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kettle84:
hahahah, yes bro.look at Libya and Syria including the withdrawal of US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq by Obama and see his radical Islamic backing.

Thank God for sending Donald Trump.

Don't be so quick to thank God yet, wait until trump get into office yet.

So Obama withdrawing American troops from foreign lands fighting illegal war is now an offence?

davide470:
You took the words out of my mouth.

Honestly some Nigerian are beyond belief.

Slaughtering people in their homes and hospitals are regarded as a favour?

Flye:
I guess u are CNN type of person otherwise you would have known that Russia has done Syrian people and citizen a lot of favour.

Yea the same favour their 92 citizens received today?

kettle84:
Bro, Russia's role in Syria is a fight against Terrorism. so sad that innocents were cut up in the war.Russian went into Syria to make the world safer because Barack Hussein Obama created and aid unprecedented terrorism in the middle East that would have engulfed us all .the terrorism was so great that it reached west Africa in the name of Boko haram.

may God console the family of the dead and bless and prosper the Russian federation.

That is the trump in you speaking

Urukpe:
wrong answer, please research further and give a better response

I guess i searched further before giving my answer.

Do you have the right answer?

Isoken2000:
@ justwise. Thank you for your response.

Am actually a woman,wife and mother . Yes the baking and decoration brings in money but it varies, it can be as low as 20k or as high as 100k a month. it isn't specific. I will add the receipt. can I add invoices from where I buy baking and decoration things. also, can I add the documents to our house or plan.

I would have love to add family photos and that of property but I couldn't add picture photographs when I applied because I was told they don't accept pictures anymore.

since I couldn't travel this December, I believe by easter the cost of my trip would have reduced by half. Am sure I would be spending above 380k (ticket and miscillenous inclusive).

these were the documents I submitted before:

6 months payslip.
6 months bank statement from gtbank and first bank account stamped
(both amounts to 800k)
3 years tax clearance
marriage certificate
degree certificate
birth certificate
letter of appointment
letter of promotion
letter of introduction from employer
leave letter


from my cousin
Photocopy of Data page (showing his British citizen status)
employment letter
promotion letter
6 months payslips
6 months bank statement
tenancy agreement
letter of invitation stating he is taking care of accommodation and feeding

Pls note that we are in season now and this is baking and decoration season, I just got a job this morning with almost 60k profit. by January ending, salary plus profit, am sure I will have up to 1.2m in my account


1. Pls if I add those receipts, children birth certificate and property documents, am I good to go.

2. the documents to our house is carrying my name and that of my husband, can I use it. or can I change it for this purpose.

3. should I apply in January ending or February

thank you

How about your hubby's docs like bank statement? Even as he is not traveling with you it will be an advantage to your home tie.

1.Yes you need to add all those docs

2. Please don't change anything and submit the house doc as its.

3. Apply when you have enough and cheaper flight ticket available.

adepa:
How come african migrants suffer to get to europe but syrians,iraqs and afghans don't really suffer getting to europe. Is it not the same route they ply? I guess to some extent.

They are coming from war torn countries while many African migrants are economic migrants.

CHARLOE:
USA n NATO destroyed Libya, under gadaffi things were not like this, Libya was sweet.. Ametica n NATO killed gadaffi for their selfish reasons n ignorant Nigerians were celebrating, c Libya now like Iraq, smh

Gaddafi and his family did. They never thought that their reign of terror will come to an end one day.

MmmS:
Bros i know this is for visas but i have want to ask something which is slightly off topic but please don't block me o. Is it possible for a person to change a course once they get to the UK? Lets say i apply get a visa to study Architecture but once i get to the UK I switch want to switch to Engineering. Will it affect the validity of the visa i used to gain entry?

That is possible though some universities may have different policy regarding switching. 1st though you may have to check the course requirements to know if you are qualified to do that course.

Isoken2000:
hi justwise,

I got my package today and was refuse 6months visiting visa. The ECO didn't have any other reason than to say I have some unexplained deposit in my savings account and that it wasn't added to my monthly income, as such he wasn't sure if the money belong to me and wasn't sure I will come back.

