Derende:
Infact this was another gbege for me, because that was the same stamp on my passport that my agent stamped for me when I came in through Idiroko border. Infact I almost started behaving like a mad man at the airport, only God knew the way I got to my hotel from the Airport.
I was later told that the only solution at the moment was to exit Cotonou through seme border post( which was the authorised border point recognised by the UAE government and the Benin Republic government) and re enter again with a fresh stamp and also do some documentations and attestations of stay for the previous day's I have spent in Cotonou.
At the end of the day, I had no choice than going back to Seme border to restamp my passport with other Nigerians because lots of Nigerians where involve in the same idiroko border stamp issue.
At the end of this episode I have spend another 158k for restamping, letter of residence attestations, a fresh covid Test ( they asked me at the covid centre to carry out a fresh test with another money due to the fact that the previous covid I did has expired for over three weeks) and other miscellaneous expenses. This was money I was holding before to sort part of my hotel bills all gone due to a very bad agent that frustrated me.

During this process alot of Nigerians here who were in even a worst situation as mine have had their visa validity expired at Cotonou and making another application for a fresh visa just for the shame of going back home to Nigeria more dejected and frustrated. The situation was not a palatable one at all because since the incident at the Dubai airport , the Benin immigration officials were now refusing Nigerians to board as far you already have the fake Idi iroko stamp on your passport even after going to seme border to do a restamp. Lot of people missed their flights due to this current issues and a few lucky ones who were fast enough had to quickly reschedule their flight to carry out other attestations and documentation like Hotel bill receipts for the period they were in Benin to back up their passport restamp.

To be continued....

SirDickOdogwu:
Please bro can get the Uganda Agent contact as the agents here in Nigeria are now charging me over 800k for dubai visa I don't have such funds now Please I will appreciate it

pystar:


You think they intend to return when the 3 months visa expires?

EndNigeriaNoow:
see scam format. u want people to pay u 150k for visa

Hadampson:


Couldn't be better bruh... Seems like you have been away from nairaland for a while??

Derende:
After the struggles and hustles in Nigeria and the way the economic situation is deteriorating in the country I decided to find a way to hustle myself out of the country to seek greener pastures. I have tried processing some Schengen countries visa which yielded nothing I decided to apply for a 90 days tourist visa to Dubai.
During the process of making enquiries for the application of the visa, I was getting exhorbitant rate from agents who wanted to help in processing the visa, what surprised me most to my jaw was when an agent In Dubai told me to pay 600,000naira for a three month visa. So I decided to go online to source for agents who will do the job for me with a reasonable fee. After about three days searching the internet, I finally came across a guy from Uganda who did the three months visa for a fee not up to 150k, infact I was amazed when he told me the amount that I should transfer to him because I have never heard of such amount before, so I thought maybe this was another scammer in disguise. But after much deliberation I decided to give it a try by risking it and behold after a space of three days the visa came out with the insurance. After doing my due diligence and verifying the visa online by confirming the geniunity of the visa, I discovered that the visa was a confirmed 90 days visa. Infact I was really amazed that if someone from Uganda that I haven't met physically can do a visa for me at such amount there are still sincere people in Africa unlike some of our brothers that were calling exhorbitant fees just for a three month Dubai visa.

To be continued

Derende:
Finally I arrived Dubai this morning, and everything went smoothly without any hitches or hassles.

I will be updating much later

Kaceman:




Send contact of the Ugandan guy

crackhaus:
Desperation is what leads people like the OP into falling victim to these dubious agents.

Once you have plans to travel, take your time and don't be in a rush. Almost everything that an agent claims he/she will help you do, you can actually do them yourself.

Derende:
Sorry everyone that I have not been able to update the thread for a while now . I fell seriously ill after about a day I arrived Dubai. But am recuperating now, I believe it was due to the stress I passed through my 30 days on Cotonou.
My trip to Dubai from Cotonou airport was very smooth unlike if it was at the Nigeria airport where officials suck one dry. I never spent a single money at the airport as far as your documents are complete. The only people who had issues at the Cotonou airport where those who normally boarded the Turkish Airlines through fraudulent agents who issue them runz flight ticket and those that previously had the fake Idi roko stamp on their passport and rectify it by stamping the original one. If you are in this set I mentioned you will need somebody at the airport to board you to avoid issues of missing your flight.
We arrived Dubai without issues on Tuesday morning and I must say our passport was not even checked to confirm the 14 days Benin stamp on our passport. They were just checking us in as if we were about connecting to another flight, infact I myself was very surprised. Immediately we were stamped in we proceeded to carry out another covid 19 test at the airport which didn't take up to three minutes and later proceeded to pick our luggage. I believe the reason the Dubai officials were very lenient with us that day might be due to the fact that they were almost rounding up their fast.
So for those still coming to Dubai through the Cotonou route make sure you do the right thing to avoid issues that will result to you spending more money by learning from the mistakes I made.

seyz91:
To whom it may concern! as a sincere member of this forum and experience person in Dubai,

i say with full sincerity that normal 3months Visa to Dubai is 120k naija money and if 150k still reasonable

anything above 50k is the person trying to Job you

and i won't advise my Enemy to Go to Dubai to Hustle, Dubai or UAE ain't a hustling Nation Anymore,
it was before years ago but things change like 4years ago and everywhere don scatter, as an African Person is already a Disadvatage talkless of Being a Nigeria

There is nothing in Dubai, its just a place to carry money to go spend, flex, relax, tour, enjoy and have fun of your life within a week to three months and get the Bleep outta the place

The few Africans living life there are fraudsters and Scammers

Nothing But The Truth

ELKHALIFAISIS:
the bed bugs wey bite me that year , I cursed my friend that reap me off 1m for direct employment visa which they later cancelled I have to come with tourist visa, as I enter, his number stop going till this very moment its just about 3 months ago I called him out on Facebook after 6 yrs , he have Started paying that 1m after threatening his wife

McStoic:


Na wa ooo. You came back with an Arabian name sha. Elkhalifaisis

InvertedHammer:
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I guess after 3 months, you will start working on extending your stay.

