macbernard:
Hello house I applied for visa yesterday, my appointment is on Wednesday. While filling the forms, there were questions about if one had travelled out before, I had UAE, Kenya & Tanzania stamps on my old passport so I answered Yes. Is it necessary to upload visa/stamped pages of the old passport for tls.

Olinga:
Good day everybody.

Please, my total payable tuition fee is £16,950. I got discount of £4,000 and I have paid £7,500 so far, leaving me with a balance of £5,450 payable, my school is located outside London £1023 x 9 = £9207.
A total of £14,657 is needed as POF for me. Using oanda’s exchange rate is will be needing NGN7,415,410

My dad is my sponsor and he has NGN6,954,930
I have about NGN3,000,000 in my personal account, which makes up the POF.
Now the issue is in my account I have withdrawn and deposited funds in it since the past 28days but it has never gone below NGN2,000,000. To be clearer in the last 28days I started with an opening balance of NGN7,000,000 but right now I have about NGN3,000,000.

Please will the inconsistencies in my account be an issue for visa purposes.

Aderin0la:
Please who knows the current £ exchange rate for Paga?

toyclicks:
Hi Fam.

Wow!
Good to drop in here as a testifier to this place.
Hope y'all doing fine.

Ok so....quick one. Let me share my experiences so far
I now understand why ppl abroad find it difficult to have time. You almost have to plan your breath. Time is really a scarce commodity here. I don't know how all the good ppl here @justwise, @mimilyrics, @stenon et all. I don't know how you find time for this forum ooo. You were and are still a blessing. Whatever way you have been able to keep squeezing out the time to help ppl here, I would say its worth every part of it. Being a part if so many ppl's life journey and being a blessing to them is worth all the effort. So pls as God helps you, don't get tired.

Now....let me say this bitter truth. A bitter truth that ppl on this forum have quarrelled with Justwise for saying. This ppl included me.

This is not the best time to come to the Uk..
IOW, if you have the means to still chill in Nigeria for 6-12months, sadly, I would advise you to do so.

However, if you want to come and join us to whether this terrible tough period, I am not discouraging you. You are welcome.

Let he explain a bit. If your aim is really studying, don't come right now, else you won't get value for your money. The pandemic has really messed things up. The online class is BS. Even the schools don't know how to handle the situation yet. One other major thing is that networking is difficult. In 6 weeks I only had a class meeting once. Till now I only met one of my senior colleagues since I've been here. No one to come to your aid. You are all by yourself. Everyone is trying hard to survive. Everyone is really busy. No one has your time. No one is available to put you through things. This is when you will value trivial things like seeing your colleagues and lecturer to chat and discuss, holding physical meetings. Believe me, you can't fathom how much frustration this can be, esp when we are talking about something that involves more or less the biggest investment of your life yet. This new way of life has affected many things and not everyone is able to adjust to it.

Also, don't think the lecturers are available to help you. They are not available to "babysit" anybody. They expect at the masters level that you are really cooked and there are many things you are expected to know. Unfortunately for those of us coming from a place like Nigeria, believe me, we are really undercooked. Believe me, a primary school kid here will do much better than you. One of my coursemates confessed to me that it was her kids that helped her with her coursework when she couldn't get a hang of it. Her kids were born and grown here. So you get what I mean. It's so easy for them to flow. Long and short, there is so much catching up for you to do in order to come up to the same level with these ppl.
...And yes, ppl are really getting stranded. I already know ppl whom we moved together from this thread and left with the hope that they can hustle it out. They are getting stranded. Pls if you are coming at this period, you are better off with as much buffer finances as possible.


As regards jobs. There are jobs and there are no jobs. What do I mean? Jobs have really been reduced cos of the pandemic. However there are still some kind of jobs in some remote areas far from town. Transport cost on the long run might take a big chunk of the pay(like 30%). The distance is much( to is like 2½ hrs. Making 5hrs round trip for your job commute) hope you can understand now. The jobs are simply available there cos the location is far from availability of labor. So you count your cost.

I am just taking time to explain all these so you understand my reason for advising to chill a bit if you can

However, for all the ppl like me wet naija don tire. Make una dey come ooo abeg. We go rough am. We go survive.

I hope my msg is not all too negative. But I think it will be of good to you if you get the true and clear picture of things so you can make informed decisions.

I wish us all the best we can be.

