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Readone35L: Mr justwise please can I have your Mobile Number

will be happy to answer any question you have here

alizenbohr: No. All I have is a letter from them.

That is what you need to submit in place of bank statement. So you got nothing to do with 28days counting.

Lucasbalo: Two were given and the third one was refused. The two given told me that they were told to use the visa even if it is once.

So because of that you concluded that it's against the law for not using it?

Lucasbalo: Don't know about British or Schengen visa, but if you are issued an American visa and you did not use it, it's a big minus next time you apply for one. It has happened to three of my cousins.

What happened to them?

alizenbohr: Good day house ( Justwise, spikeC, HudsonBanks)

Please I'm new around here & I would love to get some crucial info.

I applied for and got admission to study a 1 year Post-graduate course in the UK without making any requisite payment (Cranfield). I have also received my CAS number in May to resume 2nd October.

By providence I just got awarded with a full scholarship by an International Oil & Gas Co. covering tution, accomodation and monthly upkeep.
The challenge is I haven't started my application for a student visa.

I would like to know the:
1) Process involved in getting a student visa.
2) Required documents.
3) Possible time duration before its done.
4) How much the process would cost (estimate).
5) Does the 28-day wait for accounts ish apply to me?
6) Any other helpful info.

Sorry for the long post, but there's so much I need to know.

Thanks for your anticipated response.

Was the money paid into your account?

naijaobi: how do we report it?

...by sending email to mods

walata75: .

Ok. If he wants to confirm the 10 yrs ban, how does he goes about it from the UK B.A?

Email or call the embassy though i doubt he will get a straight forward answer but it worth a try.

walata75: Not as a family. But he added some document to support his family attachments in nigeria

If those documents are genuine then his ban will not affect his family.

walata75: Thanks for your prompt response Justwise.
This 10 years ban Sir, hope it does not affect the immediate relatives of the offender(like his wife, children or any other person he might have mention in the UK application form?

Did he apply as a family and added their documents as well?

Eke40seven: Moderator, am pleading in the humblest of tones, please can you kindly explain to me the reason why I was banned and why my comment was hidden? because its beyond me. I checked all the rules to make sure I didn't break a single one but the antispambot thing just hit a cheap shot below the belt and banned me and to make matters worst hid the comment that was carefully written to make this thread lively and alive too.
I plead that at least, a mail should be sent to culprits explaining the reasons for actions taken against them and establish a better way to seek justice or else this whole process is rather uncivilized and makes this thread look like a booby trap for bans.
Thanks.

Sadly i can't speak to software to ask why you were banned. When you are banned by antispambot you need to report it and you will be unbanned.

walata75: Oh my God. That means that he has to wait till 2024.
However, just wise he has a valid US visa on the passport, hope this UK refusal will not affect him @ the point of entry in US sha.

And is there no way this UK ban sentence can be reduce or waived? Since he is a first offender?

That wouldn't stop him from traveling to US but i haven't seen 10yrs banned reduced or waived.

6packdude: America again, trying to release Ebola back to Africa

Brainless.

ibl0010: thought as much but just wanted to make sure. thank you.

No worries

ibl0010: Hi People,

Can I travel visa free to Nigeria from Heathrow with just my brand new (blanked Ecowas) Nigerian passport and ILR card or do I need to get a Nigerian Visa as well.


Is it a case of providing my Nigerian passport at check in and my ILR card at immigration.

That is all you need, you don't a need a visa, you only need a visa to Nigeria if you are holding British passport only.

Kween2014: I don't get it, so where is the right place? Besides it's not an advert, it's only for those interested to make communication easier since we would be using same hospital same time. Sorry oh mr Justwise!

bbm groups does not bring traffic to nairaland and your discussions will not benefit everybody unlike when its shared openly here. Imagine what will happen to this thread if everybody here stick to bbm and not make their contributions here?

Please this is the wrong place to advertise for bbm group.

walata75: Pls NL. A close friend applied for 6 month visiting Visa using a forged bank statement. His application was refused under paragraph 320(7A). Does that means he has to wait 10 years or can he reapply after like 2 years?

Yes.

