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[quote author=Pekela post=114080790]Hello house

I have been a silent follower of this thread for long, I have been denied visit visa 2x.

I am self employed and earn the following since the beginning of the year:

January 2022 - N400,000
February 2022 - N453,000
March 2022 - N400,000
April 2022 - N 467,000
May 2022 - N517,000
June 2022 - N484,000

I have submitted online and will soon go for biometric and claim 100k to be my monthly expenses and 5m for my annual income however I realized now I actually spend up to btw 110 to 120k monthly but other times less than 100k.

Do you think I should leave it that way or address it on cover letter

Thanks
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Is your additional section filled?. If no. Explain in there your monthly earnings why it varies and explain that on average your monthly expenditures is 110-120k but average 100k as would be required
If yes to my above question. Add a cover letter and do a bit of explanation and ensure it kind of correlates to your 5m annual earnings. Good luck

Ugmama:
When booking ielts which should I choose and your kind advice how to prepare for the test within 2 weeks ?

PBT academy IELTS. How you prepare and material you use depends on your English abilities. You can search YouTube for ielts tutors and videos for prep.

Ugmama:
Guys, for someone that recently graduated from medical school and started house job.

Kindly advise when to write ielts, plab 1 and plab 2 to be able to get slot.

Goal is to write plab 2 Nov 2023 in uk.

@leef2022 @giselle237 and other gurus please assist

You can go for the IELTs asap u ready, so you could book a seat for plab 1 for March or May in November 2022 when seats for plab 1 for 2023 are released. Getting seats for plab 2 is not much of hassle but plab 1.

Babysoldier:
what is an existing cos pls

Certificate of sponsorship(cos), usually issued to you by your employer, it contains some details of your job, such as income, contract duration etc.

nysot:
They just opened the account for her in March 2022. They used to send money to her daughters here in Nigeria and those ones will withdraw and give her cash.
What she has in her account presently is not more than #100,000

Well, you can only explain things as they are and provide evidence at hand. Otherwise, they may want to pust the trip a little further to afford all parties the room to fix the holes.

Senpurelove:
Good morning All,
I need some further clarification.

We are family of 4 myself, my wife and two lovely girls. My wife applied for s student visa in one of the UK universities.
CAS issued, biometric done.
But my fear is that ;
(1) My wife who is the main applicant has 17 years study gap and in that 17 tears gap she has 15 years working experience where 13 years in within the federal civil service while two years is in teaching experience
(2) Her first degree is in French language and she is going for International business mgt in UK.
Is there anything to be afraid of.[b][/b]
Thanks

Nothing to be afraid for, if you and your wife have put in her student's visa application has required by the British commission then you good. If the study gap and change of course were problems the university won't have offered her an admissions to start with

Senpurelove:
Good morning all,
It is so painful and down casting that i asked a question here for more than 24 hours now and yet no responses. Funny enough yesterday was my first time of asking a question here.
I knew what I went through to be able to post on this platform.

Sometimes when you put out a question and get no answer it doesn't directly translate to being ignored it may just mean that the question or worries is no worries and needs no answer.

nysot:
Please gurus in the house, please help on this.
For a widow whose only source of money is from her children and her children want her to visit one of them in the UK (a british citizen) and he is the one fully funding the trip, what will she select in the Income part of the form?

Do you have another income or any Savings?
Option A: Other regular income
Option B: Savings
Option C: I do not have any income or savings

Please note: If she choose Other regular income and select from family members, she does not have any money in the account opened for her.

Please how best can we answer this?
Thank you all

Has she evidence of regular income sent to her by her offspring?
Like bank transfers, western union receipts?

Babysoldier:
if i have a 6months tourist Visa now with me,can I apply for a work permit from a company in UK before traveling with the tourist visa i have

You can apply for a work permit to the British commission if you have an existing cos, with or without your 6months tourist visa

itoski:
Can I appeal[b][/b] a refusal decision made on my application for a visit visa?

