas:
Ehn we laik eet like dat

LightmaxTravel:
No. Its evisa.
See sample

Mamatukwas:
Lol, our zone before before Bradistan lover for life

amaeve:
@justwise please what do you suggest I do? I have tax clearance and the activity on my business and personal account have been regular. What other ties can I use? Must I submit bank statement for this month since I am applying next week?

mrcodebreaker:
I do

mrcodebreaker:
it says cost to me personally and who else is sponsoring? I am stated sponsored by company in letter. its a bit confusing to me

DanteFixo:
Please u don’t need to be rude , if u check my profile u would see I’m a new user and I’m still trying to get grip of how nairaland works . Secondly I’m not spamming , I just need an answer to a question and I have gotten it so chill. What do I Gain by spamming and I can’t remember directing any question to u . Once more thanks to the other users for their speedy reply .

Frenchfriez:
Well, I'm not be soo conversant with the geography of Yorkshire, but the much info I got is that the location isn't too distant from NYorkshire.
Could you pls let me know wosup about Yorkshire. At least generally.

DaveChapelle:
Funny, people are not paying BBC license and complaining the money is going to overhyped celebrities...But, you no dey pay anything yet now! So how is Chris Evans chopping your money?

Frenchfriez:
North Yorkshire and Lancaster in NW

Oguibe2nice:
Hello Narialanders,

I really need your urgent thoughts on this as I'm ruining low in time::

I am presently a Post graduate student billed to attend a conference in Birmingham, UK from 17th -18t of Sept which relates to my course of studies. The trip will be self sponsored and I plan to stay for only three days. I have also gotten an Introductory letter from the registrar of my school. However, I have some conflicting challenges that needs clarification

1) I have been previously denied visa to the UK (2014) and USA(2018), Hope this won't affect my chances?
2) I own a registered business and run the business primarily from my saving account.. I usually receive deposits from client. Do I need to explain these funds in my application form or cover letter?
3) Should my cover letter be typed on my business letter headed paper and signed as the CEO?
4) What kind of sub visa category do I need to choose? Business or Academic Visit?
5) I plan to spend only 360000 including accommodation, fare and co? Do I need to book a flight to show the accuracy of this figure
6) My present account balance is 1.1mill with assets (land), would that seemingly be sufficient?
Kindly recommend cautions to be taken..

Ndkings1:
Thanks to all the pundits in the house for your selfless assistance and advise. I have the following questions

1...based on advice I got from here that I should not honor invitations from a friend I have not seen before, I have decided to forego visit visa application and go for tourist but the problem is i don't have any travel history - I only traveled once to Benin Republic and didn't travel with my passport(I went through seme border). How is this going to affect the application?

2..if I go to Benin Republic and get my passport stamped and if i travel to Ghana and get Ghana immigration stamps on my passport, will all these be seen as immigration history?

3..aside my job, I have a large maize and beans farms. Can I attach pictures I took in farm as a tie when applying for the tourist visa?

4. Where I work my payslips do not reflect tax deduction - the staff do not get tax deduction, though the organization pay tax.... How do i explain this in my application...

Answr me Please and please

amaeve:
Please I have 80k in my personal account and 100k in my business account, it was 500000 last July but I withdrew all last week to buy goods for my shop and so far, I have made 100k. Please I am not sponsoring my trip in anyway, will these bank statements be a basis for visa refusal. I have my business certificate with CAC, TIN from FIRS, business tenancy agreements, also processing my tax clearance certificate to be collected on Monday. Please gurus help me, what else do I need. Thank you

mrcodebreaker:
Guys Please how do I answer these questions?

I am using only my company account as the only account I’m presenting and I also stated in my intro letter I am being sponsored by my company for this trip which I own. I am sole signatory to account I have ref letter and bank statements.

The questions are as follows

1) "What is the cost to you personally of your trip?"

2) "Is someone other than you paying for all or a part of your trip?” (YES/NO)

Looking forward to a prompt response. Thanks

Frenchfriez:
Good day friends, pls could anyone let me in on life in North West and Yorkshire & The Humber, especially as it relates to how hospitable they are, how they treat foreigners and whatever else is necessary to make an informed decision between both regions.
Thanks much.

hunter777:
They have no advanced equipment to detect if one is watching TV or not. It was a con invented to scare people into paying up. They use their database of over 31 million addresses to check which ones do not have a licence and that is where the fun of them sending you letters start.