Just curious, how much did you spend on this journey? Some people could have used such amount to set themselves up well in Nigeria.
/

Keqfe11:
NIGERIANS GO TO CHURCH BUT DONT BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. I CANE TO GHANA WITH NOTHING. A GHANAIAN WOMAN HOUSED ME AND GAVE ME A VISA AND TICKET TO FINLAND. TODAY IM IN TOGO LOME AFTER 9 YEARS IN HELSINKI. I HAE DESTROYED POVERTY FOREVER. WHEN IT COMES TO TRAVELING, PLEASE BELIEVE IN YOURSELF AND PRAY FOR HELPERS TO LOCATE YOU IN A FOREIGN LAND. UNA TO DEY BELIEVE SAY EVERYBODY GO SUFFER LIKE YOU. quote author=ELKHALIFAISIS post=101693006] he never see anything... make he no try go diera because no body goes there and has good story to tell.. this long stories should've being after he has gotten a job... coming to uae is not a problem but getting job without uae experience is a miracle... make he use the time he dey waste for nairaland dey look for work online unless he want to start selling okpa at diera market

Derende:
Finally I arrived Dubai this morning, and everything went smoothly without any hitches or hassles.

I will be updating much later

SirDickOdogwu:
Please bro can get the Uganda Agent contact as the agents here in Nigeria are now charging me over 800k for dubai visa I don't have such funds now Please I will appreciate it

SirDickOdogwu:
Please bro can get the Uganda Agent contact as the agents here in Nigeria are now charging me over 800k for dubai visa I don't have such funds now Please I will appreciate it

Romanus123:
This person that Post this is nothing but a scammer. Show us the payment slip you made and the copy of the visa sent to you. Please let's be careful with this kind of people.
No one can give you Dubai 3 months visa for 150k . If the writer of this post thinks I'm talking trash chat me privately so I can prove to you that as a Nigerian, you can't get 3months visa for 150k.
I have been in this country for 4 years and I have came across several people like you trying to trick people into believing and contacting them for cheap visa and end up scamming them.
God will release his anger on you guys one day
I have lived in UAE for 5 years (Sharjah) to be precise.
Here is my WhatsApp, if I talk against your post, chat me let me prove my point to you
+971557107547

AndikanEssien:


Not at all bro. I pity d guy. When him jam correct suffer for Dubai him go know se Cotonou was a child's play

1beat:



Guy am into business believe me business is not easy like that again the level of patient business take is equal to cook stone..
What I think is that he should have take his time to try country like Finland applying to school with 70% schoolaship.
But don't look back guy your case will be different. You don move you don move be that you just have to man up ... Best of luck

PlayMaker14:
Well, since me and my pastor are having a serious quarrel, and he decided to suspend me, I will spend some quality time in this thread...


Please continue Op.

Derende:
Infact this was another gbege for me, because that was the same stamp on my passport that my agent stamped for me when I came in through Idiroko border. Infact I almost started behaving like a mad man at the airport, only God knew the way I got to my hotel from the Airport.
I was later told that the only solution at the moment was to exit Cotonou through seme border post( which was the authorised border point recognised by the UAE government and the Benin Republic government) and re enter again with a fresh stamp and also do some documentations and attestations of stay for the previous day's I have spent in Cotonou.
At the end of the day, I had no choice than going back to Seme border to restamp my passport with other Nigerians because lots of Nigerians where involve in the same idiroko border stamp issue.
At the end of this episode I have spend another 158k for restamping, letter of residence attestations, a fresh covid Test ( they asked me at the covid centre to carry out a fresh test with another money due to the fact that the previous covid I did has expired for over three weeks) and other miscellaneous expenses. This was money I was holding before to sort part of my hotel bills all gone due to a very bad agent that frustrated me.

During this process alot of Nigerians here who were in even a worst situation as mine have had their visa validity expired at Cotonou and making another application for a fresh visa just for the shame of going back home to Nigeria more dejected and frustrated. The situation was not a palatable one at all because since the incident at the Dubai airport , the Benin immigration officials were now refusing Nigerians to board as far you already have the fake Idi iroko stamp on your passport even after going to seme border to do a restamp. Lot of people missed their flights due to this current issues and a few lucky ones who were fast enough had to quickly reschedule their flight to carry out other attestations and documentation like Hotel bill receipts for the period they were in Benin to back up their passport restamp.

To be continued....

Romanus123:
This person that Post this is nothing but a scammer. Show us the payment slip you made and the copy of the visa sent to you. Please let's be careful with this kind of people.
No one can give you Dubai 3 months visa for 150k . If the writer of this post thinks I'm talking trash chat me privately so I can prove to you that as a Nigerian, you can't get 3months visa for 150k.
I have been in this country for 4 years and I have came across several people like you trying to trick people into believing and contacting them for cheap visa and end up scamming them.
God will release his anger on you guys one day
I have lived in UAE for 5 years (Sharjah) to be precise.
Here is my WhatsApp, if I talk against your post, chat me let me prove my point to you
+971557107547