I didn't add the monthly deposit in that account to my monthly income because what goes in there isn't fixed and because it's not my salary account (current account), I only added that account statement because I planned to use some of the money in that account for my trip. am on a salary of N100,070 after tax. But sometimes during weekends, am involved in hall decorations and baking. that's what the savings account is for.

I had N800k in my account when I applied and filled that am using 700k for my trip and shopping, am staying with my cousin who is inviting me and he is also taking care of feeding.

my question is what should I add as I plan to apply late January as against Easter. can I provide receipt issued for the moneys paid into that account, can I write a covering letter explaining what the account is for, also can I add my children birth Certificates as one of my strong ties to return, Pls what should I do.

thank you

Your application was poorly presented and leaving the ECO with little choice than to refuse you a visa, if you reapplied again another ECO will treat your application and i will be surprised if you are given a visa.

Yes you cousin will be feeding and taking care of you while you are in the UK but your tie to Nigeria is not very strong considering your salary and as a family man.

You have N800k in your account which is about a year of your salaries and you are planning to spend N700K out of it in less than a month?

That is you spending 7months of your salary in just 2-3wks.

If your decorations and baking business are bringing in a good steady income monthly to supplement your salary then i will advice you to reapply and add those receipts and your kid birth certificate else i wouldn't reapply if i'm in your position.

eboziem:
Please i can't see any business card

I removed it, contact him if you want the business card.

Divine88:
Thanks justwise
I also noticed they returned the original online application form to me with my passport photo attached. I doubt if anyone went through my application. Am confuse now

This is unusual you need to contact them

Divine88:
I fill the email request form jmmediately and also send another email to Sheffield.
Do u reckon I should go to the nearest British embassy?

I'm not sure you be attended to without invitation

Isoken2000:
@justw I need your response. thank you

Will do that tomorrow

Fifi123:
Hi everyone
I have a little question or we can say problem
I'm now in uk with a spouse visa, my husband is getting benefits from government cause of his disability.
I found a job here which I'll start working soon
But the point is the government will cut off all or part of his benefits.
Plus I'm still looking forward the next visa, if they stop his benefits, how can he support and sponsor me in my next stage of visa!
How and what can you advise me please.

How many hours will you be working in a week?

AdimO1:
Hi guys.. @justwise @foreveryours201 and all Nairalnders, just a little tip from my experience.
I have been invited to the uk for 3yrs now by my partners mum, and i always get the visa, and remember i said i will be applying for settlement visa in February.
So 2weeks ago i made a visit visa application to visit my partner (now wife) in the uk for 11days. But i was refused cos of a flimsy excuse.
The visa officer said my bank statement wasn't translated to english from german hence he cannot determine my financial position, for that he is refusing me visiting visa.

This sounds ludicrous cos it's thesame bank statement i have been using to apply for visa all these while and never been refused, until i said i was being invited by my partner and submitted proof of our relationship. I have never heard before that a bank statement should be translated. Lol

But i guess they looking for excuse cos it's my partner inviting me, hence they feel i will not leave the uk. Despite submitting all required docs that shie my ties to germany. But i feel it's a stupid excuse.

Thinking of sending them an email about this... Then chill and apply for settlement visa in February cos i only did this visit visa because i wanted to celebrate christmas with the family.

Also note all my applications to uk, i always say i will be in the uk for 2weeks, but i never stayed more than 1week, cos i ve got a lot to do (biz n study), so my immigration history is perfect.
What do you guys think was the real reason ?

Thanks

Sorry that this is coming late..

Actually you needed to translate any doc that is not written in English language when applying for visa, they may have overlooked it before but its a normal practice.

ngr7:
From the Reporter , as shared On facebook.

A terrible accident happened along Lagos express road lafarge @ewekoro ogun state and the vehicle burnt to ashes. Two persons died instantly why the others were rushed down to the hospital.

Source , http://www.viviangist.com/many-burnt-to-death-as-accident-hits-lagos-express-road-lafarge-graphic-pictures

Please avoid uploading a picture like this in future, i'm sick and tired of removing graphic pictures in this section. Lets respect the dead and their loved ones.