If you have ever received any form of letter from TV Licensing, you would notice that it follows a set pattern:
- Your address has no Licence registered to it
- We will be visiting you
- We have opened an investigation and will call at your address soon.. After this stage, they go back to the 1st letter and the cycle will go on.

Rule of thumb is to never allow them gain entrance into your house, do not reply their letters or call them for any reason at all. If you inadvertently open the door and it is one of their officers, DO NOT let them in no matter how polite the person(s) is(are). Do NOT give them your name either. They have no power to arrest neither do they have any power to forcibly enter your home.

After all said though, to pay TV Licence that goes into the coffers of BBC or not is a decision only you can make.

Aysup247:
u re out of ur senses sorry to say ...are u telling that most people that in US or going there went with working visa...is not tourist they use and later they change their status to work ....so whats illegal if i say am going on tourist then later change to work status...pls shut ur mouth let serious and gentle people give a tips

segunjames82:
Hello everyone, 
HELP! HELP!! HELP!!!
I need an advice on an F1 visa issue and will really appreciate if I can get a way forward out of this. I know this house is full of gurus and highly blessed. Kindly help a sister in a jam.
My story goes thus:
Sometimes in 2016, my pregnant sister and her husband with their son applied for a US tourist visa and were granted. During the interview, the consular asked whether my sister will visit the doctor and she replied negative. My sister spent 5 months in the US and returned with the child. Their visa expired and the husband is the busy type and has no time for the renewal. Fast forward to this year, the husband was granted admission for a graduate study in the USA and was even offered a little scholarship by the school. The husband applied for F1 visa and was refused. During the interview, the consular stated that the husband travelled with his wife without their child to the USA two years ago and gave birth there after having misinformed the then consular that they will not visit the doctor. She asked where the wife is and the husband answered that she is at home with her business. She also asked how much was paid and the husband answered. The consular also asked for the receipt but the husband answered that when the wife is coming to renew her visa,she will bring it along. My sister's husband doesn't want to miss this scholarship so he wants to apply again before the school resumes late this month. What can he do to be granted the visa? Should he apply with his family again for F1 and F2 visa? Any suggestions from the gurus and VO's in the house?will really cherish one right now. Also, i believe it's the wife that wants to be punished by the VO, is it possible for the husband to be be approved the F1 while the wife is denied for the F2? Please kindly reply. All suggestions are welcome.

sureb0yy:
NLers don't like to hear anything lol. i've said it many times, the law isn't just A or B. How the everyday person would see something like this is gonna be completely different from how a lawyer would see it.

I don't wanna argue too much sha. The op said during the interview, his sister said she wasn't going to visit the doctor. Sister stayed a total of 5 months before going home. Somewhere between this period, there was a doctor's visit and the baby was born. Intent is one of the most complex things to prove. There's no proof that she lied to the VO.

Nowhere in the story did he say that action was premeditated. When the new VO said "you told the then VO that you weren't going to visit a doctor, you visited a doctor and had your baby", at that point, he should have explained why it happened. "We had no plans to visit a doctor in the US or we had no intention to visit the doctor or have the baby there. It was due to..." shikenan!
A visit to a lawyer would have fixed that.

The only factor counting against the people in question is that they're back in Nigeria applying for visa and they're going by themselves. If they were still here and they're applying for something like GC with a lawyer, this is a simple case.

At the part in bold. All those would make sense if the sister was asked whether she was pregnant and she lied about it. (read OP's post again, nothing like that). In my reply, I said the OP should come and tell the whole story. Students are asked all the time, what are you going to do? who's paying for your studies? Will you be staying in the US after studies?

They all say No. In the end, some will come and claim financial hardship, some will adjust status and not go back. How many students on here have plans to go back to Nigeria and work at oil companies, their fathers' businesses, etc.? How many get here and change their minds after a semester? Plenty.

There's a reason people with complex situations are advised not to say anything until they've talked to a lawyer. Just like your insurance company will tell you... If you're in an accident, no matter what, do NOT admit to any fault. They have to prove you're at fault.

