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Obadade:
Greetings everyone,

Please oo, we submitted our visit application in June, and we sent hard copies after they requested for them. (btw my wife plans to give birth there in Nov).

15 working days later, they requested for another 3-months Bank statement for my visit visa, and I sent it to them.

Its been 35-40 working days after I sent the bank statements, no update on my portal.

Is it advisable to email them about my application.

Or just wait till they respond?

My flight schedule is late October, wife due date is November.

Please advise me.

Hello,
Did you finally get a response ??

Goodyfixed:
Omo this thread has been dead for a while. I hope someone can respond to this. Today makes it a week that my wife was invited for interview but we are yet to get a feedback. How long does it normally take after the interview to get a feedback. Also, the status is showing "mailed or dropped off". Please is this normal cos what i have been seeing here is that it usually shows "under review" before it's approved or denied. I will appreciate an helpful response

Hello, in order for it not to be "DEAD", kindly answer the question about the interview questions someone asked you. I think every one can benefit from it. Thanks

Try tracking your application with this link: https://formulario-mre.serpro.gov.br/sci/pages/web/ui/#/servicos-estrangeiros
Click on check status.... it will show you if it's still under review, that is if you still need it

If not and you have received a response, how long did the whole process take from when you sent your original documents? Thanks in advance

We are suffering in this country oo. Passport privilege is REAL.
My 2 year old son is a Canadian passport holder. He didn't have to apply for a UK visa with me, my wife and daughter and be queuing for biometrics at VFS. But I found out we still needed for apply for ETA for him, it says it takes 3 working days on their website and could sometimes take longer. I applied today which is a Sunday and i was hoping by end of the week at least we should get a response, only for me to apply and get approved in literally 10 seconds, before i could finish reading the payment successful message and close the tab, the approval email dropped. The worst part is, the approval was automated, nobody had to check the information i even provided.

lekefew:
VISA GRANTED
Just received from GiG, 6 months visa issued for a family of 3, first time applicant

Apologies, I have a 10 year canada visa, I didn't know know it was the one doing the magic for me. We learn everyday. Thank you

giselle237:
Pls you are reporting old news. You can not use Air France or klm from Nigeria to UK without the Schenghen visa— or Japan,USA,Canada—things have changed in the last 2 years. 1 stop or 10 stops—- doesn’t matter.

Thank you

Firebox123:
congratulations 🎉

Why do they need a visa to transit through france though? I have had layovers severally in france without it.
Also, i know that you will only need a visa if you are transiting through 2 EU countries. E.g Lagos to Amsterdam to paris to london, since both Amsterdam and paris are inside EU coutries, that is when you will need a visa. But as long as you are only crossing 1 EU country, you do not need a visa as far as i know (Also as long as you will not be leaving the airport obviously)

Anny4tt:
Please my parents are visiting UK and I am stuck. anyone have any advise on how to get airport transit visa for France? It's crazy that TLS contact has been down for more than a week now..so no appointment booking at all for French visas.
The last time they came, they booked this airport transit visa and it was out in 4 working days but website is down and they don't know when it will be up.

I am thinking applying for Schenghen visa for may be through Netherlands will still not solve it or am I wrong?. They will be in the UK for 4 months. Will they be given schengen visa that will cover both going and return leg as they have no business with Netherlands. What will they say they want to do as they are not leaving the airport of French embassy. Please any advise will be appreciated.
My parents are coming for my dad's 80th birthday and I didn't envisage this stress at all.
They have never really liked BA but if I knew there will be this TLS wahala, I would have insisted BA it is. Didn't see this coming at all. Thank you

VISA GRANTED
Just received from GiG, 6 months visa issued for a family of 3, first time applicant

Firebox123:
call GiG logistics or visit their nearest office near you

Please who has contact information for vfs to get a tracking information for passport delivery. All numbers on their website aren't reachable.

I haven't heard from GiG since receiving an email from vfs that my passport is now with the courier service 3 days ago.

Firebox123:
https://www.nairaland.com/8432800/guys-beware-number-tunz-gadgets#135475241

Check your spam folder for the one from UKVI, I found mine in spam. Only the vfs one goes to my inbox

Davinton:
Good afternoon everyone, pls i need your urgent response. I did my biometric on 19th Of May, i am yet to receive a mail from UKVI to confirm my application. I only received a message from vfs global. Is this normal or i need to send a mail regarding this?