@ bolded NO.

nysot:
Good evening and happy Sunday all, please I know most of the questions have been answered. Please I want to help my sister's mother in law apply for UK visiting visa.
1. Please I need the right link to use for the application
2. How much is the cost and how do I make payment?
3. Can I save and continue later with form filling and document upload if I can't finish at once?
4. The documents she needs to provide
5. The documents her son needs to provide (NB: The son is a citizen).
Please help a sister. Thank you all

1. Gov.uk
2. Gov.uk
3. Yes.
4. Gov.uk
5. Gov.uk
Further re: part 1, pge 1 of the thread. Good luck

HRprof:
At the bolded there are confusion in the letter, it mention your sponsor at the same time mentioned you personal support yourself for the trip. can you explain better.

But that is self explainatory......, the eco acknowledged that the applicant had presented additional documents of a sponsor, but doubts on the applicant's personal circumstances(job/business, financies) led to doubts of the applicant's overall intention for the visa application.

Tawak:
Sorry about your mum, please what is the ECO's definition of a lumpsum? is it 100k or 200k or 1m?

Any amount on about or above your declared incomes/wages, funds claimed as your regular earnings and at your disposal.

rkayfree:
You mean I should allow it expire and explain in the covert letter the reason it expired when next I want to apply ?

Or to approach the ECO before it expires or how ?[b][/b]

Good people pls help make it clearer ..

@Giselle237, pls your advice is needed ..

Thanks

For @ the bolded.? Do the approach in your next application regardless of what you decide; use or not before expiration of visa..

rkayfree:
Good morning to all the gurus here ..

Pls I need a guide ,

Pls what if someone cannot travel to the UK within the 6months visitor visa ?

I got a visa late last year and due to so much restructuring in my company there is need for me to be on ground , visa is expires next month. Hence haven't been able to travel .

This is actually my second visa to the UK ..

Pls Justwise and crew your advice would be appreciated .

Thanks

No worries

MarryWhiteasap:
Bro is it advisable to add a denial report from other countries to a new application? or just state that a denial was issued and move on? let them go and verify by their hands...since it wasn't a ban anyways...

If you declare you have a refusal on an application, you would be asked reasons for refusal, if you have one, state or paraphrase things as it is and if needed supply copy of refusal. I have been denied entry to a country in the past and when making visa applications I declare that and declare the reason, never had a case of a refusal due to declaring my airport entry denial. So absolutely no point to not put out information you have as it is. It is what it is. You either truthful with the visa application and get the visa, conceal some info and get banned, or get get away with things but panic throughout the visa processing times.

oluwaleokey:
UK student visa;
Please can a dependant who was denied Turkish language studies visa in 2012 declare it and also South Korea conference visa denial in 2017... note non of the both countries gave reason for denial besides I was thinking refusal declaration is meant for the western world and USA... please advise gurus in da house
Cc justwise

Declare the refusals and state reasons for refusal was never communicated as applicable. You can only present what you have.

wieziana:
Please i need guidance on what to do!!!!

My younger brother is a student in the UK and he's graduating in the month of July. I want to attend his Graduation ceremony. please what documents do i need for applying for my UK visit visa.
Secondly i use one bank account for both my savings, Salary and spending, is it possible to use that?
Thirdly i want to fund the account with 2M, should i fund it in bits within the space of one month[b][/b] (which is this month of May) and include a supporting document like sale of a car or sale of gadgets like phones or a laptop etc or i fund it with a lump sum. (My salary is almost 500K)
Lastly how much is good enough to have as Proof of Funds? Because i plan on just staying for 7 days in the UK.

Very possible thing to do, but how do intend to explain and defend that act on your application, why you did not do so for a longer-term..?

adelejane:
Hi All,

need an urgent response as i need to submit our application next week.

We are renewing our visit visa.

A brief history....studied in the UK in 2010, got a post study visa which expired in 2013, returned back home before visa expired with no issues.

2015 applied for a 6 months visit visa with daughter , Visa granted, visited for 3 weeks and returned.

Renewed visa to 2 years visit visa in 2018 for myself and daughter, my son was a baby at the time so applied for a 6 months visit visa for him, visa granted and we travelled for 4 weeks and returned.

i personally travelled for 2 weeks for shopping in 2020 just before covid and returned back on time .