Cheers to y'all.
I hope to share more and sweeter experiences later

GHJOE:



Have you been able to finish the payment with Paga?.. I have been trying to make payment for my dependent since yesterday, it’s not going through...

I used the Paga verve for mine, it’s isn’t going again, and I tried to upgrade my Paga wallet to KYC 3 since ytday I haven’t gotten confirmation from them..

Pls I need help, what might be going on?

whitley:
I really appreciate your help fam, I used the paga for both my IHS and Visa, #374k and #183.33k for the both respectively , for paying with Paga wallet with for your visa fee, when you get to tge page there will not be an option for paga, so click on Visa, when the page loads, don't put any card detail's, just lock for a back button on that page click on it, it takes you to a page where you have Paga. It was quite fast ...its to pray for visa now o

valwizzy:
Please who can refer me to anyone working at this place or do you know anyone who knows people there �

Migration Health Assessment Centre
International Organization for Migration
(IOM)
1 Isaac John Street (At the Corner of Isaac
John Street and Oduduwa Way), GRA
Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria

[b]I am suppose to go there for biometrics [/b]and all efforts to book appointment has been abortive. Calls were not picked and emails were not responded to.

Is it advisable to walk in?

spotgetj:
What a marvelous God we serve. Pls join me celebrate as I just collected my VISA this morning from DHL.
Online submission = 11th Nov
Biometric = 13th Nov
Decision mail = 18th Nov

Much thanks to everyone on this platform for the indepth contributions.

Danieldara011:
hello house i just want to ask if am not too late
i just gained admission to study Msc project management at the university of Wolverhampton February intake
and i plan to travel with my wifey and daughter,
just wanna know if i still have enough time to apply for visa
i plan to pay tuition deposit this week

PtBlank:
How soon after being debited did you receive the telex copy and confirmation of payment receipt from your school? I used Ecobank and was debited yesterday.

Ultra1987:
hello

please which bank is quick and fast for school fees payment? is Access bank good? or any other suggestions will help. thanks all

Ultra1987:
hello justwise and co

thanks for all you have been doing and I need your help
I am asking on behalf of a friend.

so my friend just got an admission in the university of Bedfordshire to start in march 2021. The fees is £13000.
Below was written on the offer letter:

Scholarship and discount information:
Full-time Postgraduate and Undergraduate students will receive a special Vice Chancellor's Scholarship of £1,000. The
Vice Chancellor's Scholarship will apply to the first year of study only.
You may also be entitled to a tuition fee discount of £500 on full payment of the published fee before or at registration.

I want to understand that this means that if she pays her full fees from Nigeria she gets £1500 discount and would be paying £11,500?

we contacted the school to make it clear but they keep referring us to the conditional offer

my second question is that her mum is her sponsor, she is the only child. but she herself has a job and a 5 year working experience and has travelled to the Uk and back on a tourist visa. Would it be better for her mum to transfer all the funds needed for fees and maintenance to her account so that every documentation would carry her name instead of her mum to avoid long explanations or would it better she uses her mum account for everything?

please what are your thoughts? Thank you

anthonanik:
I will have to convert my dollar to Naira and it may take time or bank might not provide good exchange rate.

Do you have any idea how to go about it?

I tried doing it now with laptop, it went through just that I'm having token to complete the transaction. I be going to the bank on Monday to get soft token from them and ATM card for online payment option which the accept as well

anthonanik:
Good evening gurus in the house.

I'm unable to make tuition deposit using my domiciliary account(us dollar) to teesside university account(pounds)

I'm using Access Bank domiciliary account and I asked them before funding the account and I was told that I can use it.

Now they r telling to convert my money to Naira and use form A for the transaction.

I tried using my access more app but once I get to making payment,it will include offshore charge and other charges like VAT which I agreed to pay but later it will say, you are not allowed to transfer. Meanwhile access transfer limit is 5k per day.

Please guys anyway around it

TheBlessedHero:
1. Make your own rule and be the law, what works for others, might not works for you.
2. That people want you to succeed doesn't mean their advice is the best for you.
3. Dream and dream big, as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. There's power in dreams that drive us.
4. Don't be "Jesus" for anybody, you're not here to die for people.
5. Believe in something, even if it's in sand or yourself, there's power in belief, it works most of the time.
6. Nobody loves you more than yourself, not even "God", if your doubt, ask "Him" to trade place with you.[color=#000000][/color]
7. You're just another being, that is, don't ever think you're special, like specially created by "God", nah, you'll be shocked when things stop/don't go your way.
8. Life is not fair, that you're poor today doesn't mean you'll be rich tomorrow.
9. Enjoy your life while you can, it's the only thing you have power over.
10. Grace and Luck is REAL.

paxonel:
who created the day 25th December, is it idol or God?
If idols were celebrated 25th December are they not thieves like that and God is taking back his day he created?