Simitrendy: :-Otouch not my annoited nd do my servant no harm;-);-(:-O

Shut up and grow up.

pedel: So you mean that was why he was denied entry? Are you working with UKBA? I will quote you when Oyedepo enter UK soon.

Unlike you i don't make up stories, daily mail published this story 2yrs ago after conducting an undercover investigation on some of his branches in the UK then published their findings. Of course he can enter the UK again if he clears his name of any wrong doing but at the moment accept the fact that he is banned and stop making up stories.

kaykay05: Thanks Justwise, I already made up my mind not to even go to U.K. Anymore for now. I just wanted to share with everyone and be sure I didn't get it wrong anywhere. Anyway, I feel I should mail the ECM and voice my concerns. It wouldn't cost me anything.

Nothing wrong with that and i understand how you feel about the whole thing

akhilJ: Guys Need your help here.

I applied for the UK Work Permit Tier 2 ICT visa from India. In the online visa application form at visa4uk.fco.gov.uk I have wrongly entered my Given Name as Akhiil (an extra 'i') instead of Akhil. So now there is a mismatch in the name in the online application form and the passport I hold. Will this be a reason for rejection of my visa by the UK embassy in their verification process? I have already submitted all the documents and the application to VFS center at Chennai. It is a typo. Will they consider that as a typo and process it, or will they reject it?

Its clearly a mistake and should not be taken as an offence since all your documents have the correct spelling.

kaykay05: Ok, this is the refusal letter. Everyone should pls give their opinion. Thanks.

•The previous entry clearance officer raised concerns over your economic circumstances. In order to be able to make a decision on whether or not to grant you entry clearance in this category I have taken into account your stated circumstances in Nigeria, the reasons for your visit, and your proposed travel arrangements. You state that you are employed full time and that you earn 150,200 Naira per month after tax. You have stated that you no further paid jobs or occupations. I am aware that the documents you have presented appear to indicate that you are employed in a family business and I recognise that you have provided a letter of support from your employer, together with pay slips and personal bank statement and I acknowledge that there are cash payments paid in akin to your salary amounts. These however, remain unsupported by any substantiating documents.

•Whilst I accept that many people in Nigeria are paid in cash, I am mindful that it is the applicant's responsibility to submit sufficient information as to satisfy the entry clearance officer of their intentions. I note that you have been in the same employment since 2011. It would therefore be reasonable to expect that you would be able to provide further official documents to support your economic circumstances. In their absence. I am not satisfied that the documents you have submitted satisfactorily establish that your economic circumstances are as stated or address the concerns raised by the previous entry clearance officer.

For clearification, the reason I was refused the last time was because my salary payments are made in cash payments. I reapplied and explained why it is so in a cover letter. There is however no document that I know of which I can submit to that effect other than the letter from my employer. If anyone here knows pls I'll be glad to hear it. Secondly, this Eco expects me to have documents for properties because I've been employed for 3years? Seriously? Isn't that a little unfair? I'm not saying that it isn't possible but it shouldn't be basis for refusal considering how I've shown good enough ties to Nigeria by showing I manage a family business for my aged parents, even had my parent give me the Cert of registration and Govt approval of the business to back up my application. Plus I had copies of my parents international passport to show their age as stated. I just feel the ECO wasn't fair in his decision.

Give it a break and build your financial stand and tie to Nigeria, re-organize the salary payment system so as to have documented evidence rather than the cash-in-hand system with no paper evidence. With the current situation you wouldn't have done anything difference.

kaykay05: Thanks, I didn't submit a TCC cos tax is paid together by the employer and my payslips show the tax deductions from my salary.

You don't need to submit that because its taken out of your salary automatically, business owners shows TC and not employees.

pedel: The article you quoted is from October 2012. It didn't say why he was barred last week.

That was the start of the allegation.

Obi1kenobi: You just speculated a load of crap. You do not know why he was refused entry. You just offered your own conjecture with pointless links. Insulting people about 100 Naira bandwidth just makes you look stupid.