Divine88:
Received my docs today, passport was not stamped and I didn't see a refusal letter. What that that implies justwise? Am confuse right now

Contact the embassy immediately for clarification

damidamsel:
@Justwise....thanks alot, will do that. So to the best of your knowledge, do you think we included all necessary documents or do you think there's something we left out that could have helped?

I think your docs are good but you should have made use of the space in the application form to explain more on the irregular incomes

Kukuful1014:
Justwise pls is true that decision made emails for refused applications are different from approved applications.

They are the same, you will only know the outcome when you open your package.

damidamsel:
For my husband as the sponsor, we submitted:
- 6months payslip
- 6months bank statement
- Promotion letter
- Company Introduction letter
- Land DOA
- Family pictures
- Employee ID
- Tenancy agreement
- Daughter's school receipt
- Original daughter's US birth certificate
- Copy of daughter's US passport
- Flight itinerary (not booked)
- Itinerary of intending places to visit with dates
- Cover letter

For mine:
- Company bank statement
- Company CAC registration
- E-tcc card
- Tax receipt
- Company Introduction letter
- My personal bank statement showing savings
- Previous workplace 6months payslip
- Uber driver agreement
- Uber invoices
- Car documents
- Family pictures
- Copy of Husband's 6months payslip
- Copy of Husband's 6months bank statement
- Copy of Husband's promotion letter
- Copy of Husband's introduction letter
- Copy of daughter's birth certificate and passport
- Cover letter
- Husband's signed consent letter as sponsor

We did explain the commission being paid, the farmland, my trainings and uber business in the additional information space provided. Maybe we should have explained in more details in the cover letter i suppose. Can we reapply in January with the same documents and add updated documents while addressing the reason for previous refusal in details

Yes definitely you can do that.

damidamsel:
Long post alert........sorry but need to be detailed for clarification

Hi All, please i need your advise. So my hubby and I (baby has us passport so didnt need it) applied for UK visa with hubby as the sponsor on 21st Nov 2016 and got our passport back with a refusal after 12working days. The ONLY reason the Eco stated on each of our applications was that we did not show proof of income and our deposits were not regular which i believe he came to this conclusion because he didn't go through the docs well. This is our case:

My hubby earns abt 300k after tax monthly - this was evidenced by payslip, bank statement, promotion letter and introduction letter
He earns commission from client deals - the inflows shows in the bank statement and is not a one time lump sum, it has always been that way. His promotion and introduction letter also states he is on salary plus commission (however we did not highlight any of these on the bank statement)
He owns a 1acre farm and included the DOA for the land but no income was evidenced in the bank statement as no income came in during that 6month bank statement period)
The ECOs claim of income not being regular baffles me because his salary shows in there but everyone knows commission can never be regular

I am self employed (run a career development organization) which just began trainings in October. I attached my cac reg, tax receipt, my e-tcc card, company bank statement and personal bank statement. I also run a uber business
My company income was evidenced in the bank statement but unlike salary, cannot be regular as it depends on the number of trainings done. I even reduced the income by claiming income once every two months whereas i did a training in Oct and another in Nov
For the uber, i included the car docs, drivers agreement, uber invoices printed off the uber platform and the incomes show in the bank statement as uber remits and the driver remits with his name. With the uber also, though there is a standard pay expected, it cannot be seen as one sum because it is always a split between uber and the driver
(With these too, we did not highlight the incomes on the bank statement for easy detection)

We planned to travel on the 21st of Dec for a one week visit and budgeted £3k whereas we had abt 3m besides the funds in my biz acct and my savings. We initially wanted to reapply immediately (and highlight the bank statements and include another cover letter detailing the income) but could get no date with enough time before our travel date and priority service would have cost us abt 370k. We did not choose priority service because we did not want to look desperate paying 340k for a visa just for 7days visit.
Now we intend to reapply by end of January, if not for anything but to clear the doubt on ground, but probably also to visit during Easter or stopover on our trip to the US.
My question is: What could we have done differently to prove these incomes? What can we add to the next application to make it succesful

Thanks in anticipation of your responses

Please can you list those documents you submitted?

