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mabella2:
@justwise help with my question please. Can I collect my mum's package on her behalf. A decision has been made on her application

Sure you can, get a written note from her.

dday101:
First point I never used you or saying you got a partner @justwise I'm just explaining my point to you and making example.

Secondly the reason why the UK immigration can't tell couples where they can live is because the sponsor and partner can decide where they want to live because of the right to family life of the sponsor status in the UK.

Thirdly why was the right of Appeal withdraw from Student visa only and but Spousal visa right was not withdrawn solely because of that right of a family life.
And if the right of a family life is universal right why can't one exercise that right on their student visa and visitors visa.

When you say I copied stuffs from website to defend my point show me your evidence to defend your point.

If you go back to my conversation with @Portsmouth86 you see I told her that they just want see that she's the real sponsor and if she's not. They will hold the husband and if says he won't return immediately he has the right to appeal the deportation and remain in the UK until his appeal has been heard in court.

Why is it possible that you can apply and be granted a spousal visa even when you carrying a 10years ban. But you cannot apply and be granted a student visa and visitors visa just because of one right - The right to a family life, which both the applicant and the sponsor possess because they've agreed to live in the UK.

If they decided live in Nigeria it has to be the couple's decision.
So Spousal visa is not a privilege and the right to a family life is not a universal rule that every visa possess.

Please you don't know the law from all your statement about this issue just continue with your advice on application. Thanks

It's funny that you claimed to know the law but still you don't know that a student visa holder with a child can exercise right to family life? (Ask me and I will explain to you) ,Asylum seekers can exercise right to family life? Even convicted criminals use right to family life to remain in the UK, you don't know all these and still believe that only spouse visa holder enjoys that?

Do you also know that Tier 1, 2 and 5 visa have the right to appeal?

10 years ban can prevent some spouse visa applicants from getting a visa to the UK to join their spouse. Not all 10yrs bans are overturned through spouses visa application and if you don't know this then you got no clue what you are talking about.

Student visa appeal right was removed and replaced with administrative review just last year and administrative review is far better than appeal because it takes less than a month to decide and cost about £80, unlike appeal that takes at least 6 months and cost more.

finechickala201:
Pls is anyone delivering in boston Massachusetts or elpaso, if yes pls get in touch with me ? Am considering Elpaso or Boston but doc espara ti is no longer accepting international patients. Pls if you have any information about Boston or elpaso pls contact me. Thank you.

How can they stop accepting international patients while still advertising here?

kellikross:
Hello just wise, i have been following and reading all your comments and advise on trips to the US and giving birth there. I just applied for a B1/B2 visa but have the intention of giving birth there. my husband also applied together with me for his renewal and we choose to stay in new jersey. our interview is next month in Abuja and am yet to locate a hospital in new jersey that will be affordable and not on the high side.
i was also advised by a colleague to send an email to the embassy indicating my intention to give birth in the US since am already pregnant and did not apply for B1/medical. i am yet to find the email address to send the mail to.

Please can you advise and also be of help.

i will really appreciate your response.

Thank you

You can give birth in US with B1/B2 visa and you don't need to send an email to US before the interview, you have to indicate your intention to give birth in US during your interview even if you are not asked.


Before all that use this website http://hcahealthcare.com/patients/pricing-and-financial-information.dot to search for hospital in any state of your choice,get a quote and prepare your budget sheet for the interview.

If you read last part and this one you will have more than enough info for hospitals, how to prepare for the interview and travel itself.

dday101:
The Right to a family life:- the one giant right that gives you solid ground to stand and challenge any good and compiling reason evidence against you inside the UK not outside the UK.
And this is the same rule that gives the spousal visa application after refusal in your country the (FRA) Full Right of Appeal, unlike visiting visa and student visa (LRA) Limited Right of Appeal written at the right top of your refusal letter.

So you can not be returned to your country at the POE (point of entry) or the next available flight. Except you voluntarily want to return back.



With entry clearance
If you’re refused entry and have entry clearance (i.e. a visa, entry certificate, letter of consent or work permit), you cannot, in most cases, immediately be sent back to your home country. Rather you are permitted to make an appeal (in the first instance to an independent adjudicator) and allowed to remain in the UK until it’s been heard.

