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kindness111:
Congratulations on your approval.
Please what type of visa did you apply for and how long after interview did it take before you got approved?

Good Evening.Visit Visa for a conference. Did not do any interview. From Application to Approval took about 3 weeks.

Hachiman:
Study visa?

Visit Visa

Good Morning, when one gets approved and ready for delivery, do you have to contact DHL to go and pick up from the Lagos Embassy or how does it work to get your documents and passport back please. Thank you.

TadeDetule:
In terms of when, its not specific in recent times. Before before before before and before the time before before, it was usually 5 days. Later it came to one week then two weeks and then later to when the angel stirs the water.

Wow. So if it takes this long for one to recieve a mail to submit documents , how long does it then take them to make a decision?

Good Afternoon All, I have done the online visa form and also uploaded and submitted in the Lagos side too. How long after both submissions does it take the embassy to send a mail to submit via courier ? Thank you

TadeDetule:
its actually required on the Lagos consular section however no harm doing it on both. go to others on the dropdown button then give a narration like proof of visa fees payment or so so

Okay, Thank you once again

TadeDetule:
you need to pick courier. Thats the only accepted means of sending your documents

Good Afternoon, Please do you know or does anyone know if you have to make payment and upload the proof of payment before submitting the online form at https://formulario-mre.serpro.gov.br/sci/pages/web/ui/#/requerimento or you only make payment and upload the proof of payment on the Lagos consular section https://ec-lagos.itamaraty.gov.br/process?id=678e5a4a0841e800147706ee ? Thank you

TadeDetule:
you need to pick courier. Thats the only accepted means of sending your documents

Thank you very much

Good Evening, Please when filling the form is it better to pick submission in person or by courier ? Is there any difference submitting in person and submitting via courier? Thank you.

The event is an annual event. I was sponsored by my organization. I uploaded letter of invitation, pay slip and letter of introduction from my organization. i did not upload bank statement. I went last year and spent 1 week and came back though i didn't go for the main event i got the visa for last year due to vfs holding my passport for 2 weeks but i attended another event late last year hosted by the same agency with the 6 months visa. I do not have a USA Visa. I have no plans to japa either. All my colleagues also got theirs within the same time frame as mine last year, those who submitted at VFS Abuja got theirs within 1 week while vfs held mine for 2 weeks after submission last year and i complained on this forum.

Another thing is the agency hosting the event wrote to the embassy last year before our application to notify them that we were going to apply. The letter had our names, date of birth and passport number. Hope this clarifies the comments.

chatmate:
Just 7days..super fast

this one be like ETA lol.

congrats

Funny enough the one of last year was faster. This one got me worried.

Got the 9 Years Visa Multiple entry . Applied for a conference and was sponsored by my organisation. Git 6 months single entry visa for the same event last year sponsored by my organisation.

Applied 10th of May 2024
Got passport request 27th of May
Submitted passport at Lagos VFS 28th of May
Picked up stamped passport at VFS Lagos 31st of May.

Milezwadup:
Passport submitted and updated as valid. I’m in panic mode

Good Morning, DId u submit in Lagos or Abuja and how long did it take from submission of passport to pick up ? Thank you

adegbajupraise:
Timeline:
Application submission - Nov. 19th
Biometric - Nov. 24th
Biometric Validity - April 24th
PPR - April 24th
Passport Submission - April 26th
Passport Collection - April 29th
POF - 4m
Paid Conference
Travel history - Togo
First time applicant

Good Evening. Please did you submit in Lagos or Abuja ? Thank you

This is not confirmed

Yungmil:
Where is UNN.


My alma mata where great lions and lionesses where trained.

If u graduate with 2.1 for UNN na 1st class b day for any other universities in Nigeria.


UNN hard to enter except u dey brilliant.



To d guy below me how much have u made so far for FTC in nairaland. No go hustle

Education is meant to be relevant not difficult. All this talk about how hard it is to get first class in a particular university has zero correlation to the quality of education. Take the 2:1 person to Harvard and see if the person won’t perform then take the first class oyinbo Harvard graduate to your UNN and see if the person will have first class. Does that mean UNN is better than Harvard ?

Arsenal vs Barcelona UCL Final 2006

When i listened to a message by Gbile Akanni

hunee:
Congratulations
1. yellow card
2. Flight ticket
3. Verified hotel voucher
4. Work ID -They can be tough sometimes, your Id card can be helpful
5. Passport.
6. Visa outcome copy

Hi @hunee, please want to confrim somethings. I have a conference to attend in SA in 2 weeks time and i want to confirm which one will be faster,evisa or vfs ? Secondly for the evisa, do i select visitors visa and conference or business visa and conference ?Thank you

crusader6:
Hello everyone I humbly ask for your assistance.
I applied for South African Visa physical application on the 12th and Evisa online on the 15th.