Merry Christmas to even the idol worshippers Jo, let them accept Jesus.

TheNaijanBlog:


This is a very HUGE lie!!!! America is one of the very few countries where an immigrant can become a millionaire/billionaire, all you need to do is have great ideas, work very HARD within the legal limit and you will be rewarded- that is what is called the American dream, that attracts many smart immigrants.

Nigeria?!!! Really??!! Where you need to know who is who? Dangote?! He was a freaking Dantata/Dangote dynasty!!! Check out all the billionaires in Nigeria they were all children with CONNECTIONS! Otedola ( his father was Pa Michael Otedola). Whilein America you will hear of so many billionaires where they started their business from their garage/basement all they had was a dream and a vision.

There are many Nigerians that have become millionaires here in the US with hardwork and a dream no need to know anybody. Very very FEW people are billionaires, it is not easy being one. Unless you are referring to fraud!!

OP, unless you want to go the route of fraud, if have great idea and dreams and you work very hard, America/Canada is the best place to achieve those dreams. As long as you are legal, you have an idea that people will pay money for, you work hard you will make your money. No need to have connections, no government bureaucract frustrating you with bribe, no settling, no staff stealing your money ( even if they do, the rule of law will get you justice) reliable amenities ( electricity, internet, transport, postal office) to help reduce your over head cost. Nigeria is the worst place to do business, that is why many companies left wnd went to Egypt or South Africa.

Ugosample:


some real stuff you typed there.


Life no dey Nigeria to me


After accumulating so much money, what next?

very few fun things for your kids to do

Always watching over your shoulders for "men of the underworld" etc


Life is really to be enjoyed, not endured mehn.

Ugosample:


Okay o

Ease of doing business in Nigeria is much more difficult

Many of my cousins, or will i call them my people, who are learning work are taking their settlement to other African countries to establish

The only thing that should make you leave for another African country is


If you have already been offered a high paying job in a good corporation

or


If you are business savvy and have enough capital to push it through


Nigeria is not just worth it at the moment

oyemomilara:
I've been in Benin since February and I still haven't unpacked the torchlight and lamp I brought from Nigeria. I don't know where we are going to in Nigeria. It is so sad

bedspread:
If u are privileged to visit some of these African Nations u will understand that Nigeria is cursed with Wicked and Wrong Leadership...

A Lot of these Nations Hv gone beyond Power issues... u hardly see power go off..

I hv visited Nairobi , Tazania and Ethiopia...

As Poor as Tazania is, You hardly see power Go off... I remember my first time der I traveled with a Torch light thinking it was Lagos, Nigeria... Only for my host to Laugh seriously at me.....

A visit to Zanzibar, Tazania and you will feel u re in the USA or Europe...

Great 5 star Hotels and very Affordable

bedspread:
Tz also has very Constant power.. Life is cool here Especially if u here for a honest purpose

Okezedan:
kenya does not have cönstant power. You can ask anyone staying there.

mavinc4u:
I think is Germany from what I have read so far. France is 50-50 unless you are a student or Business visa but you can still try them. Every thing is luck.

justwise:


Unfortunately non, you be concern with preparing a good application and not about any embassy that favours Nigerians because there is no such embassy, as long as you can afford the trip and state clearly why you are visiting that country your chances of getting a visa is high.

justwise:


That amount is reasonable if you plan your trip well.

Make up your mind about the particular country you want to visit with your family and search for major tourist attraction for families in that country then outline your budget for the trip.

Don't over budget because it will not impress any embassy.

justwise:


What is your monthly take home pay?

macbernard:
Hi all,

I plan to tour at least three European countries in November with my wife and kid.

People with experiences with the various embassies should please share their minds concerning the European embassy(ies) that grants tourist visas to Nigerians easily.

The only travel experience I currently have is my visit to the UAE and Kenya.

I heard France and Italy used to be good to Nigerians. How are they now in 2017?

What precautions should applicants take?

Please share your thoughts so that a lot of other folks can learn also, thanks.

Cc: Disguy, Justwise