However, within UK immigration law, there’s no right of appeal in the case of people with visitor’s visas, unless coming as ‘family visitors and Spousal visa.

Please don't make laugh @justwise saying is privilege if it's a privilege they tell your sponsor to go to Nigeria and be with you that they can't accommodate you because they are worried about migration. Privilege brother please!!! na America Visa Lottery

Dude when you copied stuff from some website make an effort to read well, right to family life is an universal human right that is not peculiar to spouse visa holders and you can exercise that right in Nigeria with your partner, it doesn't have to be in the UK so when you are refused entry to the UK they are not technically denying you right to family life because your partner can move to Nigeria to be with you.

When you get married to your partner the condition is not that you must live in the UK.

Until recently student visa holders can appeal a refusal so its not a right specially for spouse visa holders as you pointed out.

While at the POE you have not stepped foot into the UK yet until you are stamped and allowed to cross the immigration check, so when you are sent back you will be making an appeal from your home country or your partner will make one for you from the UK.

When Portsmouth86's husband was stopped at the POE and questioned if Portsmouth86's story did not match that of the husband he would have been sent back from there and he will appeal that from Nigeria.

Right to family life is not good enough if they have a strong case against you.

I really don't know when you got the idea that i have a partner here..one of your guess works? I think..

Benuromi:
Please, can someone help me here. My sister-in-law told me they refused her boyfriend uk visitors visa and no reason was given which I find very strange. He used some agent in Nigeria. I don't know how they did it. My reason is the refuser letter which he was supposed to have got. Plz, is there any email to contact uk lagos embassy to know why he was refused? Because without refused letter, u won't know why it was refused and what to sort out to reapply again.
Thanks for your help.

He should be contacting the agent because he probably has the refusal letter and refused to give it to your sister's bf. The embassy will not refuse you a visa without a letter explaining why.

Visit the British embassy website for contact details and contact them if you want to

dday101:
No need to talk much again. Please you don't have a clue about Spousal visa right. Please do your research. When the person is not a known terrorist. We talking about POE returning and its a well known fact that if you commit a serious crime to become a threat to society you serve your time and be deported back to your country as dual national, indefinite holder and Spousal visa holder.

List them.

dustydee:
try transferboss.com I have been using them for quite a while now. I was using worldremit until they started giving ridiculous exchange rates.

Yea i have heard about them but never used them.

Will try them out and compare deals.

Thanks a lot though.

Please people need to search this section first before starting a new thread, US visa threads are too many here and it will take you no time to find one.

dday101:
@justwise POE no way, when I talk about this issue I talk from experience. Like what you said above they will have to take you to court to get the visa withdrew, So they can never return you home except you ask to be return by yourself, if you want to stay to challenge every good and compiling reason evidence against you, you have the right to do. Return you at a POE no way they can't.

Dude what you are holding is a visa with no right attached to it, its a privilege and the immigration at the POE can put you in the next available flight back to your home country if they have a strong reason to do that.

You have to appeal their decision from your home country to be able to renter the UK

Even as a dual British citizen if the govt has a strong case against you they will send you back to your home country and the British passport taken away from you.

All this you are saying here is fighting talk.

claremont:
Check World Remit, I have only ever used them. Rates for today attached.

They are pretty much the same though Arimo charges zero fees for sending(though i'm not sure if its for first timers only)

worldremit is higher by about N20

claremont:
Check World Remit, I have only ever used them.

Will try them, thanks a lot.

@All

Apart from Azimo is there any other agency with a better deal for sending money to Nigeria?

nefertitiram:
See eh,

This is not about settling the bill or not settling the bill

The problem is the attitude towards the son's bill. She let US settle the child's bill because he is a citizen. Nothing spoil. No crime

Now, she intends to spend an average of $30,000 on US education just because it is beneficial to her personally. But leaving a bill to a program meant for 'low income populations' when you have access to such amount required for International student fees

The VO feels that the US is being cheated or she is playing a fast one on the country. It is almost impossible to repay medicaid.

The best bet is to renew her B1/B2 visa, just to take her chances (agreeing with you) through dropbox. If she is invited for an interview she can try to talk her way through it.