Its time to renew again for a 2years visit visa for myself and two children, i own my own business which is doing very well....

In my personal account i have about 7400 pounds, after putting our cost together its a total of 2400 pounds for the 3 of us, as much as i try i can't reduce this amount as it will become unrealistic. Cheapest flight is about 1650 pounds for the 3 of us, hotel i booked is 385 pounds for 7 days .

I have been reading a lot on this platform about not spending two times your monthly income on a trip and its getting me worried[b][/b]. I'm a business woman and sales are unpredictable , I pay myself about 500k Naira monthly , sometimes 400k will depends on sales, but i have a very simple and straight forward bank statement with good inflow and outflow.

I can't do much about this 2400 pounds, its the least i can quote as expense on our visa form and this will leave my personal account with a balance of 5000 pounds. My business account has about 10000 pounds but can't be used as travel money, i have other savings but I don't want anything that will confuse the VO .......my husbands account is not very straight forward so i don't even want to use him as a co sponsor for this application....i have always presented just my bank statement for all previous visas.

clearly i will be spending 4 times my stated income......been thinking a lot about this.....what can i do ?

What you read here should not be a worry to your visa process but a caution. There's no definite rule as to how much you can spend or not as against to your earnings. On the other hand the onus is on every applicant to put an application with a reasonable budget as to available resources. Thus, you should be fine with your application if you have self-determined that £2400 is sufficient you and the kids.

Marviana:
Good evening all
Happy Ramadan,

I just got a refusal letter. I did my biometrics on the 23rd of March.
I think the first mistake I made was to use the black market rate to calculate my salary, I get paid in USD and at the time I applied I didn't know about Oanda or Nairaland and I noticed the Eco's conversion was in Pounds and slightly higher than what I earn. I hope this wouldn't be seen as deceit from my side.

The main reason for my refusal as stated was that there was no inflow of cash from December to March. I agree that there was some payment delay from December to February (3 months). I didn't know how long it was going to take and I had sufficient funds to cover my trip, an invitation letter from a friend who is a British national, he agreed to accommodate me during my 2 weeks stay so we decided that I put in my application instead of waiting for my outstanding salary.
I did state I'd be spending 1.1m( 2,123 £)on the trip
Payment for March only was made right before I printed my bank statement and went for my biometrics, I honestly thought that would suffice. Exactly a month after my biometrics I was paid for the months owed. (Too little too late).

Please I just want to know how to proceed, how soon should I reapply?
Should I also state that I used the black market rate of that day which resulted to a slightly higher salary as calculated by the Eco which was different from what was captured on my statement.
How should I prove that the deposit that came in really was for the outstanding salary?

Lastly, is it advisable to use the tourism route[b][/b] this time with a shorter stay (maybe 9 days) given my friend and I aren't on good terms and he's not giving another invitation letter.

Please how do you advise I handle this?
Where do you think I went wrong please?
I'm stuck.
Thank you

The bolded and your recent application refused are classed same route..

nwaogukings03:
I actually came across that 24hours time frame in their website[b][/b] and someone knowledgeable here has said it, but i don't think they follow it strictly cos i submitted mine 9hours to the appointment and it went through. So yeah, I believe you. Thanks Leef2022

Oh yeah? TLS or UKVI? Not read such. However, on VFS(I think this is a different company though) it does say UNTIL A DAY BEFORE YOUR BIOMETRICS, but no such thing have I read from TLS or UKVI.

nwaogukings03:
Hello house,
I submitted 4months (2nd Jan to 29th April 2022) account statement and 3 months (Jan to March 2022) pay slips. In the account statement, the April salary only reflected in the "useable Balance" and not in the closing balance nor in the credit section because i printed out the account statement the same day the salary was paid. I was trying to upload and submit all my documents the night before my the morning of my TLS appointment. I heard the documents must be submitted 24hrs before appointment[b][/b]. Also April pay slip was not ready by the time i submitted my documents. Although i explained these small details in the visa cover letter which i uploaded in the "other" section (for self-service), i keep on thinking that i should have delayed submitting my documents until 30th April morning - the morning of TLS appointment - so that the April salary will reflect in the credit and closing balance of my account statement. I'm also worried if the visa officers will see my cover letter in the "other" section.
Would they judge my financial status based on the closing balance or would they acknowledge the
useable balance? who knows please?