My evisa has been granted today.
How can I get my passport from VFS because I was told to submit it along with my documents.

Good Afternoon, when you applied for the conference with evisa, did you select business visa and conference or visitors visa and then conference ? Thank you

Compare this to that ikoyi $9m house and you understand why real estate is a scam in Lagos.

The guy gave all those insults cos he was frustrated according to him. If he's confirmed, he should be prepared for premium frustration depending on the ministry he's appointed to head. The civil servants are the most difficult people to work with. They know the terrain . The civil servants are the barracks while the ministers are the soldier go soldier come. It will be interesting to see how he performs.

Most people think being competent and intelligent is enough to succeed as a minister or As the Head of a Government agency. That's not enough o. Managing civil servants and unions and changing the status quo is where the real work is.

Amo12345:
pls, must the letter of invitation address as group invitation or can it be individual invitation from Canada organization

Mine was group. All our names were on one letter

Amo12345:
hi, I hope this find u well, and congratulations on ur visa, pls, I would be applying for a conference with my colleagues at office, I work with federal government parastata, which docs did u submitted, did u attach bank statement and properties docs/employment docs cos I have read some of the requirements here for tourist, don't know if it's same for government sponsored conference too, would be glad to read from you soon, thanks.

I submitted my Payslip as additional document. I submitted a letter from my organisation stating they will pay for the entire trip. I also submitted a letter of invitation sent by the organisation in Canada. Also submitted soft copy of my NIN. That's all I submitted. I did not attach my bank statement. I did not attach any property documents.

However the copy of the letter of invitation I submitted was sent to the Canadian high commission in Nigeria by the organisation in canada before I made the application. All the best.

Bentiner7212:
Hello good afternoon everyone
Pls how long does it take to get passport back from Lagos for stamping

Mine took 10 working days o. Submitted passport May 29. Got message June 9 that passport is ready for pick up. My colleague in Abuja submitted at Abuja May 30, He got message to pick up 2nd of June at Abuja VFS.

Abuja is faster .

Eniiyanu1:
Hello @Lyoncrescent I currently have a scholarship to attend a one-week summer school in August, I submitted my visitor visa application earlier last month. Can you kindly tell me the tips to expedite the process just as yours? Thank you for your anticipated feedback

If the summer school can contact the Canadian high commission in nigeria directly with a letter stating your intention amd your name and passport number and date of birth in the letter and send to them via fax or mail or post, then maybe it will help. That's what was done for me however i had a copy of the letter before my application and we all made sure the letter was sent first to the canadian high commission before we applied.i attached a copy of the letter to my application as my letter of invitation. However I also work with a federal government agency and my company was to fully sponsor my trip.

The difference may be i did all these before application but you have applied already

mojisolani:
Pls how much do you have in your account? Pls. Did you used a personal account or office account was used?

It's a government agency. A letter from my office is all I needed and my payslip. No statement was submitted by me or my agency

mikeayus:
Please do you have any travel experience before now? I heard its not advisable applying for canada tourist visa without previous travel experience.

Yes I do have travel experience but 2 people with no travel experience in my group were given visas. Just to add, I have been rejected visa twice by UK and USA which I wrote in my Canadian application and I still got a Passport Request.

AskGod07:
Do you submitted your bank statements or company bank account

I didn't submit statement. My company is a government organisation so they didn't also submit statement. Just a letter

Please if the mods and major contributors can look into this.

I think if possible the first post of the first page of this thread should have some information pinned that can help new people as its not easy to go through 700 pages. Information like the new portal , old portal, whether to submit passport at Abuja vfs or lagos vfs. Which emails addresses one can use to send complaints, use of webforms and how to track applications and maybe abbreviations and other general related information . It can be updated from time to time . This will help people to have a glance of the process based on all of our experiences instead of going through 700 pages . Thanks

mamawa123:
Can you share the documents you included in your application

Letter of invitation to the conference with our names in the letter . Letter from my organisation showing they will sponsor the trip with our names in the letter and I added my payslip as part of additional document . That's all

gimakon2:
Your application and all you did was it the new portal ? And was it this year you did your application ?

New portal. Applied May 18 2023. Got PPR May 26. The conference organiser wrote to the Deputy Canadian High Commiission and all so maybe that's why it was fast. But out of 8 of us, only 3 in Abuja have visas . The rest of us in the center of excellence are still waiting