Thankful I got a notification from vfs that a decision has been made. No rejection email so I'm hoping the visa has been issued.
Biometrics was April 29. Application for a family of 3, myself, wife and daughter, purpose is tourism, no invitation letter, I'm the sponsor.
Documents submitted => CAC certificate for my business, status report to show the business is active, operating license because my industry is heavily regulated (telecoms), Mermat from CAC to show I'm a director and majority shareholder, recent invoices from other telecoms companies we work with to show the business is very active, flight booking, hotel reservation, 5 months personal bank statement with a balance of 26M, 150M turnover in those 5 months, landed property document, cover letter explaining the large credits and debits in my statement (I told them the large credits are owner's withdrawal from my business and can come at anytime based on my discretion as the owner of the business). I wrote in my cover letter that I obviously have established myself well in Nigeria as evident in my business which I have provided proof for, and my financial situation, and based on this, it will be against my own interest to go and be living an an illegal immigrant in the UK. My wife also submitted her own bank statement even though I am the one sponsoring the trip, letter from her work place and her pay slip. We also have recent travel history to Canada and UAE and we included the scanned copies of the visa and airport stamps.

lekefew:
@onile1975 The original poster is the one that got their visa approved. I was only asking for other people that had their biometrics on 29th if they have received feedback, because I did mine on 29th. The original poster did theirs on 28th and got a feedback on May 16th, so I was expecting to receive my feedback the following day but I did not.

@onile1975 The original poster is the one that got their visa approved. I was only asking for other people that had their biometrics on 29th if they have received feedback, because I did mine on 29th. The original poster did theirs on 28th and got a feedback on May 16th, so I was expecting to receive my feedback the following day but I did not.

onile1975:
@lakefew congratulation

1) did you submit only ur account?

2) did three of you travel together before?

3)is ur business register with C.A.C?

Is there anybody for April 29 biometrics that has received a feedback yet ?

Aurallure:
VISA ALERT

visa alert for family of 3. I and my two daughters ages 1 and 3. but only got collection mail for me and one of my daughters(age 1)

Biometrics done on 28th of April 2025
Collection mail on 16th of May 2025. Still awaiting collection mail for my 3 year old.
Passport collected with visa on 19th may 2025

Trip fully sponsored by husband. Funds sent to my account. Submitted 2 months personal bank statements. I’m self employed and had a personal funds of just 700k with opening balance 100k.

What God cannot do doesn’t exist!

Apologies, I read that in a refusal letter in a post just above yours. The circumstances are identical.

The gist is still the same

Knowlegeseeking:
I think you are mistaken mine with someone else. No where in the refusal email did the ECO state anything relating to rental income or evidence of proof of it coming to her.

You're 100% correct. I've actually seen some refusal letters that just don't make sense. But I still try to see reasons with the ones that make sense and try to understand.

About the rental income, yes she mentioned that. I forgot to include that in my post. The ECO stated that there was no evidence to proof that the income came to her. They only submitted receipts from what I read (I'm guessing receipts issued to the tenants), the ECO will try to match that with a proof that shows the money actually came to her, like a bank statement, because otherwise, that money for rent could have gone to any other person or the money was put into another use. I'm not defending the ECO, God knows I've had my own fair share or immigration wahala.

Dependants does prove family ties, especially when you're not travelling with your dependants. They see that has, you will definitely come back to them and you're only going away briefly. The fact that you got your visa without dependants does not matter. You got yours based on other merits I'm sure. With visas I find that you don't have to check all their boxes, you only have to check enough boxes to convince them.

So for me, I see it like... Landed property check, Rental income unhecked because there's no proof (receipt don't proof she got the money as the ECO said, professional tie unchecked, family ties unchecked due to no dependant, that's a score of 1/4.

You don't need 4/4, a 3/4 or maybe even a 2 would have been fine

crackcrack:
You are right to try to look at things from the ECO’s point of view. But in this case, the ECO has clearly misrepresented what was submitted on the application form. Unemployed is different from Retired — and the difference is not a small one. Retired implies pension income, which the Poster said they submitted evidence of. That’s a home tie right there. They also submitted evidence of rental income. Another home tie.