Prettiepearlz:
Here is where I think you can get your info;


https://www.nairaland.com/4107449/living-australia-life-australian-immigrant


And if you decide to migrate, this thread will help.


https://www.nairaland.com/3053069/general-guide-australian-permanent-resident

babarexo:
Below is what my CAS stated.kINDLY ADVISE

Other Evidence
Evidence used to obtain offer: Degree Production Engineering 2.89 2:2 Benin UNi October 2011

Irenenwaka:
Hello everyone, please i wanted to ask as regards bank statement. Should i submit a statemnet with the opening balance of the required amount(hence not showing where the moeny came from) or shud i submit it with a opening balance of 0.00 (so as to show how the money got into my account) @justwise @laajibilik

Irenenwaka:
Sorry sir, in my post wat exactly do u say doesnt matter?

sureb0yy:
While I'm not a lawyer or expert in cases like this, I just wanna give you my 2 cents. This may be a very unpopular opinion but hey, it's just an advise, so feel free to ignore it.

The law is not a black or white thing. This is why for cases you're not sure of, the advise is primarily to consult a lawyer. You'd be surprised how easy it is to get through situations that look super complex to the ordinary eye.

That being said, IMO, there is absolutely NO beyond-reasonable-doubt proof that your sister or her husband lied to the VO during their first visa interview. It's not like they have proof of a conversation they had to support a preconceived plan to do the above. People change their minds all the time. People come here just to visit for a week, meet a girl with asss so fat, decide they're not going home again, marry the girl and apply for GC, say their plans changed after they got here. Oga mi Sir, they get their GC.

In your case, maybe your sister and her husband honestly had no intention of having their baby here or visit the doctor. Suppose I were in her shoes, and I woke up one day with blood coming out of me, you think I will risk my life and die because I told one VO that I won't be seeing Doctor? No sir, I will call 911 if needed and get the best treatment and that's not a crime.

This case is not as impossible as it looks, and also you didn't tell the whole story. If they paid all bills out of pocket or whatever the case is, tell them to take all relevant documents along on their next visit to the embassy. He also has to state clearly that "No Sir, we didn't misinform the previous VO. Things happened that way because..."

If the matter pass you, your sister abi her husband, consult immigration lawyer. Better one o, not 200 Naira lawyers under bridge in Ikeja. But if I were you, I'd handle this myself sha. It's not a big deal.

Disclaimer: This is not legal advice. Please consult a lawyer for legal matters.

Irenenwaka:
Hello everyone, please i wanted to ask as regards bank statement. Should i submit a statemnet with the opening balance of the required amount(hence not showing where the moeny came from) or shud i submit it with a opening balance of 0.00(so as to show how the money got into my account) @justwise @laajibilik

babarexo:
Do I need to submit my transcript when applying for student visa.

liana001:
Hello here! At long last, it's my turn to testify!!! All gratitude to GOD almighty, I got my visa yesterday. I'm a self sponsoring student. Standard application. Online submission 10th July. Interview and biometrics 13th July. Decision Made 7th Aug. Courier delivery 9th Aug.

I was initially refused visa in Feb 2018 cos my statement was short of 28 days so I had to defer my admission to Sept. But when I got my new CAS, tuition had jumped to 15300 pounds from 13000, same course, same school, same year o. I just cancelled my place and started applying to new unis within my budget. I finally settled for RGU, Sept intake.

One important thing I noted on my Feb refusal letter was that the ECO said he "took account of 4 things in assessing my individual application

*the financial and employment information as declared by me in my application.
*my passport
*my family circumstances
*the supporting documents I provided
These just told me that for my re-application, to avoid new 'stories' and new reasons for refusal, it won't be a bad idea to add other relevant documents apart from just CAS credentials and financial evidence.

My circumstances are very peculiar: though I have a good travel history with UK and even have a 5 year visit visa valid till Sept 2019, I'm in my 30s, single, an adult orphan, unemployed since July 2017 (although I had worked continuously for 9years plus in the formal sector till last year), only one sibling in Nig and two in UK who have been there for decades, though legally. Even my TB certificate was to expire on 5th Aug 2018, but I used it like that.

This my 'serious combination' made me worry so much if they will see me as a genuine student, but after all the self-imposed headache, high body temperature, high BP, anxiety, sleepless nights, it came out positive.

Lastly, I appreciate everyone here for your posts. They all helped me in one way or the other. A very special, capital GBOSA with honours to @Justwise - to think you have been active and helpful on this thread since 2009 is simply commendable!!!

Best of luck to you all!

Scottiemi:
Good morning everyone, Pls I urgently need advice on my issue. So I did my biometrics and interview on the 24th of July and on the 29th I got a mail from sheffied that my application has been received. This morning I got another mail from them that the processing has not been straight forward and am scared, Pls what does it mean and what should I do. Gurus in the house pls help out.
@Justwise @maessien