Anyways, she should try studying in Germany. They teach masters in English

That is the main point here.

obabola123:
@Portsmouth86 and @dday101, thanks but my wife stay in hull city. She can't travel down to pick me up @ Heathrow but I already book a train ticket from Heathrow to Hull city then she can pick me up at the train station in Hull. Hope this will not be a issue?

You will be fine since you booked your train to Hull already and you are not new to the UK.

If asked at POE state clearly that you are not new here and that Your wife can't travel that long to Heathrow since you can make your way without any problem.

dday101:
@Portsmouth86
Nobody can return you at the airport quote me anywhere expect they can prove its a sham marriage. It will only be strange for your Spouse not to be at the airport to receive you and @Portsmouth86 the reason they question you they want to know if you are the real sponsor or somebody else just acting as one. And they would have had to take your husband to court first and prove it a sham marriage to deport him back to Nigeria. Thank you

NB. Return back ke na visiting visa do you know the human right protection and the right to family ties in that spouses visa. No Your Rights no be curse.

@dday101 I have to disagree with you here, they have every right to send you back sham marriage or not, what you are holding is a visa and not British passport so it's a privilege which can be withdrawn at the POE.
If they have a good and compiling reasons to send you back they will even as a spouse visa holder.

Caribbeanwify28:
It's now 61 days... really wishing I paid for the priority service, the waiting is so hard. Hopefully by mid next week I'll here something. Fingers crossed

Please relax and get your mind off counting days because it will stressed you out more.

Speaking from recent experience..counting days does not really help, recently I reluctantly applied for citizenship, it took 4weeks to get acknowledgement and biometric letter, money did not go out of my account till after 3weeks. I did the biometric the same day I received the letter then start counting days. People I know get their applications approved within 12wks, some 8wks and did their ceremonies.

Few weeks after the 12thweek I got a letter from them requesting for my old expired passport which I sent the same day, I took another one month before my application was approved.

So they don't always stick to that 12wks as they sometimes go above that. I know it's hard but try and get your mind off it.

Post this in US student visa thread.

claremont:
It wouldn't favour international students or immigrants in general I'm afraid. Theresa May headed the Home Office for 6 years, and her time in that Office has seen the promulgation of the most hostile immigration policies against international students. That was when the UK hadn't voted the leave the EU, the policies will be even more hostile now that she is supposed to be heading a new government that will take the UK out of the EU.

If the intent of the international student is to come to the UK for studying alone, that's not set to change. If the intent is to immigrate after studying, I wouldn't recommend the UK at this point in time. I also foresee the financial threshold to get married will be increased from the present £18,500 to at least £30,000. This will almost close down the marriage route of immigration. Tier 1 and Tier 2 visa salary threshold might also be raised as well.

What we are hoping for is that the Labour Party gets its house in order and present a formidable opposition force to the forthcoming hostile immigration policies.

I don't see that happening at least not that figure, £20.000 maybe but £30,000? Not in next 5 years at least.

The current £18,600 was challenged in court recently though the state won but increasing it to £30,000 will hard to think of.

Eniakii:
Thanks cuteempror,
I thought of that as well but a friend told me I can take part of the money because they will only verify the genuity of the bank statement but not the balance.

If I can hear from anyone that had done that and the visa was issued or denied, I would be more than happy because I want to pay for my IHS and application fee from the money.
Cheers

You will only get away with that if the embassy did not call your bank to ask for the last transaction in that account.

I think it happened to somebody here 2yrs ago or so where the embassy asked the person to resubmit current bank statement unfortunately the person has withdrew some of the money then.

If you can avoid touching that money until your visa comes out AND the Ukba specifically stated that the money should be available to you in the UK, so its not just the 28days.

Like cuteemperor said its risky, but the choice is yours.

Good luck.

Dynamitehimself:
@justwise
Oh thanks for the response i am most grateful. I just hope the receipt will serve the verification purpose.
Plz do you have any hints per gram price of maybe 18 karat.Or anyway you could confirm I would appreciate.
Thanks in anticipation.

No sorry I got absolutely no clue on that.

dollyjoy:
Sex on a first date is a no no for me, in fact no sex before marriage

Many have said that before and still end up as baby mama..