A lack of dependents in Nigeria is not a criteria to have your visa refused. I have no dependents — not married, no kids, no elderly parent that needs me — and yet, my visas have never been refused. Applied for my mother, who also has no dependents, and she too received her visa.

A lot of these ECOs are beyond incompetent, to say the least. Read some refusal letters and you’ll see fantastic errors, from grammatical blunders to downright misstating of facts. We should never take their words as gospel.

I cannot guarantee that the Home Office will backtrack and grant the visa, but I believe a complaint is in order in this case.

I'm no expert by any means but I think the the rejection is simply based on:
1. She has no professional ties to Nigeria or you have not provided evidence that she does. She's retired which is basically same as being unemployed, bottom line, they both mean you currently don't have an income from a job (which will keep you in the country, in other words "Tie". Yes you submitted her previous payslips and letter of promotion, retirement letter and all that, but that only proves she had a job before, not currently. "Currently" is what they care about and proves professional ties.

2. She has no family ties or you have not provided evidence that she does. In the question in the application where you were asked if she has dependants. You chose no, which means she has nobody depending on her presence in Nigeria. Yes she has other children living in Nigeria like you said, but they're no depending on her. So in that regard, she has no "tie"

I know you said you uploaded land documents, I'm guessing the ECO just sees is like since she's missing family ties and professional ties, she could easily be moving abroad to stay with her sponsor. The fact that she has a land no longer holds much weight at that point, since it's not going anywhere.

This is my own opinion though, I try to think from the ECO's perspective when I look at rejections before concluding that rejection was baseless.

Knowlegeseeking:
Hi D10,
we noted retired.
we noted no.

Convert it to jpeg, and then convert all the jpeg files back into 1 pdf file. This did the trick for me.

https://www.ilovepdf.com/pdf_to_jpg
https://www.ilovepdf.com/jpg_to_pdf

solid3:
What do you do if vfs says your account statement pdf file has virus, do you convert like 100 pages to jpeg format? Or what do you do?

Ysasa:
Because of you and some other folks I made a post. Check it out.

Thank you

wifey1:
Thank you for your reply,the OIS OFFICE I want to use is in Port Harcourt

Can someone please share their recent interview experience for a tourist visa. My appointment is on January 15 and I just want to know what to expect

kushercain:
Please my Ds-160 form says Lagos for the interview. But when it was time to book, I was only able to book Abuja. Is this going to be a problem? Or do I need to fill in another DS-160 form?

For this, you can try calling the consulate or the AVITS support line first. My own issue was that my passport expired and I had to fill a new DS160 form with a new passport number.

Steph88:
Thank you. I did that already since I didn't get a response from here.

Well I'm no expert, I just gambled too and I got a response the following day.
What I would advice is:
1. Download your appointment confirmation again from AVITS and see if the DS160 number has changed, they may have worked on it and probably they just didn't reply the ticket.
2. Try closing the ticket and create a new one, because I'm guessing they just started this, because previously all I've been hearing about DS160 update is to just go to the interview with the new one, even when I called the consulate, that was what I was told on the phone. So maybe they just started attending to update requests via tickets.

Adejuwon26:
If you wouldn't mind, could you brief us on what you filled here 🙏

The summary and describing issue respectively

Summary -> DS-160 Update
Description -> Hello, I would like to update my DS-160 confirmation number on my appointment. Please see attached

The important thing is to attach the new DS-160 form

sanyaolurilwan:
Please does this mean one can update a new ds-160 form on the avits platform now?

Thanks

Yes it's stated on the appointment confirmation document, in the instructions. It says if your DS160 and appointment don't match, you will not be allowed to interview, and to make corrections, you only have to create a ticket and upload the new DS160 form, I followed that exactly and I got my new DS160 confirmation number updated on the appointment. My appointment confirmation nows shows my new DS160 confirmation number

Steph88:
Help!! help!! help!!! help!!!! help!!!. I need to change confirmation number on already booked appointment.

Login to AVITS dashboard and go to support on the menu, create a ticket, select Profile Inquires for the topic , fill the form and upload your new DS-160 form in the attachment section and submit. Wait for 24 hours and your confirmation number will be updated on the appointment, you'll get a response on the ticket letting you know it has been updated. I don't know if the weekend will affect the response time. I did mine yesterday and got a response today.

