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ade,

it is mibisnow@yahoo.co.uk

@ADE,

Hope say u no get Gono, otherwise that medical don spoil d whole thing. HAHAHAHA, How far with the number.

I was impressed that the Plaintiff actually sued the canadian government for denying him visa based on those grounds. Kudos man

Ogbonnaya v. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration)

The applicant was accepted to study economics at York University and sought a visa to begin his studies in September 2007. He was forced to defer his acceptance when his application was denied on two grounds: that he was not a bona fide student, and that he lacks ties to Nigeria and was thus unlikely to return upon completion of his studies. The first claim is surely unreasonable as he presented proof of his acceptance from York University, and was presumably based on the four years that had elapsed between his completion of high school and beginning of university. This is far from sufficient reason to question his bona fides. Secondly, the visa officer overlooked the fact that the applicant has his parents, six older siblings and wide extended family in Nigeria, and no family in Canada. In addition the applicant has been actively involved in his local parish of the Presbyterian church in Lagos since his teenage years. The officer's decision was deemed unreasonable and overturned on appeal.

Comments please.

Is anyone importing a whole lot of baby items soon, i am ready to buy it off. I was supposed to go to Dubai to get them but no time to travel. Mail me at mibisnow@yahoo.co.uk

Riskie, Do u live in dubai, I enjoyed my short stay there, where i bought personal items, but now i want to go and buy items for sale. Are there good cargo agents and howz the prices like i.e for cargo.

Call the embassy to explain your predicament. Let me give u an advice; the best time to apply to visit holland( for visa purposes) is during summer, christmas and queensday.

Hey Guys, Enough of the counter-accusations.

Tolapo, your personal circumstances is good enough to apply for a visit visa, my only fear is the three denials for student visa, they might just think that your real intention is a long term stay, for example to study or work. However, you can give it a try, but make sure you explain that despite your previous refusals to study, you do not have intentions to go study in U.K anymore, all you want is to be with your husband on the same bed, that you miss him terribly and because of his tight study schedule, he might not be able to come to Nigeria for now, I bet you the visa officer handling it, if you are luckky tohave a female, will just laugh over it and issue you the visa.

If i may explain; i believe that Akolawole does not want to respond to new members, because people just hear of Nairaland, join, ask one question, and then leave. This is a forum and it is a place where we learn from each other, i might learn from akolawole on travel, he might learn from me on maybe, romance section etc. I respect his decision and i think i support it.

@Akolawole,

Please respond to my mail. I also just sent you one from my office box.

Yesterday was terrible. Come to think how monday would be.

Lekki is wide, be precise on your location.

All days are booked till September.

Please i want to know where to get whosale bargains, and also good cargo agents. I am interested in going to buy things for sale.

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Funky_Baby,

Thank you.Your advice has been taken.

Naija,

wetin we no go do to chop aduro

asimit,

Take it easy. God has a reason for everything. I was denied a student visa in 2005 to go and do my masters in the U.K. i went to amsterdam, did the same masters, came home, married my lovely wife and now i have a lovely child. I am thanking the visa officer that denied me that visa.

I know how painful visa refusal can be, but take heart, and don't give up.

adywale,

A big congratulations. Please give me your number, so that i can call you.

Regards,

I really do not know how to summarise it, but let me
try.

Basically, I want to apply for a family visit to the
UK in December for the xmas and New year Holidays.

I am married with a 4 months old kid.

The issue here is that my wife was refused a visit
visa last September for reason that she did not
provide enough evidence of host’ accommodation and
that the utility bills do not originate from the UK,
Despite the fact that I personally brought the
invitation letter and the utility bills from London
personally.

We were furious, I wrote a letter of reconsideration
and was replied, find below.

Dear Madam
RE: Decision to refuse entry clearance
Thank you for your email dated 25 October, which has
been passed to me for a reply.
The decision to refuse this application for a visa was
carefully reviewed.
You may wish to note that applicants are made aware
that their applications will be considered 'on papers'
by posters outside the Visa application centre, the
Deputy High Commission, the Deputy High Commission web
site, information leaflets and press releases.  A
checklist for documents is completed at the Visa
application centre in the presence of the person
submitting the application and any missing
documentation is brought to their attention.  They are
advised that failure to provide the documents
specified may result in refusal of the application and
the applicant is then given the option to resubmit
when the supporting documentation is complete. Where
an application contains no evidence or insufficient
documentation, the applicant is reminded of the need
for this before the fee is taken.
The decision to refuse your application was based on
the documents that you provided at the time of the
application. I am therefore satisfied that the ECO's
decision is correct and in accordance with the
Immigration Rules.

It is open to you to lodge a formal Notice of Appeal
to the independent appellate authorities in the United
Kingdom, details of which were given to you with the
refusal notice. Please note that the completed appeal
form should not arrive later than 56 days after the
date of the entry clearance refusal.
You are of course free to submit a fresh application
at any time using our courier assisted service. If you
decide to reapply, an attempt should be made to
address the concerns outlined in the refusal notice. I
cannot however guarantee the outcome of any future
application. In the event that an application is not
successful please note that the visa fee is
non-refundable.