Though I hope it works for you

@All

Please no more discussion about whether embassy verify bank statement or not or whether bank has the right to disclose bank balance to the embassy because it makes no sense to waste a single space here discussing it.

Sorry I have removed all the posts made concerning that topic.

@All

Please people lets respect each other's view here regarding life outside Nigeria.

Saying things as its doesn't mean you are negative and presenting positive perspective doesn't mean that you will be successful, the important thing here is to be realistic and honest to yourself.

Please let's not shout people down because we don't like what that person is saying or accuse somebody of painting rosey pictures.

Having both sides of argument is healthy because it prepares you for the challenges ahead.


This is the reality..not everyone will make it outside Nigeria, accept that.

TripleKMama:
I posted dis earlier today and I think it was deleted - with no explanations.
For d benefit of d inquirer and any other person, I'll re post. DISCLAIMER: Im not an agent and do not wish to be. I am gainfully employed in Naija and just like many pipo here, simply gathering info for my Prince's delivery
I dont know if d person who asked this question violated any rule but once more, for d sake of others, lets not be too strict with these laws. Ignore d ones u can and contribute wen necessary.

Madam tell the hospital you are indirectly doing ad for to come and advertise here just like two agencies are doing now.

Its not fair that other agencies are paying to place an ad here while other are getting in-thread ad for free.

Please lets not forget that It cost the owner a lot to maintain nairaland and pay his programmers and others who work for him.

Sweetuzy01:
I don type this post twice but after sending, it would give me error msg. Just wise no de gree post my comments so if this one disappear, that's the end.

Blame yourself or your network because i don't know what you are on about

DaVinciii:
Hello nairalanders, I lost my international passport some years ago, and I need to replace it now.
There's a thread I saw here on nairaland about this, but it only talked about replacing from outside Nigeria. I lost my passport here in Nigeria. Does anyone know how to get a replacement and how much it costs?, time frame, etc.?
Some years back, I heard it can only be done at Abuja, but recently a friend said it can now be done elsewhere like Lagos, etc. How true is this? I need info please.

Please post in that thread and stop duplicating threads

Dynamitehimself:
Yeah I have the receipt. Just that the total quantity in the receipt has reduced compared to what I have at hand because I sold some out some time ago.But the original receipt is still intact.

You may be able to sell it if they can verify the origin because jewellery theft is very rampant here so shops are very careful to avoid buying stolen item.

I think they have sort of database where they can verify any original jewellery and ascertain immediately if it has been reported stolen

Justyce:
justwise I have this question about submitting my original degree certificate to the embassy.. how long is it going to stay with them and why? hope is not gonna get lost? meanwhile if it is for verification, how do they do their verification of genuinty of cert? thanks for you quick response.

They will return your original certificate and they will hold it until decision is made about your application.

I don't know how they do their verification but they know how to fish out fake document.

sassybee:
Hello house, @Justwise I got the visa . I didnt use a sponsor, i just attached my statements and hotel booking. I explained in the additional information box that i was going for my graduation and i would be sponsoring myself. It was just God's grace. Im so glad. Thank you for your help as usual

Sorry this is coming late, congratulations!

Dynamitehimself:
@olowob
I have a lot of gold jewelleries which I use and will be selling some of them before I leave in the coming months by God's grace. I already got some good deal from mallams because dollars is higher than it was when I bought them then,but I was told that it is costlier in the UK and that I should go along with them and sell them there and that it will also bridge the gap of currency conversion being that it is sold in pounds. Plz what is your honest opinion on this.

Cc . claremont, justwise et al

Do you have their receipts?

gunther6:
Some of the evidence cannot be posted here too many personal details(bank, contacts and those of others) I will however be sending some to your email... I never came close to paying her I was skeptical from the get go... But a few people came dangerously close...

Update: I forwarded a few mails but I the allusions made by people that because money is yet to change hands no scam happened... On the contrary a lot of fraud, scam and misrepresentation happened we just give thanks to God she did not cash out... I picture myself losing $3k under this change. Chai!!!


That been said let's move on and should 'Ms Angela' offer a rejoinder we'll be happy to hear it...

Seen and noted.