I think if you had explained in details as you did here the outcome could have been different

bogolobango:
@justwise how long does it take to get CAC and if any knows how to go about kindly let me I need to register my business asap

Absolutely no idea

damidamsel:
Long post alert........sorry but need to be detailed for clarification

Hi All, please i need your advise. So my hubby and I (baby has us passport so didnt need it) applied for UK visa with hubby as the sponsor on 21st Nov 2016 and got our passport back with a refusal after 12working days. The ONLY reason the Eco stated on each of our applications was that we did not show proof of income and our deposits were not regular which i believe he came to this conclusion because he didn't go through the docs well. This is our case:

My hubby earns abt 300k after tax monthly - this was evidenced by payslip, bank statement, promotion letter and introduction letter
He earns commission from client deals - the inflows shows in the bank statement and is not a one time lump sum, it has always been that way. His promotion and introduction letter also states he is on salary plus commission (however we did not highlight any of these on the bank statement)
He owns a 1acre farm and included the DOA for the land but no income was evidenced in the bank statement as no income came in during that 6month bank statement period)
The ECOs claim of income not being regular baffles me because his salary shows in there but everyone knows commission can never be regular

I am self employed (run a career development organization) which just began trainings in October. I attached my cac reg, tax receipt, my e-tcc card, company bank statement and personal bank statement. I also run a uber business
My company income was evidenced in the bank statement but unlike salary, cannot be regular as it depends on the number of trainings done. I even reduced the income by claiming income once every two months whereas i did a training in Oct and another in Nov
For the uber, i included the car docs, drivers agreement, uber invoices printed off the uber platform and the incomes show in the bank statement as uber remits and the driver remits with his name. With the uber also, though there is a standard pay expected, it cannot be seen as one sum because it is always a split between uber and the driver
(With these too, we did not highlight the incomes on the bank statement for easy detection)

We planned to travel on the 21st of Dec for a one week visit and budgeted £3k whereas we had abt 3m besides the funds in my biz acct and my savings. We initially wanted to reapply immediately (and highlight the bank statements and include another cover letter detailing the income) but could get no date with enough time before our travel date and priority service would have cost us abt 370k. We did not choose priority service because we did not want to look desperate paying 340k for a visa just for 7days visit.
Now we intend to reapply by end of January, if not for anything but to clear the doubt on ground, but probably also to visit during Easter or stopover on our trip to the US.
My question is: What could we have done differently to prove these incomes? What can we add to the next application to make it succesful

Thanks in anticipation of your responses

Will reply this later...

Onyx234:
Wow ok thanks, they should stop pretending one can sponsor family member then. Anyway thanks for your help.

Yes you can sponsor a family member but not somebody of a working age. You can sponsor your aged parents, somebody below the age of 16 or there about etc

Onyx234:
Hi please I need some advise on this, my sister applied for a visit visa but was rejected for this reason which I find strange. Does it mean I can't sponsor her because she is a teacher and earn less money? Even though I stated that I was paying the whole travel expenses and have already given her the money which has been in her account since October and I declared it as it was a transfer from my Nigerian account.

Here is the refusal letter.

In this occasion unfortunately you can't sponsor your sister, she need to be to sponsor herself.

She is not earning enough to have a strong tie to Nigeria.

Ehimeomo:
@justwise, you can say that again. Sure, I will give the hug to them. But that doesn't mean I shouldn't urge you on to doing the good things you always do. God go bless you richly for all your inputs & grant you WISDOM like that of SOLOMON.

very kind of you.

Safe journey and welcome to the UK, its freezing cold here now so get your winter jacket and hat ready

Eastner:
Thank you so much for the response. I truly appreciate it. I do have evidence of the money sent to me and will add it all..If i have more questions concerning my application,i'll get back to you.

No worries, all the best

elemzbaba:
@justwise Hi, I am thinking of applying for a 2-year Uk visa sometime next year. The problem I'm having is that my passport expires in 2018 I.e the validity of my passport will be less than the duration of the visa I want to apply for. Will that be an issue?