That is wrong information you heard. Just for next application, you can self submit your docs seconds to your biometrics.

Lexusgs430:
This is usually the only way, when the seller/buyer got trust issues........

Who is the seller. ....... Who is the buyer........

Every party is a buyer and a potential seller. However, a party must bleep 1st hoping that the gods of of trade by barter no dey nap

Lexusgs430:
For people that require funds, but have an aversion to sending your money first, then receiving your monies once credit is confirmed, afterwards.......


Can you suggest a better way, the transfer can be executed ? Don't suggest meeting in person ..........

No transactions. All parties have/keep their monies intact.

Primetouch1:
Do I need to go with the visa payment confirmation receipt when going for the biometrics ?

No, but if you bougt extra services and have not self-uploaded your docs, you'd need to visit tls with your all your supporting docs.

wonlasewonimi:
Don't worry once they give you the job, your access would be restricted until your clearance come through. I have heard about situations where the security guard escort you to the loo.
The security clearance process, most especially, the DV is very intrusive. Be ready to answer questions regarding all your escapades like having side chicks, watching porn and gambling. You cannot lie about these things becausethey already know! Not excluding your family history in Naija. God help you if you got a Russian babe from Plenty of Fish [b][/b]

@ bolded, Is that were you go fishing?

nwaogukings03:
Please if one goes for self-upload service, what documents does he need to come with to the visa appointment center? Is it coloured photocopies of all the documents he uploaded?

Go with your passport, photocopy of your passport data page and tls appointment confirmation. You dont need any other baggage, but make sure you must have self uploaded all supporting documents.

Regex:
Biko nu, who is living in Taunton UK, I want to know how life is for Blacks there. Are they receptive to blacks or make I run?[b][/b]


Justwise, Lexusgs430 etc... Anybody

To where...?? Are you not tired of the race yet lol.. Not a bad place but to enjoy the area you may have to be mobile. Taunton maybe a bit better in regards to public transportation compared to other parts of SW though.

UserTee:
@leef2022
I don’t know if I should be excited or not[b][/b]
I got an email from SVSappealinfo stating that
“ The decision to refuse your visa application has been overturned and our office will now proceed to the next stage of your application. To complete this process, we require you to undertake the following steps: Pay your I.H.S and submit your passport to the visa application centre.”

But I already put in another application, I had my biometric on the 8/3/2022 and I got an email last week 13/4/2022 that application has been received and being prepared for consideration.

They are asking that I pay IHS fee and I submitted my passport to VAC
Pls bear in mind the initial IHS payment and the new application IHS is with them (I haven’t gotten a refund for the old application ) as well as my passport for the new application
Will they automatically use the initial IHS fee
Will my new application be automatically canceled
Will I get a refund for the new application
Will they know my passport is with them I’m a bit confused as to what to do.
My partner and I plan to reply the email on Monday.

Looking forward to your opinion.
Thanks

Oh mate, if you that owns the success know not if you are meant to be excited or not, how much more myself reading from miles away...??

My personal opinion do as the mail have instructed whilst you put in application for refund of the IHS funds as wound be applicable for previous and current application under consideration.

Ehisjp:
Is it compulsory[b][/b] to add my personal Statement of account if my Company is sponsoring my trip completely?

No.. it is not based on the bolded. Very optional one that could help positively(90%) or negatively(10%)

Grachialla5:
Good day everyone so I just got my passport now from the courier, I have a stamped visa but is it meant to come with a letter of acknowledgment or something ? Or it’s just the stamped visa

Not entirely an unwarranted question if I would say, many years ago if ukvi approves a visa they send you a mail, in it would contain dos and donts of the visa.
However that's not the case for visiting visa these days, but for some categories of visa you would still get letter of what to do and how to go about your BRP upon arrival..

eseh1:
Pls if i am declaring that i have aside hustle and other source of income, must the business be registered?.

No.