I asked this question a week ago and nobody replied. I figured it out and I thought to help someone else

Cashmadam:
Fill another DS 160 form.

Hello, I have a few questions, i was hoping someone will help answer them
My wife and daughter have an interview coming up in January. We booked the appointment since 2022 with the old system.
At that time, my daughter was just 1 year old so i couldn't get a good passport photograph of her, so i submitted her DS-160 form without a passport photograph, now i'm reading that the form must have a passport photograph, else we will not be allowed to interview and will have to schedule another appointment.
For that of my wife, she has a new international passport. The one i used in filling the DS-160 in 2022 has expired. With the old system, i know i could just fill a new form for both of them and update the DS-160 form number on their appointment, but this new system doesn't have a way to do that. I have called the consulate and USVISAAPPT, but i haven't been able to get a good answer. Please advice on what to do

Secondly, we will travelling from ibadan to lagos for the interview, we have a 1 year son who isn't having an interview, and i was wondering if we will be allowed to take him into the interview with us. We have nobody to look after him so he has to come along. Has anyone experienced this, will they let us come with him?

Sorry for the long post.

angie88:
Swthrt'm oooo, d eagle has landed oo. Few minutes ago 10:40 after I sent an emotional mail to them dis morning around 5am. I told them that d younger brother cannot go on d trip which has already been scheduled without his sister

Congratulations!!!

Zirconia16:
Alright thanks so much. Pls can you help me with the link for IW application. Thank you.

Shout out to Emmafe and all others consistently answering questions with detailed answers. You guys are indeed doing the Lord's work. Many blessings always.

If you have your DS-160 filled and you have paid
Go to ustraveldocs.com, select Nigeria and select non-immigrant visa, create an account if you don't have one and then answer the questions about your previous, it will automatically determine that you're for IW and you will get dates for 2023 once it's approved. New applications will get 2025 dates

Makibarbie:
I have landed in my dream country o

The journey was a long one because i had a long layover in amsterdam.

My point of entry encounter with immigration was smooth. The immigration officer was happy for me for finally visiting my spouse and was concerned why i am not living with him yet.
So it was more like a conversation. He only asked of the food stuff to be sure there is no meat and where I will be staying in Canada.

No return ticket or number of days question was asked.

I thank God for the journey mercies.

Just thought to update you all.

Congratulations!! How many hours layover in Amsterdam ?

I'm asking because I'm purposely looking for a layover of about 12 hours in Amsterdam, but I can't seem to find any. The max I've seen is 6 hours. I'm traveling to Canada and i have a Schengen visa, I'd like to get out the Airport for a few hours to see my friend in Amsterdam

angie88:
Wow, congratulations. Am still waiting oo

I sent a webform though. I sent it yesterday, though I didn't get a response but then I got PPR early this morning. Maybe you can try sending webform too.

I just wrote in there that I had received my own PPR since, but that of my wife and child were still pending even though we applied together with me being the principal applicant. I guess it worked

VFS lagos is not so slow via courier. My passport took exactly 9 days to get back to me in ibadan. Maybe I'm just lucky, I know people that have been waiting for weeks

angie88:
Yes,I was able to create a tracker for her. The last update on d tracker was on may 26th, wen dey acknowledged d receipt of the webform I sent to them. Fingers crossed Sha, I will send another mail today

Received PPR for my wife and daughter!!!

Hope you had the same luck?
My daughter's portal initially changed back to "reviewing additional documents"
I was so scared cos they had reviewed it before and the status had changed

Fortunately, 2 hours later I received an email for both of them and it was PPR

Biggyman11:
Hello guys, i dont know if this trend is still opened , how true is this information? you don't need a statement of account if you have a valid u.s visa when applying for Canada?

This is false

Got the same for my daughter after it was stuck on reviewing for a while.

Are you able to create a tracker account for your kid? I've been unable to create one for my kid, the animation on the register button just spins for a few seconds and stops without displaying any reason for failure. I don't know if it's because the information is not in the system yet or maybe because I left the email address field in her application form blank, so there's no email to send the code to create the account to

angie88:
Yes dear I did use it oo. I got a response mail. Today, her portal changed from "we are reviewing ur document" to "we received ur document". Sha I don mellow dey wait them.