Yours faithfully

,
Entry Clearance Manager
Correspondence Unit
Visa Section

-----Original Message-----
From: musa bello [mailto:, @yahoo.co.uk]
Sent: 25 October 2007 09:02
To: Visa (LAGOS)
Subject: RE: Visa Refusal





Dear Sir,
My wife's name is , and her date of

birth is , The post reference is
,
On a careful perusal of the documents, you will see
that the reason for refusal was that the ECO (DEA)
said that my wife did not submit evidence of rental or

mortgage of the house she was going to stay in, i.e my

aunty's house in the UK.
Secondly, ECO (DEA) alleged that he did not believe
that the documents from my wife's sponsor i.e her gas
and electricity bills did not originate from my wife's

cousin.
The host in the UK is my aunty and not my wife's
cousin as erroneusly stated by DEA. I personally
brought those documents from my aunty on my last visit

to london in August this year.And i honestly and
sincerely thought that once there is evidence of
accommodation, supporting the invitation, it would
suffice as evidence of an existing accommodation.
I have contacted my aunty and she has now sent the
mortgage letter and account as evidence of ownership
of the house. My wife is available to provide this new

mortgage letter,her passport together with all
previous documents to your offices when called upon
for a re-consideration.
I assure you of my highest considerations,as i await a

quick response from you.



We went ahead and appealed, however during the process
of preparing for the appeal, I realized that my wife
does not have a right to appeal and yet was given as
the ECO was always referring her as Cousin, despite
her stating in the cover letter and the application
form that she was going to stay with her husband’s
aunty.

At the appeal, the respondent raised an objection that
it was an invalid appeal. The Judge stated that she
did not go into the merits of the appeal, but that My
aunty was present in Court and that we had submitted a
considerable amount of documentation. She also stated
that “ The ECO, despite my wife stating that she was
going to stay with her husband’s aunty, still went
ahead to give a right of appeal, as family visit does
not cover her situation.


I feel like escalating this issue, at the same time,
we want to apply for visa to go to the UK in December.

Secondly,
I went to Harvard solicitors, the immigration lawyers
on broad street, who now have an office on 13TH FLOOR
of Zenon House, where the VFS is, they asked me to pay
2k registration fees, which I did. However, upon
discussions with the immigration consultant I met, she
said in submitting another application, I shall pay
30k per application, but for my baby, its free. I told her to go to hell.


I really do not know what to do.

As for me, I was denied in 2005 at the Lagos Office
for a student visa to do my masters in UK, but I have
forgotten about schooling in UK and now went to
Amsterdam, to do my masters. In Amsterdam, I was
denied because in my Lagos application, I did not
state that I had relations in UK and now my aunty was
inviting me. I made them realize that I thought it was
not relevant since I was going to school. I applied
again and was given. I have gone to UK about four
times, I have also gotten an irish visa and have been
to Ireland, also with many other countries including
Switzerland.

In our new application, we have the following
documents;

I have a plot of land recently acquired,i have the family receipt and the survey plan.

2. Source of fund- My current acct shows my salaries
and expenses, would be about , naira at the time
of application.

My wife’s own about same although she fixes her
money to yield interest, she has about , in fixed
deposit.

We also have a joint savings account where we save
money from any other source and also from our
salaries, it presently has about , , with , fixed
deposit. I do not make photocopies of cheques received
from people, but i just started now, so i have a few.
Do i include these photocopies.

My baby also has about , balance in her account, being gifts from people and the , we pay to her monthly.


I am including all our share certificates and
investment certificates.

Our hosts will give us her mortgage statement and
letter of invitation and current utility bill.



Should I draw up a witness statement for the family
visit application stating how we will spend the
Christmas in London, and how we want to buy some baby
stuff for our baby.

I also intend to go to Amsterdam for a few days too,
should I state this or should we just leave it out
altogether.

Lastly, any need to use those Harvard consults,
although they said they will submit the application
with a cover letter from the Firm.

Thanks

08037178687.

Akawole,

I have not received my reply yet. You can as well paste it here, or let me paste it here.

Bro,

Call me at night, i will call you back. 08037178687. Lets negotiate.

MY FRIEND,

THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT PLACE FOR THIS POST.

adywale, who u need am for. U that is Canada-bound

adywale, you are a really sharp guy. No doubt, u will get it my brother, trust me. Pls send me your e-mail address.

Different Strokes for different folks.

Adyewale,

Congrats, u will calm down now. One advice i have for you; Be calm during the interview, dont be arrogant ( we lawyers are known as arrogant people, and i have seen from your tone particularly that you are somewhat arrogant)so forget all that during the interview, no matter the temptation during the interview, let all your answers be geared towards, when you come back home, this is what and what you plan to become in Nigeria. This is very important.

Goodluck

Cgift,

We have inaudated with calls that unauthorized people are trying to sell our property there, thats why.

Maybe that's what tells why i am so happy with my Honda Academy, the car is a cool and reliable thing. It has not had cause to start twice since i bought it.

For the poster of the bulldog, can i offer 300k and pick the car to use as my second car. mail me mibisnow@yahoo.co.uk

Inspired m, No mind that guy, he never hear of One key. that's why he is doubting the price

Sienna, you are right, his posting is quite confusing.

Elando, its not a scam. Migrationexpert is a reputable immigration body, and u must pay for their service. Oyibo no dey use money play. However, you can do it yourself by visiting the immiration website. or mail me at mibisnow@yahoo.co.uk to connect you with the canadian lawyer david cohen

I will add a little to information given by lawyer

1. Evidence of Ground Rent/Land Use Charge. What LASG does is to assess your property and put a tag to it.
2. There must be a photograph of the property
3. As for the 8% of assessment, there are different rates for different areas. E.G if your property is in Ikotun/Ijegun, you will be assessed at 350naira per m2, if your property is in Gbagada Phase 2, you will be assessed at 10,000 per M2 and if your property is in Victoria Island, it is 50,000 Per M2.

In Theory, Governor's consent is to be obtained within 30 days, However, practically, it takes about 6- 22 months to conclude a transaction requiring Governor's consent.

You can call me on 08037178687 or send me an e-mail on mibisnow@yahoo.co.uk.

I dont do Governor's Consent for people.