And the greatest mark Oyedepo has made is siphoning money from the pockets of impoverished people who remain in the cycle of poverty while their "daddy" laughs off in his private jet. I respect the mark of people like Bill Gates who created and profited from a product from their intellect and make cutting edge developments that impact human civilization. I have little respect for pastorpreneurs who fleece their gullible flock and use a religious institution as an avenue to self-enrichment. They're little different from the rotten politicians who cruise around in money stolen from the public. Infact, they're close friends and roll in the same circles with such people.

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pedel: The new UKBA Points-based system requires preachers and minister of religion to get a permit before the can preach in UK. This was the reason Benny Hinn was not allowed to enter UK. Carrying a UK C- visit Visa is not enough if you are coming into UK to preach; You need something like a work permit.

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Points-based_immigration_system_%28United_Kingdom%29#Sponsors[/url]

UKBA circular to the airlines was released early last week and their conference started on the 13th and ended this morning. The Church had no time to file application for his permit or register for licence as a sponsor. This is my opinion. I am not representing Winners' Chapel, WMA or Oyedepo.

If Oyedepo was not coming to perform/preach at the conference I am sure he would have been allowed entry.

You are wrong, that was not why he was banned, be man enough to acknowledge the fact and stop circulating falsehoods

A church run by a controversial multi-millionaire African preacher has been accused of ‘cynical exploitation’ after its British branch received £16.7 million in donations from followers who were told that God would give them riches in return.
Followers are ferried in double-decker shuttle buses to the church, handed slips inviting them to make debit card payments, and are even told obeying the ministry’s teachings will make them immune from illness.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2220833/Laughing-private-jet--93m-pastor-accused-exploiting-British-worshippers.html

Chrizizon: I want to say a very big thanks to you guys here in NL for the great job u are doing here, especially 3sha4lyf and Justwise, I want to tell ya all that my application for family visit to the UK was successful, it was my first time of applying, i submitted my application on the 08/08/2014 at VFS Abuja and got an alert on my phone for pick up on the 15/08/2014 just a week after submission, the visa was actually issued on the 13/08/2014, I really appreciate ur advices, thank u so much 3sha4lyf for that wonderful Letter to the ECO, it gave me clue to everything i included in the application, even though some guys discouraged me from applying, saying my self employed status wouldn't help me because i registered my business name barely 5 months ago, with ur advice here i was able to fix the right docs into the application, above all i guess God answered my Prayer Very Thankful here

Congratulations!, happy that your application was successful

kaykay05: Hello Justwise, thanks for the other time, hope you remember me? I reapplied and got a refusal again. It's so dissapointing putting that much effort and getting refused again. I'll post the refusal in my next post so everyone can add their own suggestions

Sorry to hear that, post the refusal letter lets know what went wrong

mount1ng: My stand has not changed. I will not judge my fellow christian in the public. The bible set a standard to rebuke a fellow christian. If I can not rebuke him, then I leave him to God. You can only be fooled if you don't read your bible and have understanding of it.
You will only judge a thief if you don't benefit from his loot. like we have them in our govt.
If he shd call you to be his PA, you will jump to heaven praising him. But alas,

That is exactly why many of you 'followers' of thieves defend them...because you benefit from his loots, i don't, i'm not one of his 'followers', i'm not a praise singer neither do i have any respect for bunch of criminals with bible.

mount1ng: I said, he that has no sin should cast the stone. For he that thinks he stand, take heed lest you fall. I always ask myself, if I am in their position, will I do better?
Everybody has the tendency to sin, if a temptation comes and you don't fall for it, then can you judge others. We have seen people that judged others but when they are presented with the same package they follow suit. Are you a saint? Then carry on with your judgement.
Do you think God is fool to say let the wheat and tares grow together.

Your stand is changing now, i'm definitely not a saint but does that means we should cover 'our own'? Each time story about criminals in the house of God comes up we see many 'followers' of men of 'gOD' springing up to defend their 'daddy' but the same people will be quick to condemn thieving politicians. Aren't you lot a hypocrite?

Bible quoting, devil casting Christians who are deliberately blinded to thieving men of gOD within them.

Why do we bother praying when we are ready to defend those who use the name of God to steal and deceive?