Not an issue at all.

Hope that nairalanders/ Nigerians in Berlin are safe..truck attack at Berlin Christmas market, a lot of casualties

Eastner:
Hello House, your advice and expert opinion is needed.
I intend traveling to the UK with our child early next year to visit my husband (British citizen). Our child was born in Lagos and we applied for and got his British passport here in Lagos.
I've been working in the same company for 10years now (even before i got married) and the salary was just reviewed in September, to 210k after tax,but i'm currently paying off a loan of 50,000 naira. (brings it to 160k). I receive 5,000 naira monthly as balance from phone credit top-up (so,rather than top up with 15,000.the company tops up my phone with 10,000 and credits my account with the remaining 5,000 balance and it's not included in payslip). Periodically, i also receive bonus and also just received my 13th month salary. My monthly expenses is 50,000 naira except on occasions where i've had to carry out some projects.
My husband sends money via western union monthly too and this varies depending on expenses and what not(could be as low as 51,000 and as high as 300,000 naira , 3 times in a month).
I intend sponsoring the trip and my husband will be providing the accommodation alone.
I intend submitting my salary account for the application. These are the documents I'm thinking of submitting:

1. Employment Letter
2. Letter of Introduction From My boss stating how long I've been working,my role,that my leave has been approved and i'm to resume after.
3. 6months salary account bank statement/Covering letter
4. 6 months pay slip
5. Tax Card
6. Pensions Account Statement/Covering Letter
7. Shares Certificate
8. Land Documents
9. Utility Bill
10. Marriage Certificate/Evidence of Change of Name
11. Evidence of Additional source of Income (Western Union)
12. Wedding & Family Pictures

For Our Child
1. Birth Certificate
2. British Passport Bio-data
3. School 1st Term Results
4. Pictures of Son in School
5. Letter of Acknowledgement/confirmation from School Head.

From My Husband
1. British Passport Bio-data
2. Letter of Invitation and Consent
3. Employment Letter
4. 6 months Salary Account Statement
5. 6 months Pay slip
6. Tenancy Agreement
7. Utility Bill

Now, my questions are:
A) When filling the budget breakdown such as ,'what is the cost of the trip to me personally as well as total cost'.. do i include the cost of flight and feeding for my son? Since he's visiting with me. But he doesn't need a visa.
B) Since i'm including feeding as part of my budget, do i still need to submit my husband's statement of account? (It's not bouyant as he just returned from nigeria)
C) How much do you think is feasibile for feeding for a mom and child for 2weeks. I was budgeting 135 pounds.
D) Do i really need to add shopping?
E) When asked if the purpose of travel is to visit the person i'll be staying with,the answer is YES, right? since the primary purpose isnt sight seeing.
F) What the ties i can use to show that i will definately come back to nigeria since technically,my family members are my husband and son asides parents and inlaws in nigeria.

I'll be having 750,000 in the account i'm presenting and the budget is

Flight - 384,056 (Son and I)
Feeding & Misc - 80,000 (Son and I)

G) Can you please assist with what i've listed so far.
Thank you.

A. yes you have to

B. Yes

C. That is a reasonable amount.

D.No, its not part of visa requirements.

E. Yes that is the correct answer.

F. Your job and your kid's school.


If you have evidence of money sent to your by your hubby add it, stuff like receipts or any paper work relating to western union money transaction.

Isoken2000:
Hi justwise, thank you for your response. I got this email today


Reference: GWFxxxxxxxxx

Dear xxxxxc xxxxxc xxxxxxxxx

UK Visas & Immigration has now assessed your UK visa application and made a decision. Your documents and

the decision will be sent back to either the UK Visa Application Centre where you applied, where we will

contact you by email over the next few days to collect them, or if you are using the courier return service, will

be sent directly back to the address you provided.

Please note that TLScontact does not know the outcome of the assessment and has played no role in the

decision-making process.

Kind regards,

TLScontact
UK VIsas & Immigration

I paid for courier service

My question is when can I expect this package and is it possible to know the decision from the email

Thank you

Probably before the end of the week. No it's not possible to know the outcome from the email